Francoise Perdreau-Remington , Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
fpr@epi-center.ucsf.edu  

Mailing Address:
Room 301, Building 100
Division of Infectious Diseases
San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110

Office Location:
Building 100, Room 301, SFGH

Research Interests:
Molecular epidemiology of bacterial infections.  Microbial pathogenesis and resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to antimicrobials.

Select Publications:

Moore MR, Perdreau-Remington F, and Chambers HF.  Vancomycin Treatment Failure Associated with Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a Patient with Endocarditis and in the Rabbit Model of Endocarditis. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 47 , 1262-1266, (2003)

Pan E, Carleton H , Charlebois ED, Perdreau-Remington F. Dramatic increase in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates among inmates of Jails in San Francisco, California between 1997 and 2002 Clin. Inf.Dis, 37: 1384-8 (2003)

Diep BA, Sensabaugh GF, Somboonna N, Carleton H, Perdreau-Remington F.  Widespread skin and soft tissue infections due to two MRSA strains harboring the genes for Panton-Valentine leukocidin.   J.Clin. Microbiol,.42 :2080-84 (2004)

Carleton H, Diep BA, CharleboisE, Sensabaugh GF, Perdreau-Remington F. Community-adapted MRSA: Dynamics of an expanding community reservoir of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Infect Dis. 190:1730-8  (2004)

Miller,G L, Perdreau-Remington F, Mehdi S, Perlroth J, Rieg G, Tang A, Bayer A, Spellberg B: Fourteen patients with necrotizing fascitis caused by community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Los Angeles, NEJM 352:1445-1453 (2005)

Education and Training:

M.S., Biology, University of Munich, Germany, 1974

Ph.D., Microbiology, Technical University, Munich, Germany, 1979

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany, 1980-1985