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Overview

David N. Fredricks is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research contributions span mainly the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a focus on subfields such as Microbiology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Rheumatology, and Physiology.

Their work covers various topics including:

  • Reproductive tract infections research
  • Urinary Tract Infections Management
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Pelvic floor disorders treatments
  • Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David N. Fredricks include Sujatha Srinivasan, Tina L. Fiedler, Sean Proll, Congzhou Liu, and Noah G. Hoffman.

They have published predominantly in venues such as:

  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some recent notable papers authored or coauthored by David N. Fredricks are:

  • Complementing 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing with Total Bacterial Load To Infer Absolute Species Concentrations in the Vaginal Microbiome (2020, mSystems)
  • COVID-19-Lessons Learned and Questions Remaining (2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Urethral Microbiota in Men: Association of Haemophilus influenzae and Mycoplasma penetrans With Nongonococcal Urethritis (2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Association between postmenopausal vulvovaginal discomfort, vaginal microbiota, and mucosal inflammation (2021, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology)
  • Diagnosis of infectious diseases in immunocompromised hosts using metagenomic next generation sequencing-based diagnostics (2021, Blood Reviews)

Best Publications

  • Molecular Identification of Bacteria Associated with Bacterial Vaginosis

    David N. Fredricks;Tina L. Fiedler;Jeanne M. Marrazzo

  • Sequence-based identification of microbial pathogens: a reconsideration of Koch's postulates.

    D N Fredericks;D A Relman

  • Bacterial Communities in Women with Bacterial Vaginosis: High Resolution Phylogenetic Analyses Reveal Relationships of Microbiota to Clinical Criteria

    Sujatha Srinivasan;Noah G. Hoffman;Martin T. Morgan;Frederick A. Matsen

  • Isavuconazole Treatment for Mucormycosis: A Single-Arm Open-Label Trial and Case-Control Analysis

    Francisco M. Marty;Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner;Oliver A. Cornely;Kathleen M. Mullane

  • Randomized, Placebo-controlled Phase 2 Trial of a Lactobacillus crispatus Probiotic Given Intravaginally for Prevention of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection

    Ann E. Stapleton;Melissa Au-Yeung;Thomas M. Hooton;David N. Fredricks

  • Temporal Variability of Human Vaginal Bacteria and Relationship with Bacterial Vaginosis

    Sujatha Srinivasan;Congzhou Liu;Caroline M. Mitchell;Tina L. Fiedler

  • Targeted PCR for Detection of Vaginal Bacteria Associated with Bacterial Vaginosis

    David N. Fredricks;Tina L. Fiedler;Katherine K. Thomas;Brian B. Oakley

  • Breakthrough Fungal Infections in Stem Cell Transplant Recipients Receiving Voriconazole

    Alexander Imhof;S. Arunmozhi Balajee;David N. Fredricks;David N. Fredricks;Janet A. Englund;Janet A. Englund

  • Colonization of the upper genital tract by vaginal bacterial species in nonpregnant women.

    Caroline M. Mitchell;Anoria Haick;Evangelyn Nkwopara;Rochelle Garcia

  • Aspergillus Galactomannan Enzyme Immunoassay and Quantitative PCR for Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis with Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid

    Benjamin Musher;David Fredricks;David Fredricks;Wendy Leisenring;Wendy Leisenring;S. Arunmozhi Balajee

  • Comparison of Six DNA Extraction Methods for Recovery of Fungal DNA as Assessed by Quantitative PCR

    David N. Fredricks;Caitlin Smith;Amalia Meier

  • The human vaginal bacterial biota and bacterial vaginosis.

    Sujatha Srinivasan;David N. Fredricks;David N. Fredricks

  • Diversity of human vaginal bacterial communities and associations with clinically defined bacterial vaginosis.

    Brian B. Oakley;Tina L. Fiedler;Jeanne M. Marrazzo;David N. Fredricks

  • The Deferasirox–AmBisome Therapy for Mucormycosis (DEFEAT Mucor) study: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial

    Brad Spellberg;Ashraf S. Ibrahim;Peter V. Chin-Hong;Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis

  • Application of polymerase chain reaction to the diagnosis of infectious diseases.

    David N. Fredricks;David A. Relman

  • Microbial ecology of human skin in health and disease

    David N. Fredricks

  • Metabolic Signatures of Bacterial Vaginosis

    Sujatha Srinivasan;Martin T. Morgan;Tina L. Fiedler;Danijel Djukovic

  • Diagnosis and Monitoring of Whipple Disease by Polymerase Chain Reaction

    Nizar N. Ramzan;Edward Loftus;Lawrence J. Burgart;Michele Rooney

  • Evaluation of the association between the concentrations of key vaginal bacteria and the increased risk of HIV acquisition in African women from five cohorts: a nested case-control study.

    R Scott McClelland;Jairam R Lingappa;Sujatha Srinivasan;John Kinuthia

  • Brief communication: fatal human metapneumovirus infection in stem-cell transplant recipients.

    Janet A Englund;Michael Boeckh;Jane Kuypers;W Garrett Nichols

  • Improved Amplification of Microbial DNA from Blood Cultures by Removal of the PCR Inhibitor Sodium Polyanetholesulfonate

    David N. Fredricks;David A. Relman;David A. Relman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanne M. Marrazzo
Jeanne M. Marrazzo National Institutes of Health
Michael Boeckh
Michael Boeckh Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
David A. Relman
David A. Relman Stanford University
R. Scott McClelland
R. Scott McClelland University of Washington
Barbra A. Richardson
Barbra A. Richardson University of Washington
Sean Proll
Sean Proll University of Washington
Robert C. Hackman
Robert C. Hackman University of Washington School of Medicine
Joshua Kimani
Joshua Kimani University of Manitoba
Jane R. Schwebke
Jane R. Schwebke University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jane Kuypers
Jane Kuypers University of Washington

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