Aboufaycal H, Adachi J, Hachem R, Kontoyiannis D, Safdar A, Chemaly R, Rolston K, Raad I. Risk factors and outcome of infection with multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli in patients with cancer. Abstract # 716. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). October 6-9, 2005, San Francisco

Ansari SR, Hanna HA, Hachem RY, Safdar A, Boktour M, Roslton KV, Raad II. Role of prior antibiotic use in emergence of multidrug-resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in cancer patients. Abstract # 371. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. October 6-9, 2005, San Francisco

Kumashi P, Safdar A,Chemaly R, Chamilos G, Raad II, Kontoyiannis DP. Fungal osteoarticular infections in cancer patients: a 10-year retrospective study. Abstract # 742. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. October 6–9, 2005, San Francisco

Aisenberg GM, Torres HA, Tarrand J, Safdar A,Chemaly RF. Herpes simplex virus in lower respiratory tract secretions in patients with solid tumors: shedding or infection? Abstract # 711. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. October 6–9, 2005, San Francisco

Safdar A*, Rodriguez G, Rolston K, Kantarjian H, Champlin R, Raad I, Kontoyiannis D. Efficacy of high-dose caspofungin in 22 cancer patients with invasive fungal infection. Abstract # O343. 15th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, April 2–5, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark. ORAL PRESENTATION

Picolos MK, Habra M, Safdar A, Sarlis NJ. Inactive pulmonary tuberculosis can mimic metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma in diagnostic radioiodine (131-I) whole body scintigraphy (Dx RAI WBC). 87th Annual Meeting of the American Endocrine Society.

Aisenberg G, Tarrand J, Rolston K, Kontoyiannis D, Raad I, Safdar A.*Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: changing spectrum of bacterial pneumonia in cancer patients with low-suspicion of S. maltophilia infection. Abstract # P1374. 15th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, April 2–5, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Yusuf AW, Ali S, Tong A, Swafford J, Durand JB, Kontoyiannis DP, Rolston KV, Raad II, Safdar A.* Clinical spectrum of endocarditis in patients with cancer: a case-control evaluation of culture-positive and culture-negative disease, 1994–2004. Abstract # P1292. 15th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, April 2–5, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

Chamilos G, Bodey GP, Luna M, Lewis RE, Rolston KV, Chemaly R, Safdar A, RaadI, Kontoyiannis DP. Trends in incidence of invasive fungal infections at a tertiary cancer center over a 14-year period: an autopsy study. Abstract # O336. 15th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, April 2–5, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark. ORAL PRESENTATION

Aisenberg G, Safdar A.* Clinical spectrum of Achromobacter xylosoxidans bloodstream infection in 44 patients with cancer. The 44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Abstract # K-749. American Society for Microbiology. October 30–November 2nd, 2004, Washington, DC.