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2026

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Microbiology

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114
Citations
50592
World Ranking
203
National Ranking
94

Medicine

D-Index
117
Citations
51642
World Ranking
4205
National Ranking
2304

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award

Overview

Daniel J. Diekema is affiliated with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The researcher's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Infection Control in Healthcare
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Daniel J. Diekema has contributed to multiple publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • American Journal of Infection Control

Selected recent papers include:

  • Moving Personal Protective Equipment Into the Community, 2020, JAMA
  • Incidence and Outcomes Associated With Clostridium difficile Infections, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Principles of diagnostic stewardship: A practical guide from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Diagnostic Stewardship Task Force, 2023, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Advancing Diagnostic Stewardship for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antibiotic Resistance, and Sepsis, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Optimal Urine Culture Diagnostic Stewardship Practice-Results from an Expert Modified-Delphi Procedure, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases

Their frequent collaborators are:

  • Jorge Salinas
  • Takaaki Kobayashi
  • Alexandre R. Marra
  • Oluchi Abosi
  • Stephanie Holley

Best Publications

  • Epidemiology of Invasive Candidiasis: a Persistent Public Health Problem

    M. A. Pfaller;D. J. Diekema

  • Survey of Infections Due to Staphylococcus Species: Frequency of Occurrence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Isolates Collected in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and the Western Pacific Region for the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, 1997–1999

    D. J. Diekema;M. A. Pfaller;F. J. Schmitz;J. Smayevsky

  • Attributable Mortality of Nosocomial Candidemia, Revisited

    Olafur Gudlaugsson;Olafur Gudlaugsson;Shane Gillespie;Kathleen Lee;Jeff Vande Berg

  • Epidemiology of Invasive Mycoses in North America

    Michael A Pfaller;Daniel J Diekema

  • Results from the ARTEMIS DISK Global Antifungal Surveillance Study, 1997 to 2007: a 10.5-Year Analysis of Susceptibilities of Candida Species to Fluconazole and Voriconazole as Determined by CLSI Standardized Disk Diffusion

    M. A. Pfaller;D. J. Diekema;D. L. Gibbs;V. A. Newell

  • Rare and Emerging Opportunistic Fungal Pathogens: Concern for Resistance beyond Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus

    M. A. Pfaller;D. J. Diekema

  • International surveillance of bloodstream infections due to Candida species: frequency of occurrence and in vitro susceptibilities to fluconazole, ravuconazole, and voriconazole of isolates collected from 1997 through 1999 in the SENTRY antimicrobial surveillance program.

    M. A. Pfaller;D. J. Diekema;R. N. Jones;H. S. Sader

  • Twenty Years of the SENTRY Antifungal Surveillance Program: Results for Candida Species From 1997-2016.

    Michael A Pfaller;Daniel J Diekema;John D Turnidge;Mariana Castanheira

  • Antifungal Susceptibilities of Candida Species Causing Vulvovaginitis and Epidemiology of Recurrent Cases

    Sandra S. Richter;Rudolph P. Galask;Shawn A. Messer;Richard J. Hollis

  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Strain ST398 Is Present in Midwestern U.S. Swine and Swine Workers

    Tara C. Smith;Michael J. Male;Abby L. Harper;Jennifer S. Kroeger

  • The Microbiology of Bloodstream Infection: 20-Year Trends from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program

    Daniel J. Diekema;Po Ren Hsueh;Rodrigo E. Mendes;Michael A. Pfaller

  • Antimicrobial Resistance among Gram-Negative Bacilli Causing Infections in Intensive Care Unit Patients in the United States between 1993 and 2004

    Shawn R. Lockhart;Murray A. Abramson;Susan E. Beekmann;Gale Gallagher

  • Progress in Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Candida spp. by Use of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Broth Microdilution Methods, 2010 to 2012

    M. A. Pfaller;D. J. Diekema

  • Epidemiology of Candidemia: 3-Year Results from the Emerging Infections and the Epidemiology of Iowa Organisms Study

    D. J. Diekema;S. A. Messer;A. B. Brueggemann;S. L. Coffman

  • Twelve years of fluconazole in clinical practice: global trends in species distribution and fluconazole susceptibility of bloodstream isolates of Candida

    M.A. Pfaller;D.J. Diekema

  • Results from the ARTEMIS DISK Global Antifungal Surveillance Study, 1997 to 2007: 10.5-Year Analysis of Susceptibilities of Noncandidal Yeast Species to Fluconazole and Voriconazole Determined by CLSI Standardized Disk Diffusion Testing

    M. A. Pfaller;D. J. Diekema;D. L. Gibbs;V. A. Newell

  • In Vitro Susceptibility of Invasive Isolates of Candida spp. to Anidulafungin, Caspofungin, and Micafungin: Six Years of Global Surveillance

    M. A. Pfaller;L. Boyken;R. J. Hollis;J. Kroeger

  • Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events*

    Shelley S. Magill;Michael Klompas;Robert Balk;Robert Balk;Suzanne M. Burns;Suzanne M. Burns

  • Activities of caspofungin, itraconazole, posaconazole, ravuconazole, voriconazole, and amphotericin B against 448 recent clinical isolates of filamentous fungi

    D. J. Diekema;S. A. Messer;R. J. Hollis;R. N. Jones

  • Epidemiology and outcomes of candidemia in 3648 patients: data from the Prospective Antifungal Therapy (PATH Alliance®) registry, 2004–2008

    Michael Pfaller;Dionissios Neofytos;Daniel Diekema;Nkechi Azie

  • Effect of coinfection with GB virus C on survival among patients with HIV infection.

    Jinhua Xiang;Sabina Wünschmann;Daniel J. Diekema;Donna Klinzman

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Pfaller
Michael A. Pfaller JMI Laboratories
Shawn A. Messer
Shawn A. Messer Oregon Health & Science University
Richard J. Hollis
Richard J. Hollis University of Iowa
Michael B. Edmond
Michael B. Edmond University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Eli N. Perencevich
Eli N. Perencevich University of Iowa
Ronald N. Jones
Ronald N. Jones JMI Laboratories
Gary V. Doern
Gary V. Doern University of Iowa
Sandra S. Richter
Sandra S. Richter Cleveland Clinic
Marin H. Kollef
Marin H. Kollef Washington University in St. Louis
David R. Andes
David R. Andes University of Wisconsin–Madison

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