Peter C Iwen

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Top papers

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1 Prospective, controlled, cross-over trial of alcohol-based hand gel in critical care units . Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2008 4.03
2 Designing a biocontainment unit to care for patients with serious communicable diseases: a consensus statement. Biosecur Bioterror 2006 2.43
3 Inactivation of phospholipase D diminishes Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis. Infect Immun 2010 1.54
4 Phialosimplex, a new anamorphic genus associated with infections in dogs and having phylogenetic affinity to the Trichocomaceae. Med Mycol 2010 1.24
5 Outbreak of bloodstream infection temporally associated with the use of an intravascular needleless valve. Clin Infect Dis 2007 1.16
6 Geographic factors contributing to a high seroprevalence of West Nile virus-specific antibodies in humans following an epidemic. Clin Vaccine Immunol 2006 1.12
7 PCR rapidly detects methicillin-resistant staphylococci periprosthetic infection. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2003 1.07
8 Validation of the Cepheid Xpert Flu A real time RT-PCR detection panel for emergency use authorization. J Clin Virol 2010 1.03
9 Pharmacoeconomic analysis of microbiologic techniques for differentiating staphylococci directly from blood culture bottles. J Clin Microbiol 2008 1.00
10 Leuconostoc bacteremia in pediatric patients with short bowel syndrome: case series and review. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2008 0.99
11 Impact of the more-potent antibiotics quinupristin-dalfopristin and linezolid on outcome measure of patients with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus bacteremia. Clin Infect Dis 2008 0.99
12 Large direct repeats flank genomic rearrangements between a new clinical isolate of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis A1 and Schu S4. PLoS One 2010 0.93
13 Francisella tularensis molecular typing using differential insertion sequence amplification. J Clin Microbiol 2011 0.92
14 Decontamination of a hospital room using gaseous chlorine dioxide: Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis, and Yersinia pestis. J Occup Environ Hyg 2013 0.91
15 Comparison of traditional phenotypic identification methods with partial 5' 16S rRNA gene sequencing for species-level identification of nonfermenting Gram-negative bacilli. J Clin Microbiol 2010 0.87
16 Molecular identification of Mycobacterium chimaera as a cause of infection in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2009 0.87
17 Cerebral aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus ustus following orthotopic heart transplantation: case report and review of the literature. Clin Transplant 2008 0.87
18 Utilization of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test in a two-step process with the tuberculin skin test to evaluate health care workers for latent tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol 2010 0.87
19 Evaluation of ambulance decontamination using gaseous chlorine dioxide. Prehosp Emerg Care 2013 0.86
20 Utilization of the relative complexity measure to construct a phylogenetic tree for fungi. Mycol Res 2004 0.86
21 Bacteremia caused by Microbacterium binotii in a patient with sickle cell anemia. J Clin Microbiol 2013 0.84
22 Applying a real-time PCR assay for Histoplasma capsulatum to clinically relevant formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded human tissue. J Clin Microbiol 2012 0.84
23 Delayed diagnosis of osseous blastomycosis in two patients following environmental exposure in nonendemic areas. Am J Clin Pathol 2002 0.84
24 Impact of chlorine dioxide gas sterilization on nosocomial organism viability in a hospital room. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2013 0.84
25 Computational approach involving use of the internal transcribed spacer 1 region for identification of Mycobacterium species. J Clin Microbiol 2005 0.84
26 Mycobacterium nebraskense sp. nov., a novel slowly growing scotochromogenic species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 0.82
27 Surrogate testing suggests that chlorine dioxide gas exposure would not inactivate Ebola virus contained in environmental blood contamination. J Occup Environ Hyg 2015 0.82
28 Implications of culture-independent panel-based detection of Cyclospora cayetanensis. J Clin Microbiol 2013 0.81
29 Zygomycosis. Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2004 0.81
30 Infection control experience in a cooperative care center for transplant patients. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2008 0.81
31 A case study on decontamination of a biosafety level-3 laboratory and associated ductwork within an operational building using gaseous chlorine dioxide. J Occup Environ Hyg 2012 0.79
32 Francisella tularensis bacteria associated with feline tularemia in the United States. Emerg Infect Dis 2014 0.79
33 Possible Airborne Person-to-Person Transmission of Mycobacterium bovis - Nebraska 2014-2015. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2016 0.78
34 A new rapid method for Clostridium difficile DNA extraction and detection in stool: toward point-of-care diagnostic testing. J Mol Diagn 2012 0.77
35 Smallpox Vaccination of Laboratory Workers at US Variola Testing Sites. Emerg Infect Dis 2015 0.75
36 Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6C presenting as recurrent prosthetic knee joint infection in a patient with a history of congenital asplenia and underlying autoimmune disease: a case report and literature review. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2013 0.75
37 Clinical challenges in isolation care. Am J Nurs 2015 0.75
38 Effects of sterilizing gamma irradiation on bloodspot newborn screening tests and whole blood cyclosporine and tacrolimus measurements. Am J Clin Pathol 2003 0.75
39 Evaluating Isolation Behaviors by Nurses Using Mobile Computer Workstations at the Bedside. Comput Inform Nurs 2016 0.75
40 An outbreak of avian mycobacteriosis caused by Mycobacterium intracellulare in little blue penguins (Eudyptula minor). J Zoo Wildl Med 2009 0.75