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Kusha Davar

Part Time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences

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Publications

  • Outpatient Oral Doxycycline versus Intravenous Penicillin for Syphilitic Uveitis. Ophthalmology. 2025 Dec; 132(12):1457-1459.. View in PubMed
  • Practicing With Intent: How to Teach an Old Dogma New Tricks. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Oct 06; 81(3):410-413.. View in PubMed
  • Prophylactic Antibiotics for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Oct 01; 185(10):1194-1203.. View in PubMed
  • Interpreting Blood Culture Results as Early Guidance for Infective Endocarditis. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 05 01; 8(5):e258079.. View in PubMed
  • Outpatient Oral Doxycycline Therapy for Ocular Syphilis. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Dec 02; 7(12):e2449364.. View in PubMed
  • Virtual Home Care for Patients With Acute Illness. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 11 04; 7(11):e2447352.. View in PubMed
  • Progression of Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Case of Failed Secondary Prevention. JACC Case Rep. 2024 Oct 16; 29(20):102620.. View in PubMed
  • Plasmodium vivax Infections among Immigrants from China Traveling to the United States. Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Jul; 30(7):1477-1479.. View in PubMed
  • Case Report: Cardiovascular Manifestations due to Flea-Borne Typhus. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 01 03; 110(1):150-154.. View in PubMed
  • How to change the course: practical aspects of implementing shorter is better. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Nov; 29(11):1402-1406.. View in PubMed
  • Real-World Application of Oral Therapy for Infective Endocarditis: A Multicenter, Retrospective, Cohort Study. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 09 11; 77(5):672-679.. View in PubMed
  • Choosing patients over placebos: oral transitional therapy vs. IV-only therapy for bacteraemia and infective endocarditis. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Sep; 29(9):1126-1132.. View in PubMed
  • Burying Hatchets into Endemic Diagnoses: Disseminated Blastomycosis from a Potentially Novel Occupational Exposure. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2023 Jul 18; 8(7).. View in PubMed
  • Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Infective Endocarditis in Adults: A WikiGuidelines Group Consensus Statement. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 07 03; 6(7):e2326366.. View in PubMed
  • The PEST (Pathology, Epidemiology, Severity, Treatment) approach to optimizing antimicrobial therapy. BMC Med Educ. 2023 May 06; 23(1):316.. View in PubMed
  • An Mpox-Related Death in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2023 03 30; 388(13):1246-1247.. View in PubMed
  • Can the Future of ID Escape the Inertial Dogma of Its Past? The Exemplars of Shorter Is Better and Oral Is the New IV. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Jan; 10(1):ofac706.. View in PubMed
  • Use of Novel Strategies to Develop Guidelines for Management of Pyogenic Osteomyelitis in Adults: A WikiGuidelines Group Consensus Statement. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 05 02; 5(5):e2211321.. View in PubMed
  • Case Report and Genomic Analysis of Cefiderocol-Resistant Escherichia coli Clinical Isolates. Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 Feb 03; 157(2):257-265.. View in PubMed
  • A Rare Bird: Diagnosis of Psittacosis Meningitis by Clinical Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Dec; 8(12):ofab555.. View in PubMed
  • Infectious disease screening lab panel for homeless patients: A retrospective review at a large academic health system. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 04; 42(4):487-488.. View in PubMed
  • Universal and Serial Laboratory Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility for Veterans – Los Angeles, California, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 May 29; 69(21):651-655.. View in PubMed

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