Infectious Diseases

Sana Arif, MBBS

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Campus mail Box 3230, DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
Email address sana.arif@duke.edu

Education and Training

  • Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Alix School of Medicine, 2013 - 2014
  • Infectious Diseases Felllowship, Medicine, Indiana University at Indianapolis, 2011 - 2013
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Medicine, West Virginia University, 2008 - 2011
  • M.B.B.S., Aga Khan University (Pakistan), 2005

Publications

Lee, Rachael A., Jason Goldman, Ghady Haidar, Jessica Lewis, Sana Arif, Jonathan Hand, Ricardo M. La Hoz, et al. “Daptomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Bacteremia Is Associated With Prior Daptomycin Use and Increased Mortality After Liver Transplantation.” Open Forum Infect Dis 9, no. 3 (March 2022): ofab659. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab659.

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Mourad, Ahmad, Sana Arif, Muath Bishawi, Carmelo Milano, Rachel A. Miller, and Stacey A. Maskarinec. “Surgical infection prophylaxis prior to left ventricular assist device implantation: A survey of clinical practice.” J Card Surg 35, no. 10 (October 2020): 2672–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocs.14882.

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Permpalung, Nitipong, Tany Thaniyavarn, Jennifer L. Saullo, Sana Arif, Rachel A. Miller, John M. Reynolds, and Barbara D. Alexander. “Oral and Inhaled Ribavirin Treatment for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Lung Transplant Recipients.” Transplantation 104, no. 6 (June 2020): 1280–86. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000002985.

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Anderson, Neil W., Atis Muehlenbachs, Sana Arif, Jackrapong Bruminhent, Paul J. Deziel, Raymund R. Razonable, Mark P. Wilhelm, Maureen G. Metcalfe, Yvonne Qvarnstrom, and Bobbi S. Pritt. “A Fatal Case of Disseminated Microsporidiosis Due to Anncaliia algerae in a Renal and Pancreas Allograft Recipient.” Open Forum Infect Dis 6, no. 7 (July 2019): ofz285. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz285.

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Permpalung, N., T. Thaniyavarn, J. H. Saullo, S. Arif, R. A. Miller, J. M. Reynolds, and B. D. Alexander. “Impact of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection on Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Recipients.” In The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 38:S312–13. Elsevier BV, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2019.01.788.

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Turner, Nicholas, Andrew Strand, Dilraj S. Grewal, Gary Cox, Sana Arif, Arthur W. Baker, Eileen K. Maziarz, Jennifer H. Saullo, and Cameron R. Wolfe. “Use of Letermovir as Salvage Therapy for Drug-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Retinitis.” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 63, no. 3 (March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.02337-18.

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Lee, R., G. Haidar, J. Lewis, S. Arif, J. Hand, E. Holaday, H. Clauss, J. Goldman, and A. Nellore. “Daptomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcal (VRE) Blood Isolates Correlates with Allograft Failure in Orthotopic Liver Transplant (OLT) Recipients.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 18:882–882. WILEY, 2018.

Scholars@Duke

Sampath, Rahul, Robin Patel, Scott A. Cunningham, Sana Arif, Richard C. Daly, Andrew D. Badley, and Mark E. Wylam. “Cardiothoracic Transplant Recipient Mycoplasma hominis: An Uncommon Infection with Probable Donor Transmission.” Ebiomedicine 19 (May 2017): 84–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.04.026.

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28438507
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Bishawi, M., S. Bell, L. Cai, W. Landford, S. Arif, A. McLarty, L. Blue, et al. “Antibiotic Prophylaxis Strategies in LVAD Implantation and LVAD Infections: A Systematic Review of the Literature.” In Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 36:S242–S242. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2017.

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