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New papers!

3/13/2017

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Thapaliya D, Dalman M, Kadariya J*, Little K*, Mansell V*, Taha MY, Grenier D*, Smith TC. Prevalence and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus in Geese Feces Collected from State Parks in Northeast Ohio. EcoHealth, in press, 2017.

Thapaliya D, Forshey BM, Quick MK, Farina SE*, O'Brien A*, Nair R*, Nworie A*, Hanson BM*, Kates A*, Wardyn SE, Smith TC. Prevalence and Molecular Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus in Commercially Available Meat over a One-Year Period in Iowa, United States. Food Microbiology, in press, 2017. 
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Congrats to Dr. Ashley Kates!

8/17/2016

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Graduate student research forum 

4/22/2016

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Second-year MPH student Jhalka Kadariya presents her research on S. aureus in Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal and in Bhutanese refugees re-settled in the Akron area. 
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New paper!

1/27/2016

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Part of Dwight Ferguson's dissertation work, Detection of Airborne Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Inside and Downwind of a swine Building, and in Animal Feed: Potential Occupational, Animal Health, and Environmental Implications. 
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New paper!

7/13/2015

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Epidemiology of necrotizing infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes at an Iowa hospital, part of Ashley O'Brien's Master's project. 
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New paper!

4/6/2015

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Part of Kolie Eko's Master's degree work: Eko K, Foshey B, Carrel M, Perencevich E, Schweizer M, Smith TC. Molecular characterization of hospital and community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a Veterans Affairs Hospital. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, in press. 
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New paper!

3/11/2015

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Moritz ED, Hanson BM, Kates AE, Smith TC. Molecular characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from employees, children, and environmental surfaces in Iowa child daycare facilities. American Journal of Infection Control, in press, 2015. 
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New paper: evaluating N95 masks for airborne MRSA 

11/12/2014

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Part of PhD student Dwight Ferguson's dissertation, Evaluation of the Filtration Efficiency of the N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator for Airborne Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
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New paper: Staphylococcus aureus in Nigeria

11/11/2014

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Led by MPH student Sean O'Malley and with the assistance of Nigerian colleagues, our new paper reports on the molecular epidemiology of S. aureus in that country. 
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Former student Max Su featured in ScienceNews story

10/10/2014

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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. 
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