Tara Palmore, MD
- Academic Title: Professor
- Primary Appointment: Medicine
- Email: tpalmore@ihv.umaryland.edu
Education and Training
A.B., Harvard College
M.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weil Cornell Medical Center
Infectious Diseases Fellowship, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Highlighted Publications
Genomic Analysis of Hospital Plumbing Reveals Diverse Reservoir of Bacterial Plasmids Conferring Carbapenem Resistance. mBio. 2018 Feb 6;9(1). doi: 10.1128/mBio.02011-17. PubMed PMID: 29437920
Antimicrobial Resistance. JAMA. 2016 Sep 20;316(11):1193-1204. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.11764. PubMed PMID: 27654605.
Use of Postexposure Prophylaxis After Occupational Exposure to Zaire ebolavirus. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Aug 1;63(3):376-9. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw256. Epub 2016 Apr 26. PubMed PMID: 27118786
Severe Meningoencephalitis in a Case of Ebola Virus Disease: A Case Report. Ann Intern Med. 2016 Aug 16;165(4):301-4. doi: 10.7326/M15-3066. Epub 2016 Apr 5. PubMed PMID: 27043004
Palmore TN, Barrett K, Michelin A, Ramsburg A, Lee LM, Davey RT, Henderson DK. Challenges in managing patients who have suspected or confirmed Ebola virus infection at the National Institutes of Health. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Jun;36(6):623-6. doi: 10.1017/ice.2015.60. PubMed PMID: 25994322
Conlan S, Thomas PJ, Deming C, Park M, Lau AF, Dekker JP, Snitkin ES, Clark TA, Luong K, Song Y, Tsai YC, Boitano M, Dayal J, Brooks SY, Schmidt B, Young AC, Thomas JW, Bouffard GG, Blakesley RW, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Mullikin JC, Korlach J, Henderson DK, Frank KM,* Palmore TN,* Segre JA.* Single-molecule sequencing to track plasmid diversity of hospital-associated carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Sci Transl Med. 2014 Sep 17;6(254):254ra126. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3009845. PubMed PMID: 25232178
Snitkin ES, Zelazny AM, Thomas PJ, Stock F, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program Group, Henderson DK, Palmore TN,* Segre JA.* Tracking a hospital outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with whole-genome sequencing. Sci Transl Med. 2012 Aug 22;4(148):148ra116. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3004129. PubMed PMID: 22914622