Office Location:
Building 100, Room 301, SFGH

Research Interests:
Molecular epidemiology of bacterial infections.  Microbial pathogenesis and resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to antimicrobials

Select Publications:

Moore MR, Perdreau-Remington F, and Chambers HF. 2003. Vancomycin Treatment Failure Associated with Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a Patient with Endocarditis and in the Rabbit Model of Endocarditis. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 47:1262-1266.

Pan E, Carleton H , Charlebois ED, Perdreau-Remington F. 2003. Dramatic increase in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates among inmates of Jails in San Francisco, California between 1997 and 2002. Clin. Inf. Dis. 37:1384-1388.

Diep BA, Sensabaugh GF, Somboonna N, Carleton H, Perdreau-Remington F. 2004. Widespread skin and soft tissue infections due to two MRSA strains harboring the genes for Panton-Valentine leukocidin. J.Clin. Microbiol. 42:2080-2084.

Carleton H, Diep BA, CharleboisE, Sensabaugh GF, Perdreau-Remington F. 2004. Community-adapted MRSA: Dynamics of an expanding community reservoir of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Infect Dis. 190:1730-1738.

Miller,G L, Perdreau-Remington F, Mehdi S, Perlroth J, Rieg G, Tang A, Bayer A, Spellberg B. 2005. Fourteen patients with necrotizing fascitis caused by community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Los Angeles. NEJM. 352:1445-1453.

Education and Training:

M.S., Biology, University of Munich, Germany, 1974

Ph.D., Microbiology, Technical University, Munich, Germany, 1979

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany, 1980-1985