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John A. Jernigan
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 189
Citations - 19022
John A. Jernigan is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 171 publications receiving 16135 citations. Previous affiliations of John A. Jernigan include World Health Organization & Emory University.
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Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Transmission in a Skilled Nursing Facility.
Melissa M. Arons,Kelly M Hatfield,Sujan C Reddy,Anne Kimball,Allison E James,Jesica R. Jacobs,Joanne Taylor,Kevin B. Spicer,Ana C Bardossy,Lisa P. Oakley,Sukarma Tanwar,Jonathan W Dyal,Josh Harney,Zeshan Chisty,Jeneita M. Bell,Mark Methner,Prabasaj Paul,Christina M. Carlson,Heather P. McLaughlin,Natalie J. Thornburg,Suxiang Tong,Azaibi Tamin,Ying Tao,Anna Uehara,Jennifer L Harcourt,Shauna Clark,Claire Brostrom-Smith,Libby C. Page,Meagan Kay,James S. Lewis,Patty Montgomery,Nimalie D. Stone,Thomas A. Clark,Margaret A. Honein,Jeffrey S. Duchin,John A. Jernigan +35 more
TL;DR: Rapid and widespread transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was demonstrated in this skilled nursing facility and infection-control strategies focused solely on symptomatic residents were not sufficient to prevent transmission.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease in three communities.
Scott K. Fridkin,Jeffrey C. Hageman,Melissa Morrison,Laurie Thomson Sanza,Kathryn Como-Sabetti,John A. Jernigan,Kathleen Harriman,Lee H. Harrison,Ruth Lynfield,Monica M. Farley +9 more
TL;DR: Community-associated MRSA infections are now a common and serious problem, especially among children, and hospitalization is common.
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SHEA guideline for preventing nosocomial transmission of multidrug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and enterococcus.
Carlene A. Muto,John A. Jernigan,Belinda E. Ostrowsky,Hervé Richet,William R. Jarvis,John M. Boyce,Barry M. Farr +6 more
TL;DR: Active surveillance cultures are essential to identify the reservoir for spread of MRSA and VRE infections and make control possible using the CDC's long-recommended contact precautions, demonstrating consistency of evidence, high strength of association, reversibility, dose gradient, and specificity for control with this approach.
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Incidence and Trends of Sepsis in US Hospitals Using Clinical vs Claims Data, 2009-2014
Chanu Rhee,Chanu Rhee,Raymund Dantes,Raymund Dantes,Lauren Epstein,David J. Murphy,Christopher W. Seymour,Theodore J. Iwashyna,Sameer S Kadri,Derek C. Angus,Robert L. Danner,Anthony E. Fiore,John A. Jernigan,Greg S. Martin,Edward Septimus,Edward Septimus,David K. Warren,Anita Karcz,Christina Chan,John T. Menchaca,Rui Wang,Susan Gruber,Michael Klompas,Michael Klompas +23 more
TL;DR: In clinical data from 409 hospitals, sepsis was present in 6% of adult hospitalizations, and in contrast to claims-based analyses, neither the incidence of sepsi nor the combined outcome of death or discharge to hospice changed significantly between 2009-2014.
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Epidemiology of Covid-19 in a Long-Term Care Facility in King County, Washington.
Temet M. McMichael,Dustin W Currie,Shauna Clark,Sargis Pogosjans,Meagan Kay,Noah G. Schwartz,James S. Lewis,Atar Baer,Vance Kawakami,Margaret D. Lukoff,Jessica Ferro,Claire Brostrom-Smith,Thomas D. Rea,Michael R. Sayre,Francis X. Riedo,Denny Russell,Brian Hiatt,Patricia Montgomery,Agam K Rao,Eric J. Chow,Farrell A Tobolowsky,Michael J. Hughes,Ana C Bardossy,Lisa P. Oakley,Jesica R. Jacobs,Nimalie D. Stone,Sujan C. Reddy,John A. Jernigan,John A. Jernigan,Margaret A. Honein,Thomas A. Clark,Jeffrey S. Duchin +31 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that long-term care facilities are high-risk settings for severe outcomes from outbreaks of Covid-19, owing to both the advanced age and frequent chronic underlying health conditions.