Faculty

Monto Ho, MD Emeritus Professor and Chairman E-mail: monto@pitt.edu Phone: 412-624-2692 Fax: 412-383-8926 Address: A435 Crabtree 130 DeSoto Street Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Education

AB; Harvard University; 1949
MD; Harvard University; 1954

Recent Publications

• Chen MK, Siu LK, Wang CC, Yu YL, Ho M, Chu ML. Use of automated riboprinter and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological study of invasive Haemophilus influenzae in Taiwan. J Med. Micro. 50:277-282, 2001.
• Ho M. Taiwan seeks to solve its resistance problems. Science. 291(5513):2550-2551, 2001.
• Chen JY, Siu LK, Chen YH, Lu PL, Ho M, Peng CF. Molecular epidemiology and mutations at gyrA and parC genes of ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from a Taiwan medical center. Microb Drug Resist. 7(1):47-53, Spring, 2001.
• Wang CC, Siu LK, Chen MK, Yu YL, Lin FM, Ho M, Chu ML. Use of automated riboprinter and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological studies of invasive Haemophilus influenzae in Taiwan. J Med Microbiol.  50(3):277-83, Mar. 2001.
• Wu TL, Siu LK, Su LH, Lauderdale TL, Lin FM, Leu HS, Lin TY, Ho M. Outer membrane protein change combined with coexisting TEM-1 and SHV-1 b-lactamases lead to false identification of ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumonia. J Antimicrob Chemother. 47(6):755-61, Jun. 2001.
• Chen FJ, McDonald LC, Ho M, Lo HJ. Identification of reduced fluoroquinolone susceptibility in Escherichia coli: a herald for emerging resistance. J Antimicrob Chemother 48(6):936-8, 2001.
• McDonald LC, Yu HT, Yin HC, Hsiung CA, Ho M, and the Antibiotic Use Working Group.  The use and abuse of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in Taiwan hospitals. J of Formosa Med Soc. J. Formos Med Assoc. 100 (1): 5-13, 2001.
•  Lo, H.J., Ho, Y.A., and Ho, M. Factors accounting for mis-identification of Candida species. J. Microbiol. Immunol. Infect. 34:171-177, 2001.
• Chang FY, Siu LK, Fung CP, Huang MH, Ho M. Diversity of SHV and TEM beta-lactamases in Klebsiella pneumoniae: gene evolution in Northern Taiwan and two novel beta-lactamases, SHV-25 and SHV-26. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 45(9):2407-2413, 2001.
• Ho, M. 2001. Enterovirus 71, an Emerging Virus. Chapter 1 of Emerging Infections 5. 2001, ASM Press.
• McDonald, L.C., Chen, F.J., Lo, H.-J., Yin, H.C., Lu, P.L., Huang, C.H., Chen, P.C., Lauderdale, T.L., and Ho, M. Emergence of reduced susceptibility and resistance to fluoroquinolones in Esherichia coli in Taiwan and contributions of distinct selective pressures. Antimi Agents and Chem. 45:3084-3091, 2001.
• McDonald LC, Yu HT, Yin HC, Hsiung CA, Hung CC, and Ho M. Correlates of antibiotic use in Taiwan hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 22(9):1-7, 2001.
• McDonald LC, Chen MT, Lauderdale TL, Ho M. The use of antibiotics critical to human medicine in food-producing animals In Taiwan. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 34(2):97-102, 2001.
• Lauderdale TL, McDonald LC, Shiau YR, Chen PC, Wang HY, Lai JF, Ho M. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci from humans and retail chickens in Taiwan with unique vanB phenotype-vanA genotype incongruence. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 46(2):525-7, Feb. 2002.