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Christopher Shoff

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Infectious Diseases
315 Trent Drive, Hanes House Office 291, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications


Navigating the 2021 update to the IDSA/SHEA Clostridioides difficile guidelines: An ethical approach to equitable patient care.

Journal Article Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol · 2022 The 2021 focused update to the Infections Diseases Society of America/Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (IDSA/SHEA) guidelines for management of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) prioritizes the use of fidaxomicin over vancomycin for th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Staphylococcus aureus Prostatic Abscess in the Setting of Prolonged S. aureus Bacteremia.

Journal Article Case Rep Infect Dis · 2020 Staphylococcus aureus rarely causes prostatic abscess. We report five cases of S. aureus prostatic abscess in the setting of bacteremia at our institution that occurred between 12/2018 and 05/2019. Three of the cases were caused by MRSA, and four of the pa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk Factors Associated With Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Program Failure Among Intravenous Drug Users.

Journal Article Open Forum Infect Dis · 2017 Sixty-one percent of intravenous drug users (IVDUs) who received outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) failed treatment. Hospital readmission and adverse drug reactions occurred in 25%. By multivariate analysis, time since last IVDU was associate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Loss of imprinting of IGF2 and the epigenetic progenitor model of cancer.

Journal Article Am J Stem Cells · 2012 Among the hypotheses discussing cancer formation, the cancer stem cell (CSC) theory is one receiving widespread support. One version of this theory states that changes in otherwise healthy cells can cause formation of tumor- initiating cells (TICs), which ... Link to item Cite
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