Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Infectious Disease
Dr. Costi Sifri, MD
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Costi Sifri, MD practices Infectious Disease. He went to University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He has 4 awards "University of Virginia Cavalier Achievement Award", "Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence", "Deans Academy for Distinguished Educators" and "Physician-Scientist Early Career Award". Costi Sifri is a published doctor. He has 69 publications published. The most current publication "Reduced extension temperatures required for PCR amplification of extremely A+T-rich DNA."
Publications
- Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase (KPC)-Producing K. pneumoniae at a Single Institution: Insights into Endemicity from Whole-Genome Sequencing.
- The Limits of Serial Surveillance Cultures in Predicting Clearance of Colonization with Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae.
- Cryptococcosis in Patients With Cirrhosis of the Liver and Posttransplant Outcomes.
- Predictors of immune reconstitution syndrome in organ transplant recipients with cryptococcosis: implications for the management of immunosuppression.
- Control of Simultaneous Outbreaks of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection in an Intensive Care U...
- Encephalopathy despite thiamine repletion during alcohol withdrawal.
- Clinical Microbiology Costs for Methods of Active Surveillance for Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae.
- Enhanced pathogenicity of biofilm-negative Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from platelet preparations.
- Admission surveillance for carbapenamase-producing enterobacteriaceae at a long-term acute care hospital.
- Modified Hodge test versus indirect carbapenemase test: prospective evaluation of a phenotypic assay for detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) in Ente...
- Peritonitis caused by Haemophilus parainfluenzae, Leifsonia aquatica, and Gordonia spp. in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
- Cryptosporidium enteritis in solid organ transplant recipients: multicenter retrospective evaluation of 10 cases reveals an association with elevated tacrolimus concen...
- First Clinical Cases of OXA-48-Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United States: the "Menace" Arrives in the New World.
- Infection of nonphagocytic host cells by legionella.
- Transmission of hepatitis B virus from an orthopedic surgeon with a high viral load.
- Intoxication vs. infection: A decade of studying Burkholderia pseudomallei virulence in a simple infection model.
- Highly resistant bacteria and donor-derived infections: treading in uncharted territory.
- Local influenza-like illness surveillance at a university health system during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
- Brain angiogenesis inhibitor 1 (BAI1) is a pattern recognition receptor that mediates macrophage binding and engulfment of Gram-negative bacteria.
- Molecular Dissection of an Outbreak of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Reveals Intergenus KPC Carbapenemase Transmission through a Promiscuous Plasmid.
- Epidemiology and Prevention of Bacterial Infections in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies.
- Nitazoxanide inhibits biofilm formation by Staphylococcus epidermidis by blocking accumulation on surfaces.
- Pretransplant cryptococcosis and outcome after liver transplantation.
- Tricarboxylic acid cycle-dependent synthesis of Staphylococcus aureus Type 5 and 8 capsular polysaccharides.
- Identifying predictors of central nervous system disease in solid organ transplant recipients with cryptococcosis.
- Lipid formulations of amphotericin B significantly improve outcome in solid organ transplant recipients with central nervous system cryptococcosis.
- Fatal septic thrombosis of the superior sagittal sinus after face-lift surgery caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Healthcare epidemiology: quorum sensing: bacteria talk sense.
- Not so innocuous.
- Functional characterization of TcaA: minimal requirement for teicoplanin susceptibility and role in Caenorhabditis elegans virulence.
- Fatal brain abscess due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300.
- Staphylococcal biofilm exopolysaccharide protects against Caenorhabditis elegans immune defenses.
- Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants in the Caenorhabditis elegans infection model.
- Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors identified by using a high-throughput Caenorhabditis elegans-killing model.
- Failure of low-dose atovaquone prophylaxis against Pneumocystis jiroveci infection in transplant recipients.
- Long-lived C. elegans daf-2 mutants are resistant to bacterial pathogens.
- Caenorhabditis elegans as a model host for Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis.
- Virulence effect of Enterococcus faecalis protease genes and the quorum-sensing locus fsr in Caenorhabditis elegans and mice.
- The Enterococcus faecalis fsrB gene, a key component of the fsr quorum-sensing system, is associated with virulence in the rabbit endophthalmitis model.
- Identification of virulence genes in a pathogenic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by representational difference analysis.
- Group Milleri Streptococci in paediatric infections.
- Cefepime-associated status epilepticus in an ICU patient with renal failure.
- Fatal cross infection by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella in two liver transplant recipients.
- Pneumonia in solid organ recipients: spectrum of pathogens in 217 episodes.
- Early development of lactic acidosis with short term linezolid treatment in a renal recipient.
- Herpes simplex virus hepatitis after renal transplantation.
- A simple model host for identifying Gram-positive virulence factors.
- Pyogenic liver abscesses.
- Reduced extension temperatures required for PCR amplification of extremely A+T-rich DNA.
- Molecular characterization of the ldmdr1 multidrug resistance gene from Leishmania donovani.
- Amplification of the inosinate dehydrogenase gene in Trypanosoma brucei gambiense due to an increase in chromosome copy number.
- Cloning and sequence analysis of a Drosophila melanogaster cDNA encoding IMP dehydrogenase.
- Transfection of Plasmodium falciparum within human red blood cells.
- Multidrug resistance in Leishmania donovani is conferred by amplification of a gene homologous to the mammalian mdr1 gene.
- Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides blood stream infection following liver transplantation.
- Cutaneous cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients.
- Geographic differences in disease expression of cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients in the United States.
- Simultaneous Clostridium difficile-associated colitis and late-onset intestinal cytomegalovirus disease in a renal transplant recipient.
- Unrecognized pretransplant and donorâderived cryptococcal disease in organ transplant recipients.
- LytR-CpsA-Psr proteins in Staphylococcus aureus display partial functional redundancy and the deletion of all three severely impairs septum placement and cell separation.
- Caenorhabditis is a metazoan host for Legionella.
- The worm has turned--microbial virulence modeled in Caenorhabditis elegans.
- A pathway for phagosome maturation during engulfment of apoptotic cells.
- Nocardiosis in a renal transplant recipient following rituximab preconditioning.
- MsrR contributes to cell surface characteristics and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus.
- Adenoviral graft-nephritis: case report and review of the literature.
- Moraxella osloensis bacteremia in a kidney transplant recipient.
- Benign transient hyperphosphatasemia associated with Epstein-Barr virus enteritis in a pediatric liver transplant patient: a case report.
Schools
University Of Rochester School Of Medicine and Dentistry
Hospital Of The University Of Pennsylvania
Harvard Med School Combined Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program At Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women39s Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- University of Virginia Cavalier Achievement Award
- Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence
- Dean’s Academy for Distinguished Educators
- Physician-Scientist Early Career Award
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
University of Pennsylvania Health System -
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Hospital
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University of Virginia Medical Center
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1598834137 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SIFRI |
| First Name Of The Provider | COSTI |
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