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Overview

Costi D. Sifri is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, focusing on infectious diseases and epidemiology. Their publication record spans a range of topics within infectious diseases, including antimicrobial stewardship and clinical research related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

Their recent research includes papers such as:

  • Risk of Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Adult Transplant Recipients (2021) published in Transplantation
  • Risk factors for Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) gene acquisition and clinical outcomes across multiple bacterial species (2020) in Journal of Hospital Infection
  • Pandemic Action Plan Policy and Regulatory Summary Telehealth Policy and Regulatory Considerations During a Pandemic (2021) in Telemedicine Journal and e-Health
  • Improving antimicrobial use through better diagnosis: The relationship between diagnostic stewardship and antimicrobial stewardship (2023) in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Management of healthcare personnel living with hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or human immunodeficiency virus in US healthcare institutions (2020) in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (8 publications)
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases (5 publications)
  • Telemedicine Journal and e-Health (3 publications)
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology (2 publications)
  • Transplantation (1 publication)

Their research covers subfields within medicine such as:

  • Infectious Diseases (26 publications)
  • Epidemiology (11 publications)
  • Surgery (5 publications)
  • Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (5 publications)
  • Oncology (4 publications)

Main topics of their work include:

  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (18 publications)
  • Microscopic Colitis (10 publications)
  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU (8 publications)
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (6 publications)
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (6 publications)
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (6 publications)
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (6 publications)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Gregory R. Madden (10 joint publications)
  • Eili Klein (4 joint publications)
  • Elizabeth Monsees (3 joint publications)
  • Daniel J. Diekema (3 joint publications)
  • Valerie M. Vaughn (3 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • A simple model host for identifying Gram-positive virulence factors

    Danielle A. Garsin;Costi D. Sifri;Eleftherios Mylonakis;Xiang Qin

  • Long-lived C. elegans daf-2 Mutants are resistant to bacterial pathogens

    Danielle A. Garsin;Jacinto M. Villanueva;Jakob Begun;Dennis H. Kim

  • Transfection of Plasmodium falciparum within human red blood cells.

    Yimin Wu;C. D. Sifri;Hsien-Hsien Lei;Xin-Zhuan Su

  • Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Host for Staphylococcus aureus Pathogenesis

    Costi D. Sifri;Jakob Begun;Frederick M. Ausubel;Stephen B. Calderwood

  • The worm has turned – microbial virulence modeled in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Costi D. Sifri;Jakob Begun;Frederick M. Ausubel

  • A pathway for phagosome maturation during engulfment of apoptotic cells

    Jason M Kinchen;Kimon Doukoumetzidis;Johann Almendinger;Lilli Stergiou;Lilli Stergiou

  • Virulence Effect of Enterococcus faecalis Protease Genes and the Quorum-Sensing Locus fsr in Caenorhabditis elegans and Mice

    Costi D. Sifri;Eleftherios Mylonakis;Kavindra V. Singh;Xiang Qin

  • Nested Russian Doll-Like Genetic Mobility Drives Rapid Dissemination of the Carbapenem Resistance Gene blaKPC

    Anna E. Sheppard;Nicole Stoesser;Daniel J. Wilson;Robert Sebra

  • Pyogenic liver abscesses.

    Eric C. Johannsen;Costi D. Sifri;Lawrence C. Madoff

  • Staphylococcal Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Protects against Caenorhabditis elegans Immune Defenses

    Jakob Begun;Jessica M Gaiani;Holger Rohde;Dietrich Mack

  • Quorum Sensing: Bacteria Talk Sense

    Costi D. Sifri

  • Molecular Dissection of an Outbreak of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Reveals Intergenus KPC Carbapenemase Transmission through a Promiscuous Plasmid

    Amy J. Mathers;Heather L. Cox;Brandon Kitchel;Hugo Bonatti

  • Multidrug resistance in Leishmania donovani is conferred by amplification of a gene homologous to the mammalian mdr1 gene.

    D M Henderson;C D Sifri;M Rodgers;D F Wirth

  • Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing K. pneumoniae at a single institution: insights into endemicity from whole-genome sequencing.

    Amy J. Mathers;Nicole Stoesser;Anna E. Sheppard;Louise Pankhurst

  • Brain angiogenesis inhibitor 1 (BAI1) is a pattern recognition receptor that mediates macrophage binding and engulfment of Gram-negative bacteria.

    Soumita Das;Katherine A. Owen;Kim T. Ly;Daeho Park

  • Risk of Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Adult Transplant Recipients.

    Caroline X. Qin;Linda W. Moore;Shweta Anjan;Ruth Rahamimov

  • Identification of virulence genes in a pathogenic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by representational difference analysis

    Ji Young Choi;Costi D. Sifri;Boyan C. Goumnerov;Laurence G. Rahme

  • The Enterococcus faecalis fsrB gene, a key component of the fsr quorum-sensing system, is associated with virulence in the rabbit endophthalmitis model.

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Michael Engelbert;Xiang Qin;Costi D. Sifri

  • Staphylococcus aureus Virulence Factors Identified by Using a High-Throughput Caenorhabditis elegans-Killing Model

    Jakob Begun;Costi D. Sifri;Samuel Goldman;Stephen B. Calderwood

  • First Clinical Cases of OXA-48-Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United States: the “Menace” Arrives in the New World

    Amy J. Mathers;Kevin C. Hazen;Kevin C. Hazen;Joanne Carroll;Anthony J. Yeh

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy L. Pruett
Timothy L. Pruett University of Minnesota
Stephen B. Calderwood
Stephen B. Calderwood Massachusetts General Hospital
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Derrick W. Crook
Derrick W. Crook University of Oxford
Kevin C. Hazen
Kevin C. Hazen Duke University
Nina Singh
Nina Singh University of Pittsburgh
Nicole Stoesser
Nicole Stoesser University of Oxford
Shahid Husain
Shahid Husain University Health Network
Eleftherios Mylonakis
Eleftherios Mylonakis Houston Methodist

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