Pathology Division; Bacteriology Division; Center for Genome Sciences; Department of 12 Molecular and Translational Sciences; the United States Army of Medical Research Institute of 13 Infectious Diseases; Fort Detrick, MD 21702 14 15 Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Département de Biologie des Agents 16 Transmissibles, Unité de Bactériologie/UMR_MD1, B.P. 73, F-91220 Brétigny-sur-...

Persister cells are metabolically quiescent multi-drug tolerant fraction of a genetically sensitive bacterial population and are thought to be responsible for relapse of many persistent infections. Persisters can be formed naturally in the stationary phase culture, and also can be induced by bacteriostatic antibiotics. However, the molecular basis of bacteriostatic antibiotic induced persister ...

A. Clinton White Jr, Christina M. Coyle, Vedantam Rajshekhar, Gagandeep Singh, W. Allen Hauser, Aaron Mohanty, Hector H. Garcia, and Theodore E. Nash University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York; Christian Medical College, Vellore, and Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, India; Columbia University, New York, New York; Instituto Nacional de ...

From the Laboratory of Viral Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21701; the Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York; the Barbara Kopp Research Center, Auburn, New York 13021; the DNA Recombinant Research Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, ...

Peter G. Pappas, Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, John R. Perfect, Tom M. Chiller Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; Division of Internal Medicine, Unit 1460, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, USA; My...

of Clostridium difficile and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus? Abhishek Deshpande, MD, PhD; Jennifer Cadnum, BS; Dennis Fertelli; Brett Sitzlar, BS; Priyaleela Thota, MD; Thriveen Mana, MS, MBA; Annette Jencson, BSMT(ASCP)SM, CIC; Erica Pozwick; Holly Doehring; Jizal Seikali, BS; Curtis J. Donskey, MD; Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Medicine, Case Western Reser...

Treatment: Host, Behavioral, and Pathogen Level Factors Loren Miller, MD, MPH; Samantha J. Eells, MPH; Michael Z David, MD PhD; Nancy Ortiz; Susan Boyle-Vavra, PhD; Robert S Daum, MD; Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, CA; Division of Adult Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute At Harbor-UCLA Medical C...

113. Procedure-specific Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevalence Widely Varies within Certain NHSN (National Healthcare Safety Network) Surgery Groups Mohammed Saeed, MBChB, MPH; Erik R. Dubberke, MD, MSPH; Margaret Olsen, PhD, MPH; Internal Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University S...