Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University 2016 - 2019
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University 2012 - 2016
  • M.D., Duke University School of Medicine 2012
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2019 - 2020
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2026
  • Epidemiology/General Communicable Disease Control awarded by NC DHHS 2021
  • Measuring the Impact of Enhanced Strategies for Daily Disinfection in Acute Care Hospital Rooms: Sani24 vs. Routine Daily Disinfection awarded by PDI, Inc. 2020 - 2021
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  External Relationships

  • SPERO Therapeutics
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Mourad, Ahmad, Thomas L. Holland, and Nicholas A. Turner. “Antiplatelet Therapy in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: No Time Like the Past?” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 66, no. 6 (June 21, 2022): e0036522. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.00365-22.
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    • Seidelman, Jessica L., Nicholas A. Turner, Rebekah H. Wrenn, Christina Sarubbi, Deverick J. Anderson, Daniel J. Sexton, and Rebekah W. Moehring. “Impact of Antibiotic Stewardship Rounds in the Intensive Care Setting: A Prospective Cluster-Randomized Crossover Study.” Clin Infect Dis 74, no. 11 (June 10, 2022): 1986–92. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab747.
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    • Narayanasamy, Shanti, Ahmad Mourad, Nicholas A. Turner, Thuy Le, Robert J. Rolfe, Nwora Lance Okeke, Sean M. O’Brien, et al. “COVID-19 Trials: Who Participates and Who Benefits?” South Med J 115, no. 4 (April 2022): 256–61. https://doi.org/10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001374.
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    • Warren, Bobby G., Nicholas A. Turner, Rachel Addison, Alicia Nelson, Aaron Barrett, Bechtler Addison, Amanda Graves, et al. “The Impact of Infection Versus Colonization on Clostridioides difficile Environmental Contamination in Hospitalized Patients With Diarrhea.” Open Forum Infect Dis 9, no. 4 (April 2022): ofac069. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac069.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Bobby G. Warren, Maria F. Gergen-Teague, Rachel M. Addison, Bechtler Addison, William A. Rutala, David J. Weber, Daniel J. Sexton, and Deverick J. Anderson. “Impact of Oral Metronidazole, Vancomycin, and Fidaxomicin on Host Shedding and Environmental Contamination With Clostridioides difficile.” Clin Infect Dis 74, no. 4 (March 1, 2022): 648–56. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab473.
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    • Yarrington, Michael E., Rebekah H. Wrenn, Justin Spivey, Christopher J. Shoff, Eileen K. Maziarz, S Shaefer Spires, Nicholas A. Turner, Anthony Diez, Deverick J. Anderson, and Rebekah W. Moehring. “Well-being tradeoffs: Effect of loosening overnight restrictions on antimicrobial starts.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 43, no. 2 (February 2022): 255–57. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.340.
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    • Spivey, J., C. R. Deri, R. H. Wrenn, and N. A. Turner. “Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on pharmacist-led allergy assessments and penicillin skin testing.” Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, January 1, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/jppr.1808.
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    • Whelan, Patrick, Alicia Nelson, Christopher J. Kim, Christian Tabib, Glenn Preminger, Nicholas A. Turner, Michael Lipkin, and Sonali D. Advani. “Investigating Risk Factors for Urine Culture Contamination in Outpatient Clinics: A New Avenue for Diagnostic Stewardship.” Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol 2, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2021.260.
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    • Hobbs, Athena L. V., Nicholas Turner, Imad Omer, Morgan K. Walker, Ronald M. Beaulieu, Muhammad Sheikh, S Shaefer Spires, et al. “Risk factors for mortality and progression to severe COVID-19 disease in the Southeast region in the United States: A report from the SEUS Study Group.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 42, no. 12 (December 2021): 1464–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1435.
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    • Hurst, Jillian H., Sarah M. Heston, Hailey N. Chambers, Hannah M. Cunningham, Meghan J. Price, Lilianna Suarez, Carter G. Crew, et al. “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study.” Clin Infect Dis 73, no. 9 (November 2, 2021): e2875–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1693.
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    • Garrido, Carolina, Jillian H. Hurst, Cynthia G. Lorang, Jhoanna N. Aquino, Javier Rodriguez, Trevor S. Pfeiffer, Tulika Singh, et al. “Asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection elicits durable neutralizing antibody responses in children and adolescents.” Jci Insight 6, no. 17 (September 8, 2021): 150909. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.150909.
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    • Advani, Sonali D., Becky A. Smith, Jessica Seidelman, Nicholas Turner, Deverick J. Anderson, and Sarah S. Lewis. “Comparison of metrics used to track central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) across a regional network.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, July 16, 2021, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.297.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Mollie I. Sweeney, Ana M. Xet-Mull, Jeremy Storm, Suhail K. Mithani, David B. Jones, Jeremy J. Miles, David M. Tobin, and Jason E. Stout. “A Cluster of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Tenosynovitis Following Hurricane Relief Efforts.” Clin Infect Dis 72, no. 12 (June 15, 2021): e931–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1665.
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    • Karlovich, Norah S., Suchita Shah Sata, Brian Griffith, Ashley Coop, Ibukunoluwa C. Kalu, John J. Engemann, Jessica Seidelman, et al. “In pursuit of the holy grail: Improving C. difficile testing appropriateness with iterative electronic health record clinical decision support and targeted test restriction.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, June 4, 2021, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.228.
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    • Mourad, Ahmad, Nicholas A. Turner, Arthur W. Baker, Nwora Lance Okeke, Shanti Narayanasamy, Robert Rolfe, John J. Engemann, Gary M. Cox, and Jason E. Stout. “Social Disadvantage, Politics, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Trends: A County-level Analysis of United States Data.” Clin Infect Dis 72, no. 10 (May 18, 2021): e604–7. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1374.
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    • Axfors, Cathrine, Andreas M. Schmitt, Perrine Janiaud, Janneke Van’t Hooft, Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Ehab F. Abdo, Benjamin S. Abella, et al. “Author Correction: Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials.” Nat Commun 12, no. 1 (May 14, 2021): 3001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23559-1.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Rebekah Wrenn, Christina Sarubbi, Renee Kleris, Patricia L. Lugar, Christine Radojicic, Rebekah W. Moehring, and Deverick J. Anderson. “Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Led Penicillin Allergy Assessment Program and Allergy Delabeling in a Tertiary Care Hospital.” Jama Netw Open 4, no. 5 (May 3, 2021): e219820. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.9820.
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    • Garrido, Carolina, Jillian H. Hurst, Cynthia G. Lorang, Jhoanna N. Aquino, Javier Rodriguez, Trevor S. Pfeiffer, Tulika Singh, et al. “Asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection elicits durable neutralizing antibody responses in children and adolescents.” Medrxiv, April 20, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.17.21255663.
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    • Reynolds, Staci S., Chris D. Sova, Sarah S. Lewis, Becky A. Smith, Rebekah H. Wrenn, Nicholas A. Turner, and Sonali D. Advani. “Sustained reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections using multi-faceted strategies led by champions: A quality improvement initiative.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, April 16, 2021, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.135.
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    • Axfors, Cathrine, Andreas M. Schmitt, Perrine Janiaud, Janneke Van’t Hooft, Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Ehab F. Abdo, Benjamin S. Abella, et al. “Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials.” Nat Commun 12, no. 1 (April 15, 2021): 2349. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22446-z.
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    • Abate, Getahun, Jack T. Stapleton, Nadine Rouphael, Buddy Creech, Jason E. Stout, Hana M. El Sahly, Lisa Jackson, et al. “Variability in the Management of Adults With Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease.” Clin Infect Dis 72, no. 7 (April 8, 2021): 1127–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa252.
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    • Polage, Christopher R., and Nicholas A. Turner. “Uncovering the Harms of Treating Clostridioides difficile Colonization.” Msphere 6, no. 1 (January 13, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.01296-20.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., William Pan, Viviana S. Martinez-Bianchi, Gabriela M Maradiaga Panayotti, Arrianna M. Planey, Christopher W. Woods, and Paul M. Lantos. “Racial, Ethnic, and Geographic Disparities in Novel Coronavirus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) Test Positivity in North Carolina.” Open Forum Infect Dis 8, no. 1 (January 2021): ofaa413. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa413.
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    • Shoff, Christopher J., Mary L. Townsend, L Gayani Tillekeratne, Ryan D. Schulteis, Michael E. Yarrington, Nicholas A. Turner, Christopher W. Woods, and Christopher J. Hostler. “Improved empiric antibiotic prescribing for acute cystitis with use of local urinary antibiogram and clinical decision support system.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 41, no. 11 (November 2020): 1351–53. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.357.
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    • Warren, B. G., N. Turner, B. Smith, R. Addison, S. Marden, D. J. Weber, W. A. Rutala, and D. J. Anderson. “Measuring the impact of continuous disinfection strategies on environmental burden in outpatient settings: A prospective randomized controlled trial.” Open Forum Infectious Diseases 7, no. 10 (October 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa431.
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    • Warren, Bobby Glenn, Jason Masker, Gregory Brown, Isabella Gamez, Becky Smith, Deverick J. Anderson, and Nicholas Turner. “Efficacy of UV-C disinfection in hyperbaric chambers.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 41, no. 9 (September 2020): 1080–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.248.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Jennifer L. Saullo, and Christopher R. Polage. “Healthcare associated diarrhea, not Clostridioides difficile.” Curr Opin Infect Dis 33, no. 4 (August 2020): 319–26. https://doi.org/10.1097/QCO.0000000000000653.
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    • Stout, Jason E., Nicholas A. Turner, Robert W. Belknap, C Robert Horsburgh, Timothy R. Sterling, and Patrick P. J. Phillips. “Reply to Swindells et al.: Trials of Tuberculosis-Preventive Therapy in People with HIV Infection.” Am J Respir Crit Care Med 202, no. 2 (July 15, 2020): 305–6. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202003-0855LE.
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    • Maskarinec, S. A., L. P. Park, F. Ruffin, N. A. Turner, N. Patel, E. M. Eichenberger, D. van Duin, T. Lodise, V. G. Fowler, and J. T. Thaden. “Positive follow-up blood cultures identify high mortality risk among patients with Gram-negative bacteraemia.” Clin Microbiol Infect 26, no. 7 (July 2020): 904–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2020.01.025.
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    • Stout, Jason E., Nicholas A. Turner, Robert W. Belknap, C Robert Horsburgh, Timothy R. Sterling, and Patrick P. J. Phillips. “Optimizing the Design of Latent Tuberculosis Treatment Trials: Insights from Mathematical Modeling.” Am J Respir Crit Care Med 201, no. 5 (March 1, 2020): 598–605. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201908-1606OC.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., and Deverick J. Anderson. “Hospital Infection Control: Clostridioides difficile.” Clin Colon Rectal Surg 33, no. 2 (March 2020): 98–108. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1701234.
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    • Bashore, Thomas M., and Nicholas A. Turner. “Addressing the Menace of Enterococcal Endocarditis.” J Am Coll Cardiol 75, no. 5 (February 11, 2020): 495–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.12.009.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Becky A. Smith, and Sarah S. Lewis. “Novel and emerging sources of Clostridioides difficile infection.” Plos Pathog 15, no. 12 (December 2019): e1008125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008125.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Steven C. Grambow, Christopher W. Woods, Vance G. Fowler, Rebekah W. Moehring, Deverick J. Anderson, and Sarah S. Lewis. “Epidemiologic Trends in Clostridioides difficile Infections in a Regional Community Hospital Network.” Jama Netw Open 2, no. 10 (October 2, 2019): e1914149. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.14149.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., and Cameron R. Wolfe. “Reply to Frange and Leruez-Ville, "Caution Is Required before Recommending Wide Use of Letermovir as Salvage Therapy for Cytomegalovirus Diseases".” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 63, no. 5 (May 2019). https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00453-19.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Batu K. Sharma-Kuinkel, Stacey A. Maskarinec, Emily M. Eichenberger, Pratik P. Shah, Manuela Carugati, Thomas L. Holland, and Vance G. Fowler. “Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an overview of basic and clinical research.” Nat Rev Microbiol 17, no. 4 (April 2019): 203–18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0147-4.
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    • Turner, Nicholas, Andrew Strand, Dilraj S. Grewal, Gary Cox, Sana Arif, Arthur W. Baker, Eileen K. Maziarz, Jennifer H. Saullo, and Cameron R. Wolfe. “Use of Letermovir as Salvage Therapy for Drug-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Retinitis.” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 63, no. 3 (March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.02337-18.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Rebekah Moehring, Christina Sarubbi, Rebekah H. Wrenn, Richard H. Drew, Coleen K. Cunningham, Vance G. Fowler, and Deverick J. Anderson. “Influence of Reported Penicillin Allergy on Mortality in MSSA Bacteremia.” Open Forum Infect Dis 5, no. 3 (March 2018): ofy042. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy042.
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    • Trinh, Jane, and Nicholas Turner. “Improving adherence to hepatitis C screening guidelines.” Bmj Open Qual 7, no. 2 (2018): e000108. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000108.
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    • Kohler, Petra L., Yolande A. Chan, Kathleen T. Hackett, Nicholas Turner, Holly L. Hamilton, Karen A. Cloud-Hansen, and Joseph P. Dillard. “Mating pair formation homologue TraG is a variable membrane protein essential for contact-independent type IV secretion of chromosomal DNA by Neisseria gonorrhoeae.” J Bacteriol 195, no. 8 (April 2013): 1666–79. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.02098-12.
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    • Liu, Qian, Haoqian Chen, Teresa Ojode, Xiangxi Gao, Sandra Anaya-O’Brien, Nicholas A. Turner, Jean Ulrick, et al. “WHIM syndrome caused by a single amino acid substitution in the carboxy-tail of chemokine receptor CXCR4.” Blood 120, no. 1 (July 5, 2012): 181–89. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2011-12-395608.
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    • Salgado-Pabón, Wilmara, Samta Jain, Nicholas Turner, Chris van der Does, and Joseph P. Dillard. “A novel relaxase homologue is involved in chromosomal DNA processing for type IV secretion in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.” Mol Microbiol 66, no. 4 (November 2007): 930–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05966.x.
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    • Rajpal, Sharad, Tiffany A. Gerovac, Nicholas A. Turner, Jessica I. Tilghman, Bradley K. Allcock, Shannon L. McChesney, Gurwattan S. Miranpuri, Seung W. Park, and Daniel K. Resnick. “Antihyperalgesic effects of vanilloid-1 and bradykinin-1 receptor antagonists following spinal cord injury in rats.” J Neurosurg Spine 6, no. 5 (May 2007): 420–24. https://doi.org/10.3171/spi.2007.6.5.420.
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    • DomBourian, Melkon G., Nicholas A. Turner, Tiffany A. Gerovac, Raghu Vemuganti, Gurwattan S. Miranpuri, Kudret Türeyen, Irawan Satriotomo, Vjekoslav Miletic, and Daniel K. Resnick. “B1 and TRPV-1 receptor genes and their relationship to hyperalgesia following spinal cord injury.” Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 31, no. 24 (November 15, 2006): 2778–82. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.brs.0000245865.97424.b4.
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    • Turner, N. A., W. C. Taylor, S. Masi, and M. E. Stupen. “Confirming dioecy in Isoëtes butleri.” American Fern Journal 95, no. 2 (January 1, 2005): 85–87. https://doi.org/10.1640/0002-8444(2005)095[0085:SN]2.0.CO;2.
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    • Mourad, Ahmad, Nicholas A. Turner, Arthur W. Baker, Nwora Lance Okeke, Shanti Narayanasamy, Robert Rolfe, John J. Engemann, Gary M. Cox, and Jason E. Stout. “Social Disadvantage, Politics, and SARS-CoV-2 Trends: A County-Level Analysis of United States Data,” n.d. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.11.20151647.
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