Combined RUMC and CCH Infectious Diseases Fellowship

IDWeek 2021

• Haseeba Khan, Christy Varughese, Hemil Gonzalez. Month Long Fungemia due to Candida auris Endocarditis. Published in Open Forum Infectious Disease, Volume 8, Issue Supplement_1, November 2021, Page S443. https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/8/Supplement_1/S443/6450557
• James Wilson, Gregory Huhn. Intact Sense of Taste and Smell During COVID-19 Infection is Associated with Absence of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Antibody Responses within 3 Months of Symptomatic Illness. Published in Open Forum Infectious Disease, Volume 8, Issue Supplement_1, November 2021, Page S88. https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/8/Supplement_1/S88/6449636

Fellow Publications and Presentations 

Recent Publications:

• Kim DY, Lin MY, Jennings C, Li H, Jung JH, Moore NM, Ghinai I, Black SR, Zaccaro DJ, Brofman J, Hayden MK; CDC Prevention Epicenter Program. Duration of replication-competent SARS-CoV-2 shedding among patients with severe or critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Clin Infect Dis. 2022 May 24:ciac405. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac405. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35607802; PMCID: PMC9213867.
• Santos Abigail C, Varughese Christy A, Shankaran Shivanjeli. Something Odd and Something New: A Case of Shewanella putrefaciens Peritonitis and Bacteremia Treated with Intraperitoneal Cefepime. Private Practice Infectious Disease. 2021; 1(2):6.
• Bhaimia E, Jung JH, Chan EL, Shah NN, Santos CAQ. Breakthrough Hepatitis B Virus Infection in a Liver Transplant Recipient on Lamivudine Prophylaxis for Donor Hepatitis B Core Antibody Seropositivity: A Review of Practices to Prevent De Novo Hepatitis B Virus Infection After Transplant. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). 2021;18(1):22-25. Published 2021 Aug 30. doi:10.1002/cld.1102

• Jenille Wallace, Hemil Gonzalez, Reshma Rajan, Srinivas D. Narasipura. Anti-HIV Drugs Cause Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Monocyte-Derived Macrophages. American Society of Microbiology; April 2022  Volume 66  Issue 4  e01941-2.

• Sansom SE, Logan LK, Green SJ, Moore NM, Hayden MK. Whole-genome sequencing for neonatal intensive care unit outbreak investigations: Insight and lessons learned. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 2021;1(1), E2. doi:10.1017/ash.2021.161

Recent Presentations:

• Christopher Szewcyzk, Hemil Gonzalez. A Severe Case of Lupus Cerebritis. Poster presentation accepted at the AAN Summer Conference on July 15-16, 2022, in San Francisco, CA.

• Sansom SE, Lin M, Schoeny M, Fukuda C, Shimasaki T, Dangana T, Moore N, Yelin R, Rhee Y, Tabith L, Sheng J, Cornejo Cisneros E, Murray J, Chang K, Lolans K, Ariston M, Rotunno W, Ramos H, Li H, Aboushaala K, Iwai N, Bassis B, Bell P, Young V, Hayden MK, for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Admission and Discharge Sampling Underestimates Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDRO) Acquisitions in an Intensive Care Unit. SHEA Spring 2021. April 16, 2021. 

• SHEA Spring 2021. “SHEA’s Role in Leadership during COVID-19.” Virtual conference, April 13-16, 2021. Invited opening plenary speaker. 

• 6th International Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections: Decennial Day. “Attacking healthcare transmission of AMR on multiple fronts: antibiotics, the microbiome, and containment.” Virtual conference, April 12, 2021. Invited symposium speaker.