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A tertiary care cancer center experience of the 2007 outbreak of Serratia marcescens bloodstream infection due to prefilled syringes.

Chemaly RF, Rathod DB, Raad II.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2009 Dec;30(12):1237-8. No abstract available. PMID: 19888846 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

Candidemia in patients with hematologic malignancies in the era of new antifungal agents (2001-2007): stable incidence but changing epidemiology of a still frequently lethal infection.

Sipsas NV, Lewis RE, Tarrand J, Hachem R, Rolston KV, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Cancer. 2009 Oct 15;115(20):4745-52.PMID: 19634156 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

Tigecycline use in cancer patients with serious infections: a report on 110 cases from a single institution.

Chemaly RF, Hanmod SS, Jiang Y, Rathod DB, Mulanovich V, Adachi JA, Rolston KV, Raad II, Hachem RY.

Medicine (Baltimore). 2009 Jul;88(4):211-20.PMID: 19593226 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Evaluating quality in clinical cancer research: the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center experience.

Cox JD, Giralt SA, Veazie ML, Ajani JA, Bruner JM, Chan KW, Hittelman WN, Hunt KK, Iyer RB, Karp DD, Kuban DA, Lippman SM, Raad II, Rodriguez-Bigas MA, Zwelling LA, Markman M.

Oncology. 2009;77(2):75-81. Epub 2009 Jul 1.PMID: 19571599 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Mermel LA, Allon M, Bouza E, Craven DE, Flynn P, O'Grady NP, Raad II, Rijnders BJ, Sherertz RJ, Warren DK.

Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Jul 1;49(1):1-45. No abstract available. PMID: 19489710 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Phaeohyphomycosis in a tertiary care cancer center.

Ben-Ami R, Lewis RE, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Apr 15;48(8):1033-41.PMID: 19267655 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Monotherapy with caspofungin for candidaemia in adult patients with cancer: a retrospective, single institution study.

Sipsas NV, Lewis RE, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2009 Jul;34(1):95-8. Epub 2009 Feb 28.PMID: 19251404 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Activity of novel antibiotic lock solutions in a model against isolates of catheter-related bloodstream infections.

Bookstaver PB, Williamson JC, Tucker BK, Raad II, Sherertz RJ.

Ann Pharmacother. 2009 Feb;43(2):210-9. Epub 2009 Feb 3.PMID: 19193593 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The role of interventional molecular epidemiology in controlling clonal clusters of multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in critically ill cancer patients.

Adachi JA, Perego C, Graviss L, Dvorak T, Hachem R, Chemaly RF, Raad II.

Am J Infect Control. 2009 Aug;37(6):442-6. Epub 2008 Dec 31.PMID: 19118923 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Fatal cytomegalovirus pneumonia in patients with haematological malignancies: an autopsy-based case-control study.

Torres HA, Aguilera E, Safdar A, Rohatgi N, Raad II, Sepulveda C, Luna M, Kontoyiannis DP, Chemaly RF.

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2008 Dec;14(12):1160-6. Epub 2008 Nov 25.PMID: 19046167 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Severe parainfluenza virus type 2 supraglottitis in an immunocompetent adult host: an unusual cause of a paramyxoviridae viral infection.

Vigil KJ, Mulanovich VE, Chemaly RF, Tarrand J, Raad II, Adachi JA.

J Intern Med. 2009 Mar;265(3):397-400. Epub 2008 Nov 14.PMID: 19019183 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Posaconazole as salvage treatment of invasive fungal infections in patients with underlying renal impairment.

Hachem RY, Langston AA, Graybill JR, Perfect JR, Pedicone LD, Patino H, Raad II.

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2008 Dec;62(6):1386-91. Epub 2008 Oct 3.PMID: 18835806 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The role of molecular methods in the prevention of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clusters in cancer patients.

Ghanem G, Hachem RY, Chemaly RF, Dvorak T, Hulten K, Graviss L, Raad II.

Am J Infect Control. 2008 Nov;36(9):656-60. Epub 2008 Oct 3.PMID: 18834742 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Role of ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) in catheter lock solutions: EDTA enhances the antifungal activity of amphotericin B lipid complex against Candida embedded in biofilm.

Raad II, Hachem RY, Hanna HA, Fang X, Jiang Y, Dvorak T, Sherertz RJ, Kontoyiannis DP.

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2008 Dec;32(6):515-8. Epub 2008 Sep 9.PMID: 18783924 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Commentary: zero tolerance for catheter-related bloodstream infections: the unnegotiable objective.

Raad II.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Oct;29(10):951-3. No abstract available. PMID: 18754737 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Inhaled aminoglycosides in cancer patients with ventilator-associated Gram-negative bacterial pneumonia: safety and feasibility in the era of escalating drug resistance.

Ghannam DE, Rodriguez GH, Raad II, Safdar A.

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2009 Mar;28(3):253-9. Epub 2008 Aug 28.PMID: 18752007 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Sinus surgery combined with antifungal therapy is effective in the treatment of invasive Aspergillus sinusitis in neutropenic patients with cancer.

Hachem RY, Boktour MR, Hanna HA, Husni R, Hanna EY, Keutgen X, Shukrallah B, Raad II.

Infection. 2008 Dec;36(6):539-42. Epub 2008 Aug 25.PMID: 18726553 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The role of chelators in preventing biofilm formation and catheter-related bloodstream infections.

Raad II, Fang X, Keutgen XM, Jiang Y, Sherertz R, Hachem R.

Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2008 Aug;21(4):385-92. Review.PMID: 18594291 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Caspofungin-mediated beta-glucan unmasking and enhancement of human polymorphonuclear neutrophil activity against Aspergillus and non-Aspergillus hyphae.

Lamaris GA, Lewis RE, Chamilos G, May GS, Safdar A, Walsh TJ, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

J Infect Dis. 2008 Jul 15;198(2):186-92.PMID: 18500936 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Amphotericin B lipid complex versus liposomal amphotericin B monotherapy for invasive aspergillosis in patients with hematologic malignancy.

Hachem RY, Boktour MR, Hanna HA, Husni RN, Torres HA, Afif C, Kontoyiannis DP, Raad II.

Cancer. 2008 Mar 15;112(6):1282-7.PMID: 18224662 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Fungal endophthalmitis in a tertiary care cancer center: a review of 23 cases.

Lamaris GA, Esmaeli B, Chamilos G, Desai A, Chemaly RF, Raad II, Safdar A, Lewis RE, Kontoyiannis DP.

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 May;27(5):343-7. Epub 2008 Jan 9. Review.PMID: 18183439 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Human herpesvirus-6 DNAemia in immunosuppressed adult patients with leukemia at risk for mold infection.

Chemaly RF, Torres HA, Hachem R, Kontoyiannis DP, Safdar A, Raad II.

Haematologica. 2008 Jan;93(1):157-8.PMID: 18166808 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Novel antifungal agents as salvage therapy for invasive aspergillosis in patients with hematologic malignancies: posaconazole compared with high-dose lipid formulations of amphotericin B alone or in combination with caspofungin.

Raad II, Hanna HA, Boktour M, Jiang Y, Torres HA, Afif C, Kontoyiannis DP, Hachem RY.

Leukemia. 2008 Mar;22(3):496-503. Epub 2007 Dec 20.PMID: 18094720 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Effects of liposomal amphotericin B versus an amphotericin B lipid complex on liver histopathology in patients with hematologic malignancies and invasive fungal infections: a retrospective, nonrandomized autopsy study.

Chamilos G, Luna M, Lewis RE, Chemaly R, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Clin Ther. 2007 Sep;29(9):1980-6.PMID: 18035197 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Infections in 100 cord blood transplantations: spectrum of early and late posttransplant infections in adult and pediatric patients 1996-2005.

Safdar A, Rodriguez GH, De Lima MJ, Petropoulos D, Chemaly RF, Worth LL, Shpall EJ, Rolston KV, Raad II, Chan KW, Champlin RE.

Medicine (Baltimore). 2007 Nov;86(6):324-33.PMID: 18004177 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Risk of bioaerosol contamination with Aspergillus species before and after cleaning in rooms filtered with high-efficiency particulate air filters that house patients with hematologic malignancy.

Lee LD, Berkheiser M, Jiang Y, Hackett B, Hachem RY, Chemaly RF, Raad II.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Sep;28(9):1066-70. Epub 2007 Jul 6.PMID: 17932828 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Random plasma concentrations of voriconazole decline over time.

Mulanovich V, Lewis RE, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

J Infect. 2007 Nov;55(5):e129-30. Epub 2007 Sep 5.PMID: 17804077 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Characteristics and outcome of respiratory syncytial virus infection in patients with leukemia.

Torres HA, Aguilera EA, Mattiuzzi GN, Cabanillas ME, Rohatgi N, Sepulveda CA, Kantarjian HM, Jiang Y, Safdar A, Raad II, Chemaly RF.

Haematologica. 2007 Sep;92(9):1216-23. Epub 2007 Aug 1.PMID: 17666367 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Increased bone marrow iron stores is an independent risk factor for invasive aspergillosis in patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies and recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Kontoyiannis DP, Chamilos G, Lewis RE, Giralt S, Cortes J, Raad II, Manning JT, Han X.

Cancer. 2007 Sep 15;110(6):1303-6.PMID: 17614303 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Streptococcus pneumoniae infections in 47 hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients: clinical characteristics of infections and vaccine-breakthrough infections, 1989-2005.

Youssef S, Rodriguez G, Rolston KV, Champlin RE, Raad II, Safdar A.

Medicine (Baltimore). 2007 Mar;86(2):69-77.PMID: 17435587 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Colistin is effective in treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cancer patients.

Hachem RY, Chemaly RF, Ahmar CA, Jiang Y, Boktour MR, Rjaili GA, Bodey GP, Raad II.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2007 Jun;51(6):1905-11. Epub 2007 Mar 26.PMID: 17387153 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Neuraminidase inhibitors improve outcome of patients with leukemia and influenza: an observational study.

Chemaly RF, Torres HA, Aguilera EA, Mattiuzzi G, Cabanillas M, Kantarjian H, Gonzalez V, Safdar A, Raad II.

Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Apr 1;44(7):964-7. Epub 2007 Feb 14.PMID: 17342649 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

High-dose caspofungin combination antifungal therapy in patients with hematologic malignancies and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Safdar A, Rodriguez G, Rolston KV, O'Brien S, Khouri IF, Shpall EJ, Keating MJ, Kantarjian HM, Champlin RE, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Bone Marrow Transplant. 2007 Feb;39(3):157-64.PMID: 17245424 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia pneumonia in cancer patients without traditional risk factors for infection, 1997-2004.

Aisenberg G, Rolston KV, Dickey BF, Kontoyiannis DP, Raad II, Safdar A.

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2007 Jan;26(1):13-20.PMID: 17200840 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Scedosporium infection in a tertiary care cancer center: a review of 25 cases from 1989-2006.

Lamaris GA, Chamilos G, Lewis RE, Safdar A, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Dec 15;43(12):1580-4. Epub 2006 Nov 9.PMID: 17109292 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Dose-related safety and immunogenicity of baculovirus-expressed trivalent influenza vaccine: a double-blind, controlled trial in adult patients with non-Hodgkin B cell lymphoma.

Safdar A, Rodriguez MA, Fayad LE, Rodriguez GH, Pro B, Wang M, Romaguera JE, Goy AH, Hagemeister FB, McLaughlin P, Bodey GP, Kwak LW, Raad II, Couch RB.

J Infect Dis. 2006 Nov 15;194(10):1394-7. Epub 2006 Oct 6.PMID: 17054068 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Respiratory viral infections in adults with hematologic malignancies and human stem cell transplantation recipients: a retrospective study at a major cancer center.

Chemaly RF, Ghosh S, Bodey GP, Rohatgi N, Safdar A, Keating MJ, Champlin RE, Aguilera EA, Tarrand JJ, Raad II.

Medicine (Baltimore). 2006 Sep;85(5):278-87.PMID: 16974212 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Fungal osteoarticular infections in patients treated at a comprehensive cancer centre: a 10-year retrospective review.

Kumashi PR, Safdar A, Chamilos G, Chemaly RF, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2006 Jul;12(7):621-6.PMID: 16774557 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Influence of type of cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation on clinical presentation of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in cancer patients.

Torres HA, Chemaly RF, Storey R, Aguilera EA, Nogueras GM, Safdar A, Rolston KV, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2006 Jun;25(6):382-8.PMID: 16767486 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Invasive fungal infections in patients with hematologic malignancies in a tertiary care cancer center: an autopsy study over a 15-year period (1989-2003).

Chamilos G, Luna M, Lewis RE, Bodey GP, Chemaly R, Tarrand JJ, Safdar A, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP.

Haematologica. 2006 Jul;91(7):986-9. Epub 2006 Jun 1.PMID: 16757415 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Safety of long-term oral posaconazole use in the treatment of refractory invasive fungal infections.

Raad II, Graybill JR, Bustamante AB, Cornely OA, Gaona-Flores V, Afif C, Graham DR, Greenberg RN, Hadley S, Langston A, Negroni R, Perfect JR, Pitisuttithum P, Restrepo A, Schiller G, Pedicone L, Ullmann AJ.

Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Jun 15;42(12):1726-34. Epub 2006 May 8.PMID: 16705579 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Recombinant interferon gamma1b immune enhancement in 20 patients with hematologic malignancies and systemic opportunistic infections treated with donor granulocyte transfusions.

Safdar A, Rodriguez GH, Lichtiger B, Dickey BF, Kontoyiannis DP, Freireich EJ, Shpall EJ, Raad II, Kantarjian HM, Champlin RE.

Cancer. 2006 Jun 15;106(12):2664-71.PMID: 16691620 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Comparative in vitro efficacies of various catheter lock solutions.

Sherertz RJ, Boger MS, Collins CA, Mason L, Raad II.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2006 May;50(5):1865-8.PMID: 16641463 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Cytomegalovirus infection in patients with lymphoma: an important cause of morbidity and mortality.

Torres HA, Kontoyiannis DP, Aguilera EA, Younes A, Luna MA, Tarrand JJ, Nogueras GM, Raad II, Chemaly RF.

Clin Lymphoma Myeloma. 2006 Mar;6(5):393-8.PMID: 16640816 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Posaconazole as salvage treatment for invasive fusariosis in patients with underlying hematologic malignancy and other conditions.

Raad II, Hachem RY, Herbrecht R, Graybill JR, Hare R, Corcoran G, Kontoyiannis DP.

Clin Infect Dis. 2006 May 15;42(10):1398-403. Epub 2006 Apr 11.PMID: 16619151 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Culture-positive and culture-negative endocarditis in patients with cancer: a retrospective observational study, 1994-2004.

Yusuf SW, Ali SS, Swafford J, Durand JB, Bodey GP, Chemaly RF, Kontoyiannis DP, Tarrand J, Rolston KV, Yeh E, Raad II, Safdar A.

Medicine (Baltimore). 2006 Mar;85(2):86-94.PMID: 16609347 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Chest tube-related empyema due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: could the chest tube be coated with antiseptics?

Torres HA, Hanna HA, Graviss L, Chaiban G, Hachem R, Chemaly RF, Girgawy E, Raad II.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2006 Feb;27(2):195-7. Epub 2006 Feb 8.PMID: 16465639 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The spectrum of Gram-positive bloodstream infections in patients with hematologic malignancies, and the in vitro activity of various quinolones against Gram-positive bacteria isolated from cancer patients.

Rolston KV, Yadegarynia D, Kontoyiannis DP, Raad II, Ho DH.

Int J Infect Dis. 2006 May;10(3):223-30. Epub 2006 Jan 24.PMID: 16439177 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Pentamidine is active in a neutropenic murine model of acute invasive pulmonary fusariosis.

Lionakis MS, Chamilos G, Lewis RE, Wiederhold NP, Raad II, Samonis G, Kontoyiannis DP.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2006 Jan;50(1):294-7.PMID: 16377700 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Open-label, randomized comparison of itraconazole versus caspofungin for prophylaxis in patients with hematologic malignancies.

Mattiuzzi GN, Alvarado G, Giles FJ, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Cortes J, O'brien S, Verstovsek S, Faderl S, Zhou X, Raad II, Bekele BN, Leitz GJ, Lopez-Roman I, Estey EH.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2006 Jan;50(1):143-7.PMID: 16377679 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article