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Rachel J. Gorwitz
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 51
Citations - 12774
Rachel J. Gorwitz is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus & Staphylococcus aureus. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 50 publications receiving 11915 citations.
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Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Adults and Children
Catherine Liu,Arnold S. Bayer,Sara E. Cosgrove,Robert S. Daum,Scott K. Fridkin,Rachel J. Gorwitz,Sheldon L. Kaplan,Adolf W. Karchmer,Donald P. Levine,Barbara E. Murray,Michael J. Rybak,Henry F. Chambers +11 more
TL;DR: These guidelines discuss the management of a variety of clinical syndromes associated with MRSA disease, including skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI), bacteremia and endocarditis, pneumonia, bone and joint infections, and central nervous system infections.
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Prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal disease. Revised guidelines from CDC.
TL;DR: Although universal screening for GBS colonization is anticipated to result in further reductions in the burden of GBS disease, the need to monitor for potential adverse consequences of intrapartum antibiotic use, such as emergence of bacterial antimicrobial resistance or increased incidence or severity of non-GBS neonatal pathogens, continues.
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Methicillin-resistant S. aureus infections among patients in the emergency department.
Gregory J. Moran,Anusha Krishnadasan,Rachel J. Gorwitz,Gregory E. Fosheim,Linda K. McDougal,Roberta B. Carey,David A. Talan +6 more
TL;DR: MRSA is the most common identifiable cause of skin and soft-tissue infections among patients presenting to emergency departments in 11 U.S. cities and clinicians should consider obtaining cultures and modifying empirical therapy to provide MRSA coverage.
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Changes in the Prevalence of Nasal Colonization with Staphylococcus aureus in the United States, 2001–2004
Rachel J. Gorwitz,Deanna Kruszon-Moran,Sigrid K. McAllister,Geraldine M. McQuillan,Linda K. McDougal,Gregory E. Fosheim,Bette Jensen,George Killgore,Fred C. Tenover,Matthew J. Kuehnert +9 more
TL;DR: Nal colonization with MRSA has increased in the United States, despite an overall decrease in nasal colonization with S. aureus, and PFGE types associated with community transmission only partially account for the increase.
Prevention of perinatal group b streptococcal disease
TL;DR: This report replaces CDC's 1996 guidelines with recommendations based on available evidence and expert opinion where sufficient evidence was lacking, and includes some key changes.