Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Dr. Pranita D. Tamma, MD
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Pranita Tamma is an expert in the field of Pediatric Infectious Disease. She researched medicine at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine. Pranita Tamma is also published. She has 43 publications published. The lastest publication: "Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter Complications in Children Receiving Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT).'
Publications
- The Prevalence and Molecular Epidemiology of Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Colonization in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
- Prescribing Ceftolozane/Tazobactam for Pediatric Patients: Current Status and Future Implications.
- Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter Complications in Children Receiving Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT).
- Impact of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile Colonization on the Risk of Subsequent C. difficile Infection in Intensive Care Unit Patients.
- Infection control implications of heterogeneous resistance mechanisms in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).
- Carbapenem Therapy Is Associated With Improved Survival Compared With Piperacillin-Tazobactam for Patients With Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Bacteremia.
- Outpatient Antibiotic Therapy for Acute Osteomyelitis in Children: Balancing Safety and Efficacy.
- Reply to Nguyen et al.
- Optimizing therapy for vancomycin-resistant enterococcal bacteremia in children.
- Let the games begin: the race to optimise antibiotic use.
- The Prediction of Complicated Clostridium difficile Infections in Children.
- Determining the Optimal Ceftriaxone MIC for Triggering Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Confirmatory Testing.
- Antimicrobial stewardship: another focus for patient safety?
- Antibiotic Susceptibility of Common Pediatric Uropathogens in the United States.
- Empiric Combination Therapy for Gram-Negative Bacteremia.
- Pediatric Antimicrobial Susceptibility Trends across the United States.
- Predictors of First Recurrence of Clostridium difficile Infections in Children.
- Can Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) Enhance Antimicrobial Stewardship Efforts in the Acute Care Setting?
- Distinguishing community-associated from hospital-associated Clostridium difficile infections in children: Implications for public health surveillance.
- Less Is More: Combination Antibiotic Therapy for the Treatment of Gram-Negative Bacteremia in Pediatric Patients.
- Risk factors for persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in children with multiple intensive care unit admissions.
- Sustained savings from a longitudinal cost analysis of an internet-based preapproval antimicrobial stewardship program.
- Outcomes of Children with Enterobacteriaceae Bacteremia with Reduced Susceptibility to Ceftriaxone: Do the Revised Breakpoints Translate to Improved Patient Outcomes?
- The use of intravenous colistin among children in the United States: results from a multicenter, case series.
- Clostridium difficile Infection in Children: Current State and Unanswered Questions.
- An outbreak of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal intensive care unit.
- Does prolonged β-lactam infusions improve clinical outcomes compared to intermittent infusions? A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized, controlled trials.
- Behavior Outbursts, Orofacial Dyskinesias, and CSF Pleocytosis in a Healthy Child.
- Ventilator-associated tracheitis in children: does antibiotic duration matter?
- Extended-interval aminoglycoside dosing in pediatrics.
- Prolonged β-lactam infusion for Gram-negative Infections.
- Chlorhexidine use in the neonatal intensive care unit: results from a national survey.
- Safety of influenza vaccination during pregnancy.
- Use of colistin in children.
- Clinical outcomes of seasonal influenza and pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in pediatric inpatients.
- Influenza infection and vaccination in pregnant women.
- Index of suspicion, case 1: hemoptysis, dyspnea, and hematuria, case 2: rash and headache in a wrestler, case 3: abdominal distention in a teenage girl.
- Viridans streptococcal meningitis following penetrating cervical injury.
- The galactomannan antigen assay.
- D-dimer for the diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in children.
- Analysis of the optimal cut-point for HIV-p24 antigen testing to diagnose HIV infection in HIV-exposed children from resource-constrained settings.
- Vaccines in immunocompromised patients.
Schools
Suny Downstate Medical Center
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
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