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Christopher A. Ohl
Researcher at Wake Forest University
Publications - 48
Citations - 4429
Christopher A. Ohl is an academic researcher from Wake Forest University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Antimicrobial stewardship & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 40 publications receiving 3731 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher A. Ohl include Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Tamar F. Barlam,Tamar F. Barlam,Sara E. Cosgrove,Lilian M. Abbo,Conan MacDougall,Audrey N. Schuetz,Edward Septimus,Arjun Srinivasan,Timothy H. Dellit,Yngve Falck-Ytter,Neil O. Fishman,Cindy W. Hamilton,Timothy C. Jenkins,Pamela A. Lipsett,Preeti N. Malani,Larissa S May,Gregory J. Moran,Melinda M. Neuhauser,Jason G. Newland,Christopher A. Ohl,Matthew H. Samore,Susan K. Seo,Kavita K. Trivedi +22 more
TL;DR: These recommendations address the best approaches for antibiotic stewardship programs to influence the optimal use of antibiotics.
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Rickettsia parkeri: A newly recognized cause of spotted fever rickettsiosis in the United States
Christopher D. Paddock,John W. Sumner,James A. Comer,Sherif R. Zaki,Cynthia S. Goldsmith,Jerome Goddard,Susan McLellan,Cynthia L. Tamminga,Christopher A. Ohl,Christopher A. Ohl +9 more
TL;DR: Disease in a human caused by Rickettsia parkeri is described, an SFG rickettsia first identified >60 years ago in Gulf Coast ticks collected from the southern United States, and application of specific laboratory assays to clinical specimens obtained from patients with febrile, eschar-associated illnesses following a tick bite may identify additional cases.
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Diagnosis and management of tickborne rickettsial diseases: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichioses, and anaplasmosis--United States: a practical guide for physicians and other health-care and public health professionals.
Alice S. Chapman,Johan S. Bakken,Scott M. Folk,Christopher D. Paddock,Karen C. Bloch,Allan Krusell,Daniel J. Sexton,Steven C. Buckingham,Gary S. Marshall,Gregory Storch,Gregory A. Dasch,Jennifer H. McQuiston,David L. Swerdlow,Stephen J. Dumler,William L. Nicholson,David H. Walker,Marina E. Eremeeva,Christopher A. Ohl +17 more
TL;DR: This report will assist clinicians and other health-care and public health professionals to develop a differential diagnosis that includes and ranks TBRD, understand that the recommendations for doxycycline are the treatment of choice for both adults and children, and understand that early empiric antibiotic therapy can prevent severe morbidity and death.
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Executive Summary: Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
Tamar F. Barlam,Sara E. Cosgrove,Lilian M. Abbo,Conan MacDougall,Audrey N. Schuetz,Edward Septimus,Arjun Srinivasan,Timothy H. Dellit,Yngve Falck-Ytter,Neil O. Fishman,Cindy W. Hamilton,Timothy C. Jenkins,Pamela A. Lipsett,Preeti N. Malani,Larissa S May,Gregory J. Moran,Melinda M. Neuhauser,Jason G. Newland,Christopher A. Ohl,Matthew H. Samore,Susan K. Seo,Kavita K. Trivedi +21 more
TL;DR: These recommendations address the best approaches for antibiotic stewardship programs to influence the optimal use of antibiotics.
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Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis and Its Clinical Distinction from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Christopher D. Paddock,Richard W. Finley,Cynthia S. Wright,Howard N. Robinson,Barbara J. Schrodt,Carole C. Lane,Okechukwu Ekenna,Mitchell A. Blass,Cynthia L. Tamminga,Christopher A. Ohl,Susan McLellan,Jerome Goddard,Robert C. Holman,John J. Openshaw,John W. Sumner,Sherif R. Zaki,Marina E. Eremeeva +16 more
TL;DR: Closer attention to the distinct clinical features of the various spotted fever syndromes that exist in the United States and other countries of the Western hemisphere may unveil several unique diseases that have been identified collectively as Rocky Mountain spotted fever during the past century.