Virginia Commonwealth University Service

Director of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Pathology
Professor, Pathology and Medicine

Licenses & Certifications

Diplomate, American Board of Medical Microbiology and Public Health, 1990-present

Education

Postdoctoral Education
American Academy of Microbiology Approved Postdoctoral Educational Programs in Public Health and Medical Laboratory Microbiology: University of Michigan Visiting Scholar, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Graduate Education
PhD, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Undergraduate Education
BA, Biology
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Editorial Boards

Editor, Clinical Microbiology Newsletter, Elsevier, 2004-present.

Member, Editorial board, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, American Society for Microbiology, 1993-1997, 2004-present.

Invited Reviewer, ongoing: J. Infectious Diseases, J. Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Molecular and Cellular Probes, Tubercle and Lung Disease, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, American Society of Microbiology, 1997-2002.

Professional Organizations

American Society for Microbiology
Infectious Disease Society of America, Fellow
American Academy of Microbiology, Fellow

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

Cazacu, A.C., G.J. Demmler, M.A. Neuman, B.A. Forbes, S. Chung, J. Greer, A.E. Alvarez, R. Williams and N. Bartholoma: 2004. Comparison of a new lateral-flow chromatographic membrane immunoassay compared to viral culture for rapid detection and differentiation of influenza A and B viruses in respiratory specimens. J. Clin. Microbiol. 42:3661-3664, 2004.

Marra, A.R., Edmond, M.B., Forbes, B.A., Wenzel, R.P. and G.L. Bearman:  Time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcome in Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection.  J. Clin. Microbiol.  44: 1342-1346, 2006.

Choudary, M., Ramirez, L., Long, R., Simmons, K.B., Blair, D.B., Forbes, B.A., Same, K., Ploutz-Synder, R. and F.R. Rose.  2006.  A university hospital’s 10-year experience with tuberculin testing: value of the 2-step tuberculin skin test.  Am. J. Infect. Cont. 34: 358-361.

Books and Chapters

Forbes, B.A., G. Pfyffer and K.D. Eisenach. Molecular Diagnosis of Mycobacterial Infections. In S.T. Cole, K.D. Eisenach, D.N. McMurray and W.R. Jacobs, Jr. (ed.) Tuberculosis and the Tubercle Bacillus, 2 nd ed. American Society of Microbiology, Washington, D.C., 2004.

Forbes, B.A.  Mycobacterial Infections:  In D.G.B. Leonard (ed.)  Molecular Pathology in Clinical Practice, Springer Science, New York, NY, 2007.

Forbes, B.A., D.F. Sahm, and A.S. Weissfeld: Diagnostic Microbiology, 12th ed., WB Saunders, Harcourt Health Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, 2007.

Recent Invited Presentations

 “PCR Changes for Laboratories”, SEACM Virginia Spring Meeting, Richmond, VA.  March 23, 2007

“MRSA PCR”, Nurses Training Conference, Department of Corrections, Crozier, VA.  May 10-11, 2007.

“Clinical Microbiology in Jeopardy”, Interactive Symposium, ASM 107th General Meeting, Toronto, CA, May 23, 2007.

“A novel form of oxacillin resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.  ASM 107th General Meeting, Toronto, CA, May 24, 2007.

 “Laboratory diagnosis of mycobacterial infections:  an update and the new proposed CLSI guidelines."  Annual Workshop, Eastern Branch of the ASM and the Pennsylvania Department of Health and National Laboratory Training Network, Philadelphia, PA.  June 26, 2007

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Updated February 21, 2008