Publications

longitudinal and secular trends in adolescent whole-grain consumption, 1999-2004.	the replacement of refined grains in the diet with whole grains may help prevent chronic disease and excess weight gain, but intakes in adolescents are often lower than recommended.	2010	19906803
diet, but not oral probiotics, effectively reduces urinary oxalate excretion and calcium oxalate supersaturation.	we examined the effect of a controlled diet and two probiotic preparations on urinary oxalate excretion, a risk factor for calcium oxalate kidney stone formation, in patients with mild hyperoxaluria. patients were randomized to a placebo, a probiotic, or a synbiotic preparation. this tested whether these probiotic preparations can increase oxalate metabolism in the intestine and/or decrease oxalate absorption from the gut. patients were maintained on a controlled diet to remove the confounding v ...	2010	20736987
malassezia: is it a pulmonary pathogen in the stem cell transplant population?	malassezia furfur is a yeast that can cause a variety of infections, most commonly in normal hosts, and also in immunocompromised hosts. this yeast typically colonizes the skin, and is the causative agent of tinea versicolor. however, in immunocompromised hosts, it can more commonly cause catheter-related fungemia or folliculitis. pulmonary infections from malassezia have not been commonly recognized. unlike many other common opportunistic fungal infections in immunocompromised hosts, neutropeni ...	2009	19497074
bacterial colonization of nursing home residents on admission to an acute care hospital.	very little data obtained in a prospective, controlled fashion examines the prevalence of colonization with antibiotic-resistant bacteria and yeast in nursing home residents on admission to acute-care hospitals. we cultured swabs taken from all nursing home patients admitted to a medical center on selected days of the week. age-matched control patients were also enrolled. nasal, pharyngeal, and rectal or perineal swabs were done within 24 h of admission. susceptibility to gentamicin was used as ...	1996	8666763