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Louis B. Rice
Researcher at Brown University
Publications - 191
Citations - 30457
Louis B. Rice is an academic researcher from Brown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Enterococcus faecium & Enterococcus faecalis. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 188 publications receiving 25995 citations. Previous affiliations of Louis B. Rice include United States Department of Veterans Affairs & Case Western Reserve University.
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Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance
A-P Magiorakos,Arjun Srinivasan,R B Carey,Yehuda Carmeli,Matthew E. Falagas,Matthew E. Falagas,Christian G. Giske,Stéphan Juergen Harbarth,Janet F. Hindler,Gunnar Kahlmeter,Barbro Olsson-Liljequist,David L. Paterson,Louis B. Rice,John Stelling,Marc Struelens,Alkiviadis Vatopoulos,J T Weber,Dominique L Monnet +17 more
TL;DR: A group of international experts came together through a joint initiative by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to create a standardized international terminology with which to describe acquired resistance profiles in Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus spp.
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Bad Bugs, No Drugs: No ESKAPE! An Update from the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Helen W. Boucher,George H. Talbot,John S. Bradley,John S. Bradley,John E. Edwards,John E. Edwards,David N. Gilbert,Louis B. Rice,Louis B. Rice,Michael Scheld,Brad Spellberg,Brad Spellberg,John G. Bartlett +12 more
TL;DR: An update on potentially effective antibacterial drugs in the late-stage development pipeline is provided, in the hope of encouraging collaboration between industry, academia, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention work productively together.
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Federal Funding for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance in Nosocomial Pathogens: No ESKAPE
TL;DR: The research agenda of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for antimicrobial resistance is detailed, indicating that NIAID funding of antimicrobial research has grown considerably over the past decade, now totaling more than $800 million annually.
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Antifungal Agents: Mode of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance, and Correlation of These Mechanisms with Bacterial Resistance
TL;DR: The mode of action of antifungals and their mechanisms of resistance are discussed, and an attempt is made to discuss the correlation between fungal and bacterial resistance.
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Effect of antibiotic therapy on the density of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in the stool of colonized patients.
Curtis J. Donskey,Tanvir K. Chowdhry,Michelle T. Hecker,Claudia Hoyen,Jennifer A. Hanrahan,Andrea M. Hujer,Rebecca Hutton-Thomas,Christopher C. Whalen,Robert A. Bonomo,Louis B. Rice +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a seven-month prospective study of 51 patients who were colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci, as evidenced by the presence of the bacteria in stool.