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Melissa Gitman

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Rodino K, Luethy P, Abbott A, Bender J, Eberly A, Gitman M, et al.
J Clin Microbiol . 2024 Jun; 62(10):e0035924. PMID: 38904385
Importance: Medical microbiologists are invaluable to the clinical microbiology laboratory and the healthcare system as a whole. However, as medical microbiologists do not regularly generate relative value units, capturing and...
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Jacobs S, Ibrahim U, Barreto Vega A, Lagdameo J, Callahan J, Govindarajulu U, et al.
Transpl Infect Dis . 2024 May; 26(3):e14290. PMID: 38708941
Background: Cytomegalovirus-specific T-cell-mediated immunity (CMV-CMI) protects from CMV infection in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT), but to date, there is no validated measure of CMV immunity for this population. Methods:...
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Bhardwaj S, Gitman M, Ramirez J, Paniz-Mondolfi A, Westra W
Am J Surg Pathol . 2024 Mar; 48(5):581-587. PMID: 38482860
In an era of head and neck oncology where HPV status will soon dictate patient management, reliable HPV detection is critical. P16 immunohistochemistry (IHC) is currently recommended as the test...
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Cao L, Kong Y, Fan Y, Ni M, Tourancheau A, Ksiezarek M, et al.
Nat Methods . 2024 Jan; 21(2):236-246. PMID: 38177508
Metagenomics has enabled the comprehensive study of microbiomes. However, many applications would benefit from a method that sequences specific bacterial taxa of interest, but not most background taxa. We developed...
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Taha R, Kothari S, Foroutan F, Gitman M, Gupta V, Nguyen T, et al.
Curr Oncol . 2022 Dec; 29(12):9325-9334. PMID: 36547145
Background: Screening for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in patients with hematological malignancy is recommended because of their increased risk of tuberculosis (TB). We assessed the utility of tuberculin skin test...
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Azar M, Turbett S, Gaston D, Gitman M, Razonable R, Koo S, et al.
Am J Transplant . 2022 Jul; 22(12):3150-3169. PMID: 35822346
The last decade has seen an explosion of advanced assays for the diagnosis of infectious diseases, yet evidence-based recommendations to inform their optimal use in the care of transplant recipients...
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Jacobs S, Jacobs J, Dennis E, Taimur S, Rana M, Patel D, et al.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother . 2022 Jun; 66(7):e0005322. PMID: 35770999
Candida auris is an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat due to its global emergence, high mortality, and persistent transmissions. Nearly half of C. auris clinical and surveillance cases in the United...
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Reategui Schwarz E, van de Guchte A, Dupper A, Berbel Caban A, Nadkarni D, Fox L, et al.
BMC Infect Dis . 2022 Apr; 22(1):400. PMID: 35462538
Background: Healthcare-associated infections pose a potentially fatal threat to patients worldwide and Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common causes of healthcare-associated infections. S. aureus is a common commensal...
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Haghighi M, Adhimoolam D, Kwan R, Gitman M, McGuire M, Mendu D, et al.
J Pathol Inform . 2022 Feb; 13:2. PMID: 35136670
Background: Pandemics are unpredictable and can rapidly spread. Proper planning and preparation for managing the impact of outbreaks is only achievable through continuous and systematic collection and analysis of health-related...
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Lee S, Mushtaq A, Gitman M, Paniz-Mondolfi A, Chung M, Obla A, et al.
IDCases . 2021 Jun; 25:e01173. PMID: 34141583
We describe a case of Lemierre's syndrome (LS) caused by a hypervirulent strain of in a 63-year-old female with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes mellitus, who presented with right neck pain...