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L. Clifford McDonald is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases, with a significant body of work in epidemiology and applied microbiology and biotechnology. Specific subfields include clinical biochemistry and critical care and intensive care medicine.

Their research concentrates on several main topics including:

  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU

McDonald has published extensively in medical and infectious disease journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "Trends in U.S. Burden of Clostridioides difficile Infection and Outcomes," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections in U.S. Hospitalized Patients, 2012-2017," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Summary of Guidance for Public Health Strategies to Address High Levels of Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Related Deaths, December 2020," 2020, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • "SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Assay Needs for the Next Phase of the US COVID-19 Pandemic Response," 2020, Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • "Performance Evaluation of Serial SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing During a Nursing Home Outbreak," 2021, Annals of Internal Medicine

McDonald collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Preeta K. Kutty
  • Natalie J. Thornburg
  • Alison Laufer Halpin
  • Alice Guh
  • Sujan Reddy

Best Publications

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010 Update by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

    Stuart H. Cohen;Dale N. Gerding;Stuart Johnson;Ciaran P. Kelly

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

    L Clifford McDonald;Dale N Gerding;Stuart Johnson;Stuart Johnson;Johan S Bakken

  • Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States

    Fernanda C. Lessa;Yi Mu;Wendy M. Bamberg;Zintars G. Beldavs

  • An epidemic, toxin gene-variant strain of Clostridium difficile.

    L. Clifford McDonald;George E. Killgore;Angela Thompson;Robert C. Owens

  • Toxin production by an emerging strain of Clostridium difficile associated with outbreaks of severe disease in North America and Europe

    Michel Warny;Jacques Pepin;Aiqi Fang;George Killgore

  • Clostridium difficile infection in patients discharged from US short-stay hospitals, 1996-2003.

    L. Clifford McDonald;Maria Owings;Daniel B. Jernigan

  • Recommendations for Surveillance of Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease

    L. Clifford McDonald;Bruno Coignard;Erik Dubberke;Xiaoyan Song

  • Changes in the Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Intensive Care Units in US Hospitals, 1992–2003

    R. Monina Klevens;Jonathan R. Edwards;Fred C. Tenover;L. Clifford McDonald

  • Trends in U.S. Burden of Clostridioides difficile Infection and Outcomes.

    Alice Y. Guh;Yi Mu;Lisa G. Winston;Helen Johnston

  • Vital Signs: Epidemiology and Recent Trends in Methicillin-Resistant and in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections — United States

    Kourtis Ap;Hatfield K;Baggs J;Mu Y

  • Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States, 2002–2006

    Dawn M. Sievert;Dawn M. Sievert;James T. Rudrik;Jean B. Patel;L. Clifford McDonald

  • Vital signs: carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.

    Jesse T. Jacob;Eili Klein;Ramanan Laxminarayan;Zintars Beldavs

  • Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections in U.S. Hospitalized Patients, 2012-2017.

    John A Jernigan;Kelly M Hatfield;Hannah Wolford;Richard E Nelson

  • Current Status of Clostridium difficile Infection Epidemiology

    Fernanda C. Lessa;Carolyn V. Gould;L. Clifford McDonald

  • Epidemiology of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, 2009 through 2011.

    Amit S. Chitnis;Stacy M. Holzbauer;Ruth M. Belflower;Lisa G. Winston

  • Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia Due to Staphylococcus aureus, 2003–04 Influenza Season

    Jeffrey C. Hageman;Timothy M. Uyeki;John S. Francis;Daniel B. Jernigan

  • Comparison of Seven Techniques for Typing International Epidemic Strains of Clostridium difficile: Restriction Endonuclease Analysis, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis, PCR-Ribotyping, Multilocus Sequence Typing, Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis, Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism, and Surface Layer Protein A Gene Sequence Typing

    George Killgore;Angela Thompson;Stuart Johnson;Jon Brazier

  • Vital Signs: Improving Antibiotic Use Among Hospitalized Patients

    Scott Fridkin;James Baggs;Ryan Fagan;Shelley Magill

  • Staphylococcus aureus–associated Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Ambulatory Care

    Linda F. McCaig;L. Clifford McDonald;Sanjay Mandal;Daniel B. Jernigan

  • Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients Discharged from US

    L. Clifford McDonald;Maria Owings;Daniel B. Jernigan

Frequent Co-Authors

Dale N. Gerding
Dale N. Gerding Veterans Health Administration
John A. Jernigan
John A. Jernigan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Monica M. Farley
Monica M. Farley Emory University
Erik R. Dubberke
Erik R. Dubberke Washington University in St. Louis
Brandi Limbago
Brandi Limbago Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Daniel B. Jernigan
Daniel B. Jernigan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Christopher W. Woods
Christopher W. Woods Duke University
Stuart Johnson
Stuart Johnson Loyola University Chicago
Victoria J. Fraser
Victoria J. Fraser Washington University in St. Louis
Natalie J. Thornburg
Natalie J. Thornburg Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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