Research Interests: Carol Kauffman

• Treatment of serious mycoses
• Epidemiology of antibiotic-resistant organisms in hospitals and long-term care facilities
• Infections in immunocompromised patients
  

Recent Publications

McNeil SA, Malani PN, Chenoweth CE, Fontana RJ, Magee JC, Punch JD, Mackin ML, Kauffman CA. Vancomycin-resistant enterococcal colonization and infection in liver transplant candidates and recipients: A prospective surveillance study. Clin Inf Dis 42: 195-203, 2006.

Pappas PG, Andes D, Schuster M, Hadley S, Rabkin J, Merion RM, Kauffman CA, Huckabee C, Cloud GA, Dismukes WE, Karchmer AW. Invasive fungal infections in low-risk liver transplant recipients: A multi-center prospective observational study. Am J Transplant 6: 386-391, 2006.

Malani AN, Aronoff DM, Bradley SF, Kauffman CA. Cardiobacterium hominis endocarditis: two cases and a review of the literature. Eur J Clin Micorbiol Infect Dis 25 (9): 587-595, 2006.

Kauffman, CA. Endemic mycoses: Blastomycosis, histoplasmosis, and sporotrichosis. Infect Dis Clin N Amer. 20 (3): 645, 2006.Kauffman, CA. Clinical efficacy of new antifungal agents. Curr Opin Microbiol 9 (5): 483-488, 2006.

Kauffman CA. Histoplasmosis: a clinical and laboratory update. Clin Microbiol Rev 20 (1): 115, 2007.

Kauffman CA, Malani AN, Easley C, Kirkpatrick P. Posaconazole. Nat Rev Drug Disc 6 (3): 183-184, 2007.

Watts B, Argekar P, Saint S, Kauffman CA. Building a diagnosis from the ground up. New Engl J Med 356 (14): 1456-1462, 2007.

Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Sable C, Sobel J, Alexander BD, Donowitz G, Kan V, Kauffman CA, et al. Multicenter retrospective development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for nosocomial invasive candidiasis in the intensive care setting. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 26 (4): 271-276, 2007.

Cox AM, Malani PN, Wiseman SW, Kauffman CA. Home intravenous antimicrobial infusion therapy: A viable option in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc 55 (5): 645-650, 2007.

Krein, SL; Hofer, TP; Kowalski, CP; Olmsted, RN; Kauffman, CA; Forman, JH; Banaszak-Holl, J; Saint, S. Use of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection prevention practicesby US hospitals. Mayo Clin Proc 82 (6): 672-678, 2007.

Popovich K, Malani PN, Kauffman CA, Cinti SK. Compliance with Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines for ophthalmologic evaluation of patients with candidemia. Infect Dis Clin Prac 15:254-256, 2007.

Malani AN, Kauffman CA. Candida urinary tract infections: treatment options. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 5: 277-284, 2007.

Wheat LJ, Freifeld AG, Kleiman MB, Baddley JW, McKinsey DS, Loyd JE, Kauffman CA. Clinical practice guidelines for the management of patients with histoplasmosis: 2007 update by the infectious diseases society of America. Clin Infect Dis 45 (7): 807-825, 2007.

Malani, AN; Kauffman, CA. Changing epidemiology of rare mould infections - Implications for therapy. Drugs 67 (13): 1803-1812, 2007.

Kauffman CA, Bustamante B, Chapman SW, Pappas PG. Clinical practice guidelines for the management of sporotrichosis: 2007 update by the infectious diseases society of America. Clin Infect Dis 45 (10): 1255-1265, 2007.

Mody L, Maheshwari S, Galecki A, Kauffman CA, Bradley SF. Indwelling device use and antibiotic resistance in nursing homes: Identifying a high-risk group. J Am Geriatr Soc 55 (12): 1921-1926, 2007.

Saint S, Kowalski CP, Kaufman SR, Hofer TP, Kauffman CA, Olmsted RN, Forman J, Banaszak-Holl J, Damschroder L, Krein SL. Preventing hospital-acquired urinary tract infection in the United States: A national study. Clin Infect Dis 46 (2): 243-250, 2008.

Mody L, Kauffman CA, Donabedian S, Zervos M, Bradley SF. Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus colonization in nursing home residents. Clin Infect Dis 46 (9): 1368-1373, 2008.

Kauffman, CA. Diagnosis of histoplasmosis in immunosuppressed patients. Curr Opin Infect Dis 21 (4): 421-425, 2008.

Segal BH, Herbrecht R, Stevens DA, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Sobel J, Viscoli C, Walsh TJ, Maertens J, Patterson TF, Perfect JR, Dupont B, Wingard JR, Calandra T, Kauffman CA, Graybill JR, Baden LR, Pappas PG, Bennett JE, Kontoyiannis DP, Cordonnier C, Viviani MA, Bille J, Almyroudis NG, Wheat LJ, Graninger W, Bow EJ, Holland SM, Kullberg BJ, Dismukes WE, De Pauw BE. Defining responses to therapy and study outcomes in clinical trials of invasive fungal diseases: Mycoses study group and European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer consensus criteria. Clin Infect Dis 47 (5): 674-683, 2008.

Nicolasora N, Cinti SK, Riddell J, Kauffman CA. A 53-year-old man with a large air bubble in his chest. Diagnosis: Bronchopleural fistula and hydropneumothorax caused by coccidioidomycosis (Photo Quiz). Clin Infect Dis 47 (6): 823-824, 2008.

Baddley JW, Perfect JR, Oster RA, Larsen RA, Pankey GA, Henderson H, Haas DW, Kauffman CA, Patel R, Zaas AK, Pappas PG. Pulmonary cryptococcosis in patients without HIV infection: factors associated with disseminated disease. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 27 (10): 937-943, 2008.

Chaiyachati K, Cinti SK, Kauffman CA, Riddell J. HIV-Infected patients with anal carcinoma who subsequently developed oral squamous cell carcinoma: Report of 2 cases. J Intl Ass Phys AIDS Care 7:306-11, 2008.

Psarros G, Kaul DL, Kauffman CA. Disseminated histoplasmosis in a heart transplant recipient: an uncommon diagnosis even in the Midwest. Infect Dis Clin Pract 16:49-53, 2008.

Kauffman CA, Carver PL. Update on echinocandin antifungals. Sem Respir Crit Care Med 29:211-219, 2008

Hadley S, Huckabee C, Pappas PG, Daly J, Rabkin J, Kauffman CA, Merion RM, Karchmer AW. Outcomes of antifungal prophylaxis in high-risk liver transplant recipients. Transpl Infect Dis 11:40-48, 2009.

Pappas PG, Kauffman CA, Andes D, Benjamin DK, Calandra TF, Edwards JE, Filler SG, Fisher JF, Kullberg BJ, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Reboli AC, Rex JH, Walsh TJ, Sobel JD. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Candidiasis: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 48 (5): 503-535, 2009.