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Ruth Belflower
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 9
Citations - 1097
Ruth Belflower is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus & Hemodialysis. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 9 publications receiving 1014 citations. Previous affiliations of Ruth Belflower include University of Rochester.
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National burden of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, United States, 2011.
Raymund Dantes,Yi Mu,Ruth Belflower,Deborah Aragon,Ghinwa Dumyati,Lee H. Harrison,Fernanda C. Lessa,Ruth Lynfield,Joelle Nadle,Susan Petit,Susan M. Ray,William Schaffner,John M. Townes,Scott K. Fridkin +13 more
TL;DR: An estimated 30,800 fewer invasive MRSA infections occurred in the United States in 2011 compared with 2005; in 2011 fewer infections occurred among patients during hospitalization than among persons in the community without recent health care exposures.
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Epidemiology of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, 2009 through 2011.
Amit S. Chitnis,Stacy Holzbauer,Ruth Belflower,Lisa G. Winston,Wendy Bamberg,Carol Lyons,Monica M. Farley,Monica M. Farley,Ghinwa Dumyati,Lucy E. Wilson,Zintars G. Beldavs,John R. Dunn,L. Hannah Gould,Duncan MacCannell,Dale N. Gerding,Dale N. Gerding,L. Clifford McDonald,Fernanda C. Lessa +17 more
TL;DR: Most patients with community-associated CDI had recent outpatient health care exposure, and up to 36% would not be prevented by reduction of antibiotic use only, and the data support evaluation of additional strategies, including further examination of C difficile transmission in outpatient and household settings and reduction of proton pump inhibitor use.
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Runx1/AML1/Cbfa2 mediates onset of mesenchymal cell differentiation toward chondrogenesis.
TL;DR: Runx proteins mediate skeletal development and Runx1 induces mesenchymal stem cell commitment to the early stages of chondrogenesis through regulation by real‐time RT‐PCR and its function during chondrocyte differentiation using overexpression and RNA interference.
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Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections Among Patients on Chronic Dialysis in the United States, 2005–2011
Duc B. Nguyen,Fernanda C. Lessa,Ruth Belflower,Yi Mu,Matthew E. Wise,Joelle Nadle,Wendy Bamberg,Susan Petit,Susan M. Ray,Lee H. Harrison,Ruth Lynfield,Ghinwa Dumyati,Jamie Thompson,William Schaffner,Priti R. Patel +14 more
TL;DR: There has been a substantial decrease in invasive MRSA infection incidence among dialysis patients, suggesting that efforts to control MRSA in hospitals might have contributed to the declines.
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Risk Factors for Invasive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection after Recent Discharge from an Acute Care Hospitalization, 2011-2013
Lauren Epstein,Yi Mu,Ruth Belflower,Janine Scott,Susan M. Ray,Ghinwa Dumyati,Christina B Felsen,Susan Petit,Kimberly Yousey-Hindes,Joelle Nadle,Lauren Pasutti,Ruth Lynfield,Linn Warnke,William Schaffner,Karen Leib,Alexander J. Kallen,Scott K. Fridkin,Fernanda C. Lessa +17 more
TL;DR: Prevention efforts should target patients with MRSA colonization or those with invasive devices or chronic wounds at hospital discharge, and MRSA prevention efforts in nursing homes are warranted.