Joel edward Mortensen, PhD

Doctorate: The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, 1983

Postdoctoral Residence Program in Medical and Public Health Microbiology: Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School Houston, TX, 1985

Areas of specialization: Clinical mircrobiology

- Associate Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center,

Peer Reviewed Publications

Motley, W Walker; Melson, Andrew T; Mortensen, Joel E  (2011). Pediatric Metarrhizium anisopliae keratitis. Journal of AAPOS : the official publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus / American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 15 (1) , 101-3More Information

Major, Tiffany A; Panmanee, Warunya; Mortensen, Joel E; Gray, Larry D; Hoglen, Niel; Hassett, Daniel J  (2010). Sodium nitrite-mediated killing of the major cystic fibrosis pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Burkholderia cepacia under anaerobic planktonic and biofilm conditions. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 54 (11) , 4671-7More Information

Giannini, Courtney M; Kim, Hye K; Mortensen, Jonathan; Mortensen, Joel; Marsolo, Keith; Huppert, Jill  (2010). Culture of non-genital sites increases the detection of gonorrhea in women. Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology, 23 (4) , 246-52More Information

Nguyen, Hiep T; Hurwitz, Richard S; Defoor, W Robert; Minevich, Eugene; McAdam, Alexander J; Mortensen, Joel E; Novak-Weekley, Susan M; Minnillo, Brian J; Elder, Jack S  (2010). Trimethoprim in vitro antibacterial activity is not increased by adding sulfamethoxazole for pediatric Escherichia coli urinary tract infection. The Journal of urology, 184 (1) , 305-10More Information

Henson, M.O, R. Sheridan, J.E. Mortensen.  (2010). Case Seventeen: A Critical Case of Community Pneumonia. . Journal of Continuing Education, 12 (1) , 14-21

Morovic, A., A. Bowman, C. Meeks, J.E. Mortensen.  (2010). Case Eighteen: Infection or Environment? . Journal of Continuing Education, 12 (2) , 68-72

Propst, E.J., J.D. Prager, S.R. Shott, B. Koch, J.E. Mortensen, J.H. Greinwald.  (2010). Resolution of hypoglossal nerve palsy associated with retropharyngeal abscess after prompt medical and surgical treatment. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology Extra

McDaniel, Cameron; Su, Shengchang; Panmanee, Warunya; Lau, Gee W; Browne, Tristan; Cox, Kevin; Paul, Andrew T; Ko, Seung-Hyun B; Mortensen, Joel E; Lam, Joseph S; Muruve, Daniel A; Hassett, Daniel J  (2016). A Putative ABC Transporter Permease Is Necessary for Resistance to Acidified Nitrite and EDTA in Pseudomonas aeruginosa under Aerobic and Anaerobic Planktonic and Biofilm Conditions. Frontiers in microbiology, 7, 291More Information

Mortensen, Joel E; Ventrola, Cindi; Hanna, Sarah; Walter, Adam  (2015). Comparison of time-motion analysis of conventional stool culture and the BD MAX™ Enteric Bacterial Panel (EBP). BMC clinical pathology, 15, 9More Information

Rams, Thomas E; Feik, Diane; Mortensen, Joel E; Degener, John E; van Winkelhoff, Arie J  (2014). Antibiotic susceptibility of periodontal Streptococcus constellatus and Streptococcus intermedius clinical isolates. Journal of periodontology, 85 (12) , 1792-8More Information

Wiederhold, Nathan P; Sutton, Deanna A; Li, De-Wei; Liang, Yu; Thompson, Elizabeth H; Wickes, Brian L; Herrera, Monica L; Rhoads, Sandra L; Mortensen, Joel E  (2014). Stachybotrys eucylindrospora isolated from foreign material following a traumatic eye injury. Mycoses, 57 (7) , 437-41More Information

Gupta, Mani; Khalequzzaman, Md; Jodele, Sonata; Mortensen, Joel; Mueller, Mark A; Gupta, Anita  (2014). Crusted scabies in a 15-year-old boy with congenital neutropenia and myelodysplastic syndrome. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 32 (12) , e49-51More Information

Powell, Eleanor A; Blecker-Shelly, Deborah; Montgomery, Sandra; Mortensen, Joel E  (2013). Application of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for identification of the fastidious pediatric pathogens Aggregatibacter, Eikenella, Haemophilus, and Kingella. Journal of clinical microbiology, 51 (11) , 3862-4More Information

Rams, Thomas E; Feik, Diane; Mortensen, Joel E; Degener, John E; van Winkelhoff, Arie J  (2013). Antibiotic susceptibility of periodontal Enterococcus faecalis. Journal of periodontology, 84 (7) , 1026-33More Information

Anderson, Neil W; Buchan, Blake W; Mayne, Donna; Mortensen, Joel E; Mackey, Tami-Lea A; Ledeboer, Nathan A  (2013). Multicenter clinical evaluation of the illumigene group A Streptococcus DNA amplification assay for detection of group A Streptococcus from pharyngeal swabs. Journal of clinical microbiology, 51 (5) , 1474-7More Information

Huppert, Jill S; Bennett, Kelly; Kollar, Linda M; Pattullo, Lucia; Mortensen, Joel E  (2011). MRSA: rare in the vagina. Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology, 24 (5) , 315-6More Information

Powell, E., J.E. Mortensen  (2016). What Every Microbiology Laboratory Needs to Know About Susceptibility Testing of Beta-Lactams and Gram-Negative Bacilli. Journal of Continuing Education: Topics and Issues, 18 (1) , 4-12

Harrington, S., B.W. Buchan, C. Doern, R. Fader, M.J. Ferraro, D.R. Pillai, J. Rychert, J.E. Mortensen  (2015). A multicenter evaluation of the BD MAX Enteric Bacterial Panel (EBP) for the detection of Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Campylobacter spp., and Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli . Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53 (5) , 1639 – 1647

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