Dr. Eric Granowitz

• Arshad S, Skiest D, Granowitz EV. Subacute onset of paralysis in a person with AIDS. AIDS Reader 2009;19:32-5.
• Furuya EY, Paez A, Srinivasan A, Cooksey R, Augenbraun M, Baron M, Brudney K, Della-Latta P, Estivariz C, Fischer S, Flood M, Kellner P, Roman C, Yakrus M, Weiss D, Granowitz EV. Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus wound infections in US "lipotourists" who underwent abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic. Clin Infect Dis; 2009;46:1181-8.
• Iarikov D, Robertson D, Granowitz E, Skiest D. Invasive aspergillosis presenting as a neck mass in an AIDS patient. AIDS Reader 2007;17:343-4.

 

Dr. Sarah Haessler

• Haessler S, Paez A, Rothberg M, Higgins T. 2009 Pandemic H1N1-associated myocarditis in a previously healthy adult. Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, in press.
• Landry D, Braden G, Gobielle S, Haessler S, Vaidya C, Sweet S. Emergence of gentamicin-resistant bacteremia in hemodialysis patients receiving gentamicin lock catheter prophylaxis. Clin J of Amer Soc Neph; 2010 (in press).
• Rothberg MB, Haessler SD. Complications of seasonal and pandemic influenza. Crit Care Med. 2010;38,(suppl):e91-7.
• Haessler S, Connelly NR, Kanter G, Fitzgerald J, Scales ME, Golubchik A, Albert M, Gibson CA. Surgical site infection Cluster: the process and outcome of an investigation--the impact of an alcohol-based surgical antiseptic product and human behavior. Anesth Analg 2010;110:1044-48.
• Rothberg M, Haessler SD, Brown, RB. Complications of viral influenza. Am J of Med 2008;212:258-64.
• Haessler S, Mackenzie T, Kirkland K. Long-term outcomes following infection with methicillin-resistant or methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. J of Hosp Infect 2008;69:39-45.

 

Dr. Armando Paez

• Haessler S, Paez A, Rothberg M, Higgins T. 2009 Pandemic H1N1-associated myocarditis in a previously healthy adult. Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, in press.
• Sivalingram SK, Saligram P, Natanasabapathy S, Paez AS. Covert cryptococcal meningitis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematous. J Emerg Med.2009;
• Furuya EY, Paez AS, Srinivasan A, Cooksey R, Augenbraun M, Baron M, Brudney K, DellaLatta P, Estivariz C, Fischer S, Flood M, Kellner P, Roman C, Yakrus M, Weiss D, Granowitz EV. Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus wound infections among "lipotourists" from the United States who underwent abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic. Clin Infect Dis 2008;46:1181-8.
• Paez AS, Skiest DJ. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: from the hospital to the community. Curr Infect Dis Rep 2008;10:14-21.

 

Dr. Daniel Skiest

• Iarikov DE, Irizarry-Acosta M. Martorell C, Rauch CA, Hoffman RP, Skiest DJ. Use of HIV resistance testing after prolonged treatment interruption. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2010;53:333-7.
• Arshad S, Rothberg M, Rastegar D, Spooner L, Skiest D. Survey of physician knowledge regarding antiretroviral medications in hospitalized HIV-infected patients. J Interna AIDS Soc 2009;12:1.
• Shaw A, Tidswell M, Prefontaine M, Skiest DJ, Pantanowitz L. Choriocarcicnoma in an AIDS patient - relapsing but not fatal. Int J STD AIDS 2008;19:496-8.
• Tashima K, Staszewski S, Nelson M, Rachlis A, Skiest D, Stryker R, Bessen L, Overfield S, Ruiz N, Wirtz V. Efficacy and tolerability of long term efavirenz plus nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors for HIV-1 infection. AIDS 2008;22:275-9.
• Hare CB, Mellors J, Krambrink A, Su Z, Skiest D, Margolis D, Patel SS, Barnas D, Frenkel L, Coombs RW, Aweeka F, Morse GD, Haas DW, Boltz V, Palmer S, Coffin J, Havlir DV. Detection of nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-resistant HIV-1 after discontinuation of virologically suppressive antiretroviral therapy. Clin Infect Dis 2008, 47:421-4.
• Cenizal M, Hardy RD, Anderson, M, Katz K, Skiest D. Prevalence of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) nasal colonization in HIV-infected ambulatory patients. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2008;48:567-71.
• Skiest DJ, Krambrink A, Su Z, Roberston KR, Margolis D. Improved measures of quality of life, lipid profile and lipoatrophy after treatment interruption in HIV-infected patients with immune preservation: results of ACTG 5170. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2008;49:377-83.
• Vahey MT, Wang Z, Su Z, Nau ME, Krambrink A, Skist DJ, Margolis D. CD4+ T-cell decline after the interruption of antiretroviral therapy in ACTG A5170 is predicted by differential expression of genes in the ras signaling pathway. AIDS Res Human Retrovir 2008;24:1047-66.
• Skiest DJ, Vazquez JA, Anstead GM, Graybill JR, Reynes J, Ward D, Hare R, Boparai N, Isaacs R. Posaconazole for the treatment of azole-refractory oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis in subjects with HIV infection. Clin Infect Dis 2007;44:607-14.
• Skiest DJ, Brown K, Cooper TW, Hoffman-Roberts H, Mussa HR, Elliott AC. Prospective comparison of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant community associated Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitalized patients. J Infect 2007;54:427-34.
• Skiest DJ, Su Z, Havlir DV, Robertson KR, Coombs RW, Cain P, Peterson T, Krambrink A, Jahed N, McMahon D, Margolis D. Antiretroviral treatment interruption in HIV-infected patients with preserved immune function is associated with a low rate of clinical progression: A prospective study: Results of ACTG5170. J Infect Dis 2007;195:1426-36.
• Sharma A, Awasthi S. Harrod CK, Matlock EF, Khan S, Xu L, chan S. Yang H, Thammavaram CK, Rasor RA, Burns DK, Skiest DJ, Van Lint C, Girard AM, McGee M, Monnat RJ Jr, Harrold R. The Werner syndrome helicase is a cofactor for HIV-1 long terminal repeat transactiation and retroviral replication. J Biol Chem 2007;282:12048-57.
• Vazquez JA. Skiest DJ. Tissot-Dupont H. Lennox JL. Boparai N. Isaacs R. Safety and efficacy of posaconazole in the long-term treatment of azole-refractory oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis in patients with HIV infection. HIV Clin Trials 2007;8:86-97.
• Heelon M, Skiest D, Tereso G, Meade L, Weeks J, Pekow P, Rothberg M. effect of a clinical pharmacist’s interventions on duration of antiretroviral-related errors in hospitalized patients. Am J Health-Syst Pharm 2007;64:2064-8.
• Cenizal M, Skiest D, Luber S, Bedimo R, Davis P, Fox P, Delaney K, Hardy D. Prospective randomized trial of empiric therapy with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole or doxycycline for outpatient skin and soft tissue infections in an area of high prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicro Agents Chemother 2007;51:2628-30.
• Iarikov D, Roberts D, Granowitz E, Skiest D. Invasive aspergillosis presenting as a neck mass in a person with HIV/AIDS. AIDS Reader 2007;17:343-4.
• Coskun ZU, Mathews D, Weatherall P, Skiest D, Oz OK. Cryptococcal lymphadenitis and massive splenomegaly in an immunocompromised patient. Clin Nuclear Med 2007;32:314-6.

 

Dr. Jennifer Schimmel (née Wolfson)

• Wolfson JJ, Jandhyala DM, Gorczyca LA, Qadeer Z, Manning SD, hadler J, Rudrick JT, Thorpe CM. Prevalence of the operon encoding subtilase cytotoxin in non-O157 STEC isolated from humans in the United States. J Clin Microbiol, in press.
• Wolfson JJ, May KL, Thorpe CM, Jandhyala DM, Paton JC and Paton AW. subtilase cytotoxin activates PERK, IREl, and ATF6 endoplasmic reticulum stress-signaling pathways. Cell Microbiol 2009;10:1775-86.

 

Dr. Richard Brown

• Larioza J, Heung L, Girard A, Brown RB.  Management of infective endocarditis in outpatients:  Clinical experience with outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy.  South Med J 2009; 102:575-9.
• Haessler S, Brown RB.  Pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus.  Current Resp Med Rev. 2009;5:62-7.
• Rothberg M, Haessler, S, Brown RB.   Complications of viral influenza.  Amer J Med 2008;121:258-264.

 

 

Selected Review Articles, Chapters and/or Textbooks 

 

Dr.  Eric Granowitz

• Granowitz EV, Brown RB. Antibiotic side effects. In Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine, Third Edition. Cunha BA, Editor. 2010, Marcel Dekker: New York. pp 542-55.
• Granowitz EV. The travel and tropical medicine manual, 4th edition (book review). Emerg Infect Dis 2009;15:853.
• Granowitz EV, Brown RB. Antibiotic adverse reactions and drug interactions. Crit Care Clin 2008; 24:421-2.
• Tonomura N, Granowitz EV. Hyperbaric oxygen: a potential new therapy for leukemia? Leukemia Res 2007;31:745-6.

 

Dr. Sarah Haessler

• Haessler S, Brown RB: Pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Curr Resp Med Rev. 2009;5:62-7.

 

Dr. Armando Paez

• Paez AS, Pile JC. Preventing nosocomial infections. In Williams, M, ed. Comprehensive Hospital Medicine. Philadelphia, PA; Saunders Elsevier; 2007:120-3.

 

Dr. Daniel J. Skiest

• Paez AS, Skiest DJ. Daptomycin therapy for serious infections due to methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus: from the hospital to the community. Curr Infect Dis Rep 2008;10:14-21.
• Brown KV, Skiest DJ. Toxoplasmosis of the central nervous system. In Goodkin K, Verma A, Shapshak P (eds.): The Spectrum of Neuro-AIDS Disorders: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment. American Society of Microbiology, 2008;313-30.
• Bedimo R, Skiest DJ. Fungal Infections of the central nervous system in AIDS. In Goodkin K, Verma A, Shapshak P (eds.): The Spectrum of Neuro-AIDS Disorders: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment. American Society of Microbiology, 2008;347-362.

 

Dr. Richard B. Brown

• Larioza J, Brown RB.  Toxic shock syndrome.  Conn's Current Therapy (in press for 2010).

• Granowitz EV, Brown RB.  Antibiotic side effects.  In Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine (3^rd ed).  Marcell Dekker, Inc. New York 2008; 24:421-442.
• Granowitz EV, Brown RB.  Antibiotic side effects.  Crit Care Clinics; 2008;24:421-442.
• Martagon-Villamil J, Brown RB.  Who really needs parenteral antibiotics?  Antibiotics for Clinicians; 2007; 11:429-431.

 

 

Fellows

 

Dr. Justine Miranda

• Miranda J, Tunkel AR.  Strategies and new developments in the management of bacterial meningitis.  Infect Dis clin N Am; 2009;23:925-943.

 

Dr. Anneta Golubchik

• Golubchik, A, Haessler S. Connelly NR, Kanter G, Fitzgerald J, Scales ME, Gibson, A.  A surgical site infection cluster:  the process and outcome of an investigation--the impact of an alcohol-based surgical antisepsis product and human behavior. Anesth Analg. 2010;110:1044-8.
• Golubchik A, Lemanski M, Skiest D.  HIV testing in the emergency department:  a survey of ED providers.  47th Infectious Diseases Society of America Meeting, Philadelphia, PA  October 29-November 1, 2009 (abstract).

 

Dr. Dmitri Iarikov

• Iarikov D, Irizarry-Acosta M, Martorell C, Hoffman RP, Skiest D.  Low prevalence of primary HIV resistance in western Massachusetts. J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care. 2010; in press.
• Iarikov D, Irizarry-Acosta M, Martorell C, Rauch C, Hoffman RP, Skiest, D. Use of HIV resistance testing after prolonged treatment interruption.  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2010;53:333-7.
• Iarikov D, Duke W, Skiest D.  Extensive development of flat warts as a cutaneous manifestation of immune reconstitution syndrome.  AIDS Reader. 2008;18:1-3.
• Iarikov D, Roberton D, Granowitz E, Skiest, D.  Invasive aspergillosis presenting as a neck mass in a person with HIV/AIDS.  AIDS Reader. 2007;17:343-4.

 

Dr. Julius Larioza

• Larioza J, Heung L, Girard A, Brown R.  Management of infective endocarditis in outpatients:  clinical experience with outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy.  South Med J. 2009;102:575-9.
• Larioza J, Brown R.  Toxic shock syndrome in Conn's Current Therapy; pp 86-88; Bope, Rakel, and Kellerman, eds. Saunders Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2010.
• Larioza J, Heung L, Girard A, Brown RB.   Management of infective endocarditis in outpatients:  clinical experience with outpatient antimicrobial therapy.  19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Helsinki, Finland, May 17, 2009 (abstract).