Professor of Pathology, Joint of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Division Medical Microbiology, Director, Medical Microbiology Fellowship Program
Pathology
Dr. Karen C. Carroll, MD
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Karen Carroll is an expert in the field of Pathology. She went to University of Maryland School of Medicine. University of Maryland School of Medicine is ranked 37 in research and 52 in primary care medicine She has 1 awards "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Dr. Karen C. Carroll has written publications. She has 100 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Carbapenem-Resistant Glucose Non-Fermenting Gram-Negative Bacilli: The Missing Piece to the Puzzle.'
Publications
- Evaluation of the FilmArray Blood Culture Identification Panel: Results of a Multicenter Controlled Trial.
- The Prevalence and Molecular Epidemiology of Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Colonization in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
- Carbapenem-Resistant Glucose Non-Fermenting Gram-Negative Bacilli: The Missing Piece to the Puzzle.
- Impact of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile Colonization on the Risk of Subsequent C. difficile Infection in Intensive Care Unit Patients.
- Gut check: Clostridium difficile testing and treatment in the molecular testing era.
- An International, Prospective, Multicenter Evaluation of the Combination of AdvanDx Staphylococcus QuickFISH BC with mecA XpressFISH for Detection of Methicillin-Resis...
- The Bacteroides fragilis toxin gene is prevalent in the colon mucosa of colorectal cancer patients.
- High prevalence of reduced chlorhexidine susceptibility in organisms causing central line-associated bloodstream infections.
- Comparison of five chromogenic media for recovery of vancomycin-resistant enterococci from fecal samples.
- Questionable Utility of Galactomannan Testing for Diagnosis of Exserohilum rostratum Infection.
- A rabbit model of non-typhoidal Salmonella bacteremia.
- Determining the Optimal Ceftriaxone MIC for Triggering Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Confirmatory Testing.
- The Role of the Microbiology Laboratory in Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs.
- Improved Sensitivity for Molecular Detection of Bacteria and Candida in Blood.
- Ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection caused by Bifidobacterium breve.
- False-Positive Reaction of L-Canavanine Glycine Bromothymol Blue Medium with Candida famata.
- Comparison of Commercial Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Methods for Testing of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococci against Vancomycin, Daptomycin, and Linezolid.
- Multicenter evaluation of the Sepsityper⢠extraction kit and MALDI-TOF MS for direct identification of positive blood culture isolates using the BD BACTEC⢠FX and Vers...
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Transmission and Infections in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit despite Active Surveillance Cultures and Decolonization: Chal...
- Multidrug-Resistant and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Hog Slaughter and Processing Plant Workers and Their Community in North Carolina (USA).
- Bioactive versus Bare Platinum Coils in the Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms: The MAPS (Matrix and Platinum Science) Trial.
- Clostridium difficile Carriage and Serum Antitoxin Responses in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
- Better tests, better care: improved diagnostics for infectious diseases.
- Stent-Assisted Coiling versus Coiling Alone in Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms in the Matrix and Platinum Science Trial: Safety, Efficacy, and Mid-Term Outcomes.
- Can Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) Enhance Antimicrobial Stewardship Efforts in the Acute Care Setting?
- Laboratory detection of sepsis: biomarkers and molecular approaches.
- Universal digital high-resolution melt: a novel approach to broad-based profiling of heterogeneous biological samples.
- Impact of Colonization Pressure and Strain Type on MRSA Transmission in Children.
- A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2013 Recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) a...
- Executive Summary: A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2013 Recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society ...
- The challenges of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae and infection prevention: protecting patients in the chaos.
- RT-PCR/ESI-MS for Rapid Detection of Biothreat and Common Respiratory Pathogens.
- Albert balows, ph.d.
- Hospital room sterilization using far-ultraviolet radiation: a pilot evaluation of the sterilray device in an active hospital setting.
- Saving Costs through the Decontamination of the Packaging of Unused Medical Supplies Using Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor.
- Prevalence, risk factors, and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal and axillary colonization among psychiatric patients on admis...
- Characterizing long-term contaminant mass discharge and the relationship between reductions in discharge and reductions in mass for DNAPL source areas.
- Outcomes of Children with Enterobacteriaceae Bacteremia with Reduced Susceptibility to Ceftriaxone: Do the Revised Breakpoints Translate to Improved Patient Outcomes?
- Substituted thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidines as adenosine A2A receptor antagonists.
- Iatrogenic Exserohilum infection of the central nervous system: mycological identification and histopathological findings.
- An evaluation of environmental decontamination with hydrogen peroxide vapor for reducing the risk of patient acquisition of multidrug-resistant organisms.
- Past history of skin infection and risk of surgical site infection after elective surgery.
- Infection prevention considerations related to New Delhi metallo-?-lactamase Enterobacteriaceae: a case report.
- Development of a simple, low-density array to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and mecA dropouts in nasal swabs.
- Ochroconis gallopava infection in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease: case report and review of the literature.
- Evaluation of Nucleic Acid Sequencing of the D1/D2 Region of the Large Subunit of the 28S rDNA and the Internal Transcribed Spacer Region Using SmartGene IDN Software ...
- Comparison of swab and sponge methodologies for identification of Acinetobacter baumannii from the hospital environment.
- Epidemiology and Outcomes of Clostridium difficile Infections in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients.
- Antimicrobial prescribing practices in response to different Clostridium difficile diagnostic methodologies.
- The First NDM-Positive Salmonella spp. Identified in the United States.
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization and Risk of Subsequent Infection in Critically Ill Children: Importance of Preventing Nosocomial Methicillin-R...
- Risk factors for positive admission surveillance cultures for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a neurocritical care ...
- Biology of Clostridium difficile: Implications for Epidemiology and Diagnosis.
- Comparison of BD Bactec Plus Aerobic/F Medium to VersaTREK Redox 1 Blood Culture Medium for Detection of Candida spp. in Seeded Blood Culture Specimens Containing Ther...
- Genotypic and Phenotypic Characterization of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Misidentified as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by the...
- Tests for the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection: The next generation.
- Low frequency of environmental contamination with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an inner city emergency department and a human immunodeficiency virus ...
- Role of the clinical mycobacteriology laboratory in diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in low-prevalence settings.
- Randomized controlled trial of cephalexin versus clindamycin for uncomplicated pediatric skin infections.
- Evaluation of BBL CHROMagar VanRE for detection of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in rectal swab specimens.
- A review of sentinel laboratory performance: identification and notification of bioterrorism agents.
- Rapid identification of bacterial pathogens in positive blood culture bottles by use of a broad-based PCR assay coupled with high-resolution melt analysis.
- Evaluation of Bio-Rad MRSASelect agar for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from blood cultures.
- Role of decolonization in a comprehensive strategy to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the neonatal intensive care unit: an observation...
- Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in pediatric intensive care unit.
- Fatal infection caused by Cupriavidus gilardii in a child with aplastic anemia.
- C. Diff Quik Chek complete enzyme immunoassay provides a reliable first-line method for detection of Clostridium difficile in stool specimens.
- Targeted surveillance to identify children colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in the pediatric intensive care unit.
- Comparison of two rapid assays for Clostridium difficile Common antigen and a C difficile toxin A/B assay with the cell culture neutralization assay.
- Evaluation of a new commercial TaqMan PCR assay for direct detection of the clostridium difficile toxin B gene in clinical stool specimens.
- Pathogen profiling: rapid molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus by PCR/electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry and correlation with phenotype.
- Lack of antimicrobial activity by the antiretroviral drug nevirapine against common bacterial pathogens.
- Rapid molecular genotyping and clonal complex assignment of Staphylococcus aureus isolates by PCR coupled to electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry.
- National survey of Laboratory Response Network sentinel laboratory preparedness.
- Clostridium glycolicum wound infections: case reports and review of the literature.
- Daptomycin therapy failure in an adolescent with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
- Discordance between Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and skin infections in children.
- Comparison of a commercial real-time PCR assay for tcdB detection to a cell culture cytotoxicity assay and toxigenic culture for direct detection of toxin-producing Cl...
- Sphingomonas paucimobilis bloodstream infections associated with contaminated intravenous fentanyl.
- Unrecognized burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus carriage in the pediatric intensive care unit.
- Prevalence, risk factors, and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among newly arrested men in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Critical pathway for the management of acute heart failure at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System: transforming performance measures into cardiac care.
- Bordetella hinzii septicemia in association with Epstein-Barr virus viremia and an Epstein-Barr virus-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
- Incidence and prevalence of multidrug-resistant acinetobacter using targeted active surveillance cultures.
- Outbreak of multidrug-resistant Serratia marcescens infection in a neonatal intensive care unit.
- Timing of specimen collection for blood cultures from febrile patients with bacteremia.
- Comparison of the BD GeneOhm methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) PCR assay to culture by use of BBL CHROMagar MRSA for detection of MRSA in nasal survei...
- In vitro production of panton-valentine leukocidin among strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing diverse infections.
- Staphylococcus aureus colonization among healthcare workers at a tertiary care hospital.
- Yield of stool culture with isolate toxin testing versus a two-step algorithm including stool toxin testing for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile.
- Comparison of the BD GeneOhm VanR assay to culture for identification of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in rectal and stool specimens.
- Management strategies to meet the core heart failure measures for acute decompensated heart failure: a nursing perspective.
- Clinical validation of the molecular BD GeneOhm StaphSR assay for direct detection of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in positive...
- Comparison of BACTEC PLUS blood culture media to BacT/Alert FA blood culture media for detection of bacterial pathogens in samples containing therapeutic levels of ant...
- Cholera-like diarrhea and shock associated with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (USA400 clone) pneumonia.
- Epidemiology of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections among healthcare workers in an outpatient clinic.
- Evaluation of the BD Phoenix automated microbiology system for identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Enterobacteriaceae.
- Haemophilus influenzae serotype f purulent pericarditis: a cause of death in a child with Down syndrome.
- Active Surveillance Cultures and Decolonization to Reduce Staphylococcus aureus Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Schools
University of Maryland At Baltimore Professional Schools
University MD School Med
University Rochester Assoc Hosps Pro
University Mass Med Center
University Utah Mc
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Medical Microbiology
- Pathology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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University of Utah -
University of Massachusetts -
University of Rochester -
University of Maryland -
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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