Medical Director of Healthcare Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Control, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Infectious Disease
Dr. David A. Pegues, MD
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David Pegues practices Infectious Disease. He graduated from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine has a rank of 10 in research and a 19 in primary care He received 2 awards: "Super Doctor" and "Top MD". David Pegues has written publications. He has 69 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Are high-velocity tricuspid and pulmonary regurgitation endocarditis risk substrates?' Doctor David A. Pegues, MD is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Search, Destroy, and Confirm: How to Maximize the Benefit and Reduce the Unintended Consequences of Contact Precautions for Control of MRSA.
- Responses to Islam, Grinsdale, Bristow and Higashi, and to Mendy, Albatineh, Vieira, and Gasana.
- The Bristol Stool Scale and Its Relationship to Clostridium difficile Infection.
- Translating and scaling the HHS Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-associated Infections to the local level: experience of a Los Angeles Health System.
- Performance of QuantiFERON(R)-TB Gold and Tuberculin Skin Test Relative to Subjects' Risk of Exposure to Tuberculosis.
- Discord among performance measures for central line-associated bloodstream infection.
- Epstein-Barr virus-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in Los Angeles County.
- Reduction of surgical site infections in low transverse cesarean section at a university hospital.
- Daptomycin nonsusceptible enterococci: an emerging challenge for clinicians.
- Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis masquerading as Wegener granulomatosis.
- Use of hearts transplanted from donors with severe sepsis and infectious deaths.
- A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals.
- Rapid screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) did not reduce MRSA acquisition rate.
- Bartonella endocarditis in complex congenital heart disease.
- Improving and enforcing compounding pharmacy practices to protect patients.
- Corynebacterium jeikeium sepsis after 8-methoxypsolaren photopheresis for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
- Ocular vaccinia following exposure to a smallpox vaccinee.
- Building better programs to prevent transmission of blood-borne pathogens to healthcare personnel: progress in the workplace, but still no end in sight.
- Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary cryptococcal granulomas.
- Mycobacterium abscessus empyema in a lung transplant recipient.
- Cluster of cases of invasive aspergillosis in a transplant intensive care unit: evidence of person-to-person airborne transmission.
- Molecular correlation for the treatment outcomes in bloodstream infections caused by Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae with reduced susceptibility to ceftazid...
- Laboratory-based surveillance for vancomycin-resistant enterococci: utility of screening stool specimens submitted for Clostridium difficile toxin assay.
- Outbreak of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia in allogenic bone marrow transplant patients: role of severe neutropenia and mucositis.
- Bacteria and endotoxin removal from bicarbonate dialysis fluids for use in conventional, high-efficiency, and high-flux hemodialysis.
- Are high-velocity tricuspid and pulmonary regurgitation endocarditis risk substrates?
- Something's rotten: a nosocomial outbreak of malodorous Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- The epidemiology of resistance to ofloxacin and oxacillin among clinical coagulase-negative staphylococcal isolates: analysis of risk factors and strain types.
- Emergence and dissemination of a highly vancomycin-resistant vanA strain of Enterococcus faecium at a large teaching hospital.
- Administrative controls for TB: "keep doing what you've always done, and you'll get what you always got".
- Transcriptional activation of Salmonella typhimurium invasion genes by a member of the phosphorylated response-regulator superfamily.
- Implementation and evaluation of an algorithm for isolation of patients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Burkholderia cepacia respiratory tract acquisition: epidemiology and molecular characterization of a large nosocomial outbreak.
- Elevated blood lead levels associated with illegally distilled alcohol.
- An outbreak of acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis in a nursing home.
- Cluster of Enterobacter cloacae pseudobacteremias associated with use of an agar slant blood culturing system.
- Prevalence of illicit drugs detected in the urine of women of childbearing age in Alabama public health clinics.
- Epidemic gram-negative bacteremia in a neonatal intensive care unit in Guatemala.
- Infectious complications associated with temporary epidural catheters.
- Postoperative infections traced to contamination of an intravenous anesthetic, propofol.
- Immune response to intramuscular revaccination after primary intradermal vaccination against hepatitis B.
- Outbreak of Pseudomonas cepacia bacteremia in oncology patients.
- Possible nosocomial transmission of Pseudomonas cepacia in patients with cystic fibrosis.
- Acquisition of Pseudomonas cepacia at summer camps for patients with cystic fibrosis. Summer Camp Study Group.
- PhoP/PhoQ transcriptional repression of Salmonella typhimurium invasion genes: evidence for a role in protein secretion.
- Use of decline in D-xylose absorption to predict infection following intensive chemotherapy.
- Campylobacter infections: the emerging national pattern.
- Serratia marcescens surgical wound infection following breast reconstruction.
- Comparison of infections in Hickman and implanted port catheters in adult solid tumor patients.
- Anaphylactoid reactions associated with reuse of hollow-fiber hemodialyzers and ACE inhibitors.
- A prospective study of pyrogenic reactions in hemodialysis patients using bicarbonate dialysis fluids filtered to remove bacteria and endotoxin.
- Outcomes of colonization with MRSA and VRE among liver transplant candidates and recipients.
- Use of quantitative antibiogram analysis to determine the clonality of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species from blood culture.
- Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a home health-care patient.
- Mycobacterium haemophilum infections in heart transplant recipients: case report and review of the literature.
- Nosocomial enterobacter meningitis: risk factors, management, and treatment outcomes.
- Utility of oral valganciclovir for the treatment of cytomegalovirus disease after renal transplantation.
- Diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis by antigen detection using cross-reaction with a Histoplasma antigen.
- Transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis via lung transplantation.
- Infection following deep brain stimulator implantation performed in the conventional versus magnetic resonance imaging-equipped operating room.
- Diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis with use of the Coccidioides antigen enzyme immunoassay.
- Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections 2009.
Schools
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med
Temple University Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Temple University Hospital -
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1881614048 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | PEGUES | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DAVID | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 19104 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Infectious Disease | |
| Total Claim Count | 16.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1881614048 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | PEGUES |
| First Name Of The Provider | DAVID |
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