Publications

nosocomial outbreak of respiratory tract colonization with mycobacterium fortuitum: demonstration of the usefulness of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in an epidemiologic investigation.	between august 1989 and january 1990, 16 patients on an alcoholism rehabilitation ward (arw) developed positive sputum cultures for mycobacterium fortuitum. during a 2-wk surveillance period, six of 43 arw patients but none of 20 staff members had positive sputum cultures. in addition, none of 54 patients and staff on an adjacent ward sharing the same ice machine and water supply had positive cultures, and none of 92 acid-fast bacilli cultures performed on all sputum specimens from all other inp ...	1991	1952447
serum igm levels against select marine bacteria in the atlantic sharpnose shark (rhizoprionodon terraenovae) from three estuaries.	the atlantic sharpnose shark (rhizoprionodon terraenovae) is abundant and easily captured throughout the southeastern united states. therefore this species serves as an ideal model for generating basic immunological reagents to establish baseline information regarding the immunophysiology of sharks in the wild, and for attempting to correlate shark immune responses to potential pathogens with the quality of the habitat in which they reside. sharpnose shark serum igm was purified over a protein-a ...	2006	16750427