Professor, Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Infectious Disease
Dr. Robert R. Muder, MD
Doctor Robert R. Muder, MD practices Infectious Disease. He researched medicine at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Robert Muder is a published doctor and has 100 publications published. The lastest was: 'Controlling Legionella in hospital water systems: experience with the superheat-and-flush method and copper-silver ionization.'
Publications
- An economic model: value of antimicrobial-coated sutures to society, hospitals, and third-party payers in preventing abdominal surgical site infections.
- Infections in psychiatric facilities, with an emphasis on outbreaks.
- Identifying the Risk Factors for Hospital-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection among Patients Colonized with MRSA on Admission.
- The potential economic value of a Staphylococcus aureus vaccine among hemodialysis patients.
- Reply to webster and osborne.
- Clostridium difficile Infection in a Long-Term Care Facility: Hospital-Associated Illness Compared with Long-Term Care-Associated Illness.
- Economic value of dispensing home-based preoperative chlorhexidine bathing cloths to prevent surgical site infection.
- Veterans Affairs initiative to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
- Economic impact of outbreaks of norovirus infection in hospitals.
- Sustained reduction in the clinical incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization or infection associated with a multifaceted infection control...
- The economic effect of screening orthopedic surgery patients preoperatively for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Screening cardiac surgery patients for MRSA: an economic computer model.
- Universal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) surveillance for adults at hospital admission: an economic model and analysis.
- Should vascular surgery patients be screened preoperatively for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?
- Toyota production system quality improvement initiative improves perioperative antibiotic therapy.
- Influenza outbreak management on a locked behavioral health unit.
- Implementation of an industrial systems-engineering approach to reduce the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.
- Protothecosis after liver transplantation.
- Validation study of artificial neural network models for prediction of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage.
- Optimizing therapy for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.
- Hand hygiene practices after brief encounters with patients: an important opportunity for prevention.
- Isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from the urinary tract: association of isolation with symptomatic urinary tract infection and subsequent staphylococcal bacteremia.
- Efficacy of new point-of-use water filter for preventing exposure to Legionella and waterborne bacteria.
- Legionnaires' disease in long-term care facilities: overview and proposed solutions.
- The anergy panel: an ineffective tool to validate tuberculin skin testing.
- Infection due to Legionella species other than L. pneumophila.
- Association between the presence of enterococcal virulence factors gelatinase, hemolysin, and enterococcal surface protein and mortality among patients with bacteremia...
- Staphylococcus aureus rectal carriage and its association with infections in patients in a surgical intensive care unit and a liver transplant unit.
- Pharmacokinetics of cefoperazone and sulbactam in liver transplant patients.
- Pneumonia in long-term care: a prospective case-control study of risk factors and impact on survival.
- Determinants of vancomycin resistance and mortality rates in enterococcal bacteremia. a prospective multicenter study.
- Control of an outbreak of infection due to extended-spectrum beta-lactamase--producing Escherichia coli in a liver transplantation unit.
- Prevalence of ceftriaxone- and ceftazidime-resistant gram-negative bacteria in long-term-care facilities.
- Frequency of intravenous administration set changes and bacteremia: defining the risk.
- Development of minimum criteria for the initiation of antibiotics in residents of long-term-care facilities: results of a consensus conference.
- Legionnaires' disease in a newly constructed long-term care facility.
- Approach to the problem of pneumonia in long-term care facilities.
- Nosocomial Legionella micdadei infection in transplant patients: fortune favors the prepared mind.
- Management of nursing home-acquired pneumonia: unresolved issues and priorities for future investigation.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the community: a hospital-based study.
- Feedback to nursing staff as an intervention to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
- Controlling Legionella in hospital water systems: experience with the superheat-and-flush method and copper-silver ionization.
- Infection and colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in an acute care Veterans Affairs Medical Center: a 2-year survey.
- Risk of infection due to central venous catheters: effect of site of placement and catheter type.
- Pneumonia in residents of long-term care facilities: epidemiology, etiology, management, and prevention.
- Complications related to intravenous midline catheter usage. A 2-year study.
- Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a long-term care facility.
- Multiply antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacilli in a long-term-care facility: a case-control study of patient risk factors and prior antibiotic use.
- Pneumonia in a long-term care facility. A prospective study of outcome.
- Bacteremia due to Stenotrophomonas (Xanthomonas) maltophilia: a prospective, multicenter study of 91 episodes.
- Reduction in nosocomial intravenous device-related bacteremias after institution of an intravenous therapy team.
- An outbreak of infusion-related Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia in a liver transplantation unit.
- Vancomycin-gentamicin synergism revisited: effect of gentamicin susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Recurrent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis: combination antibiotic therapy with evaluation by serum bactericidal titers.
- Legionella infection in liver transplant recipients: implications for management.
- Choosing appropriate criteria for tuberculin positivity and conversion in a long-term care facility.
- Infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among hospital employees.
- Meningitis due to Xanthomonas maltophilia: case report and review.
- A controlled trial of rifampicin, minocycline, and rifampicin plus minocycline for eradication of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term care patients.
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome associated with epidural fentanyl infusion.
- Aspergillus peritonitis in a continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patient. Case report and review of the literature.
- Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter meningitis in neurosurgical patients.
- Nosocomial infections in the human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient: a two-year survey.
- Prevalence of hepatitis C infection in health care workers affiliated with a liver transplant center.
- Myelopathy after herpes zoster.
- Nosocomial Legionnaires' disease uncovered in a prospective pneumonia study.
- Simultaneous infection with Legionella pneumophila and Pittsburgh pneumonia agent. Clinical features and epidemiologic implications.
- Penetration of cefoperazone into surgical wound drainage in patients undergoing head and neck surgery.
- Pneumonia caused by Pittsburgh pneumonia agent: radiologic manifestations.
- Addition of rifampin to ticarcillin-tobramycin combination for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections: assessment in a neutropenic mouse model.
- Pneumonia due to the Pittsburgh pneumonia agent: new clinical perspective with a review of the literature.
- Efficacy of two third-generation cephalosporins in prophylaxis for head and neck surgery.
- Determination of cefoperazone concentration in serum and muscle tissue with a versatile high-pressure liquid chromatographic method.
- Legionellaceae in the hospital water-supply. Epidemiological link with disease and evaluation of a method for control of nosocomial legionnaires'' disease and Pittsbur...
- Isolation of Legionella pneumophila from blood with the BACTEC system: a prospective study yielding positive results.
- Tatlockia micdadei (Pittsburgh pneumonia agent) growth kinetics may explain its infrequent isolation from water and the low prevalence of Pittsburgh pneumonia.
- Infections caused by Pseudomonas maltophilia. Expanding clinical spectrum.
- Mode of transmission of Legionella pneumophila. A critical review.
- The radiologic manifestations of Legionella pneumonia.
- Occult endemic tuberculosis in a chronic care facility.
- Staphylococcal carriage and infection in myasthenia gravis patients receiving therapeutic apheresis.
- Significance of isolation of Aspergillus from the respiratory tract in diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Results from a three-year prospective study.
- Antibiotic therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia: outcome correlations in a prospective study of 200 patients.
- Community-acquired Legionnaires' disease.
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections associated with use of povidone-iodine in patients receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
- Efficacy of oral ciprofloxacin plus rifampin for treatment of malignant external otitis.
- Fever, pulmonary infiltrates, and pleural effusion following acyclovir therapy for herpes zoster ophthalmicus.
- Antibody response to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in myasthenia gravis: effect of therapeutic plasmapheresis.
- New and emerging etiologies for community-acquired pneumonia with implications for therapy. A prospective multicenter study of 359 cases.
- Multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of concurrent oral ciprofloxacin and rifampin therapy in elderly patients.
- Conjunctivitis associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a long-term-care facility.
- Association with prior fluoroquinolone therapy of widespread ciprofloxacin resistance among gram-negative isolates in a Veterans Affairs medical center.
- Klebsiella pneumonia in the modern era: clinicoradiographic correlations.
- Methicillin-resistant staphylococcal colonization and infection in a long-term care facility.
- Prevalence of nosocomial infection in long-term-care Veterans Administration medical centers.
- Quinupristin-dalfopristin resistance in Enterococcus faecium isolates from humans, farm animals, and grocery store meat in the United States.
- Isolation of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 5 from empyema following esophageal perforation. Source of the organism and mode of transmission.
- Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteremia from transfusion of contaminated platelets: application of bacterial DNA analysis.
- Microbiology, infection control, immunizations, and infectious disease exposure: education and practices in United States nursing schools.
Schools
University of Pittsburgh Main Campus
Mercy Hospital
University Of Pittsburgh
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Mercy Hospital -
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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