Publications
| bacteremia after upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. | during 24 months, 200 upper gastrointestinal endoscopies were performed on 193 patients. blood cultures were obtained before and five and 30 minutes after the procedure using thiol (50 ml) and trypticase soy broth (100 ml) media. the mean endoscopic time was 34 minutes. sixteen patients developed bacteremia (8%). twelve groups of microorganisms were detected in positive blood cultures: streptococcus (5 species), lactobacillus sp, veillonella alcalescens, staphylococcus aureus, staph epidermidis, ... | 1977 | 404974 |
| filthy lucre: a metagenomic pilot study of microbes found on circulating currency in new york city. | paper currency by its very nature is frequently transferred from one person to another and represents an important medium for human contact with-and potential exchange of-microbes. in this pilot study, we swabbed circulating $1 bills obtained from a new york city bank in february (winter) and june (summer) 2013 and used shotgun metagenomic sequencing to profile the communities found on their surface. using basic culture conditions, we also tested whether viable microbes could be recovered from b ... | 2017 | 28384336 |