William R. Miller, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Academic Institute
Assistant Clinical Member, Research Institute
Houston Methodist


Publications

A Case of successful treatment of recurrent urinary tract infection by extended-spectrum ß-lactamase producing klebsiella pneumoniae using oral lyophilized fecal microbiota transplant
Bier, N, Hanson, B, Jiang, ZD, Dupont, HL, Arias, CA & Miller, WR 2023, , Microbial Drug Resistance, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 34-38. https://doi.org/10.1089/mdr.2022.0031

Human Dectin-1 deficiency impairs macrophage-mediated defense against phaeohyphomycosis
Drummond, RA, Desai, JV, Hsu, AP, Oikonomou, V, Vinh, DC, Acklin, JA, Abers, MS, Walkiewicz, MA, Anzick, SL, Swamydas, M, Vautier, S, Natarajan, M, Oler, AJ, Yamanaka, D, Mayer-Barber, KD, Iwakura, Y, Bianchi, D, Driscoll, B, Hauck, K, Kline, A, Viall, NSP, Zerbe, CS, Ferré, EMN, Schmitt, MM, DiMaggio, T, Pittaluga, S, Butman, JA, Zelazny, AM, Shea, YR, Arias, CA, Ashbaugh, C, Mahmood, M, Temesgen, Z, Theofiles, AG, Nigo, M, Moudgal, V, Bloch, KC, Kelly, SG, Suzanne Whitworth, M, Rao, G, Whitener, CJ, Mafi, N, Gea-Banacloche, J, Kenyon, LC, Miller, WR, Boggian, K, Gilbert, A, Sincock, M, Freeman, AF, Bennett, JE, Hasbun, R, Mikelis, CM, Kwon-Chung, KJ, Belkaid, Y, Brown, GD, Lim, JK, Kuhns, DB, Holland, SM & Lionakis, MS 2022, , Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 132, no. 22, e159348. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI159348

Bacterial cell membranes and their role in daptomycin resistance: A review
Nguyen, AH, Hood, K, Mileykovskaya, E, Miller, WR & Tran, C 2022, , Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2022.1035574

Bacterial cell membranes and their role in daptomycin resistance: A review
Nguyen, AH, Hood, KS, Mileykovskaya, E, Miller, WR & Tran, TT 2022, , Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, vol. 9, 1035574. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2022.1035574

LiaF is required for LiaX mediated protection against daptomycin and LL-37 in Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF
Panesso, D, Singh, KV, Villegas, SG, Khan, A, Supandy, A, Nguyen, AH, Rincon, S, Wood, K, Dinh, A, Research, H, Miller, WR, Shamoo, Y, Tran, C & Arias, CA 2022, . in LiaF is required for LiaX mediated protection against daptomycin and LL-37 in Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF. <https://www.eventscribe.net/2022/IDWeek/searchGlobal.asp>

Unravelling complex transposable elements surrounding blaGES-16 in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoU strain
Streling, AP, Cayô, R, Catan, TA, Jové, T, Santos, FF, Nodari, CS, Hanson, B, Miller, WR, Shropshire, W, Dinh, AQ, Ribeiro, J, Pignatari, ACC, Arias, CA & Gales, AC 2022, , Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, vol. 30, pp. 143-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2022.04.009

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. https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00843-21

Prevalence and Characterization of the Cefazolin Inoculum Effect in North American Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Isolates
CLSI Cefazolin High Inoculum Ad-Hoc Working Group 2022, , Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 60, no. 7. https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02495-21

Evolution of Enterococcus faecium in Response to a Combination of Daptomycin and Fosfomycin Reveals Distinct and Diverse Adaptive Strategies
Supandy, A, Mehta, HH, Tran, TT, Miller, WR, Zhang, R, Xu, L, Arias, CA & Shamoo, Y 2022, , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 66, no. 6. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.02333-21

Real-World Performance of Susceptibility Testing for Ceftolozane/Tazobactam against Non-Carbapenemase- Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Rivas, L, Alcalde-Rico, M, Martínez, JRW, Moreno, MV, Rojas, P, Wozniak, A, García, P, Olivares-Pacheco, J, Miller, WR, Arias, CA, Khan, A & Munita, JM 2022, , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 66, no. 1, e01657-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01657-21

Association of PBP4 Variants and ß-lactam Susceptibility in Enterococcus faecalis
Tran, C, Simar, SR, Egge, S, Atterstrom, R, Dinh, AQ, Hanson, BM, Contreras, GA, Zervos, MJ, Abbo, LM, Shimose, LA, Shelburne, SA, Arias, CA & Miller, WR 2022, , IDWeek 2022, 10/19/22 - 10/23/22.

Evolution of Cefiderocol Non-Susceptibility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Patient Without Previous Exposure to the Antibiotic
Streling, AP, Al Obaidi, MM, Lainhart, WD, Zangeneh, T, Khan, A, Dinh, AQ, Hanson, B, Arias, CA & Miller, WR 2021, , Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. E4472-E4474. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1909

Activation of the Enterococcus faecalis Cell Envelope Stress Response through the Novel MadRS System Is Associated With Increased Size of Cardiac Microlesions
Miller, WR, Singh, KV & Arias, CA 2021, . in Activation of the Enterococcus faecalis Cell Envelope Stress Response through the Novel MadRS System Is Associated With Increased Size of Cardiac Microlesions. vol. 8, PMCID: PMC8644875, Open Forum Infect Dis. USA. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab466.1196

Polymorphisms in Key Regulatory Regions of the bla operon Correlate with the Cefazolin Inoculum Effect in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA)
Gomez-Villegas, SI, Rios, R, Diaz, L, Dinh, A, Panesso, D, Rincon, S, Carvajal, LP, Reyes, MI, Murray, BE, Miller, WR, Singh, KV, Reyes, J & Arias, CA 2021, . https://doi.org/doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab466.199

Evaluation of susceptibility testing methods for aztreonam and ceftazidime-avibactam combination therapy on extensively drug-resistant gram-negative organisms
Khan, A, Erickson, SG, Pettaway, C, Arias, CA, Miller, WR & Bhatti, MM 2021, , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 65, no. 11, e00846-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00846-21

Genomic analysis of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST143 clone showing susceptibility to broad-spectrum cephalosporins
Streling, AP, Cayô, R, Nodari, CS, Almeida, LGP, Santos, FF, Hanson, B, Dinh, AQ, Vasconcelos, ATR, Miller, WR, Arias, CA & Gales, AC 2021, , Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, vol. 26, pp. 177-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2021.05.019

Erratum: A multicenter study to evaluate ceftaroline breakpoints: Performance in an area with high prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 5 lineage (J Clin Microbiol (2019) 57:9 (e00798-19) DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00798-19)
Khan, A, Rivas, LM, Spencer, M, Martinez, R, Lam, M, Rojas, P, Porte, L, Silva, F, Braun, S, Valdivieso, F, M?lhauser, M, Lafourcade, M, Miller, WR, García, P, Arias, CA & Munita, JM 2021, , Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 59, no. 6, e00734-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00734-21

A Test for the Rapid Detection of the Cefazolin Inoculum Effect in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
Rincon, S, Carvajal, LP, Gomez-Villegas, SI, Echeverri, AM, Rios, R, Dinh, A, Pedroza, C, Ordoñez, KM, Nannini, E, Sun, Z, Fowler, VG, Murray, BE, Miller, WR, Palzkill, T, Diaz, L, Arias, CA & Reyes, J 2021, , Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 59, no. 4, e01938-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01938-20

Daptomycin resistance in enterococcus faecium can be delayed by disruption of the LiaFSR stress response pathway
Prater, AG, Mehta, HH, Beabout, K, Supandy, A, Miller, WR, Tran, TT, Arias, CA & Shamoo, Y 2021, , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 65, no. 4, e01317-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01317-20

Resistance in Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
Miller, WR, Murray, BE, Rice, LB & Arias, CA 2020, , Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 751-771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2020.08.004