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Mary E. Brandt is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on medicine, with a strong emphasis on epidemiology, infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular biology, and cell biology. This focus is reflected in an extensive body of work comprising approximately 70 publications.

The scientist's research primarily covers fungal infections and studies, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, antimicrobial peptides and activities, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, nail diseases and treatments, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, and probiotics and fermented foods.

Mary E. Brandt has contributed to several recent papers, demonstrating particular engagement with fungal disease research. Notable publications include:

  • Pulmonary Histoplasmosis, 2021, Mycopathologia
  • Current situation of endemic mycosis in the Americas and the Caribbean: Proceedings of the first international meeting on endemic mycoses of the Americas (IMEMA), 2022, Mycoses
  • Summary of Guidelines for Managing Histoplasmosis among People Living with HIV, 2021, Journal of Fungi
  • Pathogenicity Assessment of Colombian Strains of Candida auris in the Galleria mellonella Invertebrate Model, 2021, Journal of Fungi
  • Validation and Concordance Analysis of a New Lateral Flow Assay for Detection of Histoplasma Antigen in Urine, 2021, Journal of Fungi

Brandt frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Fungi
  • Medical Mycology
  • Mycoses
  • Mycopathologia
  • Biomédica

Co-authorship collaborations are notable, with frequent partners including Diego H. Cáceres, Ángel González, Ángela María Tobón, Tom Chiller, and Carolina Firacative. These collaborations indicate active engagement within a network of researchers specializing in fungal infections and related topics.

Best Publications

  • Histopathologic Diagnosis of Fungal Infections in the 21st Century

    Jeannette Guarner;Mary E. Brandt

  • Incidence of Bloodstream Infections Due to Candida Species and In Vitro Susceptibilities of Isolates Collected from 1998 to 2000 in a Population-Based Active Surveillance Program

    Rana A. Hajjeh;Andre N. Sofair;Lee H. Harrison;G. Marshall Lyon

  • The Epidemiology of Candidemia in Two United States Cities: Results of a Population-Based Active Surveillance

    Annie S. Kao;Mary E. Brandt;W. Ruth Pruitt;Laura A. Conn

  • The Changing Epidemiology of Cryptococcosis: An Update from Population-Based Active Surveillance in 2 Large Metropolitan Areas, 1992–2000

    Sara A. Mirza;Maureen Phelan;David Rimland;David Rimland;Edward A. Graviss

  • MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY, MULTILOCUS HAPLOTYPE NOMENCLATURE, AND IN VITRO ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE WITHIN THE FUSARIUM SOLANI SPECIES COMPLEX

    Kerry O'Donnell;Deanna A. Sutton;Annette Fothergill;Dora McCarthy

  • The Epidemiological Features of Invasive Mycotic Infections in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1992–1993: Results of Population-Based Laboratory Active Surveillance

    Judy R. Rees;Robert W. Pinner;Rana A. Hajjeh;Mary E. Brandt

  • Sequence-Based Identification of Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Mucorales Species in the Clinical Mycology Laboratory: Where Are We and Where Should We Go from Here?

    S. A. Balajee;A. M. Borman;M. E. Brandt;J. Cano

  • Phylogenetic Diversity and Microsphere Array-Based Genotyping of Human Pathogenic Fusaria, Including Isolates from the Multistate Contact Lens-Associated U.S. Keratitis Outbreaks of 2005 and 2006

    Kerry O'Donnell;Brice A. J. Sarver;Mary Brandt;Douglas C. Chang

  • Cryptococcosis: Population-Based Multistate Active Surveillance and Risk Factors in Human Immunodeficiency Virus—Infected Persons

    Rana A. Hajjeh;Laura A. Conn;David S. Stephens;Wendy Baughman

  • Necrotizing cutaneous mucormycosis after a Tornado in Joplin, Missouri, in 2011

    Robyn Neblett Fanfair;Kaitlin Benedict;John Bos;Sarah D. Bennett

  • Molecular Identification of Aspergillus Species Collected for the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network

    S. Arunmozhi Balajee;Rui Kano;John W. Baddley;Stephen A. Moser

  • One Fungus, One Name: Defining the Genus Fusarium in a Scientifically Robust Way That Preserves Longstanding Use

    David M. Geiser;Takayuki Aoki;Charles W. Bacon;Scott E. Baker

  • Trends in species distribution and susceptibility to fluconazole among blood stream isolates of Candida species in the United States.

    M.A Pfaller;S.A Messer;R.J Hollis;R.N Jones

  • Fungal Infections Associated With Contaminated Methylprednisolone Injections

    Rachel M. Smith;Melissa K. Schaefer;Marion A. Kainer;Matthew Wise

  • Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, and Therapy of Infections Caused by Dematiaceous Fungi

    Unknown

  • Epidemiologic and Molecular Characterization of an Outbreak of Candida parapsilosis Bloodstream Infections in a Community Hospital

    Thomas A. Clark;Sally A. Slavinski;Juliette Morgan;Timothy Lott

  • Fatty acids of Treponema pallidum and Borrelia burgdorferi lipoproteins.

    J T Belisle;M E Brandt;J D Radolf;M V Norgard

  • Comparison of Visual and Spectrophotometric Methods of Broth Microdilution MIC End Point Determination and Evaluation of a Sterol Quantitation Method for In Vitro Susceptibility Testing of Fluconazole and Itraconazole against Trailing and Nontrailing Candida Isolates

    Beth A. Arthington-Skaggs;Wendy Lee-Yang;Meral A. Ciblak;Joao P. Frade

  • Valley Fever: Finding New Places for an Old Disease: Coccidioides immitis Found in Washington State Soil Associated With Recent Human Infection

    Anastasia P. Litvintseva;Nicola Marsden-Haug;Steven Hurst;Heather Hill

  • Mistaken Identity: Neosartorya pseudofischeri and Its Anamorph Masquerading as Aspergillus fumigatus

    S. Arunmozhi Balajee;Jennifer Gribskov;Mary Brandt;James Ito

  • In Vitro Susceptibilities of Candida Bloodstream Isolates to the New Triazole Antifungal Agents BMS-207147, Sch 56592, and Voriconazole

    M. A. Pfaller;S. A. Messer;R. J. Hollis;R. N. Jones

  • Candida and Candidiasis

    Mary E. Brandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Chiller
Tom Chiller Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Shawn R. Lockhart
Shawn R. Lockhart Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David W. Warnock
David W. Warnock Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Anastasia P. Litvintseva
Anastasia P. Litvintseva Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kerry O'Donnell
Kerry O'Donnell National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Peter G. Pappas
Peter G. Pappas University of Alabama at Birmingham
Deanna A. Sutton
Deanna A. Sutton The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
S. Arunmozhi Balajee
S. Arunmozhi Balajee Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lee H. Harrison
Lee H. Harrison University of Pittsburgh
David M. Engelthaler
David M. Engelthaler Translational Genomics Research Institute

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