Publications

listeria and gram-negative bacillary meningitis in new york city, 1972-1979. frequent causes of meningitis in adults.	in an eight year period (1972-1979), 158 cases of enteric gram-negative bacillary meningitis and 53 cases of listeria meningitis were reported to the new york city health department. these two forms of bacterial meningitis were the fourth and fifth most common ones reported to the department, respectively. the cumulative total of reported cases of gram-negative rod meningitis over this less than the reported cases due to neisseria meningitis over this period. in contrast to most previous studies ...	1981	7020416
urinary tract infection in adolescent boys.	clinical and laboratory features of 21 adolescent males with urinary tract infections were studied. sixty-seven percent were symptomatic and 80% revealed abnormalities on initial urinalysis. forty-eight percent showed structural anomalies of the urinary tract. recurrences were observed only in those having abnormalities of the urinary tract.	1996	8583488
respiratory pathogen colonization of the dental plaque of institutionalized elders.	although it has been established that aspiration of pharyngeal bacteria is the major route of infection in the development of nosocomial pneumonia, colonization of the pharyngeal mucosa by respiratory pathogens has been shown to be a transient phenomenon. it has been suggested that the dental plaque may constitute an additional, possibly more stable, reservoir of respiratory pathogens. the purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of oral colonization by potential respiratory pathogens ...	1999	10860077
antimicrobial resistance in enterobacteriaceae in brooklyn, ny: epidemiology and relation to antibiotic usage patterns.	in november 1997, all enterobacteriaceae isolated at 15 hospitals in brooklyn were collected. extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (esbls) were present in 44% of 409 klebsiella pneumoniae isolates. six isolates had reduced susceptibility to carbapenems, including two that were not susceptible to any of the antibiotics tested. pulsed field gel electrophoresis revealed a commonality of resistant isolates within and between hospitals. the occurrence of esblcontaining isolates was associated with cepha ...	2000	10837447