Scott J Weissman, MD

Professional History

Board Certified:

Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics

Medical/Professional School:

University of California, California College of Medicine, Irvine

Residency:

Kaiser Permanente Health Care, Los Angeles, Pediatrics

Fellowship:

Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Pediatric Infectious Disease

Research Focus Area:

Infectious Disease

Key Publications:

Weissman, S. J., S. L. Moseley, D. E. Dykhuizen, and E. V. Sokurenko. 2003. Enterobacterial adhesins and the case for studying SNPs in bacteria. Trends Microbiol 11:115-117.

Qin, X., S. J. Weissman, M. F. Chesnut, B. Zhang, and L. Shen. 2004. Kirby-Bauer disc approximation to detect inducible third-generation cephalosporin resistance in Enterobacteriaceae. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 3:13. PMCID: PMC481081.

Sokurenko, E. V., M. Feldgarden, E. Trintchina, S. J. Weissman, S. Avagyan, S. Chattopadhyay, J. R. Johnson, and D. E. Dykhuizen. 2004. Selection footprint in the FimH adhesin shows pathoadaptive niche differentiation in Escherichia coli. Mol Biol Evol 21:1373-1383.

Johnson, J. R., K. L. Owens, C. R. Clabots, S. J. Weissman, and S. B. Cannon. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among clonal groups of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli as assessed by multi-locus sequence analysis. Microbes Infect 8:1702-1713.

Weissman, S. J., S. Chattopadhyay, P. Aprikian, M. Obata-Yasuoka, Y. Yarova-Yarovaya, A. Stapleton, W. Ba-Thein, D. Dykhuizen, J. R. Johnson, and E. V. Sokurenko. 2006. Clonal analysis reveals high rate of structural mutations in fimbrial adhesins of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 59:975-988. PMCID: PMC1380272.

Chattopadhyay, S., M. Feldgarden, S. J. Weissman, D. E. Dykhuizen, G. van Belle, and E. V. Sokurenko. 2007. Haplotype diversity in "source-sink" dynamics of Escherichia coli urovirulence. J Mol Evol 64:204-214.

Gomez-Duarte, O. G., S. Chattopadhyay, S. J. Weissman, J. A. Giron, J. B. Kaper, and E. V. Sokurenko. 2007. Genetic diversity of the gene cluster encoding longus, a type IV pilus of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 189:9145-9149. PMCID: PMC2168600.

Weissman, S. J., V. Beskhlebnaya, V. Chesnokova, S. Chattopadhyay, W. E. Stamm, T. M. Hooton, and E. V. Sokurenko. 2007. Differential stability and trade-off effects of pathoadaptive mutations in the Escherichia coli FimH adhesin. Infect Immun 75:3548-3555. PMCID: PMC1932922.

Qin, X., D. M. Zerr, S. J. Weissman, J. A. Englund, D. M. Denno, E. J. Klein, P. I. Tarr, J. Kwong, J. R. Stapp, L. G. Tulloch, and E. Galanakis. 2008. Prevalence and mechanisms of broad-spectrum beta-lactam resistance in Enterobacteriaceae: a children's hospital experience. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 52:3909-3914. PMCID: PMC2573145.

Stahlhut, S. G., S. Chattopadhyay, C. Struve, S. J. Weissman, P. Aprikian, S. J. Libby, F. C. Fang, K. A. Krogfelt, and E. V. Sokurenko. 2009. Population variability of the FimH type 1 fimbrial adhesin in Klebsiella pneumoniae. J Bacteriol; in press.