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L. Clifford McDonald

CDC Foundation · US
Area of research
Infectious Diseases · Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Research interest
Research interests include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Nosocomial Infections in ICU, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus.
h-index
75
citations
33,240
works
336
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Uncovering the Hidden Impacts of Modern Medicine's Expanding Pharmacopeia on Clostridioides difficile Infection Risk.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Correspondence to "Escape Velocity-The Launch of Microbiome Therapies".
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
The Impact of a Nationwide Blood Culture Bottle Shortage in 2024 on Healthcare Facilities in the United States.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Public health case for microbiome-sparing antibiotics and new opportunities for drug development.
2024cited by 4position: contributordoi
Commensal or pathogen: computationally vectorizing microbial genomes for<i>de novo</i>risk assessment and virulence feature discovery in<i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
Reference Susceptibility Testing and Genomic Surveillance of Clostridioides difficile, United States, 2012-17.
2023cited by 23position: contributordoi
SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Responses to the Ancestral SARS-CoV-2 Strain and Omicron BA.1 and BA.4/BA.5 Variants in Nursing Home Residents After Receipt of Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine - Ohio and Rhode Island, September-November 2022.
2023cited by 19position: contributordoi
Pandemic Demand for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Led to Critical Supply and Workforce Shortages in U.S. Clinical and Public Health Laboratories.
2023cited by 18position: contributordoi
Selective and Cascade Reporting of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Results and Its Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance-National Healthcare Safety Network, April 2020 to March 2021.
2023cited by 7position: contributordoi
Monoclonal Antibodies as SARS-CoV-2 Serology Standards: Experimental Validation and Broader Implications for Correlates of Protection.
2023cited by 3position: contributordoi
Reply to Gonzales-Luna et al.
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Use of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antibody Tests by US Infectious Disease Physicians: Results of an Emerging Infections Network Survey, March 2022.
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Advancing Diagnostic Stewardship for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antibiotic Resistance, and Sepsis.
2022cited by 52position: contributordoi
Development and Validation of an Enzyme Immunoassay for Detection and Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 Salivary IgA and IgG.
2022cited by 26position: contributordoi
SARS-CoV-2 Convalescent Sera Binding and Neutralizing Antibody Concentrations Compared with COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Estimates against Symptomatic Infection.
2022cited by 11position: contributordoi
Are Vancomycin Non-Susceptible Clostridioides difficile Strains Emerging?
2022cited by 10position: contributordoi
Associations of facility-level antibiotic use and hospital-onset <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> infection in US acute-care hospitals, 2012-2018.
2022cited by 10position: contributordoi
Repeated antigen testing among severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-positive nursing home residents.
2022cited by 3position: contributordoi
Descriptive evaluation of antibody responses to severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in plasma and gingival crevicular fluid in a nursing home cohort-Arkansas, June-August 2020.
2022cited by 3position: contributordoi
Longitudinal serologic and viral testing post-SARS-CoV-2 infection and post-receipt of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in a nursing home cohort-Georgia, October 2020‒April 2021.
2022cited by 1position: contributordoi
Longitudinal serologic and viral testing post–SARS-CoV-2 infection and post-receipt of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in a nursing home cohort—Georgia, October 2020‒April 2021
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Assay Needs for the Next Phase of the US COVID-19 Pandemic Response.
2021cited by 59position: contributordoi
Performance Evaluation of Serial SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing During a Nursing Home Outbreak.
2021cited by 57position: contributordoi
Implementation and Evolution of Mitigation Measures, Testing, and Contact Tracing in the National Football League, August 9-November 21, 2020.
2021cited by 43position: contributordoi
Research on the Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Essential Response Personnel (RECOVER): Protocol for a Multisite Longitudinal Cohort Study
JMIR Research Protocols 2021cited by 29position: middledoi
Research on the Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Essential Response Personnel (RECOVER): Protocol for a Multisite Longitudinal Cohort Study.
2021cited by 23position: contributordoi
Human Colonization With Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Getting to the Bottom of Antibiotic Resistance.
2021cited by 18position: contributordoi
Antibiotic Multidrug Resistance of Escherichia coli Causing Device- and Procedure-related Infections in the United States Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network, 2013-2017.
2021cited by 16position: contributordoi
Framing Bacterial Genomics for Public Health (Care).
2021cited by 11position: contributordoi
Infectious Period of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in 17 Nursing Home Residents-Arkansas, June-August 2020.
2021cited by 9position: contributordoi

Grants

Peer Influence on Anger Regulation in Adolescence
NSF2444365$381,7112025–2028PIRePORTER
Quantitative Analysis of Behavior in Spermophilus Beecheyi
NSF7610014$10,0001976–1978PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Dale N. Gerding · Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital15 papers (2013–2020)Ghinwa Dumyati · University of Rochester Medical Center15 papers (2013–2020)Zintars G. Beldavs · Oregon Medical Research Center11 papers (2013–2020)Monica M. Farley · Emory University11 papers (2013–2020) · 11 papers (2019–2026)Lisa G. Winston · City College of San Francisco10 papers (2013–2020)Stacy Holzbauer · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention10 papers (2013–2020)Erin C. Phipps · University of New Mexico9 papers (2013–2020)John A. Jernigan · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention9 papers (2014–2022)Lucy Wilson · Maryland Department of Health9 papers (2013–2020)Natalie J. Thornburg · CDC Foundation9 papers (2021–2023) · 7 papers (2013–2016)Yi Mu · Sichuan Normal University6 papers (2014–2020)James Meek · Yale New Haven Health System6 papers (2014–2016)Marion Kainer · Western Health6 papers (2017–2020)Carolyn V. Gould · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention6 papers (2013–2018) · 6 papers (2013–2019)Jessica Cohen · University of Rochester Medical Center6 papers (2013–2016)Thomas J. Sandora · Boston Medical Center5 papers (2014–2018)Curtis J. Donskey · Case Western Reserve University5 papers (2013–2018)