Infectious Diseases

Vance Garrison Fowler, MD

Professor of Medicine
Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute
Campus mail Duke Box 102359, Hanes House, Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 613-5678
Email address fowle003@mc.duke.edu

Determinants of Outcome in Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections
Infections due to Resistant Gram Positive Organisms
Tropical medicine/International Health

Education and Training

  • Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Duke University, 1996 - 1999
  • Medical Resident, Medicine, Duke University, 1993 - 1996
  • M.H.S., Duke University, 1999
  • M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993

Grants

Publications

Evans, SR, Hujer, AM, Jiang, H, Hill, CB, Hujer, KM, Mediavilla, JR, Manca, C, Tran, TTT, Domitrovic, TN, Higgins, PG, Seifert, H, Kreiswirth, BN, Patel, R, Jacobs, MR, Chen, L, Sampath, R, Hall, T, Marzan, C, Fowler, VG, Chambers, HF, and Bonomo, RA. "Correction for Evans et al., "Informing Antibiotic Treatment Decisions: Evaluating Rapid Molecular Diagnostics To Identify Susceptibility and Resistance to Carbapenems against Acinetobacter spp. in PRIMERS III"." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 55, no. 6 (June 2017): 1970-null.

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28536161
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Corneli, A, Perry, B, Collyar, D, Powers, JH, Donnelly, HK, De Anda, C, Hinton, D, Santiago, J, Calvert, SB, and Jr, FVG. "Formative research findings on the design of an early enrollment clinical trial on hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia (HABP) and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (VABP)." May 8, 2017.

Scholars@Duke

Marshall, S, Hujer, AM, Rojas, LJ, Papp-Wallace, KM, Humphries, RM, Spellberg, B, Hujer, KM, Marshall, EK, Rudin, SD, Perez, F, Wilson, BM, Wasserman, RB, Chikowski, L, Paterson, DL, Vila, AJ, van Duin, D, Kreiswirth, BN, Chambers, HF, Fowler, VG, Jacobs, MR, Pulse, ME, Weiss, WJ, and Bonomo, RA. "Can Ceftazidime-Avibactam and Aztreonam Overcome β-Lactam Resistance Conferred by Metallo-β-Lactamases in Enterobacteriaceae?." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 61, no. 4 (April 2017).

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28167541
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Cyr, DD, Allen, AS, Du, G-J, Ruffin, F, Adams, C, Thaden, JT, Maskarinec, SA, Souli, M, Guo, S, Dykxhoorn, DM, Scott, WK, and Fowler, VG. "Evaluating genetic susceptibility to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in African Americans using admixture mapping." Genes and immunity 18, no. 2 (March 23, 2017): 95-99.

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28332560
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Rojas, LJ, Salim, M, Cober, E, Richter, SS, Perez, F, Salata, RA, Kalayjian, RC, Watkins, RR, Marshall, S, Rudin, SD, Domitrovic, TN, Hujer, AM, Hujer, KM, Doi, Y, Kaye, KS, Evans, S, Fowler, VG, Bonomo, RA, van Duin, D, and Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group, . "Colistin Resistance in Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: Laboratory Detection and Impact on Mortality." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 64, no. 6 (March 2017): 711-718.

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27940944
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Thaden, JT, Li, Y, Ruffin, F, Maskarinec, SA, Hill-Rorie, JM, Wanda, LC, Reed, SD, and Fowler, VG. "Increased Costs Associated with Bloodstream Infections Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Are Due Primarily to Patients with Hospital-Acquired Infections." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 61, no. 3 (March 2017).

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27993852
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Cross, HR, Harris, A, Arias, RM, Chambers, HFC, Fowler, VG, Leadership and Operations Center, , and of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), . "Transforming Concepts Into Clinical Trials and Creating a Multisite Network: The Leadership and Operations Center of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group." Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 64, no. suppl_1 (March 2017): S8-S12. (Review)

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28350897
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Chambers, HFC, Cross, HR, Evans, SR, Kreiswirth, BN, Fowler, VG, and Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), . "The Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group: Progress Report and Work in Progress." Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 64, no. suppl_1 (March 2017): S3-S7.

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28350896
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Patel, R, Tsalik, EL, Petzold, E, Fowler, VG, Klausner, JD, Evans, S, and Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), . "MASTERMIND: Bringing Microbial Diagnostics to the Clinic." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 64, no. 3 (February 2017): 355-360.

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27927867
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Lantos, PM, Tsao, J, Nigrovic, LE, Auwaerter, PG, Fowler, VG, Ruffin, F, Foster, E, and Hickling, G. "Geographic Expansion of Lyme Disease in Michigan, 2000-2014." Open forum infectious diseases 4, no. 1 (January 9, 2017): ofw269-.

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28480261
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