Lyman Barth Reller | Scholars@Duke

Lyman Barth Reller
Professor of Pathology

To develop and to evaluate procedures and protocols that support, enhance, and extend the ability of the clinical laboratories to carry out effectively their primary service and teaching responsibilities as relates to detection of sepsis, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and diagnosis of tuberculosis.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Pathology, Pathology, Clinical Science Departments 1988
Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 1999

Contact Information

2616 McDowell Road, Durham, NC 27705
2616 McDowell Road, Durham, NC 27705
barth.reller@duke.edu (919) 971-5669

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Intern, Medicine, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 1986 - 1988
- Professor, Medicine, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 1982 - 1988
- Asociate Professor, Medicine, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 1977 - 1982
- Assistant Professor, Medicine, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 1973 - 1977
- Fellow, Clinical Microbiology, University of Washington 1972 - 1973
- Fellow, Infectious Diseases, University of Washington 1971 - 1972
- Resident, Medicine, University of Washington 1970 - 1971
- Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Center for Disease Control 1968 - 1970
- Resident, Medicine, University of Washington 1967 - 1968
- M.D., University of Virginia 1966
Duke Appointment History
- Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Science Departments 1994 - 1999
Recognition
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Research
  - Malawi (Country)
  - United Republic of Tanzania (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Transplant Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
- Mid-Career Investigator Award: Preventing and Diagnosing Fungal Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2013
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Pericàs, JM, Messina, JA, Garcia-de-la-Mària, C, Park, L, Sharma-Kuinkel, BK, Marco, F, Wray, D, Kanafani, ZA, Carugati, M, Durante-Mangoni, E, Tattevin, P, Chu, VH, Moreno, A, Fowler, VG, Miró, JM, and International Collaboration on Endocarditis Microbiology Investigators, . "Influence of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration on the outcome of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus left-sided infective endocarditis treated with antistaphylococcal β-lactam antibiotics: a prospective cohort study by the International Collaboration on Endocarditis." Clinical Microbiology and Infection : the Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 23, no. 8 (August 2017): 544-549. Full Text
  - Doern, CD, Mirrett, S, Halstead, D, Abid, J, Okada, P, and Reller, LB. "Controlled clinical comparison of new pediatric medium with adsorbent polymeric beads (PF Plus) versus charcoal-containing PF medium in the BacT/alert blood culture system." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 52, no. 6 (June 2014): 1898-1900. Full Text
  - Kirn, TJ, Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/alert FA plus and FN plus blood culture media with BacT/alert FA and FN blood culture media." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 52, no. 3 (March 2014): 839-843. Full Text
  - "Cefazolin as a class representative for oral cephalosporins and uncomplicated urinary tract infections caused by indicated Enterobacteriaceae." Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 77, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 381-382. (Letter) Full Text
  - Caliendo, AM, Gilbert, DN, Ginocchio, CC, Hanson, KE, May, L, Quinn, TC, Tenover, FC, Alland, D, Blaschke, AJ, Bonomo, RA, Carroll, KC, Ferraro, MJ, Hirschhorn, LR, Joseph, WP, Karchmer, T, MacIntyre, AT, Reller, LB, Jackson, AF, and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), . "Better tests, better care: improved diagnostics for infectious diseases." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 57 Suppl 3 (December 2013): S139-S170. (Review) Full Text
  - Schuetz, AN, Brasso, WB, Crandon, JL, Hardy, DJ, Jenkins, SG, Jones, RN, Knapp, CC, Reller, LB, and Ad Hoc Oral Cephalosporin Working Group of the Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of the CLSI, . "Cefazolin as a class representative for oral cephalosporins and uncomplicated urinary tract infections caused by indicated Enterobacteriaceae." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 77, no. 4 (December 2013): 381-382. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Bhowmick, T, Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, Price, C, Qi, C, Weinstein, MP, and Kirn, TJ. "Controlled multicenter evaluation of a bacteriophage-based method for rapid detection of Staphylococcus aureus in positive blood cultures." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 51, no. 4 (April 2013): 1226-1230. Full Text
  - Crump, JA, Ramadhani, HO, Morrissey, AB, Saganda, W, Mwako, MS, Yang, L-Y, Chow, S-C, Njau, BN, Mushi, GS, Maro, VP, Reller, LB, and Bartlett, JA. "Bacteremic disseminated tuberculosis in sub-saharan Africa: a prospective cohort study." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 55, no. 2 (July 2012): 242-250. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Millender, TW, Reller, LB, Meekins, LC, and Afshari, NA. "Streptococcal pharyngitis leading to corneal ulceration." Ocul Immunol Inflamm 20, no. 2 (April 2012): 143-144. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Anderson, KL, Lyman, R, Moury, K, Ray, D, Watson, DW, and Correa, MT. "Molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus mastitis in dairy heifers." Journal of Dairy Science 95, no. 9 (2012): 4921-4930. Full Text
  - Crump, JA, Tuohy, MJ, Morrissey, AB, Ramadhani, HO, Njau, BN, Maro, VP, Reller, LB, and Procop, GW. "Performance of nucleic acid amplification following extraction of 5 milliliters of whole blood for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 50, no. 1 (January 2012): 138-141. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Lower, SK, Lamlertthon, S, Casillas-Ituarte, NN, Lins, RD, Yongsunthon, R, Taylor, ES, DiBartola, AC, Edmonson, C, McIntyre, LM, Reller, LB, Que, Y-A, Ros, R, Lower, BH, and Fowler, VG. "Polymorphisms in fibronectin binding protein A of Staphylococcus aureus are associated with infection of cardiovascular devices." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, no. 45 (November 2011): 18372-18377. Full Text
  - Nienaber, JJC, Sharma Kuinkel, BK, Clarke-Pearson, M, Lamlertthon, S, Park, L, Rude, TH, Barriere, S, Woods, CW, Chu, VH, Marín, M, Bukovski, S, Garcia, P, Corey, GR, Korman, T, Doco-Lecompte, T, Murdoch, DR, Reller, LB, Fowler, VG, and International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Microbiology Investigators, . "Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis isolates are associated with clonal complex 30 genotype and a distinct repertoire of enterotoxins and adhesins." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 204, no. 5 (September 2011): 704-713. Full Text
  - Crump, JA, Morrissey, AB, Ramadhani, HO, Njau, BN, Maro, VP, and Reller, LB. "Controlled comparison of BacT/Alert MB system, manual Myco/F lytic procedure, and isolator 10 system for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bacteremia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 49, no. 8 (August 2011): 3054-3057. Full Text
  - Pfeiffer, CD, Samsa, GP, Schell, WA, Reller, LB, Perfect, JR, and Alexander, BD. "Quantitation of Candida CFU in initial positive blood cultures." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 49, no. 8 (August 2011): 2879-2883. Full Text
  - Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), , Spellberg, B, Blaser, M, Guidos, RJ, Boucher, HW, Bradley, JS, Eisenstein, BI, Gerding, D, Lynfield, R, Reller, LB, Rex, J, Schwartz, D, Septimus, E, Tenover, FC, and Gilbert, DN. "Combating antimicrobial resistance: policy recommendations to save lives." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 52 Suppl 5 (May 2011): S397-S428. Full Text
  - Gill, SR, McIntyre, LM, Nelson, CL, Remortel, B, Rude, T, Reller, LB, and Fowler, VG. "Potential associations between severity of infection and the presence of virulence-associated genes in clinical strains of Staphylococcus aureus." Plos One 6, no. 4 (April 26, 2011): e18673-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Ferreira, JP, Anderson, KL, Correa, MT, Lyman, R, Ruffin, F, Reller, LB, and Fowler, VG. "Transmission of MRSA between companion animals and infected human patients presenting to outpatient medical care facilities." Plos One 6, no. 11 (January 2011): e26978-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Alexander, BD, Smith, PB, Davis, RD, Perfect, JR, and Reller, LB. "The (1,3){beta}-D-glucan test as an aid to early diagnosis of invasive fungal infections following lung transplantation." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 48, no. 11 (November 2010): 4083-4088. Full Text
  - Zhu, W, Murray, PR, Huskins, WC, Jernigan, JA, McDonald, LC, Clark, NC, Anderson, KF, McDougal, LK, Hageman, JC, Olsen-Rasmussen, M, Frace, M, Alangaden, GJ, Chenoweth, C, Zervos, MJ, Robinson-Dunn, B, Schreckenberger, PC, Reller, LB, Rudrik, JT, and Patel, JB. "Dissemination of an Enterococcus Inc18-Like vanA plasmid associated with vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 54, no. 10 (October 2010): 4314-4320. Full Text
  - Pien, BC, Sundaram, P, Raoof, N, Costa, SF, Mirrett, S, Woods, CW, Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "The clinical and prognostic importance of positive blood cultures in adults." Am J Med 123, no. 9 (September 2010): 819-828. Full Text Link to Item
  - Swenson, JM, Wong, B, Simor, AE, Thomson, RB, Ferraro, MJ, Hardy, DJ, Hindler, J, Jorgensen, J, Reller, LB, Traczewski, M, McDougal, LK, and Patel, JB. "Multicenter study to determine disk diffusion and broth microdilution criteria for prediction of high- and low-level mupirocin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 48, no. 7 (July 2010): 2469-2475. Full Text
  - Swenson, JM, Brasso, WB, Ferraro, MJ, Hardy, DJ, Knapp, CC, Lonsway, D, McAllister, S, Reller, LB, Sader, HS, Shortridge, D, Skov, R, Weinstein, MP, Zimmer, BL, and Patel, JB. "Correlation of cefoxitin MICs with the presence of mecA in Staphylococcus spp." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 47, no. 6 (June 2009): 1902-1905. Full Text
  - Stryjewski, ME, Kanafani, ZA, Chu, VH, Pappas, PA, Harding, T, Drew, LA, Benjamin, DK, Reller, LB, Lee, BA, Corey, GR, and Fowler, VG. "Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients with health care-associated fever." Am J Med 122, no. 3 (March 2009): 281-289.e2. Full Text Link to Item
  - Zimmerman, MD, Murdoch, DR, Rozmajzl, PJ, Basnyat, B, Woods, CW, Richards, AL, Belbase, RH, Hammer, DA, Anderson, TP, and Reller, LB. "Murine typhus and febrile illness, Nepal." Emerg Infect Dis 14, no. 10 (October 2008): 1656-1659. Full Text Link to Item
  - Simmon, KE, Hall, L, Woods, CW, Marco, F, Miro, JM, Cabell, C, Hoen, B, Marin, M, Utili, R, Giannitsioti, E, Doco-Lecompte, T, Bradley, S, Mirrett, S, Tambic, A, Ryan, S, Gordon, D, Jones, P, Korman, T, Wray, D, Reller, LB, Tripodi, M-F, Plesiat, P, Morris, AJ, Lang, S, Murdoch, DR, Petti, CA, and International Collaboration on Endocarditis Microbiology Investigators, . "Phylogenetic analysis of viridans group streptococci causing endocarditis." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46, no. 9 (September 2008): 3087-3090. Full Text
  - Procop, GW, Wallace, JD, Tuohy, MJ, Lasalvia, MM, Addison, RM, and Reller, LB. "A single-tube screen for Salmonella and Shigella." Am J Clin Pathol 130, no. 2 (August 2008): 284-289. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rennie, RP, Brosnikoff, C, Shokoples, S, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Janda, W, Ristow, K, and Krilcich, A. "Multicenter evaluation of the new Vitek 2 Neisseria-Haemophilus identification card." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46, no. 8 (August 2008): 2681-2685. Full Text
  - Rennie, RP, Brosnikoff, C, Turnbull, L, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Janda, W, Ristow, K, and Krilcich, A. "Multicenter evaluation of the Vitek 2 anaerobe and Corynebacterium identification card." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46, no. 8 (August 2008): 2646-2651. Full Text
  - Stout, JE, Hopkins, GW, McDonald, JR, Quinn, A, Hamilton, CD, Reller, LB, and Frothingham, R. "Association between 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer sequence groups of Mycobacterium avium complex and pulmonary disease." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46, no. 8 (August 2008): 2790-2793. Full Text
  - Alexander, BD, Petzold, EW, Reller, LB, Palmer, SM, Davis, RD, Woods, CW, and Lipuma, JJ. "Survival after lung transplantation of cystic fibrosis patients infected with Burkholderia cepacia complex." Am J Transplant 8, no. 5 (May 2008): 1025-1030. Full Text Link to Item
  - Petti, CA, Simmon, KE, Miro, JM, Hoen, B, Marco, F, Chu, VH, Athan, E, Bukovski, S, Bouza, E, Bradley, S, Fowler, VG, Giannitsioti, E, Gordon, D, Reinbott, P, Korman, T, Lang, S, Garcia-de-la-Maria, C, Raglio, A, Morris, AJ, Plesiat, P, Ryan, S, Doco-Lecompte, T, Tripodi, F, Utili, R, Wray, D, Federspiel, JJ, Boisson, K, Reller, LB, Murdoch, DR, Woods, CW, and International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Microbiology Investigators, . "Genotypic diversity of coagulase-negative staphylococci causing endocarditis: a global perspective." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46, no. 5 (May 2008): 1780-1784. Full Text
  - Simmon, KE, Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, and Petti, CA. "Genotypic diversity of anaerobic isolates from bloodstream infections." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46, no. 5 (May 2008): 1596-1601. Full Text
  - Morpeth, SC, Thielman, NM, Ramadhani, HO, Hamilton, JD, Ostermann, J, Kisenge, PR, Shao, HJ, Reller, LB, Itemba, DK, Sam, NE, Bartlett, JA, Shao, JF, and Crump, JA. "Effect of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis on antimicrobial resistance of fecal Escherichia coli in HIV-infected patients in Tanzania." Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999) 47, no. 5 (April 2008): 585-591. Full Text
  - Nicola, FG, Weinstein, MP, Lee, A, Reller, LB, and Mirrett, S. "Assessing How Many Blood Cultures Are Needed for Detecting Bloodstream Infections." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46, no. 3 (March 1, 2008): 1155-1156. Full Text
  - Caram, LB, Linefsky, JP, Read, KM, Murdoch, DR, Lalani, T, Woods, CW, Reller, LB, Kanj, SS, Premru, MM, Ryan, S, Al-Hegelan, M, Donnio, PY, Orezzi, C, Paiva, MG, Tribouilloy, C, Watkin, R, Harris, O, Eisen, DP, Corey, GR, Cabell, CH, Petti, CA, and International Collaboration on Endocarditis Investigator Group, . "Leptotrichia endocarditis: report of two cases from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis (ICE) database and review of previous cases." Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 27, no. 2 (February 2008): 139-143. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Crowley, AL, Peterson, GE, Benjamin, DK, Rimmer, SH, Todd, C, Cabell, CH, Reller, LB, Ryan, T, Corey, GR, and Fowler, VG. "Venous thrombosis in patients with short- and long-term central venous catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia." Critical Care Medicine 36, no. 2 (February 2008): 385-390. Full Text
  - Morpeth, S, Murdoch, D, Cabell, CH, Karchmer, AW, Pappas, P, Levine, D, Nacinovich, F, Tattevin, P, Fernández-Hidalgo, N, Dickerman, S, Bouza, E, Río, AD, Lejko-Zupanc, T, Ramos, ADO, Iarussi, D, Klein, J, Chirouze, C, Bedimo, R, Corey, GR, Jr, VGF, and Investigators, ICOEPCSICE-PCS. "Non-HACEK gram-negative bacillus endocarditis." Annals of internal medicine 147, no. 12 (December 2007): 829-835. (Academic Article)
  - Swenson, JM, Brasso, WB, Ferraro, MJ, Hardy, DJ, Knapp, CC, McDougal, LK, Reller, LB, Sader, HS, Shortridge, D, Skov, R, Weinstein, MP, Zimmer, BL, and Patel, JB. "Detection of inducible clindamycin resistance in staphylococci by broth microdilution using erythromycin-clindamycin combination wells." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 12 (December 2007): 3954-3957. Full Text
  - Lee, A, Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Detection of bloodstream infections in adults: how many blood cultures are needed?." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 11 (November 2007): 3546-3548. Full Text
  - Fowler, VG, Nelson, CL, McIntyre, LM, Kreiswirth, BN, Monk, A, Archer, GL, Federspiel, J, Naidich, S, Remortel, B, Rude, T, Brown, P, Reller, LB, Corey, GR, and Gill, SR. "Potential associations between hematogenous complications and bacterial genotype in Staphylococcus aureus infection." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 196, no. 5 (September 2007): 738-747. Full Text
  - Bressler, AM, Kaye, KS, LiPuma, JJ, Alexander, BD, Moore, CM, Reller, LB, and Woods, CW. "Risk factors for Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteremia among intensive care unit patients without cystic fibrosis: a case-control study." Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28, no. 8 (August 2007): 951-958. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curcio, D, Fernández, F, Jones, RN, Ferraro, MJ, Reller, LB, Schreckenberger, PC, and Sader, HS. "Tigecycline disk diffusion breakpoints of Acinetobacter spp.: a clinical point of view." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 6 (June 2007): 2095-null. (Letter) Full Text
  - Hanson, KE, Reller, LB, Kurtzberg, J, Horwitz, M, Long, G, and Alexander, BD. "Comparison of the Digene Hybrid Capture System Cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA (version 2.0), Roche CMV UL54 analyte-specific reagent, and QIAGEN RealArt CMV LightCycler PCR reagent tests using AcroMetrix OptiQuant CMV DNA quantification panels and specimens from allogeneic-stem-cell transplant recipients." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 6 (June 2007): 1972-1973. Full Text
  - Harrell, LJ, Sharps, SK, Bean, RA, and Reller, LB. "Genetic relatedness of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from paired blood and respiratory specimens." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 6 (June 2007): 2017-2019. Full Text
  - Sader, HS, Ferraro, MJ, Reller, LB, Schreckenberger, PC, Swenson, JM, and Jones, RN. "Reevaluation of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute disk diffusion breakpoints for tetracyclines for testing Enterobacteriaceae." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 5 (May 2007): 1640-1643. Full Text
  - Ballard, J, Turenne, CY, Wolfe, JN, Reller, LB, and Kabani, A. "Molecular characterization of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from human cases of disseminated disease in the USA, Thailand, Malawi, and Tanzania." The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 53, no. 2 (April 2007): 153-157. Full Text
  - Pien, BC, Mirrett, S, Crews, BR, Reller, LB, and Woods, CW. "Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic and standard anaerobic blood culture bottles inoculated directly or after transport in sodium polyanethol sulfonate tubes." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 4 (April 2007): 1357-1359. Full Text
  - Alexander, BD, Byrne, TC, Smith, KL, Hanson, KE, Anstrom, KJ, Perfect, JR, and Reller, LB. "Comparative evaluation of Etest and sensititre yeastone panels against the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute M27-A2 reference broth microdilution method for testing Candida susceptibility to seven antifungal agents." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 3 (March 2007): 698-706. Full Text
  - Hanson, KE, Alexander, BD, Woods, C, Petti, C, and Reller, LB. "Validation of laboratory screening criteria for herpes simplex virus testing of cerebrospinal fluid." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 3 (March 2007): 721-724. Full Text
  - Yongsunthon, R, Fowler, VG, Lower, BH, Vellano, FP, Alexander, E, Reller, LB, Corey, GR, and Lower, SK. "Correlation between fundamental binding forces and clinical prognosis of Staphylococcus aureus infections of medical implants." Langmuir 23, no. 5 (February 27, 2007): 2289-2292. Full Text Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, Hanson, KE, and Reller, LB. "Controlled clinical comparison of VersaTREK and BacT/ALERT blood culture systems." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 2 (February 2007): 299-302. Full Text
  - Jones, RN, Ferraro, MJ, Reller, LB, Schreckenberger, PC, Swenson, JM, and Sader, HS. "Multicenter studies of tigecycline disk diffusion susceptibility results for Acinetobacter spp." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45, no. 1 (January 2007): 227-230. Full Text
  - Stryjewski, ME, Szczech, LA, Benjamin, DK, Inrig, JK, Kanafani, ZA, Engemann, JJ, Chu, VH, Joyce, MJ, Reller, LB, Corey, GR, and Fowler, VG. "Use of vancomycin or first-generation cephalosporins for the treatment of hemodialysis-dependent patients with methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 44, no. 2 (January 2007): 190-196. Full Text
  - Archibald, LK, Pallangyo, K, Kazembe, P, and Reller, LB. "Blood culture contamination in Tanzania, Malawi, and the United States: a microbiological tale of three cities." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 44, no. 12 (December 2006): 4425-4429. Full Text
  - Woods, CW, Murdoch, DR, Zimmerman, MD, Glover, WA, Basnyat, B, Wolf, L, Belbase, RH, and Reller, LB. "Emergence of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi A as a major cause of enteric fever in Kathmandu, Nepal." Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 100, no. 11 (November 2006): 1063-1067. Full Text
  - Basnyat, B, Belbase, RH, Zimmerman, MD, Woods, CW, Reller, LB, and Murdoch, DR. "Clinical features of scrub typhus." Clin Infect Dis 42, no. 10 (May 15, 2006): 1505-1506. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Anderson, DJ, Engemann, JJ, Harrell, LJ, Carmeli, Y, Reller, LB, and Kaye, KS. "Predictors of mortality in patients with bloodstream infection due to ceftazidime-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 50, no. 5 (May 2006): 1715-1720. Full Text
  - Inrig, JK, Reed, SD, Szczech, LA, Engemann, JJ, Friedman, JY, Corey, GR, Schulman, KA, Reller, LB, and Fowler, VG. "Relationship between clinical outcomes and vascular access type among hemodialysis patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia." Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 1, no. 3 (May 2006): 518-524. Full Text Link to Item
  - Alexander, BD, Ashley, ED, Reller, LB, and Reed, SD. "Cost savings with implementation of PNA FISH testing for identification of Candida albicans in blood cultures." Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 54, no. 4 (April 2006): 277-282. Full Text
  - Archibald, LK, Khoi, NN, Jarvis, WR, Reller, LB, Cam, PD, Thu, TA, and Hung, NV. "Pyrogenic reactions in hemodialysis patients, Hanoi, Vietnam." Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27, no. 4 (April 2006): 424-426. Full Text Link to Item
  - Petti, CA, Bhally, HS, Weinstein, MP, Joho, K, Wakefield, T, Reller, LB, and Carroll, KC. "Utility of extended blood culture incubation for isolation of Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella, and Kingella organisms: a retrospective multicenter evaluation." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 44, no. 1 (January 2006): 257-259. Full Text
  - Chu, VH, Crosslin, DR, Friedman, JY, Reed, SD, Cabell, CH, Griffiths, RI, Masselink, LE, Kaye, KS, Corey, GR, Reller, LB, Stryjewski, ME, Schulman, KA, and Fowler, VG. "Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in patients with prosthetic devices: costs and outcomes." Am J Med 118, no. 12 (December 2005): 1416-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, Joyce, MJ, and Reller, LB. "Validation of performance of plastic versus glass bottles for culturing anaerobes from blood in BacT/ALERT SN medium." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43, no. 12 (December 2005): 6150-6151. Full Text
  - Wilson, ML, and Reller, LB. "The proposed closing of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology." Clin Infect Dis 41, no. 7 (October 1, 2005): 1003-1004. Full Text Link to Item
  - Litvintseva, AP, Thakur, R, Reller, LB, and Mitchell, TG. "Prevalence of clinical isolates of Cryptococcus gattii serotype C among patients with AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 192, no. 5 (September 2005): 888-892. Full Text
  - Chu, VH, Sexton, DJ, Cabell, CH, Reller, LB, Pappas, PA, Singh, RK, Fowler, VG, Corey, GR, Aksoy, O, and Woods, CW. "Repeat infective endocarditis: differentiating relapse from reinfection." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 41, no. 3 (August 2005): 406-409. Full Text
  - Archibald, LK, Harrelson, JM, and Reller, LB. "Osteomyelitis of the femur complicating Streptococcus milleri endocarditis." Orthopedics 28, no. 7 (July 2005): 707-708. Link to Item
  - Engemann, JJ, Friedman, JY, Reed, SD, Griffiths, RI, Szczech, LA, Kaye, KS, Stryjewski, ME, Reller, LB, Schulman, KA, Corey, GR, and Fowler, VG. "Clinical outcomes and costs due to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients receiving long-term hemodialysis." Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 26, no. 6 (June 2005): 534-539. Full Text Link to Item
  - Wilson, DA, Joyce, MJ, Hall, LS, Reller, LB, Roberts, GD, Hall, GS, Alexander, BD, and Procop, GW. "Multicenter evaluation of a Candida albicans peptide nucleic acid fluorescent in situ hybridization probe for characterization of yeast isolates from blood cultures." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43, no. 6 (June 2005): 2909-2912. Full Text
  - Zelazny, AM, Ferraro, MJ, Glennen, A, Hindler, JF, Mann, LM, Munro, S, Murray, PR, Reller, LB, Tenover, FC, and Jorgensen, JH. "Selection of strains for quality assessment of the disk induction method for detection of inducible clindamycin resistance in Staphylococci: a CLSI collaborative study." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43, no. 6 (June 2005): 2613-2615. Full Text
  - Petti, CA, Woods, CW, and Reller, LB. "Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen test using positive blood culture bottles as an alternative method to diagnose pneumococcal bacteremia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43, no. 5 (May 2005): 2510-2512. Full Text
  - Petti, CA, Mirrett, S, Woods, CW, and Reller, LB. "Controlled clinical comparison of plastic and glass bottles of BacT/ALERT FA medium for culturing organisms from blood of adult patients." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43, no. 4 (April 2005): 1960-1962. Full Text
  - Procop, GW, Haddad, S, Quinn, J, Wilson, ML, Henshaw, NG, Reller, LB, Artymyshyn, RL, Katanik, MT, and Weinstein, MP. "Detection of Pneumocystis jiroveci in Respiratory Specimens by Four Staining Methods." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43, no. 4 (April 1, 2005): 2038-2038. Full Text
  - El-Ahdab, F, Benjamin, DK, Wang, A, Cabell, CH, Chu, VH, Stryjewski, ME, Corey, GR, Sexton, DJ, Reller, LB, and Fowler, VG. "Risk of endocarditis among patients with prosthetic valves and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia." Am J Med 118, no. 3 (March 2005): 225-229. Full Text Link to Item
  - Farrell, JJ, Doyle, LJ, Addison, RM, Reller, LB, Hall, GS, and Procop, GW. "Broad-range (pan) Salmonella and Salmonella serotype typhi-specific real-time PCR assays: potential tools for the clinical microbiologist." American Journal of Clinical Pathology 123, no. 3 (March 2005): 339-345. Full Text
  - Fowler, VG, Justice, A, Moore, C, Benjamin, DK, Woods, CW, Campbell, S, Reller, LB, Corey, GR, Day, NPJ, and Peacock, SJ. "Risk factors for hematogenous complications of intravascular catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia." Clinical Infectious Diseases: an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 40, no. 5 (March 2005): 695-703. Full Text
  - Reed, SD, Friedman, JY, Engemann, JJ, Griffiths, RI, Anstrom, KJ, Kaye, KS, Stryjewski, ME, Szczech, LA, Reller, LB, Corey, GR, Schulman, KA, and Fowler, VG. "Costs and outcomes among hemodialysis-dependent patients with methicillin-resistant or methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 26, no. 2 (February 2005): 175-183. Full Text
  - "Remarks concerning testing parameters for blood cultures [1] (multiple letters)." Clinical Infectious Diseases 40, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 202-203. (Letter)
  - Cheng, AC, Murdoch, DR, Harrell, LJ, and Barth Reller, L. "Clinical profile and strain relatedness of recurrent enterococcal bacteremia." Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases 37, no. 9 (January 2005): 642-646. Full Text
  - Petti, CA, Mirrett, S, Woods, CW, and Reller, LB. "Controlled clinical comparison of plastic versus glass bottles of BacT/ALERT PF medium for culturing blood from children." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43, no. 1 (January 2005): 445-447. Full Text
  - Weinstein, MP, and Reller, LB. "Remarks concerning testing parameters for blood cultures." Clin Infect Dis 40, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 202-. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, Petti, CA, Woods, CW, Magadia, R, Weinstein, MP, and Reller, LB. "Controlled clinical comparison of the BacT/ALERT FN and the standard anaerobic SN blood culture medium." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42, no. 10 (October 2004): 4581-4585. Full Text
  - Fowler, VG, Sakoulas, G, McIntyre, LM, Meka, VG, Arbeit, RD, Cabell, CH, Stryjewski, ME, Eliopoulos, GM, Reller, LB, Corey, GR, Jones, T, Lucindo, N, Yeaman, MR, and Bayer, AS. "Persistent bacteremia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection is associated with agr dysfunction and low-level in vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 190, no. 6 (September 2004): 1140-1149. Full Text
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Kannangara, S, Monahan, J, Harrell, LJ, Wilson, AC, and Reller, LB. "Multicenter evaluation of use of penicillin and ampicillin as surrogates for in vitro testing of susceptibility of enterococci to imipenem." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42, no. 8 (August 2004): 3747-3751. Full Text
  - Procop, GW, Haddad, S, Quinn, J, Wilson, ML, Henshaw, NG, Reller, LB, Artymyshyn, RL, Katanik, MT, and Weinstein, MP. "Detection of Pneumocystis jiroveci in respiratory specimens by four staining methods." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42, no. 7 (July 2004): 3333-3335. Full Text
  - McNeil, MM, Brown, JM, Carvalho, ME, Hollis, DG, Morey, RE, and Reller, LB. "Molecular epidemiologic evaluation of endocarditis due to Oerskovia turbata and CDC group A-3 associated with contaminated homograft valves." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42, no. 6 (June 2004): 2495-2500. Full Text
  - Murdoch, DR, Woods, CW, Zimmerman, MD, Dull, PM, Belbase, RH, Keenan, AJ, Scott, RM, Basnyat, B, Archibald, LK, and Reller, LB. "The etiology of febrile illness in adults presenting to Patan hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal." The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 70, no. 6 (June 2004): 670-675. Full Text
  - Woods, CW, Bressler, AM, LiPuma, JJ, Alexander, BD, Clements, DA, Weber, DJ, Moore, CM, Reller, LB, and Kaye, KS. "Virulence associated with outbreak-related strains of Burkholderia cepacia complex among a cohort of patients with bacteremia." Clin Infect Dis 38, no. 9 (May 1, 2004): 1243-1250. Full Text Link to Item
  - Anderson, DJ, Murdoch, DR, Sexton, DJ, Reller, LB, Stout, JE, Cabell, CH, and Corey, GR. "Risk factors for infective endocarditis in patients with enterococcal bacteremia: a case-control study." Infection 32, no. 2 (April 2004): 72-77. Full Text Link to Item
  - Crump, JA, Corder, JR, Henshaw, NG, and Reller, LB. "Development, implementation, and impact of acceptability criteria for serologic tests for infectious diseases." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42, no. 2 (February 2004): 881-883. Full Text
  - Norton, EB, Archibald, LK, Nwanyanwu, OC, Kazembe, PN, Dobbie, H, Reller, LB, Jarvis, WR, and Jason, J. "Clinical predictors of bloodstream infections and mortality in hospitalized Malawian children." Pediatr Infect Dis J 23, no. 2 (February 2004): 145-151. Full Text Link to Item
  - Archibald, LK, Tuohy, MJ, Wilson, DA, Nwanyanwu, O, Kazembe, PN, Tansuphasawadikul, S, Eampokalap, B, Chaovavanich, A, Reller, LB, Jarvis, WR, Hall, GS, and Procop, GW. "Antifungal susceptibilities of Cryptococcus neoformans." Emerging Infectious Diseases 10, no. 1 (January 2004): 143-145. Full Text
  - McDermott, PF, Bodeis, SM, Aarestrup, FM, Brown, S, Traczewski, M, Fedorka-Cray, P, Wallace, M, Critchley, IA, Thornsberry, C, Graff, S, Flamm, R, Beyer, J, Shortridge, D, Piddock, LJ, Ricci, V, Johnson, MM, Jones, RN, Reller, B, Mirrett, S, Aldrobi, J, Rennie, R, Brosnikoff, C, Turnbull, L, Stein, G, Schooley, S, Hanson, RA, and Walker, RD. "Development of a standardized susceptibility test for campylobacter with quality-control ranges for ciprofloxacin, doxycycline, erythromycin, gentamicin, and meropenem." Microbial Drug Resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 10, no. 2 (January 2004): 124-131. Full Text
  - Crump, JA, and Reller, LB. "Two decades of disseminated tuberculosis at a university medical center: the expanding role of mycobacterial blood culture." Clin Infect Dis 37, no. 8 (October 15, 2003): 1037-1043. Full Text Link to Item
  - "Fatal outcome of bacteraemic patients caused by infection with staphylokinase-deficient Staphylococcus aureus strains." Journal of Medical Microbiology 52, no. 10 (October 1, 2003): 919-923. Full Text
  - Jin, T, Bokarewa, M, McIntyre, L, Tarkowski, A, Corey, GR, Reller, LB, and Fowler, VG. "Fatal outcome of bacteraemic patients caused by infection with staphylokinase-deficient Staphylococcus aureus strains." J Med Microbiol 52, no. Pt 10 (October 2003): 919-923. Full Text Link to Item
  - Fowler, VG, Olsen, MK, Corey, GR, Woods, CW, Cabell, CH, Reller, LB, Cheng, AC, Dudley, T, and Oddone, EZ. "Clinical identifiers of complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia." Archives of Internal Medicine 163, no. 17 (September 2003): 2066-2072. Full Text
  - Archibald, LK, Kazembe, PN, Nwanyanwu, O, Mwansambo, C, Reller, LB, and Jarvis, WR. "Epidemiology of bloodstream infections in a bacille Calmette-Guérin-vaccinated pediatric population in Malawi." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 188, no. 2 (July 2003): 202-208. Full Text
  - Fowler, VG, Kaye, KS, Simel, DL, Cabell, CH, McClachlan, D, Smith, PK, Levin, S, Sexton, DJ, Reller, LB, Corey, GR, and Oddone, EZ. "Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after median sternotomy: clinical utility of blood culture results in the identification of postoperative mediastinitis." Circulation 108, no. 1 (July 2003): 73-78. Full Text
  - Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, Petti, CA, Woods, CW, Vazirani, B, Sivadas, R, and Weinstein, MP. "Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic medium with BACTEC standard aerobic medium for culturing blood." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41, no. 6 (June 2003): 2391-2394. Full Text
  - Murdoch, DR, Mirrett, S, Harrell, LJ, Donabedian, SM, Zervos, MJ, and Reller, LB. "Comparison of microscan broth microdilution, synergy quad plate agar dilution, and disk diffusion screening methods for detection of high-level aminoglycoside resistance in enterococcus species." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41, no. 6 (June 2003): 2703-2705. Full Text
  - Crump, JA, Tanner, DC, Mirrett, S, McKnight, CM, and Reller, LB. "Controlled comparison of BACTEC 13A, MYCO/F LYTIC, BacT/ALERT MB, and ISOLATOR 10 systems for detection of mycobacteremia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41, no. 5 (May 2003): 1987-1990. Full Text
  - Murdoch, DR, and Reller, LB. "Immunochromatographic test for rapid detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the nasopharynx." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41, no. 5 (May 2003): 2271-null. (Letter) Full Text
  - Stryjewski, ME, LiPuma, JJ, Messier, RH, Reller, LB, and Alexander, BD. "Sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death due to Pandoraea pnomenusa infection after lung transplantation." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41, no. 5 (May 2003): 2255-2257. Full Text
  - Towns, ML, and Reller, LB. "Diagnostic methods. Current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis." Cardiol Clin 21, no. 2 (May 2003): 197-205. (Review) Link to Item
  - Smith, P, Morris, A, and Reller, LB. "Predicting urine culture results by dipstick testing and phase contrast microscopy." Pathology 35, no. 2 (April 2003): 161-165. Link to Item
  - Archibald, LK, Nwanyanwu, O, Kazembe, PN, Mwansambo, C, Bell, M, Dobbie, H, Reller, LB, and Jarvis, WR. "Detection of bloodstream pathogens in a bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-vaccinated pediatric population in Malawi: a pilot study." Clin Microbiol Infect 9, no. 3 (March 2003): 234-238. Link to Item
  - Martagon-Villamil, J, Shrestha, N, Sholtis, M, Isada, CM, Hall, GS, Bryne, T, Lodge, BA, Reller, LB, and Procop, GW. "Identification of Histoplasma capsulatum from culture extracts by real-time PCR." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41, no. 3 (March 2003): 1295-1298. Full Text
  - Friedman, ND, Kaye, KS, Stout, JE, McGarry, SA, Trivette, SL, Briggs, JP, Lamm, W, Clark, C, MacFarquhar, J, Walton, AL, Reller, LB, and Sexton, DJ. "Health care--associated bloodstream infections in adults: a reason to change the accepted definition of community-acquired infections." Annals of Internal Medicine 137, no. 10 (November 2002): 791-797. Full Text
  - Murdoch, DR, Mirrett, S, Harrell, LJ, Monahan, JS, and Reller, LB. "Sequential emergence of antibiotic resistance in enterococcal bloodstream isolates over 25 years." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 46, no. 11 (November 2002): 3676-3678. Full Text
  - "Disseminated infection with Simiae-Avium group mycobacteria in persons with AIDS- Thailand and Malawi, 1997." Journal of the American Medical Association 288, no. 2 (July 10, 2002): 157-158.
  - Reller, LB, Archibald, LK, Jarvis, WR, and Grohskopf, LA. "From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Disseminated infection with Simiae-avium group mycobacteria in persons with AIDS--Thailand and Malawi, 1997." JAMA 288, no. 2 (July 10, 2002): 157-. Link to Item
  - "West Nile virus activity - United States, 2001." Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 51, no. 23 (June 14, 2002).
  - Towns, ML, and Reller, LB. "Diagnostic methods current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis." Infectious Disease Clinics of North America 16, no. 2 (June 2002): 363-x. (Review) Full Text
  - Darouiche, RO, Fowler, VG, Adal, K, Kielhofner, M, Mansouri, D, and Reller, LB. "Antimicrobial activity of prosthetic heart valve sewing cuffs coated with minocycline and rifampin." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 46, no. 2 (February 2002): 543-545. Full Text
  - Cabell, CH, Jollis, JG, Peterson, GE, Corey, GR, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, Woods, CW, Reller, LB, Ryan, T, and Fowler, VG. "Changing patient characteristics and the effect on mortality in endocarditis." Archives of Internal Medicine 162, no. 1 (January 2002): 90-94. Full Text
  - Murdoch, DR, and Reller, LB. "Antimicrobial susceptibilities of group B streptococci isolated from patients with invasive disease: 10-year perspective." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 45, no. 12 (December 2001): 3623-3624. Full Text
  - Naik, T, Gammal, AE, Everts, RJ, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, Boruchoff, SE, Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Epidemiology and Outcome of Bloodstream Infections in HIV-Infected Adults in the 1990s." Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 10, no. 9 (December 2001): 467-473. Full Text
  - Alexander, BD, Stout, JE, Reller, LB, and Hamilton, CD. "Hospital management of tuberculosis in a region with a low incidence of tuberculosis and a high prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria." Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 22, no. 11 (November 2001): 715-717. Full Text Link to Item
  - Murdoch, DR, Laing, RT, Mills, GD, Karalus, NC, Town, GI, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic test for detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen in urine samples from adults with community-acquired pneumonia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39, no. 10 (October 2001): 3495-3498. Full Text
  - Everts, RJ, Vinson, EN, Adholla, PO, and Reller, LB. "Contamination of catheter-drawn blood cultures." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39, no. 9 (September 2001): 3393-3394. Full Text
  - Kanj, SS, Araj, GF, Taher, A, and Reller, LB. "Campylobacter fetus pericarditis in a patient with beta-thalassemia: case report and review of the literature." Clin Microbiol Infect 7, no. 9 (September 2001): 510-513. (Review) Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, Weinstein, MP, Reimer, LG, Wilson, ML, and Reller, LB. "Relevance of the number of positive bottles in determining clinical significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci in blood cultures." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39, no. 9 (September 2001): 3279-3281. Full Text
  - Chamis, AL, Peterson, GE, Cabell, CH, Corey, GR, Sorrentino, RA, Greenfield, RA, Ryan, T, Reller, LB, and Fowler, VG. "Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in patients with permanent pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators." Circulation 104, no. 9 (August 2001): 1029-1033. Full Text
  - Everts, RJ, Fowler, WC, Chang, DH, and Reller, LB. "Corneoscleral rim cultures: lack of utility and implications for clinical decision-making and infection prevention in the care of patients undergoing corneal transplantation." Cornea 20, no. 6 (August 2001): 586-589. Full Text
  - Mirrett, S, Everts, RJ, and Reller, LB. "Controlled comparison of original vented aerobic fan medium with new nonvented BacT/ALERT FA medium for culturing blood." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39, no. 6 (June 2001): 2098-2101. Full Text
  - Procop, GW, and Wilson, M. "Infectious disease pathology." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 32, no. 11 (June 2001): 1589-1601. (Review) Full Text
  - Archibald, LK, Dobbie, H, Kazembe, P, Nwanyanwu, O, McKnight, C, Byrne, T, Addison, RM, Bell, M, Reller, LB, and Jarvis, WR. "Utility of paired BACTEC MYCO/F LYTIC blood culture vials for detection of bacteremia, mycobacteremia, and fungemia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39, no. 5 (May 2001): 1960-1962. Full Text
  - Fowler, VG, Fey, PD, Reller, LB, Chamis, AL, Corey, GR, and Rupp, ME. "The intercellular adhesin locus ica is present in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from bacteremic patients with infected and uninfected prosthetic joints." Medical Microbiology and Immunology 189, no. 3 (April 2001): 127-131. Full Text
  - Miller, DL, Brazer, S, Murdoch, D, Reller, LB, and Corey, GR. "Significance of Clostridium tertium bacteremia in neutropenic and nonneutropenic patients: review of 32 cases." Clin Infect Dis 32, no. 6 (March 15, 2001): 975-978. Full Text Link to Item
  - Archibald, LK, and Reller, LB. "Clinical microbiology in developing countries." Emerging Infectious Diseases 7, no. 2 (March 2001): 302-305. (Review) Full Text
  - Wilson, ML, Mirrett, S, Meredith, FT, Weinstein, MP, Scotto, V, and Reller, LB. "Controlled clinical comparison of BACTEC plus anaerobic/F to standard anaerobic/F as the anaerobic companion bottle to plus aerobic/F medium for culturing blood from adults." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39, no. 3 (March 2001): 983-989. Full Text
  - Guerrant, RL, Van Gilder, T, Steiner, TS, Thielman, NM, Slutsker, L, Tauxe, RV, Hennessy, T, Griffin, PM, DuPont, H, Sack, RB, Tarr, P, Neill, M, Nachamkin, I, Reller, LB, Osterholm, MT, Bennish, ML, Pickering, LK, and Infectious Diseases Society of America, . "Practice guidelines for the management of infectious diarrhea." Clinical Infectious Diseases: an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 32, no. 3 (February 2001): 331-351. Full Text
  - McDonald, LC, Weinstein, MP, Fune, J, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Controlled comparison of BacT/ALERT FAN aerobic medium and BATEC fungal blood culture medium for detection of fungemia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39, no. 2 (February 2001): 622-624. Full Text
  - Bell, M, Archibald, LK, Nwanyanwu, O, Dobbie, H, Tokars, J, Kazembe, PN, Reller, LB, and Jarvis, WR. "Seasonal variation in the etiology of bloodstream infections in a febrile inpatient population in a developing country." Int J Infect Dis 5, no. 2 (2001): 63-69. Link to Item
  - Everts, RJ, Heneghan, JP, Adholla, PO, and Reller, LB. "Validity of cultures of fluid collected through drainage catheters versus those obtained by direct aspiration." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39, no. 1 (January 2001): 66-68. Full Text
  - Wilson, ML, Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, Fernando, C, Meredith, FT, and Reller, LB. "Comparison of iodophor and alcohol pledgets with the Medi-Flex blood culture prep kit II for preventing contamination of blood cultures." J Clin Microbiol 38, no. 12 (December 2000): 4665-4667. Link to Item
  - Fowler, VG, McIntyre, LM, Yeaman, MR, Peterson, GE, Barth Reller, L, Corey, GR, Wray, D, and Bayer, AS. "In vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein in isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from endocarditis patients correlates with an intravascular device source." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 182, no. 4 (October 2000): 1251-1254. Full Text
  - Archibald, LK, McDonald, LC, Addison, RM, McKnight, C, Byrne, T, Dobbie, H, Nwanyanwu, O, Kazembe, P, Reller, LB, and Jarvis, WR. "Comparison of BACTEC MYCO/F LYTIC and WAMPOLE ISOLATOR 10 (lysis-centrifugation) systems for detection of bacteremia, mycobacteremia, and fungemia in a developing country." J Clin Microbiol 38, no. 8 (August 2000): 2994-2997. Link to Item
  - Palmer, SM, Alexander, BD, Sanders, LL, Edwards, LJ, Reller, LB, Davis, RD, and Tapson, VF. "Significance of blood stream infection after lung transplantation: analysis in 176 consecutive patients." Transplantation 69, no. 11 (June 15, 2000): 2360-2366. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Introduction." Clinical Infectious Diseases 30, no. 5 (May 1, 2000): 798-798. Full Text
  - Archibald, LK, McDonald, LC, Nwanyanwu, O, Kazembe, P, Dobbie, H, Tokars, J, Reller, LB, and Jarvis, WR. "A hospital-based prevalence survey of bloodstream infections in febrile patients in Malawi: implications for diagnosis and therapy." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 181, no. 4 (April 13, 2000): 1414-1420. Full Text
  - Hudson, CP, Maartens, G, Wood, R, Hargreaves, NJ, Phiri, S, Kwanjana, J, Nyangulu, DS, Squire, SB, Harries, AD, McDonald, LC, Archibald, LK, Nwanyanwu, O, Reller, LB, Jarvis, WR, David, T, Brahmadathan, KN, Mukundan, UD, and John, TJ. "Unrecognised mycobacterium tuberculosis (multiple letters)." Lancet 355, no. 9198 (2000): 141-143.
  - Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Introduction." Clin Infect Dis 30, no. 1 (January 2000): 165-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Introduction." Clinical Infectious Diseases 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 165-165. Full Text
  - McDonald, LC, Archibald, LK, Rheanpumikankit, S, Tansuphaswadikul, S, Eampokalap, B, Nwanyanawu, O, Kazembe, P, Dobbie, H, Reller, LB, and Jarvis, WR. "Unrecognised Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia among hospital inpatients in less developed countries." Lancet 354, no. 9185 (October 2, 1999): 1159-1163. Link to Item
  - "United States geographic bacteria susceptibility patterns. 1997 ASCP Susceptibility Testing Group." Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 35, no. 2 (October 1999): 143-151.
  - Talbot, EA, Reller, LB, and Frothingham, R. "Bone marrow cultures for the diagnosis of mycobacterial and fungal infections in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus." The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease : the Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 3, no. 10 (October 1999): 908-912.
  - Archibald, LK, McDonald, LC, Rheanpumikankit, S, Tansuphaswadikul, S, Chaovanich, A, Eampokalap, B, Banerjee, SN, Reller, LB, and Jarvis, WR. "Fever and human immunodeficiency virus infection as sentinels for emerging mycobacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients >/=15 years old, Bangkok." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 180, no. 1 (July 1999): 87-92. Full Text
  - Wilson, ML, Mirrett, S, McDonald, LC, Weinstein, MP, Fune, J, and Reller, LB. "Controlled clinical comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 blood culture systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in adults." J Clin Microbiol 37, no. 6 (June 1999): 1709-1713. Link to Item
  - Everts, RJ, and Reller, LB. "Pleural space infections: microbiology and antimicrobial therapy." Semin Respir Infect 14, no. 1 (March 1999): 18-30. (Review) Link to Item
  - Cegielski, JP, Ortega, YR, McKee, S, Madden, JF, Gaido, L, Schwartz, DA, Manji, K, Jorgensen, AF, Miller, SE, Pulipaka, UP, Msengi, AE, Mwakyusa, DH, Sterling, CR, and Reller, LB. "Cryptosporidium, enterocytozoon, and cyclospora infections in pediatric and adult patients with diarrhea in Tanzania." Clin Infect Dis 28, no. 2 (February 1999): 314-321. Full Text Link to Item
  - Chuard, C, and Reller, LB. "Diagnostic value of Gram stain and culture of sputum and endotracheal aspirates in bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia." Clinical Microbiology and Infection 5, no. 2 (February 1999): 106-109. Full Text
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Van Pelt, L, McKinnon, M, Zimmer, BL, Kloos, W, and Reller, LB. "Clinical importance of identifying coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from blood cultures: evaluation of MicroScan Rapid and Dried Overnight Gram-Positive panels versus a conventional reference method." J Clin Microbiol 36, no. 7 (July 1998): 2089-2092. Link to Item
  - Chuard, C, Antley, CM, and Reller, LB. "Clinical utility of cardiac valve Gram stain and culture in patients undergoing native valve replacement." Arch Pathol Lab Med 122, no. 5 (May 1998): 412-415. Link to Item
  - Chuard, C, and Reller, LB. "Bile-esculin test for presumptive identification of enterococci and streptococci: effects of bile concentration, inoculation technique, and incubation time." J Clin Microbiol 36, no. 4 (April 1998): 1135-1136. Link to Item
  - Archibald, LK, den Dulk, MO, Pallangyo, KJ, and Reller, LB. "Fatal Mycobacterium tuberculosis bloodstream infections in febrile hospitalized adults in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Clin Infect Dis 26, no. 2 (February 1998): 290-296. Link to Item
  - "Diagnostic microbiology updates: Introduction." Clinical Infectious Diseases 26, no. 3 (January 1, 1998): 741-null. Full Text
  - "Diagnostic microbiology updates." Clinical Infectious Diseases 26, no. 4 (January 1, 1998): 972-null. (Review)
  - Munro, S, Mickelsen, PA, Anderson, M, Wilson, ML, Robinson, A, Walsh, P, Meier, FA, Campos, JM, Hacek, DM, Peterson, LR, Reynolds, JK, Allen, SD, Pfaller, MA, Jones, RN, Valenstein, P, III, FC, Gilligan, PH, Wait, K, Harrell, LJ, Reller, LB, Washington, JA, Mann, LM, Woods, GL, Carroll, KC, and Reimer, L. "United States geographic bacteria susceptibility patterns: 1996 ASCP susceptibility testing group." American Journal of Clinical Pathology 109, no. 2 (1998): 144-152.
  - Cegielski, JP, Devlin, BH, Morris, AJ, Kitinya, JN, Pulipaka, UP, Lema, LE, Lwakatare, J, and Reller, LB. "Comparison of PCR, culture, and histopathology for diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis." J Clin Microbiol 35, no. 12 (December 1997): 3254-3257. Link to Item
  - Meredith, FT, Phillips, HK, and Reller, LB. "Clinical utility of broth cultures of cerebrospinal fluid from patients at risk for shunt infections." J Clin Microbiol 35, no. 12 (December 1997): 3109-3111. Link to Item
  - Zaidi, AK, Mirrett, S, McDonald, JC, Rubin, EE, McDonald, LC, Weinstein, MP, Gupta, M, and Reller, LB. "Controlled comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in pediatric patients." J Clin Microbiol 35, no. 8 (August 1997): 2007-2012. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Introduction. Issues concerning antifungal susceptibility testing." Clin Infect Dis 24, no. 5 (May 1997): 775-. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Introduction." Clinical Infectious Diseases 24, no. 5 (May 1, 1997): 775-775. Full Text
  - Weinstein, MP, Towns, ML, Quartey, SM, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, Parmigiani, G, and Reller, LB. "The clinical significance of positive blood cultures in the 1990s: a prospective comprehensive evaluation of the microbiology, epidemiology, and outcome of bacteremia and fungemia in adults." Clin Infect Dis 24, no. 4 (April 1997): 584-602. Link to Item
  - "Controlled Clinical Laboratory Comparison of BACTEC Plus Aerobic/F Resin Medium with BacT/Alert Aerobic FAN Medium for Detection of Bacteremia and Fungemia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 35, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 52-58.
  - "Diagnostic microbiology updates." Clinical Infectious Diseases 25, no. 4 (January 1, 1997): 857-null.
  - Jorgensen, JH, Mirrett, S, McDonald, LC, Murray, PR, Weinstein, MP, Fune, J, Trippy, CW, Masterson, M, and Reller, LB. "Controlled clinical laboratory comparison of BACTEC plus aerobic/F resin medium with BacT/Alert aerobic FAN medium for detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 35, no. 1 (January 1997): 53-58. Link to Item
  - Meredith, FT, Fowler, VG, Gautier, M, Corey, GR, and Reller, LB. "Bacillus cereus necrotizing cellulitis mimicking clostridial myonecrosis: case report and review of the literature." Scand J Infect Dis 29, no. 5 (1997): 528-529. (Review) Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, and Reller, LB. "Introduction." Clinical Infectious Diseases 23, no. 6 (December 1, 1996): 1291-1291. Full Text
  - Jorgensen, JH, Swenson, JM, Tenover, FC, Barry, A, Ferraro, MJ, Murray, PR, and Reller, LB. "Development of interpretive criteria and quality control limits for macrolide and clindamycin susceptibility testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae." J Clin Microbiol 34, no. 11 (November 1996): 2679-2684. Link to Item
  - Zaidi, AK, Harrell, LJ, Rost, JR, and Reller, LB. "Assessment of similarity among coagulase-negative staphylococci from sequential blood cultures of neonates and children by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis." J Infect Dis 174, no. 5 (November 1996): 1010-1014. Link to Item
  - McDonald, LC, Fune, J, Gaido, LB, Weinstein, MP, Reimer, LG, Flynn, TM, Wilson, ML, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Clinical importance of increased sensitivity of BacT/Alert FAN aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles." J Clin Microbiol 34, no. 9 (September 1996): 2180-2184. Link to Item
  - Petti, CA, Zaidi, AK, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Comparison of Isolator 1.5 and BACTEC NR660 aerobic 6A blood culture systems for detection of fungemia in children." J Clin Microbiol 34, no. 8 (August 1996): 1877-1879. Link to Item
  - Morris, AJ, Murray, PR, and Reller, LB. "Contemporary testing for enteric pathogens: the potential for cost, time, and health care savings." J Clin Microbiol 34, no. 7 (July 1996): 1776-1778. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "Diagnostic microbiology updates." Clin Infect Dis 23, no. 1 (July 1996): 38-39. (Review) Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "Introduction." Clinical Infectious Diseases 23, no. 1 (July 1, 1996): 38-39. Full Text
  - Morris, AJ, Byrne, TC, Madden, JF, and Reller, LB. "Duration of incubation of fungal cultures." J Clin Microbiol 34, no. 6 (June 1996): 1583-1585. Link to Item
  - Morris, AJ, Smith, LK, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Cost and time savings following introduction of rejection criteria for clinical specimens." J Clin Microbiol 34, no. 2 (February 1996): 355-357. Link to Item
  - Zaidi, AK, and Reller, LB. "Rejection criteria for endotracheal aspirates from pediatric patients." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 34, no. 2 (February 1996): 352-354.
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, Reimer, LG, and Wilson, ML. "Value of terminal subcultures for blood cultures monitored by BACTEC 9240." J Clin Microbiol 34, no. 1 (January 1996): 234-235. (Letter) Link to Item
  - Swenson, JM, Clark, NC, Sahm, DF, Ferraro, MJ, Doern, G, Hindler, J, Jorgensen, JH, Pfaller, MA, Reller, LB, and Weinstein, MP. "Molecular characterization and multilaboratory evaluation of Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 51299 for quality control of screening tests for vancomycin and high-level aminoglycoside resistance in enterococci." J Clin Microbiol 33, no. 11 (November 1995): 3019-3021. Link to Item
  - Wilson, ML, Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, Feldman, RJ, Chuard, CR, and Reller, LB. "Controlled evaluation of BacT/alert standard anaerobic and FAN anaerobic blood culture bottles for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 33, no. 9 (September 1995): 2265-2270. Link to Item
  - Zaidi, AK, Knaut, AL, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Value of routine anaerobic blood cultures for pediatric patients." J Pediatr 127, no. 2 (August 1995): 263-268. Link to Item
  - Perkins, MD, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Rapid bacterial antigen detection is not clinically useful." J Clin Microbiol 33, no. 6 (June 1995): 1486-1491. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, Wilson, ML, Smith-Elekes, S, Chuard, CR, Joho, KL, and Reller, LB. "Controlled evaluation of BacT/Alert standard aerobic and FAN aerobic blood culture bottles for detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 33, no. 4 (April 1995): 978-981. Link to Item
  - Barry, AL, Fuchs, PC, Allen, SD, Tenover, FC, Jorgensen, JH, and Reller, LB. "Interpretive criteria and quality control parameters for testing bacterial susceptibility to the fluoroquinolone PD131628." J Clin Microbiol 33, no. 1 (January 1995): 235-238. Link to Item
  - Dietze, R, Perkins, M, Boulos, M, Luz, F, Reller, B, and Corey, GR. "The diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infection using a new antigen detection system." Am J Trop Med Hyg 52, no. 1 (January 1995): 45-49. Link to Item
  - Morris, AJ, Wilson, SJ, Marx, CE, Wilson, ML, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Clinical impact of bacteria and fungi recovered only from broth cultures." J Clin Microbiol 33, no. 1 (January 1995): 161-165. Link to Item
  - Swenson, JM, Ferraro, MJ, Sahm, DF, Clark, NC, Culver, DH, Tenover, FC, Charache, P, Harrell, LJ, Reller, LB, Hardy, D, Jr, RCM, Wilson, W, and Hindler, J. "Multilaboratory evaluation of screening methods for detection of high- level aminoglycoside resistance in enterococci." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 33, no. 11 (1995): 3008-3018.
  - Cegielski, JP, Lwakatare, J, Dukes, CS, Lema, LE, Lallinger, GJ, Kitinya, J, Reller, LB, and Sheriff, F. "Tuberculous pericarditis in Tanzanian patients with and without HIV infection." Tuber Lung Dis 75, no. 6 (December 1994): 429-434. Link to Item
  - Harrell, LJ, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Subcultures of BACTEC-positive but gram or acridine orange stain-negative NR 6A and 7A blood culture bottles are unnecessary." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 20, no. 3 (November 1994): 121-125. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Wilson, ML, Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Controlled evaluation of 5 versus 10 milliliters of blood cultured in aerobic BacT/Alert blood culture bottles." J Clin Microbiol 32, no. 9 (September 1994): 2103-2106. Link to Item
  - Swenson, JM, Clark, NC, Ferraro, MJ, Sahm, DF, Doern, G, Pfaller, MA, Reller, LB, Weinstein, MP, Zabransky, RJ, and Tenover, FC. "Development of a standardized screening method for detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci." J Clin Microbiol 32, no. 7 (July 1994): 1700-1704. Link to Item
  - Tanner, DC, Weinstein, MP, Fedorciw, B, Joho, KL, Thorpe, JJ, and Reller, L. "Comparison of commercial kits for detection of cryptococcal antigen." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 32, no. 7 (July 1994): 1680-1684.
  - Aldridge, KE, Gelfand, M, Reller, LB, Ayers, LW, Pierson, CL, Schoenknecht, F, Tilton, RC, Wilkins, J, Henderberg, A, and Schiro, DD. "A five-year multicenter study of the susceptibility of the Bacteroides fragilis group isolates to cephalosporins, cephamins, penicillins, clindamycin, and metronidazole in the United States." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 18, no. 4 (April 1994): 235-241. Link to Item
  - Wilson, ML, Weinstein, MP, and Reller, LB. "Automated blood culture systems." Clinics in Laboratory Medicine 14, no. 1 (March 1994): 149-169. (Review) Full Text
  - Barry, A, Fuchs, P, Tenover, F, Allen, S, Hardy, D, Jorgensen, J, McLaughlin, J, and Reller, L. "Interpretive criteria and quality control for antimicrobial susceptibility tests of levofloxacin." European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 13, no. 10 (1994): 822-826. Full Text
  - Morris, A, Reller, L, Devlin, B, and Cormican, MG. "Clinical usefulness of detecting growth of mycobacterium tuberculosis in positive Bactec phials using PCR [6]." Journal of Clinical Pathology 47, no. 2 (1994): 190-191.
  - Sexton, DJ, Harrell, LJ, Thorpe, JJ, Hunt, DL, and Reller, LB. "A case-control study of nosocomial ampicillin-resistant enterococcal infection and colonization at a university hospital." Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 14, no. 11 (November 1993): 629-635. Link to Item
  - Wilson, SJ, Wilson, ML, and Reller, LB. "Diagnostic utility of postmortem blood cultures." Arch Pathol Lab Med 117, no. 10 (October 1993): 986-988. Link to Item
  - Morris, AJ, and Reller, LB. "Reliability of cord formation in BACTEC media for presumptive identification of mycobacteria." J Clin Microbiol 31, no. 9 (September 1993): 2533-2534. Link to Item
  - Fan, K, Morris, AJ, and Reller, LB. "Application of rejection criteria for stool cultures for bacterial enteric pathogens." J Clin Microbiol 31, no. 8 (August 1993): 2233-2235. Link to Item
  - Morris, AJ, Wilson, ML, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Rationale for selective use of anaerobic blood cultures." J Clin Microbiol 31, no. 8 (August 1993): 2110-2113. Link to Item
  - Barry, AL, Pfaller, MA, Fuchs, PC, Tenover, FC, Reller, LB, Allen, SD, Hardy, DJ, and Gerlach, EH. "Interpretive criteria and quality control parameters for determining bacterial susceptibility to fosfomycin tromethamine." Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 12, no. 5 (May 1993): 352-356. Link to Item
  - Marx, CE, Morris, A, Wilson, ML, and Reller, LB. "Fecal leukocytes in stool specimens submitted for Clostridium difficile toxin assay." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 16, no. 4 (May 1993): 313-315. Link to Item
  - Morris, A, Reller, LB, Salfinger, M, Jackson, K, Sievers, A, and Dwyer, B. "Mycobacteria in stool specimens: the nonvalue of smears for predicting culture results." J Clin Microbiol 31, no. 5 (May 1993): 1385-1387. Link to Item
  - Morris, AJ, Tanner, DC, and Reller, LB. "Rejection criteria for endotracheal aspirates from adults." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 31, no. 5 (May 1993): 1027-1029.
  - Wilson, ML, Davis, TE, Mirrett, S, Reynolds, J, Fuller, D, Allen, SD, Flint, KK, Koontz, F, and Reller, LB. "Controlled comparison of the BACTEC high-blood-volume fungal medium, BACTEC Plus 26 aerobic blood culture bottle, and 10-milliliter isolator blood culture system for detection of fungemia and bacteremia." J Clin Microbiol 31, no. 4 (April 1993): 865-871. Link to Item
  - Archer, GL, Auger, P, Doern, GV, Ferraro, MJ, Fuchs, PC, Jorgensen, JH, Low, DE, Murray, PR, Reller, LB, and Stratton, CW. "RP 59500, a new streptogramin highly active against recent isolates of North American staphylococci." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 16, no. 3 (March 1993): 223-226. Link to Item
  - Isenberg, HD, Morris, AJ, Tanner, DC, Reller, LB, and Towns, ML. "Rejection criteria for endotracheal aspirates [3]." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 31, no. 9 (1993): 2555--.
  - Wilson, ML, Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, Weinstein, MP, and Reimer, LG. "Recovery of clinically important microorganisms from the BacT/Alert blood culture system does not require testing for seven days." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 16, no. 1 (January 1993): 31-34. Link to Item
  - Morris, AJ, Wilson, ML, and Reller, LB. "Application of rejection criteria for stool ovum and parasite examinations." J Clin Microbiol 30, no. 12 (December 1992): 3213-3216. Link to Item
  - Thrupp, LD, Cleeland, R, Jones, RN, Novick, WJ, Reller, LB, Thornsberry, CL, and Washington, JA. "General guidelines for clinical bacteriology. Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Food and Drug Administration." Clin Infect Dis 15 Suppl 1 (November 1992): S339-S346. Link to Item
  - Thrupp, LD, Cleeland, R, Jones, RN, Novick, WJ, Reller, LB, Thornsberry, CL, and Washington, JA. "General Guidelines for Clinical Bacteriology." Clinical Infectious Diseases 15, no. Supplement_1 (November 1, 1992): S339-S346. Full Text
  - Jones, RN, Reller, LB, Rosati, LA, Erwin, ME, and Sanchez, ML. "Ofloxacin, a new broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone. Results from a Multicenter, National Comparative Activity Surveillance Study. The Ofloxacin Surveillance Group." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 15, no. 5 (July 1992): 425-434. Link to Item
  - Barry, AL, Reller, LB, Miller, GH, Washington, JA, Schoenknect, FD, Peterson, LR, Hare, RS, and Knapp, C. "Revision of standards for adjusting the cation content of Mueller-Hinton broth for testing susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to aminoglycosides." J Clin Microbiol 30, no. 3 (March 1992): 585-589. Link to Item
  - Wilson, ML, Weinstein, MP, Reimer, LG, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Controlled comparison of the BacT/Alert and BACTEC 660/730 nonradiometric blood culture systems." J Clin Microbiol 30, no. 2 (February 1992): 323-329. Link to Item
  - Wilson, ML, Harrell, LJ, Mirrett, S, Weinstein, MP, Stratton, CW, and Reller, LB. "Controlled evaluation of BACTEC PLUS 27 and Roche Septi-Chek anaerobic blood culture bottles." J Clin Microbiol 30, no. 1 (January 1992): 63-66. Link to Item
  - Ehni, WF, Reller, LB, and Ellison, RT. "Bacteremia in granulocytopenic patients in a tertiary-care general hospital." Rev Infect Dis 13, no. 4 (July 1991): 613-619. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Wilson, ML, Harrell, LJ, Stratton, CW, and Reller, LB. "Controlled evaluation of BACTEC Plus 26 and Roche Septi-Chek aerobic blood culture bottles." J Clin Microbiol 29, no. 5 (May 1991): 879-882. Link to Item
  - Albright, RE, Christenson, RH, Emlet, JL, Graham, CB, Estevez, EG, Wilson, ML, Reller, LB, and Schneider, KA. "Issues in cerebrospinal fluid management. CSF Venereal Disease Research Laboratory testing." Am J Clin Pathol 95, no. 3 (March 1991): 397-401. Link to Item
  - Albright, RE, Graham, CB, Christenson, RH, Schell, WA, Bledsoe, MC, Emlet, JL, Mears, TP, Reller, LB, and Schneider, KA. "Issues in cerebrospinal fluid management. Acid-fast bacillus smear and culture." Am J Clin Pathol 95, no. 3 (March 1991): 418-423. Link to Item
  - Salfinger, M, Crowle, AJ, and Reller, LB. "Pyrazinamide and pyrazinoic acid activity against tubercle bacilli in cultured human macrophages and in the BACTEC system." J Infect Dis 162, no. 1 (July 1990): 201-207. Link to Item
  - Thorpe, TC, Wilson, ML, Turner, JE, DiGuiseppi, JL, Willert, M, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "BacT/Alert: an automated colorimetric microbial detection system." J Clin Microbiol 28, no. 7 (July 1990): 1608-1612. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Effect of altered headspace atmosphere on yield and speed of detection of the Oxoid Signal blood culture system versus the BACTEC radiometric system." J Clin Microbiol 28, no. 4 (April 1990): 795-797. Link to Item
  - Barry, AL, and Jones, RN. "Interpretive criteria and quality control limits for ceftibuten disk susceptibility tests. Collaborative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Group." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 28, no. 3 (March 1990): 605-607.
  - Ellison, RT, Luo, Q, and Reller, LB. "Enhancement of the activity of cefotaxime by iron-binding proteins." J Antimicrob Chemother 25, no. 3 (March 1990): 479-481. (Letter) Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, Reller, LB, and Mirrett, S. "Controlled comparison of a new Becton Dickinson agar slant blood culture system with Roche Septi-Chek for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 27, no. 12 (December 1989): 2637-2639. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Stratton, CW, Paisley, JW, and Lauer, BA. "Comparative evaluation of radiometric tryptic soy broth versus radiometric tryptic soy broth with 10% sucrose for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in pediatric patients." J Clin Microbiol 27, no. 11 (November 1989): 2448-2450. Link to Item
  - Perez-Perez, GI, Cohn, DL, Guerrant, RL, Patton, CM, Reller, LB, and Blaser, MJ. "Clinical and immunologic significance of cholera-like toxin and cytotoxin production by Campylobacter species in patients with acute inflammatory diarrhea in the USA." J Infect Dis 160, no. 3 (September 1989): 460-468. Link to Item
  - Salfinger, M, Reller, LB, Demchuk, B, and Johnson, ZT. "Rapid radiometric method for pyrazinamide susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis." Res Microbiol 140, no. 4-5 (May 1989): 301-309. Link to Item
  - Ehni, WF, and Reller, LB. "Short-course therapy for catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia." Arch Intern Med 149, no. 3 (March 1989): 533-536. Link to Item
  - Janoff, EN, Craft, JC, Pickering, LK, Novotny, T, Blaser, MJ, Knisley, CV, and Reller, LB. "Diagnosis of Giardia lamblia infections by detection of parasite-specific antigens." J Clin Microbiol 27, no. 3 (March 1989): 431-435. Link to Item
  - Rotbart, HA, Johnson, ZT, and Reller, LB. "Analysis of enteric coagulase-negative staphylococci from neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis." Pediatr Infect Dis J 8, no. 3 (March 1989): 140-142. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Effect of agitation and terminal subcultures on yield and speed of detection of the Oxoid Signal blood culture system versus the BACTEC radiometric system." J Clin Microbiol 27, no. 3 (March 1989): 427-430. Link to Item
  - Keane, EM, Boyko, EJ, Reller, LB, and Hamman, RF. "Prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in subjects with NIDDM in San Luis Valley of Colorado." Diabetes Care 11, no. 9 (October 1988): 708-712. Full Text
  - Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Comparative evaluation of Oxoid Signal and BACTEC radiometric blood culture systems for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 26, no. 5 (May 1988): 962-964. Link to Item
  - Ogle, JW, Reller, LB, and Vasil, ML. "Development of resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa to imipenem, norfloxacin, and ciprofloxacin during therapy: proof provided by typing with a DNA probe." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 157, no. 4 (April 1988): 743-748. Full Text
  - Stratton, CW, Weinstein, MP, Mirrett, S, Paisley, J, Lauer, BA, and Reller, LB. "Controlled evaluation of blood culture medium containing gelatin and V-factor-analog for detection of septicemia in children." J Clin Microbiol 26, no. 4 (April 1988): 747-749. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Stratton, CW, and Barth Reller, L. "Use of the serum bactericidal test as a predictor of outcome in osteomyelitis." Infectious Diseases Newsletter 7, no. 2 (February 1988): 9-11. Full Text
  - Finegold, SM, Aldrige, K, Bartlett, JG, Gadebusch, H, Jones, RN, Preston, D, l, BR, Thornsberry, C, Waitz, JA, Wexler, HM, and Zabransky, R. "Susceptibility testing of anaerobic bacteria." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 26, no. 7 (1988): 1253-1256.
  - Reimer, L, Reller, B, Wang, W-L, and Mirrett, S. "Evaluation of modified trypticase soy broth versus supplemented peptone broth in the detection of bacteremia and fungemia." European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 7, no. 3 (1988): 384-387. Full Text
  - Ellison, RT, Curd, JG, Kohler, PF, Reller, LB, and Judson, FN. "Underlying complement deficiency in patients with disseminated gonococcal infection." Sex Transm Dis 14, no. 4 (October 1987): 201-204. Link to Item
  - Stein, GE, Mummaw, N, Goldstein, EJ, Boyko, EJ, Reller, LB, Kurtz, TO, Miller, K, and Cox, CE. "A multicenter comparative trial of three-day norfloxacin vs ten-day sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections." Archives of Internal Medicine 147, no. 10 (October 1987): 1760-1762. Full Text
  - Earnest, MP, Reller, LB, Filley, CM, and Grek, AJ. "Neurocysticercosis in the United States: 35 cases and a review." Rev Infect Dis 9, no. 5 (September 1987): 961-979. (Review) Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, Reller, LB, Wang, WL, and Mirrett, S. "Controlled evaluation of trypticase soy broth with and without gelatin and yeast extract in the detection of bacteremia and fungemia." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 8, no. 1 (September 1987): 19-24. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Reimer, LG, Wang, WL, and Stratton, CW. "Controlled evaluation of modified radiometric blood culture medium supplemented with gelatin for detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 25, no. 8 (August 1987): 1373-1375. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Stratton, CW, Hawley, HB, Ackley, A, and Reller, LB. "Multicenter collaborative evaluation of a standardized serum bactericidal test as a predictor of therapeutic efficacy in acute and chronic osteomyelitis." Am J Med 83, no. 2 (August 1987): 218-222. Link to Item
  - Janoff, EN, and Reller, LB. "Cryptosporidium species, a protean protozoan." J Clin Microbiol 25, no. 6 (June 1987): 967-975. (Review) Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, Monahan, JS, and Reller, LB. "Comparative evaluation of medium and atmosphere of incubation for isolation of Streptococcus pyogenes." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 6, no. 3 (March 1987): 217-221. Link to Item
  - Opal, SM, Reller, LB, Harrington, G, and Cannady, P. "Aspergillus clavatus endocarditis involving a normal aortic valve following coronary artery surgery." Rev Infect Dis 8, no. 5 (September 1986): 781-785. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "The serum bactericidal test." Rev Infect Dis 8, no. 5 (September 1986): 803-808. (Review) Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Reller, LB, and Murphy, JR. "Clinical importance of polymicrobial bacteremia." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 5, no. 3 (September 1986): 185-196. Link to Item
  - Ellison, RT, Mason, SR, Kohler, PF, Curd, JG, and Reller, LB. "Meningococcemia and acquired complement deficiency. Association in patients with hepatic failure." Arch Intern Med 146, no. 8 (August 1986): 1539-1540. Link to Item
  - Ellison, RT. "Meningococcemia and Acquired Complement Deficiency." Archives of Internal Medicine 146, no. 8 (August 1, 1986): 1539-1539. Full Text
  - Stratton, CW, Evans, ME, Burch, DJ, Hawley, HB, Horsman, TA, Tu, KK, and Reller, LB. "Effect of human serum on inhibition of growth of Staphylococcus aureus by antimicrobial agents." Eur J Clin Microbiol 5, no. 3 (June 1986): 351-353. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Stratton, CW, Reimer, LG, and Wang, WL. "Controlled evaluation of the agar-slide and radiometric blood culture systems for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 23, no. 2 (February 1986): 221-225. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Stratton, CW, and Barth Reller, L. "Current status of the serum bactericidal test as a monitor of therapeutic efficacy in serious infections." Antimicrobic Newsletter 3, no. 2 (February 1986): 9-14. Full Text
  - Cooper, ER, Ellison, RT, Smith, GS, Blaser, MJ, Reller, LB, and Paisley, JW. "Rifampin-resistant meningococcal disease in a contact patient given prophylactic rifampin." J Pediatr 108, no. 1 (January 1986): 93-96. Link to Item
  - Ellison, RT, and Reller, LB. "Differentiating pyogenic arthritis from spontaneous hemarthrosis in patients with hemophilia." West J Med 144, no. 1 (January 1986): 42-45. Link to Item
  - McGregor, JA, French, JI, Reller, LB, Todd, JK, and Makowski, EL. "Adjunctive erythromycin treatment for idiopathic preterm labor: results of a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial." Am J Obstet Gynecol 154, no. 1 (January 1986): 98-103. Link to Item
  - Koepke, JW, Reller, LB, Masters, HA, and Selner, JC. "Viral contamination of intradermal skin test syringes." Ann Allergy 55, no. 6 (December 1985): 776-778. Link to Item
  - Zabransky, RJ, MacLowry, JD, Washington, JA, and Barth Reller, L. "Questions and answers." Clinical Microbiology Newsletter 7, no. 23 (December 1985): 172-173. Full Text
  - Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Effect of sodium polyanetholesulfonate and gelatin on the recovery of Gardnerella vaginalis from blood culture media." J Clin Microbiol 21, no. 5 (May 1985): 686-688. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Wang, WL, and Alcid, DV. "Clinical comparison of an agar slide blood culture bottle with tryptic soy broth and a conventional blood culture bottle with supplemented peptone broth." J Clin Microbiol 21, no. 5 (May 1985): 815-818. Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, McDaniel, JD, Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, and Wang, WL. "Controlled evaluation of supplemented peptone and Bactec blood culture broths for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 21, no. 4 (April 1985): 531-534. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Wang, WL, and Alcid, DV. "Controlled evaluation of Trypticase soy broth in agar slide and conventional blood culture systems." J Clin Microbiol 21, no. 4 (April 1985): 626-629. Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Use of a sodium polyanetholesulfonate disk for the identification of Gardnerella vaginalis." J Clin Microbiol 21, no. 2 (February 1985): 146-149. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Stratton, CW, Ackley, A, Hawley, HB, Robinson, PA, Fisher, BD, Alcid, DV, Stephens, DS, and Reller, LB. "Multicenter collaborative evaluation of a standardized serum bactericidal test as a prognostic indicator in infective endocarditis." Am J Med 78, no. 2 (February 1985): 262-269. Link to Item
  - Hansbrough, JF, Carroll, WB, Zapata-Sirvent, RL, Reller, BR, and Boswick, JA. "Identification and antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial isolates from burned patients." Burns 11, no. 6 (1985): 393-403.
  - Wang, WL, Reller, LB, and Blaser, MJ. "Comparison of antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli." Antimicrob Agents Chemother 26, no. 3 (September 1984): 351-353. Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Gardnerella vaginalis bacteremia: a review of thirty cases." Obstet Gynecol 64, no. 2 (August 1984): 170-172. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "Interaction of cefotaxime and desacetylcefotaxime against pathogenic bacteria. Assessment with the serum bactericidal test." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2, no. 3 Suppl (June 1984): 55S-61S. Link to Item
  - Sandström, EG, Knapp, JS, Reller, LB, Thompson, SE, Hook, EW, and Holmes, KK. "Serogrouping of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: correlation of serogroup with disseminated gonococcal infection." Sexually Transmitted Diseases 11, no. 2 (April 1984): 77-80.
  - Fenton, BW, Savard-Fenton, M, Reller, LB, Lauer, BA, and Byyny, RL. "Single-dose amoxicillin therapy with follow-up urine culture." The American Journal of Medicine 76, no. 3 (March 1984): A87-A97. Full Text
  - Weinstein, MP, and Reller, LB. "Clinical importance of "breakthrough" bacteremia." Am J Med 76, no. 2 (February 1984): 175-180. Link to Item
  - "Interaction of cefotaxime and desacetylcefotaxime against pathogenic bacteria. Assessment with the serum bactericidal test." Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 2, no. 3 SUPPL. (January 1, 1984).
  - Hitch, DC, Lilly, JR, Reller, LB, and Lauer, BA. "Antibiotic excretion into the bile." J Pediatr Surg 18, no. 6 (December 1983): 963-. (Letter) Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Effect of pyridoxal on growth of nutritionally variant streptococci and other bacteria on sheep blood agar." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 1, no. 4 (December 1983): 273-275. Link to Item
  - Sahn, SA, Reller, LB, Taryle, DA, Antony, VB, and Good, JT. "The contribution of leukocytes and bacteria to the low pH of empyema fluid." Am Rev Respir Dis 128, no. 5 (November 1983): 811-815. Full Text Link to Item
  - Wang, WL, Reller, LB, Smallwood, B, Luechtefeld, NW, and Blaser, MJ. "Evaluation of transport media for Campylobacter jejuni in human fecal specimens." J Clin Microbiol 18, no. 4 (October 1983): 803-807. Link to Item
  - "Complement deficiency and sporadic meningococcal disease." The New England journal of medicine 309, no. 10 (September 1983): 615-616. (Letter) Full Text
  - "Recent and innovative methods for detection of bacteremia and fungemia." The American Journal of Medicine 75, no. 1 PART 2 (July 28, 1983): 26-30. Full Text
  - Reller, LB. "Recent and innovative methods for detection of bacteremia and fungemia." Am J Med 75, no. 1B (July 28, 1983): 26-30. (Review) Link to Item
  - Good, JT, Antony, VB, Reller, LB, Maulitz, RM, and Sahn, SA. "The pathogenesis of the low pleural fluid pH in esophageal rupture." Am Rev Respir Dis 127, no. 6 (June 1983): 702-704. Full Text Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Wang, WL, and Cox, RL. "Controlled evaluation of hypertonic sucrose medium at a 1:5 ratio of blood to broth for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in supplemented peptone broth." J Clin Microbiol 17, no. 6 (June 1983): 1045-1049. Link to Item
  - Wang, WL, Luechtefeld, NW, Blaser, MJ, and Reller, LB. "Effect of incubation atmosphere and temperature on isolation of Campylobacter jejuni from human stools." Can J Microbiol 29, no. 4 (April 1983): 468-470. Link to Item
  - Lauer, BA, Reller, LB, and Mirrett, S. "Effect of atmosphere and duration of incubation on primary isolation of group A streptococci from throat cultures." J Clin Microbiol 17, no. 2 (February 1983): 338-340. Link to Item
  - Hitch, DC, Lilly, JR, Reller, LB, and Lauer, BA. "Correspondence." Journal of Pediatric Surgery 18, no. 6 (January 1, 1983): 963-963. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Lauer, BA, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, and Ferris, JA. "Effect of chemical preservation of urine on routine urinalysis and non-culture tests for bacteriuria." Med Lab Sci 40, no. 1 (January 1983): 27-32. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Murphy, JR, Reller, LB, and Lichtenstein, KA. "The clinical significance of positive blood cultures: a comprehensive analysis of 500 episodes of bacteremia and fungemia in adults. II. Clinical observations, with special reference to factors influencing prognosis." Rev Infect Dis 5, no. 1 (January 1983): 54-70. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Reller, LB, Murphy, JR, and Lichtenstein, KA. "The clinical significance of positive blood cultures: a comprehensive analysis of 500 episodes of bacteremia and fungemia in adults. I. Laboratory and epidemiologic observations." Rev Infect Dis 5, no. 1 (January 1983): 35-53. Link to Item
  - Savard-Fenton, M, Fenton, BW, Reller, LB, Lauer, BA, and Byyny, RL. "Single-dose amoxicillin therapy with follow-up urine culture. Effective initial management for acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections." Am J Med 73, no. 6 (December 1982): 808-813. Link to Item
  - Tenney, JH, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Weinstein, MP, and Wang, WL. "Controlled evaluation of the effect of atmosphere of incubation on detection of bacteremia and fungemia in supplemented peptone broth." J Clin Microbiol 16, no. 3 (September 1982): 437-442. Link to Item
  - Weinstein, MP, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, and Wang, WL. "Controlled evaluation of hypertonic sucrose medium for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in supplemented peptone broth." J Clin Microbiol 16, no. 3 (September 1982): 490-494. Link to Item
  - Wang, WL, Luechtefeld, NW, Blaser, MJ, and Reller, LB. "Comparison of CampyPak II with standard 5% oxygen and candle jars for growth of Campylobacter jejuni from human feces." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 16, no. 2 (August 1982): 291-294.
  - Tenney, JH, Reller, LB, Wang, WL, Cox, RL, and Mirrett, S. "Comparative evaluation of supplemented peptone broth with sodium polyanetholesulfonate and trypticase soy broth with sodium amylosulfate for detection of septicemia." J Clin Microbiol 16, no. 1 (July 1982): 107-110. Link to Item
  - Blaser, MJ, Reller, LB, Luechtefeld, NW, and Wang, WL. "Campylobacter enteritis in Denver." West J Med 136, no. 4 (April 1982): 287-290. Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, Lauer, BA, Miller, GA, and Reller, LB. "Comparison of acridine orange, methylene blue, and Gram stains for blood cultures." J Clin Microbiol 15, no. 4 (April 1982): 562-566. Link to Item
  - Tenney, JH, Reller, LB, Mirrett, S, Wang, WL, and Weinstein, MP. "Controlled evaluation of the volume of blood cultured in detection of bacteremia and fungemia." J Clin Microbiol 15, no. 4 (April 1982): 558-561. Link to Item
  - Cohn, DL, Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Comparative in-vitro activity of MK0787 (N-formimidoyl thienamycin) against 540 blood culture isolates." J Antimicrob Chemother 9, no. 3 (March 1982): 183-194. Link to Item
  - Stratton, CW, Weinstein, MP, and Reller, LB. "Correlation of serum bactericidal activity with antimicrobial agent level and minimal bactericidal concentration." J Infect Dis 145, no. 2 (February 1982): 160-168. Link to Item
  - Anders, BJ, Lauer, BA, Paisley, JW, and Reller, LB. "Double-blind placebo controlled trial of erythromycin for treatment of Campylobacter enteritis." Lancet 1, no. 8264 (January 16, 1982): 131-132. Link to Item
  - Luechtefeld, NW, Reller, LB, Blaser, MJ, and Wang, WL. "Comparison of atmospheres of incubation for primary isolation of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from animal specimens: 5% oxygen versus candle jar." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 15, no. 1 (January 1982): 53-57.
  - Paisley, JW, Mirrett, S, Lauer, BA, Roe, M, and Reller, LB. "Dark-field microscopy of human feces for presumptive diagnosis of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni enteritis." J Clin Microbiol 15, no. 1 (January 1982): 61-63. Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Growth of nutritionally variant streptococci on laboratory media supplemented with blood of eight animal species." Med Lab Sci 39, no. 1 (January 1982): 79-81. Link to Item
  - Blaser, MJ, and Reller, LB. "Campylobacter enteritis." N Engl J Med 305, no. 24 (December 10, 1981): 1444-1452. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Sahn, SA, Good, JT, and Reller, LB. "Cephradine concentrations in serum, pleural fluid, pleura, and lung of normal rabbits." J Antimicrob Chemother 8, no. 4 (October 1981): 345-346. (Letter) Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "Growth of nutritionally variant streptococci on common laboratory and 10 commercial blood culture media." J Clin Microbiol 14, no. 3 (September 1981): 329-332. Link to Item
  - Lauer, BA, Reller, LB, and Mirrett, S. "Comparison of acridine orange and Gram stains for detection of microorganisms in cerebrospinal fluid and other clinical specimens." J Clin Microbiol 14, no. 2 (August 1981): 201-205. Link to Item
  - Gavan, TL, Jones, RN, Barry, AL, Fuchs, PC, Gerlach, EH, Matsen, JM, Reller, LB, Thornsberry, C, and Thrupp, LD. "Quality control limits for ampicillin, carbenicillin, mezlocillin, and piperacillin disk diffusion susceptibility tests: a collaborative study." J Clin Microbiol 14, no. 1 (July 1981): 67-72. Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, Reller, LB, and Knapp, JS. "Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains inhibited by vancomycin in selective media and correlation with auxotype." J Clin Microbiol 14, no. 1 (July 1981): 94-99. Link to Item
  - Stratton, CW, Lichtenstein, KA, Lowenstein, SR, Phelps, DB, and Reller, LB. "Granulomatous tenosynovitis and carpal tunnel syndrome caused by Sporothrix schenckii." Am J Med 71, no. 1 (July 1981): 161-164. Link to Item
  - Pashkow, FJ, Calisher, CH, Reller, LB, and Sulzer, CR. "Leptospirosis in a traveler from Honduras." Colo Med 78, no. 6 (June 1981): 210-212. Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, Stratton, CW, and Reller, LB. "Minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of 44 antimicrobial agents against three standard control strains in broth with and without human serum." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 19, no. 6 (June 1981): 1050-1055. Full Text
  - Luechtefeld, NW, Wang, WL, Blaser, MJ, and Reller, LB. "Evaluation of transport and storage techniques for isolation of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from turkey cecal specimens." J Clin Microbiol 13, no. 3 (March 1981): 438-443. Link to Item
  - Anthes, WH, Blaser, MJ, and Reller, LB. "Acute suppurative parotitis associated with anaerobic bacteremia." Am J Clin Pathol 75, no. 2 (February 1981): 260-262. Link to Item
  - Taryle, DA, Good, JT, Morgan, EJ, Reller, LB, and Sahn, SA. "Antibiotic concentrations in human parapneumonic effusions." J Antimicrob Chemother 7, no. 2 (February 1981): 171-177. Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, and Reller, LB. "CSF in herpes zoster meningoencephalitis." Archives of Neurology 38, no. 10 (1981): 668--.
  - Luechtefeld, NA, Blaser, MJ, Reller, LB, and Wang, WL. "Isolation of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from migratory waterfowl." J Clin Microbiol 12, no. 3 (September 1980): 406-408. Link to Item
  - Wang, WL, Luechtefeld, NW, Reller, LB, and Blaser, MJ. "Enriched brucella medium for storage and transport of cultures of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni." J Clin Microbiol 12, no. 3 (September 1980): 479-480. Link to Item
  - Lauer, BA, and Reller, LB. "Serotypes and penicillin susceptibility of pneumococci isolated from blood." J Clin Microbiol 11, no. 3 (March 1980): 242-244. Link to Item
  - Reimer, LG, Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Comparison of in vitro activity of moxalactam (LY127935) with cefazolin, amikacin, tobramycin, carbenicillin, piperacillin, and ticarcillin against 420 blood culture isolates." Antimicrob Agents Chemother 17, no. 3 (March 1980): 412-416. Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Activity of cefamandole, cefoxitin, ampicillin and gentamicin against 419 bacteria isolated from blood of patients with sepsis." Chemotherapy 26, no. 6 (1980): 436-445. Full Text Link to Item
  - Taryle, DA, Good, JT, Reller, LB, and Sahn, SA. "Penetration of cephradine into normal, inflammatory, and infected pleural fluids in rabbits." J Antimicrob Chemother 6, no. 1 (January 1980): 143-149. Link to Item
  - Hitch, DC, Lilly, JR, Reller, LB, and Lauer, BA. "Biliary flora and antimicrobial concentrations after Kasai's operation." J Pediatr Surg 14, no. 6 (December 1979): 648-652. Link to Item
  - Cox, RL, and Reller, LB. "Auricular sporotrichosis in a brick mason." Arch Dermatol 115, no. 10 (October 1979): 1229-1230. Link to Item
  - Mirrett, S, and Reller, LB. "Comparison of direct and standard antimicrobial disk susceptibility testing for bacteria isolated from blood." J Clin Microbiol 10, no. 4 (October 1979): 482-487. Link to Item
  - Blaser, MJ, Berkowitz, ID, LaForce, FM, Cravens, J, Reller, LB, and Wang, WL. "Campylobacter enteritis: clinical and epidemiologic features." Ann Intern Med 91, no. 2 (August 1979): 179-185. Link to Item
  - Maulitz, RM, Good, JT, Kaplan, RL, Reller, LB, and Sahn, SA. "The pleuropulmonary consequences of esophageal rupture: an experimental model." Am Rev Respir Dis 120, no. 2 (August 1979): 363-367. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lauer, BA, Reller, LB, and Mirrett, S. "Evaluation of preservative fluid for urine collected for culture." J Clin Microbiol 10, no. 1 (July 1979): 42-45. Link to Item
  - Hoke, CH, Batt, JM, Mirrett, S, Cox, RL, and Reller, LB. "False-positive Gram-stained smears." JAMA 241, no. 5 (February 2, 1979): 478-480. Link to Item
  - Hoke, CH. "False-Positive Gram-Stained Smears." Jama: the Journal of the American Medical Association 241, no. 5 (February 2, 1979): 478-478. Full Text
  - Reller, LB. "Valve resection for endocarditis." Ann Intern Med 90, no. 2 (February 1979): 277-278. (Letter) Link to Item
  - "Comparative activity in vitro of cefaclor, cephalexin, and cephradine." Current Therapeutic Research Clinical and Experimental 26, no. 2 (January 1, 1979): 145-151.
  - Stratton, CW, Phelps, DB, and Reller, LB. "Tuberculoid tenosynovitis and carpal tunnel syndrome caused by Mycobacterium szulgai." Am J Med 65, no. 2 (August 1978): 349-351. Link to Item
  - Lauer, BA, Reller, LB, and Schröter, GP. "Susceptibility of Aspergillus to 5-fluorocytosine and amphotericin B alone and in combination." J Antimicrob Chemother 4, no. 4 (July 1978): 375-380. Link to Item
  - Pratt, DS, Tenney, JH, Bjork, CM, and Reller, LB. "Successful treatment of Brucella melitensis end-carditis." Am J Med 64, no. 5 (May 1978): 897-900. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, and Stratton, CW. "Serum dilution test for bactericidal activity. II. Standardization and correlation with antimicrobial assays and susceptibility tests." J Infect Dis 136, no. 2 (August 1977): 196-204. Link to Item
  - Stratton, CW, and Reller, LB. "Serum dilution test for bactericidal activity. I. Selection of a physiologic diluent." J Infect Dis 136, no. 2 (August 1977): 187-195. Link to Item
  - Schwartzman, JD, Reller, LB, and Wang, WL. "Susceptibility of Clostridium perfringens isolated from human infections to twenty antibiotics." Antimicrob Agents Chemother 11, no. 4 (April 1977): 695-697. Link to Item
  - Goldstein, JA, Reller, LB, and Wang, WL. "Limulus amebocyte lysate test in neonates." Am J Clin Pathol 66, no. 6 (December 1976): 1012-1015. Link to Item
  - Rosenberg, ML, Weissman, JB, Gangarosa, EJ, Reller, LB, and Beasley, RP. "Shigellosis in the United States: ten-year review of nationwide surveillance, 1964-1973." Am J Epidemiol 104, no. 5 (November 1976): 543-551. Link to Item
  - Everett, ED, Reller, LB, Droegemueller, W, and Greer, BE. "Absence of bacteremia after insertion or removal of intrauterine devices." Obstet Gynecol 47, no. 2 (February 1976): 207-209. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, Maddoux, GL, Eckman, MR, and Pappas, G. "Bacterial endocarditis caused by Oerskovia turbata." Annals of Internal Medicine 83, no. 5 (November 1975): 664-666. Full Text
  - Ederer, GM, Lund, ME, Blazevic, DJ, Reller, LB, and Mirrett, S. "Motility-indole-lysine-sulfide medium." J Clin Microbiol 2, no. 3 (September 1975): 266-267. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, and Mirrett, S. "Motility-indole-lysine medium for presumptive identification of enteric pathogens of Enterobacteriaceae." J Clin Microbiol 2, no. 3 (September 1975): 247-252. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, Schoenknecht, FD, Kenny, MA, and Sherris, JC. "Antibiotic susceptibility testing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: selection of a control strain and criteria for magnesium and calcium content in media." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 130, no. 5 (November 1974): 454-463. Full Text
  - Reller, LB. "Endocarditis caused by Bacillus subtilis." Am J Clin Pathol 60, no. 5 (November 1973): 714-718. Link to Item
  - Turck, M, Clark, RA, Beaty, HN, Holmes, KK, Karney, WW, and Reller, LB. "Cefazolin in the treatment of bacterial pneumonia." J Infect Dis 128 (October 1973): Suppl:S382-5-. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, Karney, WW, Beaty, HN, Holmes, KK, and Turck, M. "Evaluation of cefazolin, a new cephalosporin antibiotic." Antimicrob Agents Chemother 3, no. 4 (April 1973): 488-497. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "Epstein-Barr virus and Guillain-Barrè syndrome." Lancet 1, no. 7795 (January 20, 1973): 151-. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "Granulomatous hepatitis associated with acute cytomegalovirus infection." Lancet 1, no. 7793 (January 6, 1973): 20-22. Link to Item
  - Barth Reller, L. "EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS AND GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME." The Lancet 301, no. 7795 (January 1973): 151-151. Full Text
  - Reller, LB, MacGregor, RR, and Beaty, HN. "Bactericidal antibody after colonization with Neisseria meningitidis." J Infect Dis 127, no. 1 (January 1973): 56-62. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "GRANULOMATOUS HEPATITIS ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION." The Lancet 301, no. 7793 (1973): 20-22. Full Text
  - Reller, LB, Rivas, EN, Masferrer, R, Bloch, M, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Epidemic shiga-bacillus dysentery in Central America. Evolution of the outbreak in El Salvador, 1969-70." Am J Trop Med Hyg 20, no. 6 (November 1971): 934-940. Link to Item
  - "Epidemic shiga dysentery in Central America. II. Epidemiologic studies in 1969." Boletin De La Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana 71, no. 2 (August 1, 1971): 108-120.
  - Gangarosa, EJ, Perera, DR, Mata, LJ, Mendizábal-Morris, C, Guzmán, G, and Reller, LB. "[Epidemic shiga dysentery in Central America. II. Epidemiologic studies in 1969]." Bol Oficina Sanit Panam 71, no. 2 (August 1971): 108-120. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "Colicin typing as an epidemiological tool in the investigation of outbreaks of Shigella sonnei." Appl Microbiol 21, no. 1 (January 1971): 21-26. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "Epidemic shiga dysentery in Central America." Lancet 2, no. 7674 (September 26, 1970): 661-662. Link to Item
  - DuPont, HL, Gangarosa, EJ, Reller, LB, Woodward, WE, Armstrong, RW, Hammond, J, Glaser, K, and Morris, GK. "Shigellosis in custodial institutions." Am J Epidemiol 92, no. 3 (September 1970): 172-179. Link to Item
  - Gangarosa, EJ, Perera, DR, Mata, LJ, Mendizábal-Morris, C, Guzmán, G, and Reller, LB. "Epidemic Shiga bacillus dysentery in Central America. II. Epidemiologic studies in 1969." J Infect Dis 122, no. 3 (September 1970): 181-190. Link to Item
  - Cash, RA, Nalin, DR, Rochat, R, Reller, LB, Haque, ZA, and Rahman, AS. "A clinical trial of oral therapy in a rural cholera-treatment center." The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 19, no. 4 (July 1970): 653-656.
  - Reller, LB, and Spector, MI. "Shigellosis among Indians." J Infect Dis 121, no. 3 (March 1970): 355-357. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB. "Shigella flexneri dysentery in the Australian forces in South Vietnam." Med J Aust 1, no. 8 (February 21, 1970): 394-. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, Gangarosa, EJ, and Brachman, PS. "Shigellosis in the United States: five-year review of nationwide surveillance, 1964-1968." Am J Epidemiol 91, no. 2 (February 1970): 161-169. Link to Item
  - Reller, LB, Gangarosa, EJ, and Brachman, PS. "From the national communicable disease center. Shigellosis in the United States. 1964-1968." J Infect Dis 120, no. 3 (September 1969): 393-396. Link to Item
  - Ellison, RT, Kohler, PF, Curd, JG, Judson, FN, and Reller, LB. "Prevalence of congenital or acquired complement deficiency in patients with sporadic meningococcal disease." N Engl J Med 308, no. 16: 913-916. Full Text Link to Item
  - Wald, P, and N Tomes, LL. "Introduction." Culture and Contagion, a special issue of American Literary History 14: 617-24. (Academic Article)

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