Robert M. Wadowsky

TL;DR: The PCR-based assay systems can detect the presence of bacterial DNA in a significant percentage of culturally sterile middle ear effusions, and the large number of bacterial genomic equivalents present in the ears is suggestive of an active process.

TL;DR: A highly sensitive and specific LAMP assay for Escherichia coli that does not require DNA extraction and can detect as few as 10 copies is developed.

TL;DR: SINCE 1977 there have been numerous outbreaks of nosocomial Legionnaires' disease; however, in only one was a reservoir established for Legionella pneumophila, and L. Dondero and his colleagues have suggested that the organisms were spread from a contaminated cooling tower adjacent to a hospital with 39 cases of Legionnaires'.

TL;DR: A water culture containing naturally occurring Legionella pneumophila and associated microbiota was maintained in the laboratory by serially transferring the culture in tap water which had been sterilized by membrane filtration, and an association was observed between the multiplication of L. pneumophile and the non-Legionellaceae bacteria which were also present in the water culture.

TL;DR: A chronic high EBV‐load state is not benign and is a predictor of de novo or recurrent PTLD, and this state may identify patients at high risk for development of late PTLD/lymphoma.