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Jose A. Vazquez is affiliated with Augusta University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases, as demonstrated by extensive work in the fields of medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their published work covers a variety of topics including antifungal resistance and susceptibility, fungal infections and studies, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, nail diseases and treatments, cystic fibrosis research advances, antibiotic use and resistance, and parasitic diseases research and treatment.

Frequent coauthors in Vazquez's research include Oliver A. Cornely, Peter G. Pappas, George R. Thompson, Bart Jan Kullberg, and Matteo Bassetti, reflecting a collaborative network within the infectious diseases research community.

Vazquez has contributed to several well-known publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, Radiopaedia.org, and the Journal of Fungi.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Vazquez include:

  • Identification of COVID-19 can be quicker through artificial intelligence framework using a mobile phone-based survey when cities and towns are under quarantine, 2020, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • EORTC/MSGERC Definitions of Invasive Fungal Diseases: Summary of Activities of the Intensive Care Unit Working Group, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Rezafungin versus caspofungin for treatment of candidaemia and invasive candidiasis (ReSTORE): a multicentre, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised phase 3 trial, 2022, The Lancet
  • Rezafungin Versus Caspofungin in a Phase 2, Randomized, Double-blind Study for the Treatment of Candidemia and Invasive Candidiasis: The STRIVE Trial, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Invasive Fungal Diseases in Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit (FUNDICU): 2024 consensus definitions from ESGCIP, EFISG, ESICM, ECMM, MSGERC, ISAC, and ISHAM, 2024, Intensive Care Medicine

Best Publications

  • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Peter G. Pappas;Carol A. Kauffman;David R. Andes;Cornelius J. Clancy

  • Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    J. Peter Donnelly;Sharon C. Chen;Carol A. Kauffman;William J. Steinbach

  • Candida glabrata: review of epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical disease with comparison to C. albicans

    Paul L. Fidel;Jose A. Vazquez;Jack D. Sobel

  • Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Peter G. Pappas;Carol A. Kauffman;David R. Andes;Cornelius J. Clancy

  • Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of the (1→3) β-D-Glucan Assay as an Aid to Diagnosis of Fungal Infections in Humans

    Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner;Barbara D. Alexander;Daniel H. Kett;Jose Antonio Vazquez

  • Micafungin versus Caspofungin for Treatment of Candidemia and Other Forms of Invasive Candidiasis

    Peter G. Pappas;Coleman M. F. Rotstein;Robert F. Betts;Marcio Nucci

  • Prospective Multicenter Surveillance Study of Funguria in Hospitalized Patients

    Carol A. Kauffman;José A. Vazquez;Jack D. Sobel;Harry A. Gallis

  • A Randomized and Blinded Multicenter Trial of High-Dose Fluconazole plus Placebo versus Fluconazole plus Amphotericin B as Therapy for Candidemia and Its Consequences in Nonneutropenic Subjects

    John H. Rex;John H. Rex;Peter G. Pappas;Adolf W. Karchmer;Jack Sobel

  • T2 Magnetic Resonance Assay for the Rapid Diagnosis of Candidemia in Whole Blood: A Clinical Trial

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Cornelius J. Clancy;Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner;Kevin W. Garey

  • Candiduria: A Randomized, Double-Blind Study of Treatment with Fluconazole and Placebo

    J. D. Sobel;C. A. Kauffman;D. McKinsey;M. Zervos

  • Plasmid-associated hemolysin and aggregation substance production contribute to virulence in experimental enterococcal endocarditis.

    J W Chow;L A Thal;M B Perri;J A Vazquez

  • Effect and Safety of Meropenem–Vaborbactam versus Best-Available Therapy in Patients with Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infections: The TANGO II Randomized Clinical Trial

    Richard G. Wunderink;Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis;Galia Rahav;Amy J. Mathers

  • Identification of COVID-19 can be quicker through artificial intelligence framework using a mobile phone-based survey when cities and towns are under quarantine.

    Arni S R Srinivasa Rao;Jose A Vazquez

  • Effect of Meropenem-Vaborbactam vs Piperacillin-Tazobactam on Clinical Cure or Improvement and Microbial Eradication in Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: The TANGO I Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Keith S. Kaye;Tanaya Bhowmick;Symeon Metallidis;Susan C. Bleasdale

  • Efficacy and Safety of Weekly Dalbavancin Therapy for Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection Caused by Gram-Positive Pathogens

    Issam Raad;Rabih Darouiche;Jose Vazquez;Arnold Lentnek

  • Multiechinocandin- and multiazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis isolates serially obtained during therapy for prosthetic valve endocarditis.

    Varsha Moudgal;Tania Little;Dina Boikov;Jose A. Vazquez

  • Efficacy and safety of ceftazidime–avibactam versus imipenem–cilastatin in the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections, including acute pyelonephritis, in hospitalized adults: results of a prospective, investigator-blinded, randomized study

    Jose Antonio Vazquez;Luis Demetrio González Patzán;David Stricklin;Dipesh D. Duttaroy

  • Anidulafungin: A Novel Echinocandin

    Jose A. Vazquez;Jack D. Sobel

  • EORTC/MSGERC Definitions of Invasive Fungal Diseases: Summary of Activities of the Intensive Care Unit Working Group

    Matteo Bassetti;Elie Azoulay;Bart Jan Kullberg;Markus Ruhnke

  • International, open-label, noncomparative, clinical trial of micafungin alone and in combination for treatment of newly diagnosed and refractory candidemia

    L. Ostrosky-Zeichner;Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis;J. Raffalli;K. M. Mullane

  • Micafungin versus caspofungin for treatment of candidemia and other forms of invasive candidiasis (Clinical Infectious Diseases (2007) 45, (883-893))

    P. G. Pappas;C. M.F. Rotstein;R. F. Betts;M. Nucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack D. Sobel
Jack D. Sobel Wayne State University
Peter G. Pappas
Peter G. Pappas University of Alabama at Birmingham
Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner
Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Marcus J. Zervos
Marcus J. Zervos Wayne State University
Carol A. Kauffman
Carol A. Kauffman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cornelius J. Clancy
Cornelius J. Clancy University of Pittsburgh
John H. Rex
John H. Rex The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Matteo Bassetti
Matteo Bassetti University of Genoa
Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis
Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Oliver A. Cornely
Oliver A. Cornely University of Cologne

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