Received my PhD with Dr. S. Falkow at the University of Washington on plasmids and conjugation in N. gonorrhoeae. Was a Research Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory with Dr. J. Setlow. Did a postdoctoral Fellowship in the Dividion of Infectious Diseases Childrens Hospital on antibiotic resistance in H. influenzae with Dr. A.L. Smith. Was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Leicester, England working on chloramphenicol acetyltransferases from H. influenzae with Dr. W. Shaw. Currently I am a Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. My main interests including tetracycline, macrolide, lincosamide and stregtogramin antibioitc resistances and S. mutans biology as well as examining whether silver amalgams influnece the carriage of antibiotic and/or Hg resistant genes in the normal oral flora.

High risk for nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Danish veterinary practitioners. Moodley A, Nightingale EC, …, Skov RL, Guardabassi L Scand J Work Environ Health 2008 May 12 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 22 May 2008 The neglected intrinsic resistome of bacterial pathogens. Fajardo A, Martínez-Martín N, …, Baquero F, Martínez JL PLoS ONE 2008 3(2):e1619 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 27 Feb 2008 Conjugative plasmids in multi-resistant bacterial isolates from Indian soil. Ansari MI, Grohmann E, Malik A J Appl Microbiol 2008 Feb 13 0 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 27 Feb 2008 Parallel evolution of multidrug-resistance in Salmonella enterica isolated from swine. Perron GG, Bell G, Quessy S FEMS Microbiol Lett 2008 Feb 12 0 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 27 Feb 2008 Antimicrobial resistance for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the United States, 1988 to 2003: the spread of fluoroquinolone resistance. Wang SA, Harvey AB, …, Judson FN, Holmes KK Ann Intern Med 2007 Jul 17 147(2):81-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 14 Aug 2007 Antibiotic-resistant enterococci and fecal indicators in surface water and groundwater impacted by a concentrated Swine feeding operation. Sapkota AR, Curriero FC, Gibson KE, Schwab KJ Environ Health Perspect 2007 Jul 115(7):1040-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 14 Aug 2007 Effect of antibiotic prescribing on antibiotic resistance in individual children in primary care: prospective cohort study. Chung A, Perera R, …, Crook DW, Mant D BMJ 2007 Sep 1 335(7617):429 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 14 Aug 2007 Detection and spread of Escherichia coli possessing the plasmid-borne carbapenemase KPC-2 in Brooklyn, New York. Bratu S, Brooks S, …, Landman D, Quale J Clin Infect Dis 2007 Apr 1 44(7):972-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 17 Apr 2007 Tigecycline resistance in Australian antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Iredell J, Thomas L, Power D, Mendes E J Antimicrob Chemother 2007 Apr 59(4):816-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 11 Apr 2007 Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacteraemia: clinical features, antimicrobial therapy and outcome. Kuo LC, Lai CC, …, Chang CY, Hsueh PR Clin Microbiol Infect 2007 Feb 13(2):196-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 11 Apr 2007 Evidence of antibiotic resistance gene silencing in Escherichia coli. Enne VI, Delsol AA, Roe JM, Bennett PM Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2006 Sep 50(9):3003-10 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 17 Nov 2006 Ecology of antibiotic resistance genes: characterization of enterococci from houseflies collected in food settings. Macovei L, Zurek L Appl Environ Microbiol 2006 Jun 72(6):4028-35 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 7 Jul 2006 Aquariums as reservoirs for multidrug-resistant Salmonella Paratyphi B. Levings RS, Lightfoot D, Hall RM, Djordjevic SP Emerg Infect Dis 2006 Mar 12(3):507-10 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 2 May 2006 Comparative genomics of multidrug resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii. Fournier PE, Vallenet D, …, Raoult D, Claverie JM PLoS Genet 2006 Jan 2(1):e7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 2 Feb 2006 Resistance to telithromycin is conferred by msr(A), msrC and msr(D) in Staphylococcus aureus. Reynolds ED, Cove JH J Antimicrob Chemother 2005 Dec 56(6):1179-80 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 15 Dec 2005 The routine use of antibiotics to promote animal growth does little to benefit protein undernutrition in the developing world. Collignon P, Wegener HC, Braam P, Butler CD Clin Infect Dis 2005 Oct 1 41(7):1007-13 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 19 Sep 2005 Present-day mercury resistance transposons are common in bacteria preserved in permafrost grounds since the Upper Pleistocene. Mindlin S, Minakhin L, …, Gorlenko Z, Nikiforov V Res Microbiol 2005 Dec 156(10):994-1004 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 17 Aug 2005 Influence of erythromycin A on the microbial populations in aquaculture sediment microcosms. Kim YH, Cerniglia CE Aquat Toxicol 2005 Jul 1 73(3):230-41 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 6 Jul 2005 Microarray-based detection of 90 antibiotic resistance genes of gram-positive bacteria. Perreten V, Vorlet-Fawer L, …, Kuhnert P, Frey J J Clin Microbiol 2005 May 43(5):2291-302 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 6 Jul 2005 Airborne multidrug-resistant bacteria isolated from a concentrated swine feeding operation. Chapin A, Rule A, …, Buckley T, Schwab K Environ Health Perspect 2005 Feb 113(2):137-42 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 21 Mar 2005 Copper amendment of agricultural soil selects for bacterial antibiotic resistance in the field. Berg J, Tom-Petersen A, Nybroe O Lett Appl Microbiol 2005 40(2):146-51 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 21 Feb 2005 Occurrence and distribution antibiotic resistance of heterotrophic bacteria isolated from a marine beach. Mudryk ZJ Mar Pollut Bull 2005 Jan 50(1):80-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 21 Feb 2005 Induction of the mar operon by miscellaneous groceries. Rickard AH, Lindsay S, Lockwood GB, Gilbert P J Appl Microbiol 2004 97(5):1063-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 25 Oct 2004 Targeted photodynamic therapy of established soft-tissue infections in mice. Gad F, Zahra T, …, Hasan T, Hamblin MR Photochem Photobiol Sci 2004 May 3(5):451-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 11 May 2004 An assessment of the risks associated with the use of antibiotic resistance genes in genetically modified plants: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Bennett PM, Livesey CT, …, Wise R, Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy J Antimicrob Chemother 2004 Mar 53(3):418-31 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 12 Feb 2004 Adaptive resistance to biocides in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli O157 and cross-resistance to antimicrobial agents. Braoudaki M, Hilton AC J Clin Microbiol 2004 Jan 42(1):73-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 26 Jan 2004 Long-term persistence of resistant Enterococcus species after antibiotics to eradicate Helicobacter pylori. Sjölund M, Wreiber K, …, Blaser MJ, Engstrand L Ann Intern Med 2003 Sep 16 139(6):483-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts / Robin Patel Evaluated 7 Oct 2003 Mutations in the DNA mismatch repair proteins MutS and MutL of oxazolidinone-resistant or -susceptible Enterococcus faecium. Willems RJ, Top J, …, North SE, Woodford N Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2003 Oct 47(10):3061-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 7 Oct 2003 Isolation of tetracycline-resistant Megasphaera elsdenii strains with novel mosaic gene combinations of tet(O) and tet(W) from swine. Stanton TB, Humphrey SB Appl Environ Microbiol 2003 Jul 69(7):3874-82 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 17 Jul 2003 Oral bacteria resistant to mercury and to antibiotics are present in children with no previous exposure to amalgam restorative materials. Ready D, Qureshi F, …, Mullany P, Wilson M FEMS Microbiol Lett 2003 Jun 6 223(1):107-11 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 25 Jun 2003 Novel tetracycline resistance determinant from the oral metagenome. Diaz-Torres ML, McNab R, …, Wilson M, Mullany P Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2003 Apr 47(4):1430-2 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 1 Apr 2003 Determining the genetic structure of the natural population of Staphylococcus aureus: a comparison of multilocus sequence typing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, and phage typing. Grundmann H, Hori S, …, Feil EJ, Pitt T J Clin Microbiol 2002 Dec 40(12):4544-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 13 Jan 2003 Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in human beta-defensin 1: high-throughput SNP assays and association with Candida carriage in type I diabetics and nondiabetic controls. Jurevic RJ, Bai M, …, White TC, Dale BA J Clin Microbiol 2003 Jan 41(1):90-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 13 Jan 2003 Potential of honey in the treatment of wounds and burns. Molan PC Am J Clin Dermatol 2001 2(1):13-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 20 Nov 2002 Molecular epidemiology of a citywide outbreak of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infection. Quale JM, Landman D, …, Vangala K, Adedeji A Clin Infect Dis 2002 Oct 1 35(7):834-41 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts / Lance Peterson Evaluated 11 Oct 2002 The importance of pets as reservoirs of resistant Enterococcus strains, with special reference to vancomycin. Rodrigues J, Poeta P, Martins A, Costa D J Vet Med B Infect Dis Vet Public Health 2002 Aug 49(6):278-80 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 11 Oct 2002 Prevalence and antibiotic resistance profile of mercury-resistant oral bacteria from children with and without mercury amalgam fillings. Pike R, Lucas V, …, Mullany P, Wilson M J Antimicrob Chemother 2002 May 49(5):777-83 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 19 Jun 2002 Linezolid versus vancomycin for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. Stevens DL, Herr D, …, Batts DH, Hafkin B Clin Infect Dis 2002 Jun 1 34(11):1481-90 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 19 Jun 2002 Effect of high-dose amoxicillin on the prevalence of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in rural Alaska. Hennessy TW, Bruden D, …, Butler JC, Schwartz B JAMA 2002 Apr 24 287(16):2078-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 13 May 2002 Secrets of success of a human pathogen: molecular evolution of pandemic clones of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Oliveira DC, Tomasz A, de Lencastre H Lancet Infect Dis 2002 Mar 2(3):180-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 10 May 2002 Testing of susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to pyrazinamide with the nonradiometric BACTEC MGIT 960 system. Pfyffer GE, Palicova F, Rüsch-Gerdes S J Clin Microbiol 2002 May 40(5):1670-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 10 May 2002 Animal antibiotic use has an early but important impact on the emergence of antibiotic resistance in human commensal bacteria. Smith DL, Harris AD, …, Silbergeld EK, Morris JG Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 Apr 30 99(9):6434-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 8 May 2002 Effect of beta lactam antibiotic use in children on pneumococcal resistance to penicillin: prospective cohort study. Nasrin D, Collignon PJ, …, Pilotto LS, Douglas RM BMJ 2002 Jan 5 324(7328):28-30 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 7 Feb 2002 Characterization of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in rendered animal products. Hofacre CL, White DG, …, Lobsinger C, Hudson C Avian Dis 2001 Oct-Dec 45(4):953-61 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 6 Feb 2002 Horizontal transfer of a multi-drug resistance plasmid between coliform bacteria of human and bovine origin in a farm environment. Oppegaard H, Steinum TM, Wasteson Y Appl Environ Microbiol 2001 Aug 67(8):3732-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 1 Oct 2001 Emergence of a pneumococcal clone with cephalosporin resistance and penicillin susceptibility. Smith AM, Botha RF, Koornhof HJ, Klugman KP Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2001 Sep 45(9):2648-50 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Marilyn Roberts Evaluated 20 Nov 2001

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