Positions

Overview

  • Dr. Patel's clinical practice is focused on general infectious diseases and HIV care for inpatients and outpatients at UAB Medical Center and the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

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    2016 Validated risk score for predicting 6-month mortality in infective endocarditis.  Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease.  5. 2016
    2015 One-year outcome following biological or mechanical valve replacement for infective endocarditis.  International Journal of Cardiology.  178:117-123. 2015
    2015 Infections from body piercing and tattoos.  Microbiology Spectrum.  3. 2015
    2014 A qualitative assessment of internal medicine resident perceptions of graduate medical education following implementation of the 2011 ACGME duty hour standards.  BMC Medical Education.  14. 2014
    2014 Gamification as a tool for enhancing graduate medical education.  Postgraduate Medical Journal.  90:685-693. 2014
    2013 HACEK Infective Endocarditis: Characteristics and Outcomes from a Large, Multi-National Cohort.  PLoS ONE.  8. 2013
    2013 Influence of the timing of cardiac surgery on the outcome of patients with infective endocarditis and stroke.  Clinical Infectious Diseases.  56:209-217. 2013
    2013 Risk of vancomycin-induced nephrotoxicity in the population with chronic kidney disease.  American Journal of the Medical Sciences.  345:396-399. 2013
    2012 Cross-reactivity of Aspergillus galactomannan in an HIV-infected patient with histoplasmosis.  Medical Mycology Case Reports.  1:119-122. 2012
    2012 Association between Vancomycin-resistant enterococci bacteremia and ceftriaxone usage.  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.  33:718-724. 2012
    2009 Community-associated meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections: Epidemiology, recognition and management.  Drugs.  69:693-716. 2009
    2009 Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus discriminates within USA pulsed-field gel electrophoresis types.  Journal of Hospital Infection.  71:333-339. 2009
    2008 Association of fluconazole pharmacodynamics with mortality in patients with candidemia.  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.  52:3022-3028. 2008
    2008 Candida infective endocarditis.  European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.  27:519-529. 2008
    2008 Active surveillance to determine the impact of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization on patients in intensive care units of a veterans affairs medical center.  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.  29:503-509. 2008
    2008 Emergence of USA300 MRSA in a tertiary medical centre: implications for epidemiological studies.  Journal of Hospital Infection.  68:208-213. 2008
    2008 Dissemination of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care hospital.  Southern Medical Journal.  101:40-45. 2008
    2007 USA300 genotype community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of surgical site infections.  Journal of Clinical Microbiology.  45:3431-3433. 2007
    2006 Nosocomial spread of Enterococcus faecium resistant to vancomycin and linezolid in a tertiary care medical center.  Journal of Clinical Microbiology.  44:3368-3370. 2006
    2006 Prevalence of inducible clindamycin resistance among community- and hospital-associated Staphylococcus aureus isolates.  Journal of Clinical Microbiology.  44:2481-2484. 2006
    2005 Initial management of candidemia at an academic medical center: Evaluation of the IDSA guidelines.  Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease.  52:29-34. 2005
    2004 Utility of real-time antifungal susceptibility testing for fluconazole in the treatment of candidemia.  Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease.  50:119-124. 2004

    Principal Investigator On

  • Private Grant  awarded by CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS 2008 - 2011

    • Education And Training

  • Doctor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham 1999
  • UAB Hospital, Internship 2000
  • UAB Hospital, Residency 2002
  • UAB Hospital, Postdoctoral Fellowship 2005

    • Full Name

  • Mukesh Patel

    • Blazerid

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