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Charla Gaddy
Researcher at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Publications - 2
Citations - 563
Charla Gaddy is an academic researcher from Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Acinetobacter baumannii & Acinetobacter. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 542 citations. Previous affiliations of Charla Gaddy include Silver Spring Networks.
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An Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus Complex Infection in the US Military Health Care System Associated with Military Operations in Iraq
Paul T. Scott,Gregory Deye,Arjun Srinivasan,Clinton K. Murray,Kimberly A. Moran,Ed Hulten,Joel Fishbain,David Craft,Scott Riddell,Luther E. Lindler,James D. Mancuso,Eric Milstrey,Christian T. Bautista,Jean B. Patel,Alessa Ewell,Tacita Hamilton,Charla Gaddy,Martin Tenney,George W Christopher,Kyle Petersen,Timothy P. Endy,Bruno Petruccelli +21 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that environmental contamination of field hospitals and infection transmission within health care facilities played a major role in this outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex infection among US service members injured in Iraq.
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Identification of Acinetobacter Species and Genotyping of Acinetobacter baumannii by Multilocus PCR and Mass Spectrometry
Joseph A. Ecker,Christian Massire,Thomas A. Hall,Raymond Ranken,Thuy Trang D. Pennella,Cristina Ivy,Lawrence B. Blyn,Steven A. Hofstadler,Timothy P. Endy,Paul T. Scott,Luther E. Lindler,Tacita Hamilton,Charla Gaddy,Kerry Snow,Marie Pe,Joel Fishbain,David Craft,Gregory Deye,Scott Riddell,Eric Milstrey,Bruno Petruccelli,Sylvain Brisse,Vanessa Harpin,Amy Schink,David J. Ecker,Rangarajan Sampath,Mark W. Eshoo +26 more
TL;DR: Multilocus PCR followed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (PCR/ESI-MS) is a method that uses the amplicon base compositions to genotype bacterial species and identified at the species level at least 18 Acinetobacter species.