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Faculty Detail     Name STEPHEN A MOSER   Campus Address WP P230 Zip 7331 Phone 205-934-6421 E-mail moser@uab.edu Other websites

Faculty Appointment(s) Appointment Type Department Division Rank Primary  Pathology   Laboratory Medicine Professor Secondary  Microbiology  Microbiology Associate Professor Center  Center for AIDS Research  Center for AIDS Research Professor Center  General Clinical Research Center  Center for Outcomes & Effectiveness Res & Educ Professor

Graduate Biomedical Sciences Affiliations Integrative Biomedical Sciences  Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

Biographical Sketch  Stephen A. Moser, Ph.D. is Professor of Pathology in the Division of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He serves as Section Head for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at University of Alabama Hospital. Dr. Moser has a special interest in fungal diseases and has established the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation Fungal Reference Laboratory and serves as Director. He has been in academic positions first at Tulane School of Medicine Department of Microbiology (4 years) followed by Washington University Department of Pathology (10 years) and now at UAB since 1992. He is an Editor of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology published by the American Society of Microbiology.

Society Memberships Organization Name Position Held Org Link American Society for Microbiology  Editor, Journal of Clinical Microbiology  www.asm.org  International Society for Human and Animal Mycology  Member  www.isham.org

Research/Clinical Interest Title Pulmonary mycotic infections, Antifungal Susceptibility, Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections. Description Clinical Microbiology: Due to the nature of clinical microbiology, the areas of Dr. Moser's investigation and publication are diverse. Most studies have involved the assessment of methods for providing more rapid or accurate diagnostic test results to physicians. Many have involved pathology residents and serve an important educational role by teaching research methods and exposing them to presenting at national scientific meetings. The areas covered include mycology, bacteriology, mycobacteriology, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Current active research addresses the early diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in hematopoetic stem cell transplant recipients using real-time PCR; molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus mutans.

Selected Publications  Publication PUBMEDID Momeni, S.K, J. Whiddon, S.A. Moser, K. Cheon, J.D. Ruby, and N.K. Childers. 2013. Comparative genotyping of Streptococcus mutans by repetitive extragenic palindromic polymerase chain reaction and multilocus sequence typing. Mol. Oral Microbiol. 28:18-27.  23194334  McKinnell, J.A., D. Kunz, E. Chamot, M. Patel, R. Shirley, S.A. Moser, J. Baddley P. Pappas and L. Miller. 2012. Association of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus bacteremia and ceftriaxone usage. Inf Contol Hosp Epi. 33:718-724.  22669234  McKinnell, J.A., A.P. Cannella, D.F. Kunz, E.W. Hook, 3rd, S.A. Moser, L.G. Miller, J.W. Baddley and P.G. Pappas. 2012. Pneumocystis pneumonia in hospitalized patients: a detailed examination of symptoms, management, and outcomes in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and HIV-uninfected persons. Transpl Infect Dis. 14:510-518.  22669234  Xiao, Li, D.M. Crabb, S.A. Moser, L.B. Duffy, J.I. Glass, V. Paralanov, and K.B. Waites. 2011. Genotypic characterization of Ureaplasma serovars from clinical isolates by pulsed field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol. 49:3325-3328.  21795510  Mdodo, R, S.A. Moser, W. Jaoko, J.W. Baddley, P.G. Pappas, M-C. Kempf, C. Aban, S. Odera, and P. Jolly. 2011. Antifungal susceptibilities of Cryptococcus neoformans cerebrospinal fluid isolates from AIDS patients in Kenya. Mycoses. 54:e438-442.  21535451  Cheon, K., SA. Moser, J. Whiddon, R.C. Osgood, S. Momeni, J.D. Ruby, G.R. Cuter, D.B. Allison, and N.K. Childers. 2011. Genetic diversity of plaque mutans Streptococci with rep-PCR. J. Dental Res. 90:331-335.  21297016   McKinnell, J.A., M. Patel, R.M. Shirley, D.F. Kunz, S.A. Moser and J.W. Baddley. 2010. Observational study of the epidemiology and outcomes of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus bacteremia treated with newer antimicrobial agents. Epidemiol. Infect. 15:1-9.  21073764   Munoz-Cadavid, C., S. Rudd, SR Zaki, M. Patel, S.A. Moser, M.E. Brandt, and B.L. Gomez. 2010. Improving molecular detection of fungal DNA in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues: comparison of five tissue DNA extraction methods using panfungal PCR. J. Clin. Microbiol. 48:2147-2153.  20392915  Moser, S.A., S.C. Mitchell, J.D. Ruby, S. Momeni, R.C. Osgood, J. Whiddon, and N.K. Childers. 2010. Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic-polymerase Chain Reaction (rep-PCR) for the Study of Streptococcus mutans Diversity and Transmission in Human Populations. J. Clin. Microbiol. 48:599-602.  20007400   Baddley, J.W., K.A. Marr, D.R. Andes, T.J. Walsh, C.A. Kauffman, D.P. Kontoyiannis, J. Ito, A. Balajee, P.G. Pappas, and S.A. Moser. 2009. Patterns of susceptibility of Aspergillus isolates recovered from patients enrolled in the Transplant Associated Infection Surveillance Network. J. Clin. Microbiol. 47:3271-3275.  19692558   First Prev   1 2 of  2  Next Last

Keywords mycology, diagnostic testing, informatics;epidemiology

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