Emily T Martin
Affiliation: University of Washington
- Frequent and prolonged shedding of bocavirus in young children attending daycareEmily T Martin
Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children s Research Institute, 1900 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Infect Dis 201:1625-32. 2010..Little is known about human bocavirus (HBoV) persistence and shedding and the association between HBoV detection and the onset and resolution of respiratory symptoms...
- Clinical disease and viral load in children infected with respiratory syncytial virus or human metapneumovirusEmily T Martin
Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 62:382-8. 2008..Our study has described a significant relationship between viral load and markers of disease severity for both RSV and hMPV in a large population of children evaluated for respiratory disease...
- Detection of bocavirus in saliva of children with and without respiratory illnessEmily T Martin
Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children s Research Institute, Washington 98101, USA
J Clin Microbiol 47:4131-2. 2009..hBoV was detected in saliva samples at asymptomatic enrollment in 3% (5/149) and during respiratory illness in 2% (2/106) of the cases. hBoV was detected in only 1/149 asymptomatic and 0/106 illness nasal samples...
- Multiple viral respiratory pathogens in children with bronchiolitisHilary E Stempel
Seattle Children s Hospital Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Acta Paediatr 98:123-6. 2009..The aim of the study was to describe the frequency of viral pathogens and relative frequency of co-infections in nasal specimens obtained from young children with bronchiolitis receiving care at a children's hospital...
- Case-crossover analysis of condom use and herpes simplex virus type 2 acquisitionJeffrey D Stanaway
Departments of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Sex Transm Dis 39:388-93. 2012..The case-crossover design offers increased control of individual-level confounders, and was thus used with the aim of producing a more accurate estimate of the effect of condom use on HSV-2 acquisition...
- Coronavirus-associated pneumonia in previously healthy childrenJudson Heugel
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington and Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 26:753-5. 2007..Here, we document the clinical courses of 2 previously healthy children with coronavirus-associated pneumonia...
- Development of a symptom score for clinical studies to identify children with a documented viral upper respiratory tract infectionJames A Taylor
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Pediatr Res 68:252-7. 2010..9%, and accuracy of 73.3%. Parental impression is only a moderately accurate predictor of viral URI in children. Our URI symptom score provided a more accurate method for identifying children with viral URIs for clinical studies...
- Clinical disease in children associated with newly described coronavirus subtypesJane Kuypers
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatrics 119:e70-6. 2007..In this study we examined the prevalence of 4 human coronaviruses, including subtypes OC43, 229E, and the recently described NL63 and HKU1 in a pediatric population presenting to a children's hospital...
- Influenza-associated morbidity in children with cancerSarah K Tasian
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington and Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 50:983-7. 2008..The clinical impact of influenza in children undergoing therapy for cancer is not well-described in the literature...
- Multitarget PCR for diagnosis of pertussis and its clinical implicationsXuan Qin
Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Laboratories and Pathology, A9601, Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
J Clin Microbiol 45:506-11. 2007..This consensus generating real-time PCR approach permits a sensitive detection, as well as an accurate species identification of the causative Bordetella pathogens for the timely management of patients...
- Randomized double-blind crossover trial of ultraviolet light-sanitized keyboards in a pediatric hospitalEmily T Martin
Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Infect Control 39:433-5. 2011..Ultraviolet light disinfection was 67% effective (95% confidence interval, 46%-87%) in eliminating bacterial contamination as measured by quantitative bacterial culture...
- Redefining outcome of first seizures by acute illnessEmily T Martin
Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatrics 126:e1477-84. 2010..Seizures are common in children, but the causes and recurrence risk for children with a nonfebrile first seizure remain poorly understood...
- A pooled analysis of the effect of condoms in preventing HSV-2 acquisitionEmily T Martin
Departments of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1233-40. 2009..The degree of effectiveness of condom use in preventing the transmission of herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) is uncertain. To address this issue, we performed a large pooled analysis...