Publications

Recent fellows’ oral and poster presentations

Impact of Stopping Asymptomatic SARS-Co-V-2 Admission Testing: An Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model Analysis at Stanford Healthcare, 2023.
G Rodriguez-Nava, LS Tompkins, K McIntyre, B Bohman, J Salinas.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 10 (Supplement_2), ofad500. 1931.

Interactive Dashboards for Improved Tracking and Communication of CLABSI Prevention Efforts
G Rodriguez-Nava, J Shepard, K McIntyre, LS Tompkins, J Salinas
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 10 (Supplement_2), ofad500. 2099

Exploring the Seasonality of COVID-19 with Machine Learning: A Distinct Bimodal Pattern?
G Rodriguez-Nava, LS Tompkins, K McIntyre, B Bohman, J Salinas
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 10 (Supplement_2), ofad500. 1930

Monkeypox viral detection from different body sites. Northern California, June–July 2022
K Srinivasan, DY Yuk-Wai Ho, CA Contag, P Grant, A Karan, B Pinsky, J Salinas
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 9 (Supplement_2), ofac492. 1865

Lack of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from a Healthcare Worker to a Cohort of Immunosuppressed Patients during the Omicron Surge, California, 2022
A Karan, J Ferguson, J Salinas
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 9 (Supplement_2), ofac492. 1547 

Use of a SARS-CoV-2 Strand-specific Assay to detect Relapse or Ongoing Infection at a Tertiary Care Center, California 2020–2022
GA Contreras Anez, J Ferguson, CA Contag, LS Tompkins, J Shepard, A Rosenthal, A Subramanian, BA Pinsky, J Salinas
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 9 (Supplement_2), ofac492. 089

Use of a SARS-CoV-2 Strand-specific Assay to evaluate for Prolonged Viral Replication among Hospitalized Patients. Tertiary Care Center, California 2020–2022
J Ferguson, GA Contreras Anez, LS Tompkins, J Shepard, A Rosenthal, A Subramanian, BA Pinsky, J Salinas.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 9 (Supplement_2), ofac492. 1554

Assessment of ventilation in low-resource healthcare settings: Montserrado County, Liberia—2022− 2023.
K Srinivasan, R Arthur, A Styczynski, E Bell, T Baer, J Salinas
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 3 (S2), s12-s12

Trajectories of SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding among admitted patients at a tertiary-care center in California, 2020–2022. 
R Tayyar, M Kiener, J Ferguson, JW Liang, GC Anez, GR Nava, B Pinsky, J Salinas
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 3 (S2), s76-s76 

Low infectivity among asymptomatic patients with a positive SARS-CoV-2 admission test at a tertiary care center, 2020–2022.
R Tayyar, M Kiener, J Liang, GC Anez, GR Nava, A Zimmet, CA Contag, B Pinsky, J Salinas
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology Spring Meeting

Recent fellow publications

Low infectivity among asymptomatic patients with a positive severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) admission test at a tertiary care center, 2020-2022.
Tayyar R, Kiener MA, Liang JW, Contreras G, Rodriguez-Nava G, Zimmet AN, Contag CA, Srinivasan K, McIntyre K, Subramanian A, Shepard J, Tompkins LS, Pinsky BA, Salinas JL.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Feb;45(2):241-243.

A deep-learning algorithm to classify skin lesions from mpox virus infection.
Thieme AH, Zheng Y, Machiraju G, Sadee C, Mittermaier M, Gertler M, Salinas JL, Srinivasan K, Gyawali P, Carrillo-Perez F, Capodici A, Uhlig M, Habenicht D, Löser A, Kohler M, Schuessler M, Kaul D, Gollrad J, Ma J, Lippert C, Billick K, Bogoch I, Hernandez-Boussard T, Geldsetzer P, Gevaert O.Nat Med. 2023 Mar;29(3):738-747. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02225-7.  

Case Report: Mpox – Not Just a Rash.
Contag CA, Karan A, Studemeister L, Bansil R, Fong I, Srinivasan K, Salinas JL, Narasimhan S, Cooper JD, Sahni H. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023 Jan 30;108(3):592-594. 

Human Monkeypox without Viral Prodrome or Sexual Exposure, California, USA, 2022.
Karan A, Styczynski AR, Huang C, Sahoo MK, Srinivasan K, Pinsky BA, Salinas JL.Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Oct;28(10):2121-2123.

Diagnostic Stewardship: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Blood Collection Diversion Devices Used to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination and Improve the Accuracy of Diagnosis in Clinical Settings.
Callado GY, Lin V, Thottacherry E, Marins TA, Martino MDV, Salinas JL, Marra AR.Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Aug 11;10(9):ofad433.

Hospitalization risk among patients with Mpox infection-a propensity score matched analysis.
Henao-Martínez AF, Orkin CM, Titanji BK, Rodriguez-Morales AJ, Salinas JL, Franco-Paredes C, Tuells J, Chastain DB.Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2023 Aug 30;10:20499361231196683.

Use of a severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) strand-specific assay to evaluate for prolonged viral replication >20 days from illness onset.
Ferguson JD, Tayyar R, Contreras G, Kiener M, Zimmet AN, Contag CA, Rodriguez Nava G, Tompkins LS, Shepard J, Rosenthal A, Subramanian AK, Pinsky BA, Salinas JL. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Dec;44(12):2078-2080.

Photo Quiz: A 50-Year Old Man with Fever and Headache.
Zimmet AN, Mah JK, Budvytiene I, Banaei N, Salinas JL. J Clin Microbiol. 2023 Jun 20;61(6):e0172522.

Reconsidering the routine use of contact precautions in preventing the transmission of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in healthcare settings.
Rodriguez-Nava G, Diekema DJ, Salinas JL. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Jun;44(6):1035-1037. 

Retrospective Screening of Clinical Samples for Monkeypox Virus DNA, California, USA, 2022.
Contag CA, Lu J, Renfro ZT, Karan A, Salinas JL, Khan M, Solis D, Sahoo MK, Yamamoto F, Pinsky BA.Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Apr;29(4):848-850. 

A deep-learning algorithm to classify skin lesions from mpox virus infection.
Thieme AH, Zheng Y, Machiraju G, Sadee C, Mittermaier M, Gertler M, Salinas JL, Srinivasan K, Gyawali P, Carrillo-Perez F, Capodici A, Uhlig M, Habenicht D, Löser A, Kohler M, Schuessler M, Kaul D, Gollrad J, Ma J, Lippert C, Billick K, Bogoch I, Hernandez-Boussard T, Geldsetzer P, Gevaert O.Nat Med. 2023 Mar;29(3):738-747. 

Pediatric surgical site infections in 287 hospitals in the United States, 2015-2018.
Mathew R, Salinas JL, Hsu HE, Jin R, Rhee C, Lee GM.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Jun;44(6):968-970.  

Lack of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission from a healthcare worker to a cohort of immunosuppressed patients during the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant surge, California, 2022.
Karan A, Ferguson J, Salinas JL. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Jan;44(1):156-157.