State Epidemiologist and Medical Director, Minnesota Department of Health
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Ruth Lynfield, MD is an expert in the field of Pediatric Infectious Disease. She went to medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University is ranked 18 in research and 49 in primary care medicine She received awards:"Fellow (FAAP)" and "Fellow". Doctor Ruth Lynfield, MD is a published doctor as well. She has 32 publications published. The latest was: Effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease in children in the USA: a matched case-control study.
Publications
- Effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease in children in the USA: a matched case-control study.
- Prevention of antibiotic-nonsusceptible invasive pneumococcal disease with the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
- Live animal markets in Minnesota: a potential source for emergence of novel influenza A viruses and interspecies transmission.
- Effect of use of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children on invasive pneumococcal disease in children and adults in the USA: analysis of multisite, popula...
- Epidemiology of infant meningococcal disease in the United States, 2006-2012.
- Prevalence of antimicrobial use in US acute care hospitals, May-September 2011.
- Outbreak of Trichinella spiralis infections associated with a wild boar hunted at a game farm in Iowa.
- Comparing clinical characteristics between hospitalized adults with laboratory-confirmed influenza A and B virus infection.
- Complications Among Adults Hospitalized With Influenza: A Comparison of Seasonal Influenza and the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic.
- An Outbreak of Measles in an Undervaccinated Community.
- Variant Influenza Associated with Live Animal Markets, Minnesota.
- Establishing surveillance for carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in Minnesota, 2012.
- Can we conquer coqueluche?
- Thirty-day laboratory-based surveillance for carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in the minneapolis-st. Paul metropolitan area.
- Early-onset group B streptococcal disease in the United States: potential for further reduction.
- Child, Household, and Caregiver Characteristics Associated with Hospitalization for Influenza among Children 6-59 Months of Age: An Emerging Infections Program Study.
- Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections.
- The Burden of Influenza Hospitalizations in Infants from 2003- 2012, United States.
- National Burden of Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections, United States, 2011.
- Heavy alcohol use as a risk factor for severe outcomes among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza, 2005-2012.
- Geographic and Temporal Trends in Antimicrobial Nonsusceptibility in Streptococcus pneumoniae in the Post-vaccine era in the United States.
- Foodborne outbreak of group a streptococcus pharyngitis associated with a high school dance team banquet--Minnesota, 2012.
- Trends in Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-positive K. pneumoniae in US hospitals: report from the 2007-2009 SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program.
- Sequence analysis of in vivo defective-interfering (DI)-like RNA of influenza A H1N1 pandemic virus.
- Serotype IV and invasive group B Streptococcus disease in neonates, Minnesota, USA, 2000-2010.
- The Association between Serum Biomarkers and Disease Outcome in Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Virus Infection: Results of Two International Observational Cohort Studies.
- Satisfaction and Public Health Cost of a Statewide Influenza Nurse Triage Line in Response to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza.
- Neuraminidase H275Y and hemagglutinin D222G mutations in a fatal case of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection.
- Emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis in North America.
- Geotemporal Analysis ofNeisseria meningitidis Clones in the United States: 2000-2005.
- Outcomes of Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Virus Infection: Results from Two International Cohort Studies.
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Weill Cornell Medical College
Massachusetts General Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
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