Kerryl E Piper
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Karau M, Piper K, Steckelberg J, Kavros S, Patel R
Adv Skin Wound Care
. 2010 Jun;
23(7):316-20.
PMID: 20562540
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Qoustic Wound Therapy System (Arobella Medical, LLC, Minnetonka, Minnesota) kills planktonic bacterial cells and/or removes bacterial biofilms. Design: The...
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Fernandez Sampedro M, Huddleston P, Piper K, Karau M, Dekutoski M, Yaszemski M, et al.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
. 2010 May;
35(12):1218-24.
PMID: 20445479
Study Design: This is a prospective study comparing the diagnosis of spinal implant infection by conventional peri-implant tissue culture with a technique which uses a combination of vortexing and bath...
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Piper K, Fernandez-Sampedro M, Steckelberg K, Mandrekar J, Karau M, Steckelberg J, et al.
PLoS One
. 2010 Feb;
5(2):e9358.
PMID: 20179760
Background: C-reactive protein (CRP) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) have been shown to be useful for diagnosis of prosthetic hip and knee infection. Little information is available on CRP and...
4.
Fernandez Sampedro M, Piper K, McDowell A, Patrick S, Mandrekar J, Rouse M, et al.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
. 2009 Jun;
64(2):138-45.
PMID: 19505429
Propionibacterium sp. is commonly isolated in association with orthopedic implants, either as a pathogen or a colonizer. Microbial characteristics that indicate whether the isolated species is a likely cause of...
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Jacobson M, Steckelberg K, Piper K, Steckelberg J, Patel R
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
. 2009 Mar;
53(6):2638-9.
PMID: 19307371
Planktonic and sessile susceptibilities to micafungin were determined for 30 clinical isolates of Candida albicans obtained from blood or other sterile sites. Planktonic and sessile MIC(90)s for micafungin were 0.125...
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Del Pozo J, Tran N, Petty P, Johnson C, Walsh M, Bite U, et al.
J Clin Microbiol
. 2009 Mar;
47(5):1333-7.
PMID: 19261794
Capsular contracture is the most common and frustrating complication in women who have undergone breast implantation. Its cause and, accordingly, treatment and prevention remain to be elucidated fully. The aim...
7.
Piper K, Jacobson M, Cofield R, Sperling J, Sanchez-Sotelo J, Osmon D, et al.
J Clin Microbiol
. 2009 Mar;
47(6):1878-84.
PMID: 19261785
We recently described a sonication technique for the diagnosis of prosthetic knee and hip infections. We compared periprosthetic tissue culture to implant sonication followed by sonicate fluid culture for the...
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Jacobson M, Piper K, Nguyen G, Steckelberg J, Patel R
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
. 2008 Apr;
52(6):2242-3.
PMID: 18391031
We tested the activity of anidulafungin against 30 Candida albicans isolates. The planktonic MICs for 50 and 90% of the isolates tested (MIC(50) and MIC(90)) were < or =0.03 and...
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Trampuz A, Piper K, Jacobson M, Hanssen A, Unni K, Osmon D, et al.
N Engl J Med
. 2007 Aug;
357(7):654-63.
PMID: 17699815
Background: Culturing of samples of periprosthetic tissue is the standard method used for the microbiologic diagnosis of prosthetic-joint infection, but this method is neither sensitive nor specific. In prosthetic-joint infection,...
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Frank K, Reichert E, Piper K, Patel R
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
. 2006 Dec;
51(3):888-95.
PMID: 17158933
Staphylococcus lugdunensis is an atypically virulent coagulase-negative staphylococcal species associated with acute and destructive infections that often resemble Staphylococcus aureus infections. Several types of infection caused by S. lugdunensis (e.g.,...