Dierdre B. Axell-House, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Academic Institute
Houston Methodist
Weill Cornell Medical College


Areas Of Expertise

Bacteria Antimicrobial resistance Cardiac device Infections Clinical trial methodology
Publications

Clinical Features and Genomic Epidemiology of Bloodstream Infections due to Enterococcal Species Other Than Enterococcus faecalis or E. faecium in Patients With Cancer
Axell-House, DB, Ashley, PA, Egge, SL, Tran, TT, Pedroza, C, Zhang, M, Dinh, AQ, Simar, SR, Sahasrabhojane, PV, Miller, WR, Shelburne, SA, Hanson, BM & Arias, CA 2024, , Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 11, no. 6. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae288

LiaX is a surrogate marker for cell envelope stress and daptomycin non-susceptibility in Enterococcus faecium
Axell-House, DB, Simar, SR, Panesso, D, Rincon, S, Miller, WR, Khan, A, Pemberton, OA, Valdez, L, Nguyen, AH, Hood, KS, Rydell, K, DeTranaltes, AM, Jones, MN, Atterstrom, R, Reyes, J, Sahasrabhojane, PV, Suleyman, G, Zervos, M, Shelburne, S, Singh, KV, Shamoo, Y, Hanson, BM, Tran, TT & Arias, CA 2024, , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 68, no. 3. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01069-23

LiaX is a surrogate marker for cell envelope stress and daptomycin non-susceptibility in Enterococcus faecium
Axell-House, DB, Simar, SR, Panesso, D, Rincon, S, Miller, WR, Khan, A, Pemberton, OA, Valdez, L, Nguyen, AH, Hood, KS, Rydell, K, DeTranaltes, AM, Jones, MN, Atterstrom, R, Reyes, J, Sahasrabhojane, PV, Suleyman, G, Zervos, M, Shelburne, S, Singh, KV, Shamoo, Y, Hanson, BM, Tran, TT & Arias, CA 2024, , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 68, no. 3. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01069-23

Co-Occurrence of Gram-Negative Rods in Patients with Hematologic Malignancy and Sinopulmonary Mucormycosis
Egge, SL, Wurster, S, Cho, SY, Jiang, Y, Axell-House, DB, Miller, WR & Kontoyiannis, DP 2024, , Journal of Fungi, vol. 10, no. 1, 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof10010041

Endophthalmitis, Cutaneous Nodules, and Brain Lesions in Stem Cell Transplant Recipient
Axell-House, DB, Nagarajan, P, Bhatti, MM, Mehta, RS, Roy, S, Ali, IKM & John, TM 2023, , Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 77, no. 8, pp. 1212-1215. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad198

Intravenous tecovirimat treatment of oral monkeypox lesions in a patient with HIV-1
Chen, WH & Axell-House, DB 2023, , Journal of Medical Virology, vol. 95, no. 9, e29078, pp. e29078. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.29078, https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.29078

Intravenous tecovirimat treatment of oral monkeypox lesions in a patient with HIV-1
Chen, WH & Axell-House, DB 2023, , Journal of Medical Virology, vol. 95, no. 9, e29078. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.29078

Sirolimus suppresses circulating fibrocytes in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in a randomized controlled crossover trial
Gomez-Manjarres, DC, Axell-House, DB, Patel, DC, Odackal, J, Yu, V, Burdick, MD & Mehrad, B 2023, , JCI insight, vol. 8, no. 8, e166901. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.166901

Multisite Detection of Tn1549-Mediated vanB Vancomycin Resistance in Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis ST6 in Texas and Florida
Simar, SR, Tran, TT, Rydell, KB, Panesso, D, Contreras, GA, Munita, JM, Cifuentes, RO, Abbo, LM, Sahasrabhojane, P, Dinh, AQ, Axell-House, DB, Savidge, T, Shelburne, SA, Hanson, BM & Arias, CA 2023, , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 67, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01284-22

The enterococci
Nguyen, AH, Axell-House, DB, Miller, WR & Arias, CA 2023, . in Molecular Medical Microbiology, Third Edition. Elsevier, pp. 755-774. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818619-0.00046-0

Clinical Approach to Evaluation of Underlying Cardiac Device Infection in Patients Hospitalized with Bacteremia
Axell-House, DB, Khalil, S & Sohail, MR 2023, , Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 48-57. https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1271

LiaX is a surrogate marker for cell-envelope stress and daptomycin non-susceptibility in Enterococcus faecium
Axell-House, DB, Simmar, S, Rincon, S, Miller, WR, Khan, A, Pemberton, O, Valdez, L, Nguyen, A, Hood, KS, Rydell, K, DeTranaltes, AM, Jones, MN, Atterstrom, R, Reyes, J, Sahasrabhojane, P, Suleyman, G, Zervos, MJ, Shelburne, SA, Singh, KV, Shamoo, Y, Hanson, BM, Tran, C & Arias, CA 2023, , bioRxiv.

Clinical Approach to Evaluation of Underlying Cardiac Device Infection in Patients Hospitalized with Bacteremia
Axell-House, DB, Khalil, S & Sohail, MR 2023, , Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 48-57. https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1271

Impact of Hyperglycemia and Diabetes Mellitus on Breakthrough Mucormycosis Outcomes in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies—Complex and Intriguing Associations
Franklin, A, Wurster, S, Axell-House, DB, Jiang, Y & Kontoyiannis, DP 2022, , Journal of Fungi, vol. 9, no. 1, 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof9010045

Multisite Detection of Tn1549-Mediated vanB Vancomycin Resistance in Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis ST6 in Texas and Florida
Simar, SR, Tran, TT, Rydell, KB, Panesso, D, Contreras, GA, Munita, JM, Cifuentes, RO, Abbo, LM, Sahasrabhojane, P, Dinh, AQ, Axell-House, DB, Savidge, T, Shelburne, SA, Hanson, BM & Arias, CA 2023, , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. e0128422. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01284-22, https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01284-22

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for Enterococci
Khan, A, Miller, WR, Axell-House, D, Munita, JM & Arias, CA 2022, , Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 60, no. 9, pp. e0084321. https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00843-21

Taking a Closer Look: Clinical and Histopathological Characteristics of Culture-Positive versus Culture-Negative Pulmonary Mucormycosis
Spallone, A, Moran, CA, Wurster, S, Axell-House, DB & Kontoyiannis, DP 2022, , Journal of Fungi, vol. 8, no. 4, 380. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8040380

LiaX, a Member of the LiaFSR System, is Essential for Cell Envelope Adaptation System in Enterococcus faecium
Tran, C, Panesso, D, Zhao, A, Khan, A, Axell-House, DB, Shamoo, Y & Arias, CA 2022, , IDWeek 2022, 10/19/22 - 10/23/22.

Breakthrough mucormycosis developing on mucorales-active antifungals portrays a poor prognosis in patients with hematologic cancer
Axell-House, DB, Wurster, S, Jiang, Y, Kyvernitakis, A, Lewis, RE, Tarrand, JJ, Raad, II & Kontoyiannis, DP 2021, , Journal of Fungi, vol. 7, no. 3, 217. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7030217

The estimation of diagnostic accuracy of tests for COVID-19: A scoping review
Axell-House, DB, Lavingia, R, Rafferty, M, Clark, E, Amirian, ES & Chiao, EY 2020, , Journal of Infection, vol. 81, no. 5, pp. 681-697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.08.043