Tara C. Smith
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American epidemiologist and science communicator
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- PhD Microbiology University of Toledo
- Bachelors Biology University of Toledo
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Tara C. Smith is an American epidemiologist and science communicator. She is a professor at the Kent State University College of Public Health who studies zoonotic infections. Smith was the first to identify strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus associated with livestock in the United States.
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- Staphylococcus aureus CC398: Host Adaptation and Emergence of Methicillin Resistance in Livestock (2012) (782)
- Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcal Food-Borne Disease: An Ongoing Challenge in Public Health (2014) (618)
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Strain ST398 Is Present in Midwestern U.S. Swine and Swine Workers (2009) (461)
- Report from the American Society for Microbiology COVID-19 International Summit, 23 March 2020: Value of Diagnostic Testing for SARS–CoV-2/COVID-19 (2020) (305)
- The emergence of Staphylococcus aureus ST398. (2011) (220)
- Isolation and Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Pork Farms and Visiting Veterinary Students (2013) (157)
- Comparative effectiveness of beta-lactams versus vancomycin for treatment of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections among 122 hospitals. (2015) (157)
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pigs and Farm Workers on Conventional and Antibiotic-Free Swine Farms in the USA (2013) (154)
- Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy: A Review and Call to Action (2017) (153)
- MRSA in Conventional and Alternative Retail Pork Products (2012) (142)
- Livestock-Associated Staphylococcus aureus: The United States Experience (2015) (122)
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Transmission Dynamics Should Inform Policy (2020) (112)
- Swine Farming Is a Risk Factor for Infection With and High Prevalence of Carriage of Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (2015) (74)
- Advancing Science through Conversations: Bridging the Gap between Blogs and the Academy (2008) (74)
- Complexities in understanding antimicrobial resistance across domesticated animal, human, and environmental systems (2019) (74)
- Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus ST398, New York and New Jersey, USA (2012) (60)
- Critically important antibiotics: criteria and approaches for measuring and reducing their use in food animal agriculture (2019) (60)
- Human Infections with Staphylococcus aureus CC398 (2015) (55)
- Occupational Exposure to Streptococcus suis among US Swine Workers (2008) (48)
- Prevalence and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus in commercially available meat over a one-year period in Iowa, USA. (2017) (47)
- Whole-Genome Sequence of Livestock-Associated ST398 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Humans in Canada (2012) (46)
- Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (2010) (46)
- Emerging swine zoonoses. (2011) (41)
- Residential Proximity to Large Numbers of Swine in Feeding Operations Is Associated with Increased Risk of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization at Time of Hospital Admission in Rural Iowa Veterans (2014) (41)
- Phylogenetic Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus CC398 Reveals a Sub-Lineage Epidemiologically Associated with Infections in Horses (2014) (40)
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Central Iowa Wildlife (2012) (38)
- HIV Denial in the Internet Era (2007) (36)
- Staphylococcus aureus Epidemiology in Wildlife: A Systematic Review (2020) (36)
- An Overview of Livestock-Associated MRSA in Agriculture (2010) (30)
- Detection of Airborne Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Inside and Downwind of a Swine Building, and in Animal Feed: Potential Occupational, Animal Health, and Environmental Implications (2016) (29)
- Molecular epidemiology, genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from chicken and pig carcasses, and carcass handlers (2020) (27)
- Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) Isolates of Swine Origin Form Robust Biofilms (2013) (24)
- Detection of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among swine workers in Romania. (2014) (23)
- The UK needs a sustainable strategy for COVID-19 (2020) (22)
- Molecular and epidemiologic predictors of Staphylococcus aureus colonization site in a population with limited nosocomial exposure. (2012) (22)
- Prevalence and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus on Public Recreational Beaches in Northeast Ohio (2017) (22)
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pork Production Shower Facilities (2010) (20)
- High prevalence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin among methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus colonization isolates in rural Iowa. (2012) (19)
- Plasmid-borne vga(A)-encoding gene in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 recovered from swine and a swine farmer in the United States. (2011) (18)
- A Novel Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus t11469 and a Poultry Endemic Strain t002 (ST5) Are Present in Chicken in Ebonyi State, Nigeria (2017) (18)
- Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization and infection isolates in a Veterans Affairs hospital (2015) (18)
- Resistance to Zinc and Cadmium in Staphylococcus aureus of Human and Animal Origin (2014) (18)
- Whole-Genome Analysis of Recurrent Staphylococcus aureus t571/ST398 Infection in Farmer, Iowa, USA (2018) (16)
- Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Community Practice Before and After Implementing a “Best Practice” Approach: An Iowa Research Network (IRENE) Intervention Study (2011) (16)
- Ebola and Marburg Viruses (2010) (16)
- Molecular characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from employees, children, and environmental surfaces in Iowa child daycare facilities. (2015) (15)
- Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization in Healthy Adults Is more Common in Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal than Those Resettled in Ohio (2019) (15)
- Self-reported methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in USA pork producers. (2010) (15)
- Environmental contamination with Staphylococcus aureus at a large, Midwestern university campus. (2017) (15)
- On the path to untreatable infections: colistin use in agriculture and the end of ‘last resort’ antibiotics (2016) (14)
- Epidemiology of necrotizing infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes at an Iowa hospital. (2015) (14)
- Ebola's Message: Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century (2016) (14)
- Digging the rabbit hole, COVID-19 edition: anti-vaccine themes and the discourse around COVID-19 (2020) (14)
- Assessing the potential for raw meat to influence human colonization with Staphylococcus aureus (2017) (12)
- Staphylococcus aureus CC398: Host Adaptation and Emergence of Methicillin Resistance in Livestock (2013) (11)
- Zombie infections: epidemiology, treatment, and prevention (2015) (11)
- Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus in Childcare Worker (2011) (11)
- Antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2013) (11)
- Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus in Goose Feces from State Parks in Northeast Ohio (2017) (11)
- The nasal and oropharyngeal microbiomes of healthy livestock workers (2017) (11)
- Characterizing the molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus across and within fitness facility types (2019) (10)
- COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: We Need to Start Now (2021) (10)
- Regulation of protein H expression in M1 serotype isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes. (2003) (10)
- Recent Iowa Trends in Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths: The Importance of Public Health Collaboration With Medical Examiners’ Offices (2012) (9)
- Streptococcus pyogenes Infection in Mouse Skin Leads to a Time-Dependent Up-Regulation of Protein H Expression (2003) (9)
- Combating antibiotic resistance - A Policy Roadmap to Reduce Use of Medically Important Antibiotics in Livestock (2017) (8)
- Geographic distribution of livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus in the United States. (2018) (7)
- Equations of the End: Teaching Mathematical Modeling Using the Zombie Apocalypse † (2016) (7)
- Association between microbial characteristics and poor outcomes among patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia: a retrospective cohort study (2015) (7)
- Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S aureus on environmental surfaces in Ohio nursing homes. (2019) (6)
- Prevalence and Molecular Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-resistant S. aureus on Children’s Playgrounds (2019) (5)
- Comparison of livestock-associated and community-associated Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity in a mouse model of skin and soft tissue infection (2019) (5)
- Risk of nasal colonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus during preparation of contaminated retail pork meat (2020) (5)
- Prospective multicenter surveillance identifies Staphylococcus aureus infections caused by livestock-associated strains in an agricultural state. (2016) (4)
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention practices in hospitals throughout a rural state. (2014) (4)
- False Positives and Negatives Obtained with PCR-Based Identification of Staphylococcus aureus Clonal Complex 398 (2013) (4)
- Evaluation of the Filtration Efficiency of the N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator for Airborne Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (2014) (3)
- Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in market age pigs on-farm, at slaughter and retail pork (2011) (3)
- Pig Movement and Antimicrobial Use Drive Transmission of Livestock-Associated Staphylococcus aureus CC398 (2018) (3)
- Author Correction: Comparison of livestock-associated and community-associated Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity in a mouse model of skin and soft tissue infection (2019) (2)
- Ebola's Message (2016) (2)
- Longitudinal Case Series of Staphylococcus aureus Colonization and Infection in Two Cohorts of Rural Iowans. (2018) (2)
- Zoonotic Diseases of Swine: Food-borne and Occupational Aspects of Infection (2015) (2)
- Industrializing animals (2017) (1)
- Science Should Drive Vaccine Policy. (2019) (1)
- Ebola as a course: uniting basic sciences, public health and the humanities. (2015) (1)
- Primary care clinicians' perspectives on management of skin and soft tissue infections: an Iowa Research Network study. (2011) (1)
- Staphylococcus Aureus Colonization and Familial Transmission Over a One Year Period (2017) (1)
- Correction: Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) Isolates of Swine Origin Form Robust Biofilms (2013) (1)
- A Cross-Sectional Study of Staphylococcus Aureus Colonization and the Nasal and Oropharyngeal Microbiomes (2017) (1)
- The Oropharynx as a Distinct Colonization Site for staphylococcus aureus in the Community (2017) (1)
- Urban Christian School Teachers' Perceptions of the Incorporation of Research-Based Student Resilience-Building Practices in Urban Christian Schools (2015) (0)
- Streptococcus Group a (2004) (0)
- 230. Molecular Typing of Streptococcus pyogenes Isolates Collected at Mongolian Hospital (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) (2019) (0)
- Comparison of livestock-associated and community-associated Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity in a mouse model of skin and soft tissue infection (2019) (0)
- A Review of Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (2010) (0)
- Prevalence and molecular characterization of from human stool samples. (2018) (0)
- Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization and infection isolates in a Veterans Affairs hospital (2015) (0)
- The Presence of mecA and PVL Genes in Swine, Human, and Environmental Samples (2010) (0)
- Books also Received (2017) (0)
- Selective biological pressure and expression of S. pyogenes genes : Lessons from a mouse model of skin infection (2005) (0)
- Medicine in the Antibiotic Apocalypse (2017) (0)
- Human Infections with Staphylococcus aureus CC398 (2015) (0)
- MERS-CoV Leaves the Belfry (2014) (0)
- Epidemiology of Staphylococci collected from Boston-area wild rodents (2019) (0)
- Assessing the potential for raw meat to influence human colonization with Staphylococcus aureus (2017) (0)
- Bhutanese refugees resettled in Ohio show decreased diversity of coagulase-negative Staphylococci compared to refugees in Nepal. (2018) (0)
- 233. The Epidemiology, Genomics, and Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus in Northeast Ohio (2019) (0)
- Books also received (2015) (0)
- A Re-Assessment of the Suggested Virulence of a Specific Group B Streptococcus Sub-Serotype (2006) (0)
- Microbes and Evolution • edited by Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy (2013) (0)
- Association between microbial characteristics and poor outcomes among patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia: a retrospective cohort study (2015) (0)
- Vaccine Hesitancy and Denial: What Is It, and What Can We Do? (2019) (0)
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