Description of Research Expertise

microbial ecology; next-generation sequencing; respiratory tract microbiome; ventilator-associated infection; antimicrobial resistance; Clostridium difficile infection

Selected Publications

Colin D. Tkatch, MD; Emily Reesey, MS; Ryan Stetz, MS; Kevin Alby, PhD; Pam Tolomeo, MPH; Brendan J. Kelly, MD, MS: Colonic bacterial abundance and inflammation associated with Clostridioides difficile free toxin detection World Microbe Forum 2021 : 2021.

Richard-Greenblatt M, Ziegler MJ, Bromberg V, Huang E, Abdallah H, Tolomeo P, Lautenbach E, Glaser L, Kelly BJ.: Quantifying the Impact of Nasopharyngeal Specimen Quality on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Test Performance Open Forum Infect Dis 8 : ofab235,2021.

Rhee RL, Lu J, Bittinger K, Lee JJ, Mattei LM, Sreih AG, Chou S, Miner JJ, Cohen NA, Kelly BJ, Lee H, Grayson PC, Collman RG, Merkel PA.: Dynamic Changes in the Nasal Microbiome Associated with Disease Activity in Patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Arthritis Rheumatol : 2021.

Abdallah HO, Weingart MF, Fuller R, Pegues D, Fitzpatrick R, Kelly BJ.: Subglottic suction frequency and adverse ventilator-associated events during critical illness Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : 2021.

Richard-Greenblatt M, Ziegler MJ, Bromberg V, Huang E, Abdallah H, Tolomeo P, Lautenbach E, Glaser L, Kelly BJ.: Impact of Nasopharyngeal Specimen Quality on SARS-CoV-2 Test Sensitivity medRxiv : 2020.

Harrigan JL, Abdallah H, Clarke EL, Lautenbach E, Reesey E, Wernovsky M, Tolomeo P, Morawski Z, Jacob J, Grippi MA, Kelly BJ: Impact of respiratory Staphylococcus aureus abundance on risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia during long-term care Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) IDWEEK 2020 (Philadelphia, PA) : 2020.

Kelly BJ: Differential bacterial persistence in the human respiratory tract during mechanical ventilation Microbial Ecology and Evolution (MEE) Virtual 2020 : 2020.

Clarke EL, Lautenbach, E, Reesey E, Wernovsky M, Tolomeo P, Kelly BJ: Detection of respiratory Mycoplasmataceae during prolonged mechanical ventilation European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) 2020 (Paris, France) : 2020.

Clarke EL, Lautenbach E, Reesey E, Wernovsky M, Tolomeo P, Kelly BJ: Longitudinal microbiome analysis defines expected and aberrant antibiotic effects on the human respiratory microbiome European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) 2020 (Paris, France) : 2020.

Reesey E, Clarke EL, Lautenbach E, Wernovsky M, Tolomeo P, Kelly BJ: Impact of saponin-based host DNA depletion on respiratory resistome measures European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) 2020 (Paris, France) : 2020.

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