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 Medical School, 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

Turner, N, Strand, A, Grewal, DS, Cox, G, Arif, S, Baker, AW, Maziarz, EK, Saullo, JH, and Wolfe, CR. "Use of Letermovir as Salvage Therapy for Drug-resistant CMV Retinitis: A Case Series." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (January 14, 2019).

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30642941
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Lee, R, Haidar, G, Lewis, J, Arif, S, Hand, J, Holaday, E, Clauss, H, Goldman, J, and Nellore, A. "Daptomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcal (VRE) Blood Isolates Correlates with Allograft Failure in Orthotopic Liver Transplant (OLT) Recipients." American Transplant Congress. Seattle, WA. June 2, 2018 - June 6, 2018.: WILEY, June 1, 2018.

Scholars@Duke

Lee, R, Haidar, G, Lewis, J, Arif, S, Hand, J, Holaday, E, Clauss, H, Goldman, J, and Nellore, A. "Daptomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcal (VRE) Blood Isolates Correlates with Allograft Failure in Orthotopic Liver Transplant (OLT) Recipients." American Transplant Congress. Seattle, WA. June 2, 2018 - June 6, 2018.: WILEY, June 1, 2018.

Scholars@Duke

Arif, S, and Perfect, JR. "Emergence of the Molds Other than Aspergillus in Immunocompromised Patients." Clinics in chest medicine 38, no. 3 (September 2017): 555-573. (Review)

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28797495
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Sampath, R, Patel, R, Cunningham, SA, Arif, S, Daly, RC, Badley, AD, and Wylam, ME. "Cardiothoracic Transplant Recipient Mycoplasma hominis: An Uncommon Infection with Probable Donor Transmission." EBioMedicine 19 (May 2017): 84-90.

PMID
28438507
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Bishawi, M, Bell, S, Cai, L, Landford, W, Arif, S, McLarty, A, Blue, L, Phillips, B, Nicoara, A, Patel, C, and Milano, C. "Antibiotic Prophylaxis Strategies in LVAD Implantation and LVAD Infections: A Systematic Review of the Literature." April 2017.

Scholars@Duke

Arif, S, Baddour, LM, and Sohail, MR. "Cardiac device related endocarditis." In Infective Endocarditis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, and Prevention, 187-205. July 26, 2016.

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Dbeibo, L, Arif, S, He, F, and Gupta, SK. "Frequency of atazanavir-associated leukocyturia development and renal function decline." AIDS (London, England) 30, no. 9 (June 2016): 1488-1489.

PMID
27167012
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Livorsi, DJ, Arif, S, Garry, P, Kundu, MG, Satola, SW, Davis, TH, Batteiger, B, and Kressel, AB. "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal real-time PCR: a predictive tool for contamination of the hospital environment." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 1 (January 2015): 34-39.

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25627759
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Khare, R, Gupta, S, Arif, S, Jentoft, ME, Deziel, PJ, Roden, AC, Wilhelm, MP, Razonable, RR, and Wengenack, NL. "Misidentification of Neosartorya pseudofischeri as Aspergillus fumigatus in a lung transplant patient." Journal of clinical microbiology 52, no. 7 (July 2014): 2722-2725.

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24829237
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