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Faculty Detail    
Name STEPHEN A MOSER
  
Campus Address WP P230 Zip 7331
Phone  (205) 934-6421
E-mail  moser@uab.edu
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Education
Undergraduate  California State University at Long Beach    1969  B.S. 
Graduate  California State University at Long Beach    1972  M.S. Microbiology 
Graduate  The Ohio State University    1976  Ph.D. Medical Microbiology 
Fellowship  Tulane University School of Medicine    1979  Postdoctoral 
Residency  Mount Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI    1982  Postdoctoral 


Faculty Appointment(s)
Appointment Type Department Division Rank
Primary  Clinical Pathology  Laboratory Medicine Professor Emeritus

Graduate Biomedical Sciences Affiliations
Integrative Biomedical Sciences 

Biographical Sketch 
Stephen A. Moser, Ph.D. is Professor of Pathology in the Division of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He serves as Section Head for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at University of Alabama Hospital. Dr. Moser has a special interest in fungal diseases and has established the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation Fungal Reference Laboratory and serves as Director. He has been in academic positions first at Tulane School of Medicine Department of Microbiology (4 years) followed by Washington University Department of Pathology (10 years) and now at UAB since 1992.

Society Memberships
Organization Name Position Held Org Link
American Society for Microbiology  Member  www.asm.org 
International Society for Human and Animal Mycology  Member  www.isham.org 
 



Research/Clinical Interest
Title
Pulmonary mycotic infections, Antifungal Susceptibility, Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections.
Description
Clinical Microbiology: Due to the nature of clinical microbiology, the areas of Dr. Moser's investigation and publication are diverse. Most studies have involved the assessment of methods for providing more rapid or accurate diagnostic test results to physicians. Many have involved pathology residents and serve an important educational role by teaching research methods and exposing them to presenting at national scientific meetings. The areas covered include mycology, bacteriology, mycobacteriology, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Current active research addresses the early diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in hematopoetic stem cell transplant recipients using real-time PCR; molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus mutans.

Selected Publications 
Publication PUBMEDID
Balczon, R., K. Morrow, C. Zhou, B. Edmonds, M. Alexeyev, J-F Pittet, B. Wagener, S.A. Moser, S. Leavesley, X. Zha, D.W. Frank, and T. Stevens. 2017. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection Liberates Transmissible, Cytotoxic Prion Amyloids. FASEB J. 31:2785-2796.   28314768 
Childers, N.K., S.S. Momeni, J. Whiddon, K. Cheon, G.R. Cutter, H.W. Wiener, T.S. Ghazal, J. D. Ruby, and S.A. Moser. 2017. Association between early childhood caries and colonization with Streptococccus mutans. Ped. Dent.39:130-135.  28390463  
Momeni, S.S., J. Whiddon, S.A. Moser, and Noel K. Childers.2018. Transmission patterns of Streptococcus mutans demonstrated by a combined rep-PCR and MLST approach. Clin Oral Invest. [epub]  29476335 
McCarty T.P., S. Lockhardt, S.A. Moser, J.L. Whiddon, J Zurko, C.D. Pham and P.G. Pappas. 2018. Echinocandin Resistance among Candida Isolates at an Academic Medical Center 2005-2015: Analysis of Trends and Outcomes. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. [epub]  29506044 
Momeni, S, J. Whiddon, K. Cheon, S.A. Moser, and N. Childers. 2015. Assessment of clonality and serotypes of Streptococcus mutans among children by multilocus sequence typing. Eur J Oral Sci. 123:416-424.  26443288  
Momeni, S.S., J. Whiddon, K. Cheon, S.A. Moser, and N.K. Childers. 2015. Assessment of two multilocus sequence typing (MLST) schemes available for Streptococcus mutans. Arch Oral Biol. 60:1769-1776.  26439181  
Momeni S.S., Patrick P., Wiener H.W., Cutter G.R., Ruby J.D., Cheon K., Whiddon J., Moser S.A., and Childers N.K. 2014. Mutans streptococci enumeration and genotype selection using different bacitracin-containing media. J. Microbiol. Methods. 103:53-57  24878141 
Min, Z., S.A. Moser, and P.G. Pappas. 2013. Prototheca wickerhamii Algaemia Presenting as Cholestatic Hepatitis in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A case report and literature review. Med Mycol Case Rep. 2:19-22.   24432207 
Cheon, K, S.A. Moser, HW Wiener, J Whiddon, S Momeni, GR Cutter, NK Childers. 2013. Characteristics of Streptococcus mutans Genotypes and Dental Caries in Children. Euro J Oral Sci. 121:148-155.  23659236 
Min, Z, J.W. Baddley, J.M. Rodriguez, S.A. Moser and M. Patel. 2013. Cross-reactivity of Aspergillus galactomannan in an HIV-infected patient with histoplasmosis. Med Mycol Case Rep. 1:119-122.   24432207 
Momeni, S.K, J. Whiddon, S.A. Moser, K. Cheon, J.D. Ruby, and N.K. Childers. 2013. Comparative genotyping of Streptococcus mutans by repetitive extragenic palindromic polymerase chain reaction and multilocus sequence typing. Mol. Oral Microbiol. 28:18-27.  23194334 
McKinnell, J.A., D. Kunz, E. Chamot, M. Patel, R. Shirley, S.A. Moser, J. Baddley P. Pappas and L. Miller. 2012. Association of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus bacteremia and ceftriaxone usage. Inf Contol Hosp Epi. 33:718-724.  22669234 
McKinnell, J.A., A.P. Cannella, D.F. Kunz, E.W. Hook, 3rd, S.A. Moser, L.G. Miller, J.W. Baddley and P.G. Pappas. 2012. Pneumocystis pneumonia in hospitalized patients: a detailed examination of symptoms, management, and outcomes in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and HIV-uninfected persons. Transpl Infect Dis. 14:510-518.  22669234 
Xiao, Li, D.M. Crabb, S.A. Moser, L.B. Duffy, J.I. Glass, V. Paralanov, and K.B. Waites. 2011. Genotypic characterization of Ureaplasma serovars from clinical isolates by pulsed field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol. 49:3325-3328.  21795510 
Mdodo, R, S.A. Moser, W. Jaoko, J.W. Baddley, P.G. Pappas, M-C. Kempf, C. Aban, S. Odera, and P. Jolly. 2011. Antifungal susceptibilities of Cryptococcus neoformans cerebrospinal fluid isolates from AIDS patients in Kenya. Mycoses. 54:e438-442.  21535451 
Cheon, K., SA. Moser, J. Whiddon, R.C. Osgood, S. Momeni, J.D. Ruby, G.R. Cuter, D.B. Allison, and N.K. Childers. 2011. Genetic diversity of plaque mutans Streptococci with rep-PCR. J. Dental Res. 90:331-335.  21297016  
McKinnell, J.A., M. Patel, R.M. Shirley, D.F. Kunz, S.A. Moser and J.W. Baddley. 2010. Observational study of the epidemiology and outcomes of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus bacteremia treated with newer antimicrobial agents. Epidemiol. Infect. 15:1-9.  21073764  
Munoz-Cadavid, C., S. Rudd, SR Zaki, M. Patel, S.A. Moser, M.E. Brandt, and B.L. Gomez. 2010. Improving molecular detection of fungal DNA in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues: comparison of five tissue DNA extraction methods using panfungal PCR. J. Clin. Microbiol. 48:2147-2153.  20392915 
Moser, S.A., S.C. Mitchell, J.D. Ruby, S. Momeni, R.C. Osgood, J. Whiddon, and N.K. Childers. 2010. Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic-polymerase Chain Reaction (rep-PCR) for the Study of Streptococcus mutans Diversity and Transmission in Human Populations. J. Clin. Microbiol. 48:599-602.  20007400  
Baddley, J.W., K.A. Marr, D.R. Andes, T.J. Walsh, C.A. Kauffman, D.P. Kontoyiannis, J. Ito, A. Balajee, P.G. Pappas, and S.A. Moser. 2009. Patterns of susceptibility of Aspergillus isolates recovered from patients enrolled in the Transplant Associated Infection Surveillance Network. J. Clin. Microbiol. 47:3271-3275.  19692558  
Balajee, S.A., Kano, R., J.W. Baddley, S.A. Moser, K.A. Marr, B. Alexander, D. Andes, D.P. Kontoyiannis, G. Perrone, S. Peterson, M.E. Brandt, P.G. Pappas and T. Chiller. 2009. Molecular identification of Aspergillus species collected for the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network. J. Clin Microbiol. 47:3138-3141.  19675215  
Mitchell SC, J Ruby, SA Moser, S Momeni, AM Smith, R. Osgood, M. Litaker and N. Childers. 2009. Maternal transmission of mutans Streptococci in severe-early childhood caries. Pediatric Dentistry 31:193-201.  19552223 
 

Keywords
mycology, diagnostic testing, informatics;epidemiology