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Overview

Ajit P. Limaye is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and focuses primarily on research in the field of medicine. Their work spans several subfields including epidemiology, infectious diseases, oncology, surgery, and transplantation.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of key areas such as cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, herpesvirus infections and treatments, COVID-19 clinical research studies, polyomavirus and related diseases, transplantation methods and outcomes, renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, and the impact of COVID-19 on reproduction.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Solid Organ Transplant: A Multicenter Cohort Study," 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Effect of Preemptive Therapy vs Antiviral Prophylaxis on Cytomegalovirus Disease in Seronegative Liver Transplant Recipients With Seropositive Donors," 2020, JAMA
  • "Letermovir vs Valganciclovir for Prophylaxis of Cytomegalovirus in High-Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients," 2023, JAMA
  • "Progress and Challenges in the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Cytomegalovirus Infection in Transplantation," 2020, Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • "Respiratory viral infection in lung transplantation induces exosomes that trigger chronic rejection," 2020, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Their frequent coauthors include Cynthia E. Fisher, Robert M. Rakita, Madeleine R. Heldman, Olivia S. Kates, and Erika D. Lease.

Ajit P. Limaye's work appears often in key publication venues such as Transplant Infectious Disease, Clinical Infectious Diseases, American Journal of Transplantation, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, and The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

Best Publications

  • Effect of interleukin-1β inhibition with canakinumab on incident lung cancer in patients with atherosclerosis: exploratory results from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Paul M Ridker;Jean G MacFadyen;Tom Thuren;Brendan M Everett

  • Polyomavirus-Associated Nephropathy in Renal Transplantation: Interdisciplinary Analyses and Recommendations

    Hans H. Hirsch;Daniel C. Brennan;Cinthia B. Drachenberg;Fabrizio Ginevri

  • Cytomegalovirus reactivation in critically ill immunocompetent patients.

    Ajit P. Limaye;Katharine A. Kirby;Gordon D. Rubenfeld;Wendy M. Leisenring

  • Emergence of ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus disease among recipients of solid-organ transplants

    Ajit P Limaye;Lawrence Corey;Lawrence Corey;David M Koelle;David M Koelle;Connie L Davis

  • The efficacy and safety of 200 days valganciclovir cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in high-risk kidney transplant recipients

    Atul Humar;Yvon Lebranchu;Flavio Vincenti;Emily A.Emily Blumberg

  • COVID-19 in solid organ transplant: A multi-center cohort study.

    Olivia S Kates;Brandy M Haydel;Sander S Florman;Meenakshi M Rana

  • Combination of voriconazole and caspofungin as primary therapy for invasive aspergillosis in solid organ transplant recipients: A prospective, multicenter, observational study

    Nina Singh;Nina Singh;Ajit P. Limaye;Graeme Forrest;Nasia Safdar

  • Reactivation of Cytomegalovirus Infection in Critically Ill Immunocompetent Patients—Reply

    Ajit P. Limaye;Wendy M. Leisenring;Michael Boeckh

  • Respiratory outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus subspecies massiliense in a lung transplant and cystic fibrosis center.

    Moira L. Aitken;Ajit Limaye;Paul Pottinger;Estella Whimbey

  • Identification of Medically Important Yeasts Using PCR-Based Detection of DNA Sequence Polymorphisms in the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 Region of the rRNA Genes

    Y. C. Chen;J. D. Eisner;M. M. Kattar;S. L. Rassoulian-Barrett

  • Abrupt Emergence of a Single Dominant Multidrug-Resistant Strain of Escherichia coli

    James R Johnson;Veronika Tchesnokova;Brian D Johnston;Connie Clabots

  • Polymorphic Internal Transcribed Spacer Region 1 DNA Sequences Identify Medically Important Yeasts

    Yi-Ching Chen;Jessica D. Eisner;Mireille M. Kattar;Sara L. Rassoulian-Barrett

  • Cryptococcus neoformans in Organ Transplant Recipients: Impact of Calcineurin-Inhibitor Agents on Mortality

    Nina Singh;Nina Singh;Barbara D. Alexander;Olivier Lortholary;Olivier Lortholary;Françoise Dromer

  • Extended valganciclovir prophylaxis to prevent cytomegalovirus after lung transplantation: a randomized, controlled trial.

    Scott M. Palmer;Ajit P. Limaye;Missy Banks;Dianne Gallup

  • An immune reconstitution syndrome-like illness associated with Cryptococcus neoformans infection in organ transplant recipients

    Nina Singh;Nina Singh;Olivier Lortholary;Barbara D. Alexander;Krishan L. Gupta

  • Impact of cytomegalovirus in organ transplant recipients in the era of antiviral prophylaxis.

    Ajit P. Limaye;Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam;Hyung W. Kim;Sara E. Randolph

  • High incidence of ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus infection among lung transplant recipients receiving preemptive therapy

    Ajit P. Limaye;Ganesh Raghu;David M. Koelle;James Ferrenberg

  • Strongyloidiasis in Transplant Patients

    Alison C Roxby;Geoffrey S Gottlieb;Ajit P Limaye

  • Extended valganciclovir prophylaxis in D+/R- kidney transplant recipients is associated with long-term reduction in cytomegalovirus disease: two-year results of the IMPACT study.

    Atul Humar;Ajit P.Ajit Limaye;Emily A.Emily Blumberg;Ingeborg Anni Hauser

  • Quantitation of BK Virus Load in Serum for the Diagnosis of BK Virus–Associated Nephropathy in Renal Transplant Recipients

    Ajit P. Limaye;Keith R. Jerome;Christian S. Kuhr;James Ferrenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Boeckh
Michael Boeckh Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Nina Singh
Nina Singh University of Pittsburgh
Keith R. Jerome
Keith R. Jerome Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Shahid Husain
Shahid Husain University Health Network
Marilyn M. Wagener
Marilyn M. Wagener University of Pittsburgh
Brad T. Cookson
Brad T. Cookson University of Washington
Wendy Leisenring
Wendy Leisenring Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Barbara D. Alexander
Barbara D. Alexander Duke University
Lawrence Corey
Lawrence Corey Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Goran B. Klintmalm
Goran B. Klintmalm Baylor University Medical Center

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