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Former student Max Su featured in ScienceNews story

10/10/2014

Bethany Brookshire writes about some of our latest lab research--and our high school student, Yutao (Max) Su, who helped with it as a summer project in my lab.

New paper!

9/16/2014

New paper! With PhD student Raj Nair, research assistant Dipendra Thapaliya, and high school summer student Yutao (Max) Su--Resistance to Zinc and Cadmium in Staphylococcus aureus of Human and Animal Origin.

New York Times mentions our research

9/16/2014

My colleague Chris Heaney's research is written up in today's New York Times. Our previous study examining carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in veterinary students is mentioned.

New paper! Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus in Romania

5/15/2014

Huang E, Hanson B, Kates A, Smith TC, Pettigrew M, Gurzau A, Rabinowitz P. Detection of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Swine Workers in Romania. Journal of Infection and Public Health, in press, 2014.

Talk at Harvard School of Public Health

3/27/2014

I was recently in Boston to give a talk at the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, part of Harvard University's College of Public Health. Link to the media story and the talk can be found here.

Des Moines Register covers our new research

1/29/2014

Nice story on our recent paper looking at MRSA and proximity to CAFOs.

Coverage of our research: MRSA and proximity to CAFOs

1/22/2014

Thanks to Maryn McKenna for covering our recent study on MRSA carriage and proximity to CAFOs.

New paper: MRSA and proximity to CAFOs

1/8/2014

With colleagues at the Iowa City VA hospital and the University of Iowa Department of Geography, a new paper is out ahead-of-print in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology: Residential Proximity to Large Numbers of Swine in Feeding Operations Is Associated with Increased Risk of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization at Time of Hospital Admission in Rural Iowa Veterans.

New post: will the new FDA guidelines reduce superbugs?

1/8/2014

Have a new guest post at Aetiology by Dr. Tim Fothergill regarding the new FDA guidelines.

New paper!

11/18/2013

With Shylo Wardyn, False Positives and Negatives using PCR-based identification of Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

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