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Overview

Robert L. Danner is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and focuses on research in the field of medicine. Their work covers several subfields, including epidemiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, as well as applied microbiology and biotechnology.

Danner's research topics encompass a range of clinical and microbiological issues, with substantial focus on sepsis diagnosis and treatment, pulmonary hypertension research and treatments, antibiotic use and resistance, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, nosocomial infections in intensive care units, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Several recent publications by or involving Danner include:

  • Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens in Culture-Proven Sepsis and Outcomes Associated With Inadequate and Broad-Spectrum Empiric Antibiotic Use, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Inappropriate empirical antibiotic therapy for bloodstream infections based on discordant in-vitro susceptibilities: a retrospective cohort analysis of prevalence, predictors, and mortality risk in US hospitals, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Association Between Caseload Surge and COVID-19 Survival in 558 U.S. Hospitals, March to August 2020, 2021, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Effectiveness of adjunctive clindamycin in β-lactam antibiotic-treated patients with invasive β-haemolytic streptococcal infections in US hospitals: a retrospective multicentre cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Type I interferon activation and endothelial dysfunction in caveolin-1 insufficiency-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Danner frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Charles Natanson, Willard N. Applefeld, Sameer S. Kadri, Jason M. Elinoff, and Cumhur Y. Demirkale.

Their work is regularly published in notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and Critical Care Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Incidence and Trends of Sepsis in US Hospitals Using Clinical vs Claims Data, 2009-2014

    Chanu Rhee;Chanu Rhee;Raymund Dantes;Raymund Dantes;Lauren Epstein;David J. Murphy

  • Septic Shock in Humans: Advances in the Understanding of Pathogenesis, Cardiovascular Dysfunction, and Therapy

    Joseph E. Parrillo;Margaret M. Parker;Charles Natanson;Anthony F. Suffredini

  • Endotoxemia in human septic shock.

    Robert L. Danner;Ronald J. Elin;Jeanette M. Hosseini;Robert A. Wesley

  • Endotoxin and tumor necrosis factor challenges in dogs simulate the cardiovascular profile of human septic shock.

    C Natanson;P W Eichenholz;R L Danner;P Q Eichacker

  • Detection of interleukin 8 and tumor necrosis factor in normal humans after intravenous endotoxin: the effect of antiinflammatory agents.

    G D Martich;R L Danner;M Ceska;A F Suffredini

  • Difficult-to-Treat Resistance in Gram-negative Bacteremia at 173 US Hospitals: Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Prevalence, Predictors, and Outcome of Resistance to All First-line Agents.

    Sameer S Kadri;Sameer S Kadri;Jennifer Adjemian;Jennifer Adjemian;Yi Ling Lai;Alicen B Spaulding

  • Th17 Cells Are Long Lived and Retain a Stem Cell-like Molecular Signature

    Pawel Muranski;Zachary A. Borman;Sid P. Kerkar;Christopher A. Klebanoff

  • Adoptively transferred effector cells derived from naïve rather than central memory CD8+ T cells mediate superior antitumor immunity

    Christian S. Hinrichs;Zachary A. Borman;Lydie Cassard;Luca Gattinoni

  • Risk and the efficacy of antiinflammatory agents : retrospective and confirmatory studies of sepsis

    Peter Q. Eichacker;Chantal Parent;Andre C Kalil;Claire Esposito

  • Excess Deaths Associated With Tigecycline After Approval Based on Noninferiority Trials

    Paritosh Prasad;Junfeng Sun;Robert L. Danner;Charles Natanson

  • Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens in Culture-Proven Sepsis and Outcomes Associated With Inadequate and Broad-Spectrum Empiric Antibiotic Use.

    Chanu Rhee;Chanu Rhee;Sameer S. Kadri;John P. Dekker;Robert L. Danner

  • Eradication of solid human breast tumors in nude mice with an intravenously injected light-emitting oncolytic vaccinia virus.

    Qian Zhang;Yong A. Yu;Ena Wang;Nanhai Chen

  • Role of endotoxemia in cardiovascular dysfunction and mortality. Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus challenges in a canine model of human septic shock.

    C Natanson;R L Danner;R J Elin;J M Hosseini

  • N omega-amino-L-arginine, an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase, raises vascular resistance but increases mortality rates in awake canines challenged with endotoxin.

    J P Cobb;C Natanson;W D Hoffman;R F Lodato

  • Anti-endotoxin monoclonal antibodies.

    H. Shaw Warren;Robert L. Danner;Robert S. Munford

  • NRAS mutation causes a human autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome

    João B. Oliveira;Nicolas Bidère;Julie E. Niemela;Lixin Zheng

  • PPARγ signaling and emerging opportunities for improved therapeutics.

    Shuibang Wang;Edward J. Dougherty;Robert L. Danner

  • Inappropriate empirical antibiotic therapy for bloodstream infections based on discordant in-vitro susceptibilities: a retrospective cohort analysis of prevalence, predictors, and mortality risk in US hospitals.

    Sameer S Kadri;Sameer S Kadri;Yi Ling Lai;Sarah Warner;Jeffrey R Strich;Jeffrey R Strich

  • Blood mononuclear cell gene expression profiles characterize the oxidant, hemolytic, and inflammatory stress of sickle cell disease

    Maria L. Jison;Peter J. Munson;Jennifer J. Barb;Anthony F. Suffredini

  • Purification, toxicity, and antiendotoxin activity of polymyxin B nonapeptide.

    R L Danner;K A Joiner;M Rubin;W H Patterson

  • Nitric oxide regulates endotoxin-induced TNF-alpha production by human neutrophils.

    A. L. Van Dervort;Liang Yan;P. J. Madara;J. P. Cobb

  • Amplified Expression Profiling of Platelet Transcriptome Reveals Changes in Arginine Metabolic Pathways in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease

    Nalini Raghavachari;Xiuli Xu;Amy Harris;Jose Villagra

  • Role of endotoxemia in cardiovascular dysfunction and mortality: Escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus challenges in a canine model of human septic shock

    C. Natanson;R.L. Danner;R.J. Elin

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Klompas
Michael Klompas Brigham and Women's Hospital
Joseph E. Parrillo
Joseph E. Parrillo Hackensack University Medical Center
Peter J. Munson
Peter J. Munson Center for Information Technology
Robert Wesley
Robert Wesley National Institutes of Health
Thomas J. MacVittie
Thomas J. MacVittie University of Maryland, Baltimore
David C. Hooper
David C. Hooper Massachusetts General Hospital
James H. Shelhamer
James H. Shelhamer National Institutes of Health
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas J. Walsh Weill Cornell Medicine
Marinos C. Dalakas
Marinos C. Dalakas Thomas Jefferson University
Joseph A. Kovacs
Joseph A. Kovacs National Institutes of Health

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