Recent Faculty Publications

Our research frequently appears in leading academic journals and reflects the wide scope of interests encompassed by the division.

Nikolaos Almyroudis, MD

Baden LR, Swaminathan S, Almyroudis NG, Angarone M, Baluch A, Barros N, Buss B, Cohen S, Cooper B, Chiang AD, Boghdadly ZE, Gregg K, Hakim H, Ho D, Khawaja F, Lee R, Lee F, Logan C, Manley K, Multani A, Pande A, Pergam S, Pisano J, Saullo J, Schuster M, Seo SK, Shoham S, Taplitz R, Topal J, Wilson JW, Zimmer A, Cassara CJ, Kumar R, Diwan Z. (2024) Prevention and Treatment of Cancer-Related Infections, Version 3.2024, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN (Nov), 22(9): 617-644.
El-Atoum M, Gailor ME, Segal BH, Bonnewell JP, Almyroudis NG. (2024) Microbiology of Actinomyces Species Isolated From Patients With Invasive Disease and Contaminated Samples in a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Open forum infectious diseases (Oct), 11(10): ofae580. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae580
Mehta N, Harrington JM, Wallace MA, Wasiura JM, Burnham CAD, Mullin KM, Segal BH, Almyroudis NG. (2023) Molecular epidemiology of Clostridioides difficile isolates in a non-outbreak setting at a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology. (Jul), 3(1) doi:10.1017/ash.2023.156

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Charles Berenson, MD

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John Bonnewell, MD, MSc

Bonnewell JP, Crump JA, Egger JR, Sakita FM, Hertz JT, Kilonzo KG, Maro VP, Rubach MP. (2025) Sepsis in Northern Tanzania: A Prospective Observational Study of Clinical Characteristics, Management, and Outcomes for Adolescents and Adults With Sepsis. Open forum infectious diseases (Jan), 12(1): ofae722. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae722
Ngocho JS, Liu J, Kalengo NH, Kipengele AH, Maro A, Mujage B, Senyael N, Gratz J, Kilonzo KG, Kinabo G, Lwezaula BF, Lyamuya F, Marandu A, Mbwasi R, Mmbaga BT, Mosha C, Carugati M, Madut DB, Bonnewell JP, Maze MJ, Maro VP, Crump JA, Houpt ER, Rubach MP. (2024) TaqMan Array Card real-time polymerase chain reaction panel to detect pathogens in whole blood of febrile inpatients in northern Tanzania, 2016-2019. Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH (Dec).
Madut DB, Rubach MP, Allan KJ, Thomas KM, de Glanville WA, Halliday JEB, Costales C, Carugati M, Rolfe RJ, Bonnewell JP, Maze MJ, Mremi AR, Amsi PT, Kalengo NH, Lyamuya F, Kinabo GD, Mbwasi R, Kilonzo KG, Maro VP, Mmbaga BT, Lwezaula B, Mosha C, Marandu A, Kibona TJ, Zhu F, Chawla T, Chia WN, Anderson DE, Wang LF, Liu J, Houpt ER, Martines RB, Zaki SR, Leach A, Gibbons A, Chiang CF, Patel K, Klena JD, Cleaveland S, Crump JA. (2024) Epidemiologic and genomic characterization of an outbreak of Rift Valley fever among humans and dairy cattle in northern Tanzania. The Journal of infectious diseases (Nov).

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Jonathan Claus, MD

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John Crane, MD, PhD

Demjanenko P, Zheng S, Crane JK. (2024) SOS-Inducing Drugs Trigger Nucleic Acid Release and Biofilm Formation in Gram-Negative Bacteria. Biomolecules (Mar), 14(3). doi:10.3390/biom14030321
Listopadzki T, Chowdhury A, Kohut K, Haider MN, Crane JK, Duquin T, DiPaola M. (2024) The Effect of Different Antibiotic Combinations in Calcium Sulfate Cement on the Growth of Cutibacterium acnes and Staphylococcus Periprosthetic Shoulder Infection Isolates. Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery (Feb).
Crane JK, Catanzaro MN. (2023) Role of Extracellular DNA in Bacterial Response to SOS-Inducing Drugs. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) (Mar), 12(4). doi:10.3390/antibiotics12040649

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Mohammad El-Atoum

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Gurmat Gill, DO, MPH

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Seth Glassman

El-Atoum M, Hargarten JC, Park YD, Ssebambulidde K, Ding L, Chittiboina P, Hammoud DA, Anjum SH, Glassman SR, Merchant S, Williamson PR, Hu JC. (2023) Persistent neurological symptoms and elevated intracranial pressures in a previously healthy host with cryptococcal meningitis. BMC infectious diseases (Jun), 23(1): 407. doi:10.1186/s12879-023-08349-y

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John Hu, M.D., Ph.D.

Hu JC, Sethi S. (2024) New methods to detect bacterial or viral infections in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Expert review of respiratory medicine (Aug).
King-Lyons ND, Bhati AS, Hu JC, Mandell LM, Shenoy GN, Willison HJ, Connell TD. (2024) A Novel Cytotoxic Mechanism for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells Induced by the Type II Heat-Labile Enterotoxin LT-IIc through Ganglioside Ligation. Toxins (Jul), 16(7). doi:10.3390/toxins16070311
El-Atoum M, Hargarten JC, Park YD, Ssebambulidde K, Ding L, Chittiboina P, Hammoud DA, Anjum SH, Glassman SR, Merchant S, Williamson PR, Hu JC. (2023) Persistent neurological symptoms and elevated intracranial pressures in a previously healthy host with cryptococcal meningitis. BMC infectious diseases (Jun), 23(1): 407. doi:10.1186/s12879-023-08349-y

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Alan Lesse, MD

Fuchs TA, Wattengel BA, Carter MT, El-Solh AA, Lesse AJ, Mergenhagen KA. (2022) Outcomes of multiple sclerosis patients admitted with COVID-19 in a large veteran cohort. Multiple sclerosis and related disorders (Aug), 64: 103964. doi:10.1016/j.msard.2022.103964

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Shehzad Merchant, MD

Trivedi GR, Merchant SS. (2024) Corynebacterium striatum: A true Pathogen in Chronic Contiguous osteomyelitis. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol (Feb)(2) doi:10.1155/2024/5020721
El-Atoum, Mohammad, Hargarten JC, Park YD, Ssebambulidde K, Ding L, Chittiboina P, Hammoud DA, Anjum S, Glassman S, Merchant SS, Williamsono P, Hu J. (2023) Persistent neurological symptoms and elevated intracranial pressures in a previously healthy host with cryptococcal meningitis. BMC Infect Dis (Jun), 1(23): 407. doi:10.1186/s12879-023-08349-y

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Timothy Murphy, MD

Hawk LW, Murphy TF, Hartmann KE, Burnett A, Maguin E. (2024) A randomized controlled trial of a team science intervention to enhance collaboration readiness and behavior among early career scholars in the Clinical and Translational Science Award network. Journal of clinical and translational science (Jan), 8(1): e6. doi:10.1017/cts.2023.692
Murphy TF, Kirkham C, D'Mello A, Sethi S, Pettigrew MM, Tettelin H. (2023) Adaptation of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in Human Airways in COPD: Genome Rearrangements and Modulation of Expression of HMW1 and HMW2. mBio (Mar)e0014023.

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Thomas Russo, MD

Tang Y, Du P, Du C, Yang P, Shen N, Russo TA, Liu C. (2025) Genomically defined hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae contributed to early-onset increased mortality. Nature communications (Mar), 16(1): 2096. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57379-4
Maguire M, DeLappe N, Clarke C, Touhy A, Carlino-MacDonald U, Hutson A, Cormican M, Brennan W, Devane G, Morris D, Coughlan SC, Miliotis G, Russo TA, Burke LP. (2025) Genomic and phylogenetic analysis of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST23 in Ireland. Microbial genomics (Mar), 11(3).
Russo TA, Lebreton F, McGann PT. (2025) A Step Forward in Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Diagnostics. Emerging infectious diseases (Jan), 31(1): 1-3. doi:10.3201/eid3101.241516

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John Sellick, Jr, DO, MS

Desilets J, Mittal A, Sellick JA, Patel SP. (2023) Risk assessment of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in corneal transplantation. American journal of ophthalmology case reports (Jun), 30: 101856. doi:10.1016/j.ajoc.2023.101856

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Alyssa Shon, MD

Wrotniak BH, Garrett M, Baron S, Sojar H, Shon A, Asiago-Reddy E, Yager J, Kalams S, Croix M, Hicar MD. (2022) Antibody dependent cell cytotoxicity is maintained by the unmutated common ancestor of 6F5, a Gp41 conformational epitope targeting antibody that utilizes heavy chain VH1-2. Vaccine (Jul), 40(31): 4174-4181.

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Surksha Sirichand

Fels JM, Khan S, Forster R, Skalina KA, Sirichand S, Fox AS, Bergman A, Mitchell WB, Wolgast LR, Szymczak WA, Bortz RH, Dieterle ME, Florez C, Haslwanter D, Jangra RK, Laudermilch E, Wirchnianski AS, Barnhill J, Goldman DL, Khine H, Goldstein DY, Daily JP, Chandran K, Kelly L. (2022) Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 during the first year of the pandemic in the Bronx enabled clinical and epidemiological inference. Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies (Jul), 8(5). doi:10.1101/mcs.a006211

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Recent Faculty Publications

Nikolaos Almyroudis, MD

Charles Berenson, MD

John Bonnewell, MD, MSc

Jonathan Claus, MD

John Crane, MD, PhD

Mohammad El-Atoum

Gurmat Gill, DO, MPH

Seth Glassman

John Hu, M.D., Ph.D.

Alan Lesse, MD

Shehzad Merchant, MD

Timothy Murphy, MD

Thomas Russo, MD

John Sellick, Jr, DO, MS

Alyssa Shon, MD

Surksha Sirichand

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