William A. Agger
Gundersen Health System
52 Papers
512 Citations
William A. Agger is an academic researcher from Gundersen Health System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lyme disease & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 52 publications. Previous affiliations of William A. Agger include Lutheran Medical Center.
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Papers
Clinical Features of Clostridial Bacteremia: A Review from a Rural Area
TL;DR: Clostridium bacteremia in patients usually had a gastrointestinal source, it often occurred in patients with serious underlying medical conditions, and it rarely was the result of traumatic farm accidents.
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Antibiotic Treatment Duration and Long-Term Outcomes of Patients with Early Lyme Disease from a Lyme Disease–Hyperendemic Area
TL;DR: Patients treated for 10 days with antibiotic therapy for early Lyme disease have long-term outcomes similar to those of patients treated with longer courses, and treatment failure after appropriately targeted short-course therapy, if it occurs, is exceedingly rare.
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Effects of bovine serum albumin on the ability of Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly medium to detect Borrelia burgdorferi.
Steven M. Callister,Kay L. Case,William A. Agger,Ronald F. Schell,Russell C. Johnson,J. L. E. Ellingson +5 more
TL;DR: The ability of decreasing inocula of Borrelia burgdorferi to grow in otherwise identical Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly media containing different lots of bovine serum albumin was determined and it is demonstrated that the quality of the BSK medium be determined.
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A comparison of two treatment regimens of ceftriaxone in late Lyme disease.
Raymond J. Dattwyler,Gary P. Wormser,Thomas J. Rush,Michael F. Finkel,Robert T. Schoen,Edgar Grunwaldt,Michael Franklin,Eileen Hilton,Gary L. Bryant,William A. Agger,D. Maladorno +10 more
TL;DR: Cftriaxone for 14 days eradicated the signs and symptoms of late Lyme disease in the majority of evaluable patients, and this study did not have the power to determine if a clinical subset of patients may benefit from 28 days of therapy.
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The effect of residual osteomyelitis at the resection margin in patients with surgically treated diabetic foot infection.
TL;DR: Residual osteomyelitis at the pathologic margin was associated with a higher rate of treatment failure, despite the longer duration of antibiotic therapy, and postoperative antibiotic therapy for residual osteomyelsitis after surgical resection of infected bone was effective.
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