Kalpana Gupta

Associate Professor

Education:

MD, MPH SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine & University of Washington School of Public Health

General field of research:

Infectious Diseases

Affiliations other than medicine:

VA Boston HCS Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases

Contact information:

Office

VA Boston, 1400 VFW Parkway, Med 111, West Roxbury

Phone: (857)-203 5086

kalpana.gupta@va.gov

Keywords:

infectious diseases; molecular epidemiology; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; UTI

Recent publications:

1. Hooton TM, Scholes D, Gupta K, Stapleton AE, Roberts PL, Stamm WE. 2005. Amoxicillin-clavulanate vs. ciprofloxacin for the treatment of uncomplicated cystitis in women: a randomized trial. JAMA; 293: 949-55.

2. Gupta K, Hooton TM, Stamm WE. 2005. Isolation of fluoroquinolone-resistant rectal Escherichia coli after treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis. J Antimicrob Chemo; 56: 247-49.

3. Kwok L, Stapleton AE, Stamm WE, Hillier SL, Wobbe CL, Gupta K. 2006. Adherence of Lactobacillus crispatus to vaginal epithelial cells from women with and without a history of recurrent UTI. J Urol; 176: 2050-54.

4. Gupta K, Chou M, Howell A, Wobbe CL, Grady R, Stapleton AE. 2007. Cranberry products inhibit adherence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli to primary cultured bladder and vaginal epithelial cells. J Urol; 2357-60.

5. Gupta K, Hooton TM, Roberts PL, Stamm WE. 2007. Short course nitrofurantoin for the treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis. Archives Intern Med; 167(20): 2207-12

6. Gupta K, MacIntyre A, Vanasse G, Dembry L. 2007. Trends in prescribing beta-lactam antibiotics for treatment of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. J Clin Micro; 45(12): 3930-4.

7. Colgan R, Johnson JR, Kuskowski M, Gupta K. 2008. A prospective study of risk factors for trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole resistance in acute uncomplicated cystitis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother.

8. Baker S, Brecher S, Robillard E, Strymish J, Lawler E, Gupta K. 2010. Extra-nasal MRSA colonization on admission to an acute care VA hospital. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol; 31(1): 42-7.

9. LaPlante KL, Caffrey AR, Gupta K. 2010. Prevention of Surgical Site Infections: Mupirocin use results in mupirocin resistance in MRSA (letter). N Engl J Med; 362: 1540-1541.

10. Linsky A, Gupta K, Lawler E, Fonda J, Hermos J. 2010. Proton pump inhibitors and risk for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. Arch Intern Med; 170(9): 772-778.

11. Trautner B, Gupta K. Urinary tract infections. Harrisons Textbook of Internal Medicine, 18th ed, in press.