AmarSafdarMDFACP, FIDSA

PubMed

• 11 citations
  High-dose caspofungin as a component of combination antifungal therapy in 91 patients with neoplastic diseases and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a critical ...
  Amar Safdar, Gilhen Rodriguez, Jorge Zuniga, Fadi Al Akhrass, Anupam Pande
  Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2015-04-01
• 26 citations
  Fidaxomicin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with Clostridium difficile Infection
  Samuel Penziner, Yanina Dubrovskaya, Robert Press, Amar Safdar
  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2015-03-01
• 13 citations
  Use of healthy-donor granulocyte transfusions to treat infections in neutropenic patients with myeloid or lymphoid neoplasms: experience in 74 patients treated with 37...
  Amar Safdar, Gilhen Rodriguez, Jorge Zuniga, Fadi Al Akhrass, Anupam Pande
  Acta Haematologica. 2014-01-01

Books/Book Chapters

• Principles and Practice of Transplant Infectious Diseases 
  Safdar AEditors: Safdar A.Springer Science, New York, NYEdition 1st,2013
• Principles and Practice of Transplant Infectious Diseases 
  Safdar AEditors: Safdar A.Springer Science, New York, NYEdition 1st,2013
• Principles and Practice of Cancer Infectious Diseases 
  Safdar AEditors: Safdar A.Humana Press/Springer Science, New York, NYEdition 1st,2011
• Principles and Practice of Cancer Infectious Diseases 
  Safdar AEditors: Safdar A.Humana Press/Springer Science, New York, NYEdition 1st,2011
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Abstracts/Posters

• Response to Therapy in Solid-Organ (SOT) and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) Recipients with 61 Episodes of Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI)
  Clutter DS, Dubrovakaya Y, Merl M, Press R, Safdar A, 53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 9/10/2013
• Changing Trends in Clinical Fungal Isolates at a Comprehensive University Hospital in New York City during the Past 12 Years
  Safdar A, Tulliano G, Taimur S, Press R, 53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 9/10/2013
• Enterococcal Colonization and Disease in Solid-Organ versus Hematologic Malignancy and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Units (2000–2011)
  Safdar A, Tulliano G, Teperman L & Press R, American Transplant Congress (ATC) at the Washington State Convention Center, 5/18/2013
• Characteristics of Enterococcus species Isolated from Patients at a Solid Organ Transplant Unit in a Tertiary Care University Hospital between 2000 and 2011
  Tulliano G, Tierno P. M, Teperman L. W, Press R. A & Safdar A, The 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 9/9/2012
• Immunovesiculectomy by TH1 Dendritic Cell Vaccination
  Klump SK, Sharp K, Safdar A, Bhardwaj RD, Berens ME, Gilbert BE, Carstens JL, Halpert MM, Spencer DM, Decker WK, 9th annual Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center Symposium, Baylor College of Medicine, 11/29/2011
• Safety of high-dose (100 mg) caspofungin therapy in 91 cancer and stem cell transplant patients with invasive fungal disease
  Al Akhrass F, Rodriguez G, Zuniga J, Pande A, Safdar A, 48th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 10/21/2010
• Three hundred and seventy-three granulocyte transfusions in cancer patients with life-threatening infections
  Zuniga J, Rodriguez G, Al Akhrass F, Pande A, Safdar A, 48th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 10/21/2010
• Dendritic cell vaccination generates protective responses against influenzavirus infection: a model of effective vaccination for immunosuppressed cancer and hematopoie...
  Decker W, Li S, Shpall E, Zabriskie R, Machado A, Gilbert B, Safdar A, 16thSymposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host, 6/27/2010
• Multiple granulocyte transfusions for the treatment of severe opportunistic infections in cancer patients - 2004–2007
  Rodriguez GH, Ejaz S, Ahmed S, Safdar A, 47th Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America, 10/29/2009
• An umbilical cordblood model of dendritic cell vaccination demonstrates the ex vivo generation of de novo strain-specific T-lymphocyte responses
  Decker W, Shpall E, Safdar A, 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 5/16/2009
• Vaccination in patients with cancer: strategies to prevent influenza and pneumococcal Disease
  Safdar A, 2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets (Ehrlich II), International Society of Chemotherapy, 10/3/2008
• Polymicrobial bacteremia in cancer patients
  Rodriguez G, Safdar A, Bodey G, Rolston K, 18th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 4/19/2008
• Predictor of response in recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplantationwith serious infections receiving granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor
  Georgescu G, Rodriguez GH, Champlin R, & Safdar A, 45th Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America, 10/4/2007
• High-dose caspofungin in cancer patients with invasive fungal infections
  Safdar A, Rodriguez GH, Shpall EJ, Walsh TJ, Kontoyiannis DP, Champlin RE, Kantarjian HM, Rolston KV, RaadII, 47th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. American Society for Microbiology, 9/17/2007
• Immunogenicity and safety of multi-dose granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor immune enhancement in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia receiving 23-...
  Safdar A, Rodriguez GH, Wierda WG, Musher DM, Rueda AM, O’Brien S, Koller CA, Bodey GP, Keating MJ, 10th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research Sponsored by National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 4/30/2007
• Tigecyclineusage in cancer patients with refractory pneumonia: areport on 38 cases. A single institution study
  Chemaly R, Hachem R, Hanmod S, Adachi J, Hogan H, Mulanovich V, Kontoyiannis D, Safdar A, Raad I, Rolston K, 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and 25th International Congress of Chemotherapy, 3/31/2007
• Scedosporium in a tertiary care cancer center in the past 16 years
  Lamaris GA, Chamilos G, Lewis RE, Safdar A, Raad II, 44th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 10/12/2006
• Efficacy of inhaled aminoglycosides and colistin in cancer patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia during 2000–2005
  Ghannam DE, Rodriguez GH, Adachi J, Chemaly R, Rolston KV, Raad II, & Safdar A. Efficacy, 46th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. American Society for Microbiology, 9/27/2006
• Immunogenicity of baculovirus-expressed trivalent influenza HA vaccine: randomized, double-blind, dose-escalation single institution study in adult patients with B cel...
  Safdar A, Rodriguez G, Luis F, Romaguera J, Hagemeister F, McLaughlin P, Kwak L, Couch RB, The 16th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 4/1/2006
• Safety and efficacy of recombinant interferon-gamma-1b Immune adjuvant in 20 patients receiving high-dose donor granulocyte transfusions–an observational study during ...
  Safdar A, Rodriguez G, Lichtiger B, Champlin R, Freireich E, Kantarjian H, The 16th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 4/1/2006
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: clinical spectrum of active disease in cancer patients (2001–2005)
  Aisenberg G, Jacobson K, Chemaly R, Rolston K, Raad I, Safdar A, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 10/6/2005
• Herpes simplex virus in lower respiratory tract secretions in patients with solid tumors: shedding or infection?
  Aisenberg GM, Torres HA, Tarrand J, Safdar A,Chemaly RF, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 10/6/2005
• Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: changing spectrum of bacterial pneumonia in cancer patients with low-suspicion of S. maltophilia infection
  Aisenberg G, Tarrand J, Rolston K, Kontoyiannis D, Raad I, Safdar A, 15th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 4/2/2005
• Trends in incidence of invasive fungal infections at a tertiary cancer center over a 14-year period: an autopsy study
  Chamilos G, Bodey GP, Luna M, Lewis RE, Rolston KV, Chemaly R, Safdar A, RaadI, Kontoyiannis DP, 15th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 4/2/2005
• Therapeutic efficacy of adjuvant recombinant interferon gamma-1b in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients with invasive mycosis
  Safdar A, Rodriguez G, Champlin RE, World Conference on Magic Bullets. International Society of Chemotherapy, 9/9/2004
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