Donald L. Jungkind, Ph.D.

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125 South 11th Street
Pavillion Building, Suite 207
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-6726
(215) 923-6039 fax

Medical School
Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston, 1972

Fellowship
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology

Board Certification
Diplomate American Board of Medical Microbiology

University Appointment
Professor
Director, Clinical Microbiology

Research and Clinical Interests
Our clinical laboratory is engaged in translational research related to the detection and characterization of infectious diseases. This includes work on new laboratory instruments and methods of microbe detection, plus automation and its effect on workload. We are active in clinical trials of new tests and laboratory instrumentation. Currently this has led us to be involved with molecular and physical methods of detecting infection that are alternatives to traditional cultural techniques. Examples of these activities are listed below:

1. Evaluation of the Blood Culture Instrument BD Bactec FX
2. Evaluation of the Prodesse PCR Assay for Clostridium difficile
3. Roche Amplicor Chlamydia, Chlamydia/Gonorrhea, TB, and HCV PCR Assays
4. Roche COBAS AMPLICOR automated PCR Instrument
5. Roche AmpliPrep automated specimen preparation instrument for PCR
6. Development of blood culture media leading to BD Lytic medium for blood cultures

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Rothia mucilaginosa prosthetic device infections: A case of prosthetic valve endocarditis
2. Infections in Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, and Intestinal Transplant Recipients
3. Fatal case of Weeksella virosa sepsis
4. Infections in heart and lung transplant recipients
5. Sterility of the personal protection system in total joint arthroplasty
6. Erratum: In vitro susceptibility patterns of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative Staphylococcus corneal isolates to antibiotics (Comea (2010) 29 (1131-1135))
7. In vitro susceptibility patterns of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococcus corneal isolates to antibiotics
8. Post-traumatic fungal keratitis caused by carpoligna sp.
9. Apoptotic abscess imaging with 99mTc-HYNIC-rh-Annexin-V
10. Microbiological, clinical, and surgical features of fungal prosthetic joint infections: A multi-institutional experience
11. The inhibition of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm formation by vancomycin-modified titanium alloy and implications for the treatment of periprosthetic infection
12. A campylobacter rectus subdural empyema
13. Curvularia fungi presenting as a large cranial base meningioma: Case report
14. Ventriculoperitoneal shunt-associated Mycobacterium goodii infection
15. An outbreak of Fusarium keratitis associated with contact lens use in the northeastern United States
16. Emergence of Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia
17. Prevalence and acquisition of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a medical intensive care unit
18. Molecular testing for infectious disease
19. Enhancing the specificity of the COBAS AMPLICOR CT/NG test for Neisseria gonorrhoeae by retesting specimens with equivocal results
20. Automation of laboratory testing for infectious diseases using the polymerase chain reaction - Our past, our present, our future

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