Infectious Diseases

Arthur Wakefield Baker, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Email address arthur.baker@duke.edu

Education and Training

  • Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2014 - 2016
  • Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2012 - 2016
  • Internal Medicine Residency, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2008 - 2011
  • M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
  • M.D., University of Kentucky College of Medicine, 2008

Grants

Publications

Turner, Nicholas, Andrew Strand, Dilraj S. Grewal, Gary Cox, Sana Arif, Arthur W. Baker, Eileen K. Maziarz, Jennifer H. Saullo, and Cameron R. Wolfe. “Use of Letermovir as Salvage Therapy for Drug-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Retinitis..” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 63, no. 3 (March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.02337-18.

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30642941
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Baker, Arthur W., Eileen K. Maziarz, Christopher J. Arnold, Melissa D. Johnson, Adrienne D. Workman, John M. Reynolds, John R. Perfect, and Barbara D. Alexander. “Invasive Fungal Infection after Lung Transplantation: Epidemiology in the Setting of Antifungal Prophylaxis..” Clin Infect Dis, February 25, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz156.

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30801642
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Chung, Shimin Jasmine, Rachel Ann Miller, Nitipong Permpalung, Arthur Wakefield Baker, Louis Frederic Diehl, David Alan Rizzieri, and Barbara Dudley Alexander. “Fluoroquinolone prophylaxis reduces febrile neutropenia, bloodstream infections from mucosal translocations, and intensive care admissions in high risk hematological patients, a single center experience..” Leuk Lymphoma 60, no. 2 (February 2019): 488–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428194.2018.1488252.

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Baker, Arthur W., Salah Haridy, Joseph Salem, Iulian Ilieş, Awatef O. Ergai, Aven Samareh, Nicholas Andrianas, James C. Benneyan, Daniel J. Sexton, and Deverick J. Anderson. “Performance of statistical process control methods for regional surgical site infection surveillance: a 10-year multicentre pilot study..” Bmj Qual Saf 27, no. 8 (August 2018): 600–610. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2017-006474.

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29175853
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Seidelman, Jessica, Arthur W. Baker, Deverick J. Anderson, Daniel J. Sexton, and Sarah S. Lewis. “Do Periarticular Joint Infections Present an Increase in Infection Risk?.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 39, no. 7 (July 2018): 890–91. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2018.80.

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Moehring, Rebekah W., Elizabeth S. Dodds Ashley, Xinru Ren, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Arthur W. Baker, Travis M. Jones, Sarah S. Lewis, Daniel J. Sexton, Deverick J. Anderson, and Deverick J. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenters Program. “Denominator Matters in Estimating Antimicrobial Use: A Comparison of Days Present and Patient Days..” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 39, no. 5 (May 2018): 612–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2018.54.

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29576019
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Baker, Arthur W., Michael B. Edmond, Loreen A. Herwaldt, Luke F. Chen, Sudha Srikantaswamy, and Daniel J. Sexton. “Real-Time Surveillance of Influenza Morbidity: Tracking Intensive Care Unit Resource Utilization..” Ann Am Thorac Soc 14, no. 12 (December 2017): 1810–17. https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201609-721OC.

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28799774
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Seidelman, Jessica, Kristen V. Dicks, Michael J. Durkin, Arthur W. Baker, Rebekah W. Moehring, Deverick J. Anderson, Daniel J. Sexton, Luke F. Chen, and Sarah S. Lewis. “Using Clinical Scenarios to Understand Preventability of Clostridium difficile Infections by Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Programs..” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 38, no. 6 (June 2017): 747–49. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.32.

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28285605
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Baker, Arthur W., Sarah S. Lewis, Barbara D. Alexander, Luke F. Chen, Richard J. Wallace, Barbara A. Brown-Elliott, Pamela J. Isaacs, et al. “Two-Phase Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Investigation and Mitigation..” Clin Infect Dis 64, no. 7 (April 1, 2017): 902–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw877.

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28077517
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Wolfe, C. R., A. W. Baker, C. B. Patel, P. A. Patel, C. A. Milano, J. N. Schroder, M. A. Daneshmand, B. D. Alexander, and E. K. Maziarz. “Mycobacterium Abscessus Infection in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices.” In Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 36:S257–S257. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2017.

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