Publications
- Torso LM, Voorhees RE, Forest SA, Gordon AZ, Silvestri SA, Kissler B, Schlackman J, Sandt CH, Toma P, Bachert J, Mertz KJ, Harrison LH. Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with restaurant beef grinding. J Food Prot 2015;78:1272-1279.
- Mustapha MM, Marsh JW, Krauland MG, Fernandez JO, de Lemos AP, Dunning Hotopp JC, Wang X, Mayer LW, Lawrence JG, Hiller NL, Harrison LH. Genomic epidemiology of hypervirulent serogroup W, ST-11 Neisseria meningitidis. EBioMedicine 2015;2:1447-55. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.09.007. PMCID: PMC4634745
- Marsh JW, Krauland KG, Nelson JS, Schlackman JL, Brooks AM, Pasculle AW, Shutt, KA, Doi Y, Querry AM, Muto CA, Harrison LH. Genomic epidemiology of an endoscope-associated outbreak of KPC carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. PLoS One 2015 Dec 4;10(12):e0144310. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144310.
- Mustapha MM, Marsh JW, Krauland MG, Fernandez JO, de Lemos AP, Dunning Hotopp JC, Wang X, Mayer LW, Lawrence JG, Hiller NL, Harrison LH. Genomic investigation reveals highly conserved, mosaic, recombination events associated with capsular switching among invasive Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W sequence type (ST)-11 strains. Genome Biol Evol. 2016 Jul 3;8(6):2065-75. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evw122.
- Mustapha MM, Marsh JW, Ezeonwuka CD, Pasculle AW, Pacey MP, Querry AM, Muto CA, Harrison LH. Draft Genome Sequences of Four Hospital-Associated Pseudomonas putida Genome Announc. 2016 Sep 29;4(5). pii: e01039-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01039-16.
- Potts CC, Joseph SJ, Chang HY, Chen A, Vuong J, Hu F, Jenkins LT, Schmink S, Blain A, MacNeil JR, Harrison LH, Wang X. Population structure of invasive Neisseria meningitidis in the United States, 2011-15. J Infect. 2018 Jun 28. pii: S0163-4453(18)30186-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2018.06.008. [Epub ahead of print]
- Marsh JW, Pacey MP, Ezeonwuka C, Ohm SL, Snyder D, Cooper VS, Harrison LH, Doi Y, Mustapha MM. J Clostridioides difficile: a potential source of NpmA in the clinical environment. Antimicrob Chemother. 2018 Oct 5. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky420. [Epub ahead of print]
- Guo Q, Mustapha MM, Chen M, Chen M, Qu D, Marsh JW, Zhang X, Doi Y, Wang M, Harrison LH. Evolution of sequence type 4821 clonal complex meningococcal strains in China from pre-quinolone to quinolone era 1972-2013. Emerg Infect Dis 2018;24:683-690.
- Galdys AL, Marsh JW, Delgado E, Pasculle AW, Pacey M, Ayres AM, Metzger A, Harrison LH, Muto CAM. Bronchoscope-associated clusters of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018 Nov 19:1-7. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.263. [Epub ahead of print].
- Miller JK, Chen J, Sundermann A, Marsh JW, Saul MI, Shutt KA, Pacey M, Mustapha MM, Harrison LH, Dubrawski A. Statistical outbreak detection by joining medical records and pathogen similarity. J Biomed Inform. 2019 Mar;91:103126. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103126. Epub 2019 Feb 13.
- Sundermann AJ, Miller JK, Marsh JW, Saul MI, Shutt KA, Pacey M, Mustapha MM, Ayres A, Pasculle AW, Chen J, Snyder GM, Dubrawski AW, Harrison LH. Automated data mining of the electronic health record for investigation of healthcare-associated outbreaks. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Mar;40(3):314-319.
- Babiker A, Mustapha MM, Pacey MP, Shutt KA, Ezeonwuka CD, Ohm SL, Cooper VS, Marsh JW, Doi Y, Harrison LH. The use of online tools for antimicrobial resistance prediction by whole genome sequencing in MRSA and VRE. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2019 Apr 18. pii: S2213-7165(19)30095-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2019.04.006. [Epub ahead of print]
- Sundermann AJ, Babiker A, Marsh JW, Shutt KA, Mustapha MM, Pasculle AW, Ezeonwuka C, Saul MI, Pacey MP, Van Tyne D, Ayres AM, Cooper VS, Snyder GM, Harrison LH. Outbreak of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Interventional Radiology: Detection Through Whole Genome Sequencing-Based Surveillance. Clin Infect Dis. 2020;70:2336-2343.
- Marsh JW, Mustapha MM, Griffith MP, Evans DR, Ezeonwuka C, Pasculle AW, Shutt KA, Sundermann A, Ayres AM, Shields RK, Babiker A, Cooper VS, Van Tyne D, Harrison LH. Evolution of outbreak-causing carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 at a tertiary care hospital over eight years. MBio. 2019 Sep 3;10(5). pii: e01945-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01945-19.
- Mustapha MM, Lemos APS, Griffith MP, Evans DR, Marx R, Coltro ESF, Siebra CA, Timm L, Ribeiro H, Monteiro A, Pasculle AW, Marsh JW, Van Tyne D, Harrison LH, Sacchi CT. Two cases of a newly-characterized Neisseria Emerg Infect Dis 2020;26:366-369.
- Namburete EI, Dippenaar A, Conceição EC, Feliciano C, Passeri do Nascimento MM, Peronni K, Silva WA, Ferro JJ, Harrison LH, Warren RM, Bollela VR. Phylogenomic assessment of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Beira, Mozambique. Tuberculosis 2020 Jan 29[Online ahead of print]. DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2020.101905.
- Evans DR, Griffith MP, Sundermann AJ, Shutt KA, Saul MI, Mustapha MM, Marsh JW, Cooper VS, Harrison LH, Van Tyne D. Systematic detection of horizontal gene transfer across genera among multidrug-resistant bacteria in a single hospital. Elife 2020;9. PMCID: PMC7156236
- Kumar P, Sundermann AJ, Martin EM, Snyder GM, Marsh JW, Harrison LH, Roberts MS. Method for economic evaluation of bacterial whole genome sequencing surveillance compared to standard of care in detecting hospital outbreaks. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 May 5:ciaa512. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa512. Online ahead of print.
- Babiker A, Evans DR, Griffith MP, McElheny CL, Hassan M, Clarke LG, Mettus RT, Harrison LH, Doi Y, Shields RK, Van Tyne D. Clinical and genomic epidemiology of carbapenem-non-susceptible Citrobacter at a tertiary healthcare center over two decades. J Clin Microbiol 2020;58:e00275-20.
- Mustapha MM, Marsh JW, Shutt KA, Schlackman J, Ezeonwuka C, Farley MM, Stephens DS, Wang X, van Tyne D, Harrison LH. Transmission dynamics and microevolution of Neisseria meningitidis during carriage and invasive disease in high school students, Maryland and Georgia, USA, 2006-2007. J Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 27:jiaa674. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa674. Online ahead of print.
- Sundermann AJ, Chen J, Miller JK, Saul MI, Shutt KA, Griffith MP, Mustapha MM, Ezeonwuka C, Waggle K, Srinivasa V, Kumar P, Pasculle AW, Ayres AM, Snyder GM, Cooper VS, Van Tyne D, Marsh JW, Dubrawski AW, Harrison LH. Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections from a Contaminated Gastroscope Detected by Whole Genome Sequencing Surveillance. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 25;ciaa1887
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