Allen Cheng

Division of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital, Australia

Research interests:
Dr Cheng's interests include the epidemiology and management of tropical diseases, particularly melioidosis, infective diarrhoea and snake envenomation, and the clinical aspects of infectious diseases generally.

Associations:
Australian Society for Infectious Diseases, Australian Society for HIV Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Infectious Diseases > Bacterial Infections (since 10 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Antimicrobial breakpoints for gram-negative aerobic bacteria based on pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models with Monte Carlo simulation.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.0
  Improvement in process of care and outcome after a multicenter severe sepsis educational program in Spain.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.2
  Are community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains replacing traditional nosocomial MRSA strains?
  Recommended by Allen Cheng, John Rex
  
• 3.0
  Probiotic treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococci: a randomised controlled trial.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.0
  Is Panton-Valentine leukocidin the major virulence determinant in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease?
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.0
  A comparison of three highly active antiretroviral treatment strategies consisting of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, or both in the presence of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors as initial therapy (CPCRA 058 FIRST Study): a long-term randomised trial.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.0
  Comparative efficacies of amoxicillin, clindamycin, and moxifloxacin in prevention of bacteremia following dental extractions.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
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  Scedosporium infection in a tertiary care cancer center: a review of 25 cases from 1989-2006.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.0
  Daptomycin versus standard therapy for bacteremia and endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus aureus.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.0
  Effectiveness of discontinuing antibiotic treatment after three days versus eight days in mild to moderate-severe community acquired pneumonia: randomised, double blind study.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 6.0
  Cytotoxic therapy for severe avian influenza A (H5N1) infection.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.2
  Clinical recognition of meningococcal disease in children and adolescents.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng, Johan Schoeman
  
• 3.0
  Emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA 300 clone as the predominant cause of skin and soft-tissue infections.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.0
  Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 4.9
  Spectrum of disease and relation to place of exposure among ill returned travelers.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng, Scott Halstead, Anthony Harries
  
• 3.0
  Application of a population-based severity scoring system to individual patients results in frequent misclassification.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng
  
• 3.0
  Prolonged incubation and extensive subculturing do not increase recovery of clinically significant microorganisms from standard automated blood cultures.
  Recommended by Allen Cheng