New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center
Bacteriology
Musser E, Smith C, Halse TA, Kohlerschmidt D, Rourke A, Fiero A, Musser KA, Escuyer V, Lapierre P.
Characterization of Mycobacterium salfingeri sp. nov.: A novel nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from a human wound infection.
Front Microbiol.
2022;
(13):
992610.
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.992610
Schoonmaker-Bopp D, Nazarian E, Dziewulski D, Clement E, Baker DJ, Dickinson MC, Saylors A, Codru N, Thompson L, Lapierre P, Dumas N, Limberger R, Musser KA.
Improvements to the Success of Outbreak Investigations of Legionnaires' Disease: 40 Years of Testing and Investigation in New York State.
Appl Environ Microbiol.
2021;
87
(16):
e0058021.
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00580-21
Prussing C, Canulla T, Singh N, McAuley P, Gosciminski M, King E, Bandy U, Machado MJ, Karlsson M, Musser KA, Huard RC, Nazarian EJ.
Characterization of the First Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Clinical Isolate Harboring blaSIM-1 from the United States.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother.
2021;
65
(10):
e0106621.
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01066-21
Long JR, Mitchell K, Edwards J, Wroblewski D, Luke E, Dickinson M, Kidney A, Dumas N, DelRosso P, Dorsinville M, Antwi M, Weiss D, Nazarian E, Limberger RJ, Musser KA, Halse TA.
Laboratory Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis by Direct Detection, Serotyping and Next Generation Sequencing: How 10 years of Testing in New York State has evolved to improve laboratory diagnosis and public health.
Mol Cell Probes.
2022;
(61):
101786.
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2021.101786
Bardossy AC, Snavely EA, Nazarian E, Annambhotla P, Basavaraju SV, Pepe D, Maloney M, Musser KA, Haas W, Barros N, Pierce VM, Walters M, Epstein L.
Donor-derived transmission through lung transplantation of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii producing the OXA-23 carbapenemase during an ongoing healthcare facility outbreak.
Transpl Infect Dis.
2020;
April 22
(2):
e13256.
DOI: 10.1111/tid.13256
Prussing C, Snavely EA, Singh N, Lapierre P, Lasek-Nesselquist E, Mitchell K, Haas W, Owsiak R, Nazarian E, Musser KA.
Nanopore MinION Sequencing Reveals Possible Transfer of bla KPC-2 Plasmid Across Bacterial Species in Two Healthcare Facilities.
Front Microbiol.
2020;
August 19
(11):
2007.
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.02007
Smith C, Halse TA, Shea J, Modestil H, Fowler RC, Musser KA, Escuyer V, Lapierre P.
Assessing Nanopore sequencing for clinical diagnostics: A comparison of NGS methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
J Clin Microbiol.
2020;
Oct 14
(JCM):
00583-20.
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00583-20
Shea J, Halse TA, Kohlerschmidt D, Lapierre P, Modestil HA, Kearns CH, Dworkin FF, Rakeman JL, Escuyer V, Musser KA.
Low-level rifampin resistance and rpoB mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: An analysis of whole-genome sequencing and drug susceptibility test data in New York.
J Clin Microbiol.
2020;
Sept 30
(JCM):
01885-20.
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01885-20
Banaei N, Musser KA, Salfinger M, Somoskovi A, Zelazny AM.
Novel Assays/Applications for Patients Suspected of Mycobacterial Diseases.
Clin Lab Med.
2020;
40
(4):
535-552.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2020.08.010