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Steven Park is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Infectious Diseases, which accounts for the majority of their publications. Other notable subfields include Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Molecular Medicine.

Their recent notable papers cover a range of topics related to bacterial resistance, viral infections, and diagnostic methods. These include "A naturally inspired antibiotic to target multidrug-resistant pathogens" (2022, Nature), "Active packaging based on PLA and chitosan-caseinate enriched rosemary essential oil coating for fresh minced chicken breast application" (2021, Food Packaging and Shelf Life), "Rapid and quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 specific IgG for convalescent serum evaluation" (2020, Biosensors and Bioelectronics), "High Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Organism Colonization in 28 Nursing Homes: An "Iceberg Effect"" (2020, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association), and "Extracellular Vesicle Capture by AnTibody of CHoice and Enzymatic Release (EV-CATCHER): A customizable purification assay designed for small-RNA biomarker identification and evaluation of circulating small-EVs" (2021, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles).

The main topics of Steven Park's work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Steven Park are:

  • David S. Perlin (24 joint publications)
  • Nadine Álvarez (10 joint publications)
  • Vijeta Sharma (8 joint publications)
  • Susan S. Huang (7 joint publications)
  • Riccardo Russo (7 joint publications)

Steven Park has published extensively in several scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 5 publications
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry - 3 publications
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases - 3 publications
  • ACS Infectious Diseases - 2 publications
  • Viruses - 2 publications

Best Publications

  • Specific Substitutions in the Echinocandin Target Fks1p Account for Reduced Susceptibility of Rare Laboratory and Clinical Candida sp. Isolates

    S. Park;R. Kelly;J. Nielsen Kahn;J. Robles

  • Culture-independent discovery of the malacidins as calcium-dependent antibiotics with activity against multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens.

    Bradley M. Hover;Seong Hwan Kim;Micah Katz;Zachary Charlop-Powers

  • A naturally occurring proline-to-alanine amino acid change in Fks1p in Candida parapsilosis, Candida orthopsilosis, and Candida metapsilosis accounts for reduced echinocandin susceptibility.

    Guillermo Garcia-Effron;Santosh K. Katiyar;Steven Park;Thomas D. Edlind

  • High-frequency Triazole Resistance Found In Nonculturable Aspergillus fumigatus from Lungs of Patients with Chronic Fungal Disease

    David W. Denning;Steven Park;Cornelia Lass-Florl;Marcin G. Fraczek;Marcin G. Fraczek

  • Effect of Candida glabrata FKS1 and FKS2 Mutations on Echinocandin Sensitivity and Kinetics of 1,3-β-d-Glucan Synthase: Implication for the Existing Susceptibility Breakpoint

    Guillermo Garcia-Effron;Samuel Lee;Steven Park;John D. Cleary

  • Multiple Resistance Mechanisms among Aspergillus fumigatus Mutants with High-Level Resistance to Itraconazole

    Adriana M. Nascimento;Gustavo H. Goldman;Steven Park;Salvatore A. E. Marras

  • Correlating echinocandin MIC and kinetic inhibition of fks1 mutant glucan synthases for Candida albicans: implications for interpretive breakpoints.

    Guillermo Garcia-Effron;Steven Park;David S. Perlin

  • A naturally inspired antibiotic to target multidrug-resistant pathogens

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  • Assessing Resistance to the Echinocandin Antifungal Drug Caspofungin in Candida albicans by Profiling Mutations in FKS1

    Sergey V. Balashov;Steven Park;David S. Perlin;David S. Perlin

  • Progressive loss of echinocandin activity following prolonged use for treatment of Candida albicans oesophagitis

    Michel Laverdière;Richard G. Lalonde;Jean Guy Baril;Donald C. Sheppard

  • Requirement for ergosterol in V-ATPase function underlies antifungal activity of azole drugs.

    Yong Qiang Zhang;Soledad Gamarra;Guillermo Garcia-Effron;Steven Park

  • Multi-azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus

    Susan J. Howard;Ian Webster;Caroline B. Moore;Rebecca E. Gardiner

  • Understanding Echinocandin Resistance in the Emerging Pathogen Candida auris.

    Milena Kordalewska;Annie Lee;Steven Park;Indira Berrio

  • Discovery of MRSA active antibiotics using primary sequence from the human microbiome

    John Chu;Xavier Vila-Farres;Daigo Inoyama;Melinda Ternei

  • Calcineurin target CrzA regulates conidial germination, hyphal growth, and pathogenesis of Aspergillus fumigatus.

    Robert A. Cramer;B. Zachary Perfect;Nadthanan Pinchai;Steven Park

  • A Ser678Pro Substitution in Fks1p Confers Resistance to Echinocandin Drugs in Aspergillus fumigatus

    Eleusa Maria F. Rocha;Guillermo Garcia-Effron;Steven Park;David S. Perlin

  • In Vitro Evolution of Itraconazole Resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus Involves Multiple Mechanisms of Resistance

    Márcia Eliana da Silva Ferreira;José Luiz Capellaro;Everaldo dos Reis Marques;Iran Malavazi

  • Activity of an Antimicrobial Peptide Mimetic against Planktonic and Biofilm Cultures of Oral Pathogens

    Nicholas Beckloff;Danielle Laube;Tammy Castro;Tammy Castro;David Furgang

  • Prospective Study of Candida Species in Patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Amar Safdar;Vishnu Chaturvedi;Emily W. Cross;Steven Park

  • Decolonization to Reduce Postdischarge Infection Risk among MRSA Carriers

    Susan S Huang;Raveena Singh;James A McKinnell;Steven Park

  • Acquired Echinocandin Resistance in a Candida krusei Isolate Due to Modification of Glucan Synthase

    Jennifer Nielsen Kahn;Guillermo Garcia-Effron;Ming Jo Hsu;Steven Park

  • Serum Differentially Alters the Antifungal Properties of Echinocandin Drugs

    Padmaja Paderu;Guillermo Garcia-Effron;Sergey Balashov;Guillaume Delmas

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Perlin
David S. Perlin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Guillermo Garcia-Effron
Guillermo Garcia-Effron National University of the Littoral
Gustavo H. Goldman
Gustavo H. Goldman Universidade de São Paulo
Vishnu Chaturvedi
Vishnu Chaturvedi New York State Department of Health
David W. Denning
David W. Denning University of Manchester
Kent A. Sepkowitz
Kent A. Sepkowitz Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Caroline B. Moore
Caroline B. Moore University of Manchester
Barry N. Kreiswirth
Barry N. Kreiswirth Center for Discovery and Innovation
Timothy E. Kiehn
Timothy E. Kiehn Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Véronique Dartois
Véronique Dartois Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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