Assistant Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Pathology

John Branda works in the field of Pathology. He researched medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical university. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care John Branda is a published MD as well. He has 36 publications published. The latest was: Poor Positive Predictive Value of Lyme Disease Serologic Testing in an Area of Low Disease Incidence.

Publications

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• Poor Positive Predictive Value of Lyme Disease Serologic Testing in an Area of Low Disease Incidence.
• The practice of clinical pathology: a quantitative description of laboratory director activities at a large academic medical center.
• Multicenter validation of the VITEK MS v2.0 MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry system for the identification of fastidious gram-negative bacteria.
• Reply to "risks of 'blind' automated identification systems in medical microbiology".
• Performance of the Vitek MS v2.0 System in Distinguishing Streptococcus pneumoniae from Nonpneumococcal Species of the Streptococcus mitis Group.
• Multi-center evaluation of the VITEK® MS system for mass spectrometric identification of non-Enterobacteriaceae Gram-negative bacilli.
• Utilization Management in Microbiology.
• Comparative Cost Effectiveness of Two-Tiered Testing Strategies for the Serodiagnosis of Lyme Disease with Non-Cutaneous Manifestations.
• Identification of Enterobacteriaceae by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry using the VITEK MS system.
• Multi-centre evaluation of mass spectrometric identification of anaerobic bacteria using the VITEK(®) MS system.
• Multi-Center Study Evaluating the VITEK MS for Identification of Medically Important Yeasts.
• Multicenter evaluation of the VITEK MS MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry system for the identification of gram-positive aerobic bacteria.
• Performance of United States Serologic Assays in the Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis Acquired in Europe.
• Growth detection failures by the non-radiometric BACTEC MGIT 960 mycobacterial culture system.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 38-2011. A 34-year-old man with diarrhea and weakness.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 27-2011. A 17-year-old boy with abdominal pain and weight loss.
• Two-Tiered Antibody Testing for Lyme Disease With Use of 2 Enzyme Immunoassays, a Whole-Cell Sonicate Enzyme Immunoassay Followed by a VlsE C6 Peptide Enzyme Immunoassay.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 35-2010. A 56-year-old man with cough, hypoxemia, and rash.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 33-2010. A 22-year-old woman with blurred vision and renal failure.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 31-2010. A 29-year-old woman with fever after a cat bite.
• 2-tiered antibody testing for early and late Lyme disease using only an immunoglobulin G blot with the addition of a VlsE band as the second-tier test.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 40-2009. A 29-year-old man with Fever and respiratory failure.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 35-2009. A 60-year-old male renal-transplant recipient with renal insufficiency, diabetic ketoacidosis, and me...
• False-negative results obtained with the Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test caused by unrecognized inhibition of the amplification reaction.
• Cord formation in a clinical isolate of Mycobacterium marinum.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 22-2008. A 52-year-old woman with fever and confusion.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 11-2008. A 45-year-old man with changes in mental status after liver transplantation.
• Sensitivity of peripheral blood smear review for the diagnosis of Candida fungemia.
• Response to the editorial commentary "clinical importance of adequately performed stool ova and parasite examinations".
• Effects of yeast on automated cell counting.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 12-2006. A 37-year-old man with hemoptysis and a pulmonary infiltrate.
• A rational approach to the stool ova and parasite examination.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 39-2005. A 63-year-old woman with a positive serologic test for syphilis and persistent eosinophilia.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 10-2005. A 73-year-old man with weakness and pain in the legs.
• Bioterrorism. Clinical recognition and primary management.

Schools

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• Harvard Medical School

• Massachusetts General Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Clinical Pathology
• Pathology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Harvard Medical School

Hospital

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• Massachusetts General Hospital

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