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Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

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Microbiology

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60
Citations
19589
World Ranking
3066
National Ranking
1211

Overview

Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Ophthalmology, and Clinical Biochemistry.

Their work includes extensive studies in various specialized topics such as:

  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • Herpesvirus infections and treatments
  • Fungal infections and studies
  • COVID-19 clinical research studies
  • Ocular infections and treatments
  • CAR-T cell therapy research

Chandrasekar has published multiple papers across a selection of peer-reviewed journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
  • Journal of Fungi
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • PLoS ONE

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Cell-Mediated Immunity and CMV Infection After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: The REACT Study" (2020), Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "SARS-CoV-2 infection: Initial viral load (iVL) predicts severity of illness/outcome, and declining trend of iVL in hospitalized patients corresponds with slowing of the pandemic" (2021), PLoS ONE
  • "Bloodstream Infections in Hematologic Malignancy Patients With Fever and Neutropenia: Are Empirical Antibiotic Therapies in the United States Still Effective?" (2022), Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • "Aspergillus Endophthalmitis: Epidemiology, Pathobiology, and Current Treatments" (2022), Journal of Fungi
  • "Baseline Chest Computed Tomography as Standard of Care in High-Risk Hematology Patients" (2020), Journal of Fungi

Chandrasekar collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Robin K. Avery
  • Vishakh C Keri
  • Said El Zein
  • Omar Chehab
  • Samer Alkassis

Best Publications

  • Voriconazole versus Amphotericin B for Primary Therapy of Invasive Aspergillosis

    Raoul Herbrecht;David W. Denning;David W. Denning;Thomas F. Patterson;John E. Bennett

  • Posaconazole or fluconazole for prophylaxis in severe graft-versus-host disease

    Andrew J Ullmann;Jeffrey H Lipton;David H Vesole;Pranatharthi Chandrasekar

  • A Controlled Trial of Fluconazole to Prevent Fungal Infections in Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation

    Jesse L. Goodman;Drew J. Winston;Ronald A. Greenfield;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

  • The clinical spectrum of pulmonary aspergillosis.

    Ayman O. Soubani;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

  • Treatment of invasive aspergillosis with posaconazole in patients who are refractory to or intolerant of conventional therapy: An externally controlled trial

    Thomas J. Walsh;Issam Raad;Thomas F. Patterson;Pranatharthi Chandrasekar

  • Intravenous and Oral Itraconazole versus Intravenous and Oral Fluconazole for Long-Term Antifungal Prophylaxis in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter, Randomized Trial

    Drew J. Winston;Richard T. Maziarz;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar;Hillard M. Lazarus

  • Fluconazole prophylaxis of fungal infections in patients with acute leukemia: Results of a randomized placebo-controlled, double-blind, multicenter trial

    Drew J. Winston;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar;Hillard M. Lazarus;Jesse L. Goodman

  • Nephrotoxicity of vancomycin, alone and with an aminoglycoside

    Michael J. Rybak;Lisa M. Albrecht;Steven C. Boike;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

  • Infectious complications after kidney transplantation: current epidemiology and associated risk factors.

    George J Alangaden;Rama Thyagarajan;Scott A. Gruber;Katherina Morawski

  • A Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Amphotericin B Colloidal Dispersion versus Amphotericin B for Treatment of Invasive Aspergillosis in Immunocompromised Patients

    Raleigh Bowden;Pranatharthi Chandrasekar;Mary H. White;Xin Li

  • Micafungin: A New Echinocandin

    P. H. Chandrasekar;J. D. Sobel

  • Detection of circulating candida enolase by immunoassay in patients with cancer and invasive candidiasis.

    Thomas J. Walsh;James W. Hathorn;Jack D. Sobel;William G. Merz

  • Aspergillus flavus: an emerging non-fumigatus Aspergillus species of significance.

    Suganthini Krishnan;Elias Kurian Manavathu;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

  • Duration of symptoms and plasma cytokine levels in patients with the common cold treated with zinc acetate. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    Ananda S. Prasad;James T. Fitzgerald;Bin Bao;Frances W.J. Beck

  • Pharmacokinetics of Oral Posaconazole in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients with Graft‐versus‐Host Disease

    Gopal Krishna;Monika Martinho;Pranatharthi Chandrasekar;Andrew J Ullmann

  • Organism-Dependent Fungicidal Activities of Azoles

    Elias K. Manavathu;Jessica L. Cutright;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

  • A comparative study of the in vitro susceptibilities of clinical and laboratory-selected resistant isolates of Aspergillus spp. to amphotericin B, itraconazole, voriconazole and posaconazole (SCH 56592)

    Elias K. Manavathu;Jessica L. Cutright;David Loebenberg;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

  • Phase 3 pharmacokinetics and safety study of a posaconazole tablet formulation in patients at risk for invasive fungal disease

    Oliver A. Cornely;Rafael F. Duarte;Shariq Haider;Pranatharthi Chandrasekar

  • Effect of zinc supplementation on incidence of infections and hospital admissions in sickle cell disease (SCD).

    Ananda S. Prasad;Frances W.J. Beck;Joseph Kaplan;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar

  • Disseminated toxoplasmosis in marrow recipients: a report of three cases and a review of the literature

    PH Chandrasekar;F Momin

  • Randomized Comparison of Oral Valacyclovir and Intravenous Ganciclovir for Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Disease after Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation

    Drew J. Winston;Andrew M. Yeager;Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar;David R. Snydman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth V. I. Rolston
Kenneth V. I. Rolston The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Carol A. Kauffman
Carol A. Kauffman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas J. Walsh Weill Cornell Medicine
John R. Wingard
John R. Wingard University of Florida
Per Ljungman
Per Ljungman Karolinska University Hospital
Oliver A. Cornely
Oliver A. Cornely University of Cologne
John W. Baddley
John W. Baddley University of Alabama at Birmingham
Parameswaran Hari
Parameswaran Hari Medical College of Wisconsin
Issam I Raad
Issam I Raad The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ananda S. Prasad
Ananda S. Prasad Wayne State University

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