Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.D., University of Milan (Italy) 2009
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2017 - 2021
  • Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2012 - 2013
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Costales, Cristina, John A. Crump, Alex R. Mremi, Patrick T. Amsi, Nathaniel H. Kalengo, Kajiru G. Kilonzo, Grace Kinabo, et al. “Performance of Xpert Ultra nasopharyngeal swab for identification of tuberculosis deaths in northern Tanzania.” Clin Microbiol Infect, March 28, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2022.03.027.
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    • Pisharody, Sruti, Matthew P. Rubach, Manuela Carugati, William L. Nicholson, Jamie L. Perniciaro, Holly M. Biggs, Michael J. Maze, et al. “Incidence Estimates of Acute Q Fever and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, from 2007 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2014.” Am J Trop Med Hyg 106, no. 2 (December 20, 2021): 494–503. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1036.
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    • Bonnewell, John P., Matthew P. Rubach, Deng B. Madut, Manuela Carugati, Michael J. Maze, Kajiru G. Kilonzo, Furaha Lyamuya, et al. “Performance Assessment of the Universal Vital Assessment Score vs Other Illness Severity Scores for Predicting Risk of In-Hospital Death Among Adult Febrile Inpatients in Northern Tanzania, 2016-2019.” Jama Netw Open 4, no. 12 (December 1, 2021): e2136398. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.36398.
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    • Madut, Deng B., Matthew P. Rubach, John P. Bonnewell, Elena R. Cutting, Manuela Carugati, Nathaniel Kalengo, Michael J. Maze, et al. “Trends in fever case management for febrile inpatients in a low malaria incidence setting of Tanzania.” Trop Med Int Health 26, no. 12 (December 2021): 1668–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13683.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, S. Aliberti, G. Sotgiu, F. Blasi, A. Gori, R. Menendez, M. Encheva, et al. “Correction to: Bacterial etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent hospitalized patients and appropriateness of empirical treatment recommendations: an international point-prevalence study.” Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 40, no. 9 (September 2021): 2051. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-021-04295-2.
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    • Marin-Corral, Judith, Sergi Pascual-Guardia, Francesco Amati, Stefano Aliberti, Joan R. Masclans, Nilam Soni, Alejandro Rodriguez, et al. “Aspiration Risk Factors, Microbiology, and Empiric Antibiotics for Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia.” Chest 159, no. 1 (January 2021): 58–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.06.079.
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    • Maze, Michael J., Mindy Glass Elrod, Holly M. Biggs, John Bonnewell, Manuela Carugati, Alex R. Hoffmaster, Bingileki F. Lwezaula, et al. “Investigation of Melioidosis Using Blood Culture and Indirect Hemagglutination Assay Serology among Patients with Fever, Northern Tanzania.” Am J Trop Med Hyg 103, no. 6 (December 2020): 2510–14. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0160.
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    • Carugati, M., A. Piazza, A. M. Peri, L. Cariani, M. Brilli, D. Girelli, D. Di Carlo, et al. “Fatal respiratory infection due to ST308 VIM-1-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a lung transplant recipient: case report and review of the literature.” Bmc Infect Dis 20, no. 1 (August 26, 2020): 635. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05338-3.
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    • Franzetti, Marco, Ugo Pozzetti, Manuela Carugati, Alessandro Pandolfo, Chiara Molteni, Paolo Faccioli, Gioacchino Castaldo, et al. “Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist anakinra in association with remdesivir in severe COVID-19: A case report.” Int J Infect Dis 97 (August 2020): 215–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.050.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, S. Aliberti, G. Sotgiu, F. Blasi, A. Gori, R. Menendez, M. Encheva, et al. “Bacterial etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent hospitalized patients and appropriateness of empirical treatment recommendations: an international point-prevalence study.” Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 39, no. 8 (August 2020): 1513–25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-020-03870-3.
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    • Madut, Deng B., Matthew P. Rubach, Nathaniel Kalengo, Manuela Carugati, Michael J. Maze, Anne B. Morrissey, Blandina T. Mmbaga, et al. “A prospective study of Escherichia coli bloodstream infection among adolescents and adults in northern Tanzania.” Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 114, no. 5 (May 7, 2020): 378–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trz111.
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    • Peri, Anna Maria, Aurora Piazza, Valentina De Zan, Manuela Carugati, Antonio Muscatello, Francesco Comandatore, Elisa De Lorenzis, et al. “Autochthonous ST405 NDM-5 producing Escherichia coli causing fatal sepsis in Northern Italy.” Int J Antimicrob Agents 55, no. 5 (May 2020): 105953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105953.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Letizia Corinna Morlacchi, Anna Maria Peri, Laura Alagna, Valeria Rossetti, Alessandra Bandera, Andrea Gori, Francesco Blasi, and Ifalt Working Group. “Challenges in the Diagnosis and Management of Bacterial Lung Infections in Solid Organ Recipients: A Narrative Review.” Int J Mol Sci 21, no. 4 (February 12, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041221.
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    • Halliday, Jo E. B., Manuela Carugati, Michael E. Snavely, Kathryn J. Allan, Julia Beamesderfer, Georgia A. F. Ladbury, Deborah V. Hoyle, et al. “Zoonotic causes of febrile illness in malaria endemic countries: a systematic review.” Lancet Infect Dis 20, no. 2 (February 2020): e27–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30629-2.
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    • Aliberti, Stefano, Grayden S. Cook, Bettina L. Babu, Luis F. Reyes, Alejandro H Rodriguez, Francisco Sanz, Nilam J. Soni, et al. “International prevalence and risk factors evaluation for drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia.” J Infect 79, no. 4 (October 2019): 300–311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2019.07.004.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Kajiru G. Kilonzo, and John A. Crump. “Fever, bacterial zoonoses, and One Health in sub-Saharan Africa.” Clin Med (Lond) 19, no. 5 (September 2019): 375–80. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2019-0180.
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    • Foresti, Sergio, Maria Rita Perego, Manuela Carugati, Anna Casati, Cristina Malafronte, Marco Manzoni, Raffaele Badolato, Andrea Gori, and Felice Achilli. “The hidden hypothesis: A disseminated tuberculosis case.” Int J Infect Dis 85 (August 2019): 88–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2019.05.023.
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    • Di Pasquale, Marta Francesca, Giovanni Sotgiu, Andrea Gramegna, Dejan Radovanovic, Silvia Terraneo, Luis F. Reyes, Jan Rupp, et al. “Prevalence and Etiology of Community-acquired Pneumonia in Immunocompromised Patients.” Clin Infect Dis 68, no. 9 (April 24, 2019): 1482–93. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy723.
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    • Turner, Nicholas A., Batu K. Sharma-Kuinkel, Stacey A. Maskarinec, Emily M. Eichenberger, Pratik P. Shah, Manuela Carugati, Thomas L. Holland, and Vance G. Fowler. “Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an overview of basic and clinical research.” Nat Rev Microbiol 17, no. 4 (April 2019): 203–18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0147-4.
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    • Radovanovic, Dejan, Giovanni Sotgiu, Mateja Jankovic, Padukudru Anand Mahesh, Pedro Jorge Marcos, Mohamed I. Abdalla, Marta Francesca Di Pasquale, et al. “An international perspective on hospitalized patients with viral community-acquired pneumonia.” Eur J Intern Med 60 (February 2019): 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2018.10.020.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Stefano Aliberti, Luis Felipe Reyes, Ricardo Franco Sadud, Muhammad Irfan, Cristina Prat, Nilam J. Soni, et al. “Microbiological testing of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: an international study.” Erj Open Res 4, no. 4 (October 2018). https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00096-2018.
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    • Holland, Thomas L., Issam Raad, Helen W. Boucher, Deverick J. Anderson, Sara E. Cosgrove, P Suzanne Aycock, John W. Baddley, et al. “Effect of Algorithm-Based Therapy vs Usual Care on Clinical Success and Serious Adverse Events in Patients with Staphylococcal Bacteremia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.” Jama 320, no. 12 (September 25, 2018): 1249–58. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.13155.
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    • Restrepo, Marcos I., Bettina L. Babu, Luis F. Reyes, James D. Chalmers, Nilam J. Soni, Oriol Sibila, Paola Faverio, et al. “Burden and risk factors for Pseudomonas aeruginosa community-acquired pneumonia: a multinational point prevalence study of hospitalised patients.” Eur Respir J 52, no. 2 (August 2018). https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01190-2017.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Holly M. Biggs, Michael J. Maze, Robyn A. Stoddard, Shama Cash-Goldwasser, Julian T. Hertz, Jo E. B. Halliday, et al. “Incidence of human brucellosis in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania in the periods 2007-2008 and 2012-2014.” Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 112, no. 3 (March 1, 2018): 136–43. https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/try033.
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    • Aliberti, Stefano, Julio Ramirez, Fabio Giuliani, Timothy Wiemken, Giovanni Sotgiu, Sara Tedeschi, Manuela Carugati, et al. “Individualizing duration of antibiotic therapy in community-acquired pneumonia.” Pulm Pharmacol Ther 45 (August 2017): 191–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pupt.2017.06.008.
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    • Pericàs, J. M., J. A. Messina, C. Garcia-de-la-Mària, L. Park, B. K. Sharma-Kuinkel, F. Marco, D. Wray, et al. “Influence of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration on the outcome of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus left-sided infective endocarditis treated with antistaphylococcal β-lactam antibiotics: a prospective cohort study by the International Collaboration on Endocarditis.” Clin Microbiol Infect 23, no. 8 (August 2017): 544–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2017.01.017.
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    • Aliberti, Stefano, Luis F. Reyes, Paola Faverio, Giovanni Sotgiu, Simone Dore, Alejandro H. Rodriguez, Nilam J. Soni, Marcos I. Restrepo, and Marcos I. GLIMP investigators. “Global initiative for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (GLIMP): an international, observational cohort study.” Lancet Infect Dis 16, no. 12 (December 2016): 1364–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30267-5.
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    • Carugati, M., C. A. Petti, C. Arnold, J. M. Miro, J. M. Pericàs, C. Garcia de la Maria, Z. Kanafani, et al. “Antistaphylococcal β-Lactams versus Vancomycin for Treatment of Infective Endocarditis Due to Methicillin-Susceptible Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci: a Prospective Cohort Study from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis.” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 60, no. 10 (October 2016): 6341–49. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01531-16.
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    • Schiroli, Consuelo, Manuela Carugati, Fabio Zanini, Alessandra Bandera, Silvia Di Nardo Stuppino, Elisa Monge, Manuela Morosi, et al. “Exogenous reinfection of tuberculosis in a low-burden area.” Infection 43, no. 6 (December 2015): 647–53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-015-0759-9.
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    • Carugati, M., F. Franzetti, T. Wiemken, R. R. Kelley, P. Peyrani, F. Blasi, J. Ramirez, and S. Aliberti. “De-escalation therapy among bacteraemic patients with community-acquired pneumonia.” Clin Microbiol Infect 21, no. 10 (October 2015): 936.e11-936.e18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2015.06.015.
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    • Aliberti, Stefano, Fabio Giuliani, Julio Ramirez, and Francesco Blasi. “How to choose the duration of antibiotic therapy in patients with pneumonia.” Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases 28, no. 2 (April 2015): 177–84. https://doi.org/10.1097/qco.0000000000000140.
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    • Carugati, M., F. Franzetti, T. Wiemken, R. R. Kelley, P. Peyrani, F. Blasi, J. Ramirez, and S. Aliberti. “Corrigendum to "De-escalation therapy among bacteraemic patients with community-acquired pneumonia" [Clin Microbiol Infect 21 (2015) 936.e11-936.e18].” Clinical Microbiology and Infection 21, no. 12 (January 1, 2015): e87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2015.10.011.
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    • Carugati, M., C. Schiroli, F. Zanini, N. Vanoni, M. Galli, F. Adorni, and F. Franzetti. “A new predictive model for an improved respiratory isolation strategy in HIV-infected patients with PTB.” Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 18, no. 7 (July 2014): 831–36. https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.13.0588.
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    • Zanini, Fabio, Manuela Carugati, Consuelo Schiroli, Giuseppe Lapadula, Alessandra Lombardi, Luigi Codecasa, Andrea Gori, and Fabio Franzetti. “Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family: analysis of the epidemiological and clinical factors associated with an emerging lineage in the urban area of Milan.” Infect Genet Evol 25 (July 2014): 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2014.03.021.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Arnold S. Bayer, Josè M. Miró, Lawrence P. Park, Armenio C. Guimarães, Athanasios Skoutelis, Claudio Q. Fortes, et al. “High-dose daptomycin therapy for left-sided infective endocarditis: a prospective study from the international collaboration on endocarditis.” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 57, no. 12 (December 2013): 6213–22. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01563-13.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Marco Franzetti, Alessandro Torre, Riccardo Giorgi, Augusto Genderini, Francesco Strambio de Castilla, Cristina Gervasoni, and Agostino Riva. “Systemic lupus erythematosus and HIV infection: a whimsical relationship. Reports of two cases and review of the literature.” Clin Rheumatol 32, no. 9 (September 2013): 1399–1405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-013-2271-x.
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    • Lapadula, Giuseppe, Fabio Zanini, Luigi Codecasa, Fabio Franzetti, Maurizio Ferrarese, Manuela Carugati, Ester Mazzola, et al. “Influence of Hospitalization upon Diagnosis on the Risk of Tuberculosis Clustering.” Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis 5, no. 1 (2013): e2013071. https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2013.071.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Stefano Aliberti, and Fabio Franzetti. “Should health care systems and health care providers implement a new pathway for hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia?” Arch Intern Med 172, no. 22 (December 10, 2012): 1771. https://doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.459.
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    • Carugati, Manuela, Fabio Zanini, Consuelo Schiroli, Andrea Gori, Fabio Franzetti, M. Hanekom, G. D. van der Spuy, et al. “Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat analysis and Beijing/W family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.” J Clin Microbiol 49, no. 7 (July 2011): 2780. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02089-09.
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    • Vanoni, Nicolò Maria, Manuela Carugati, Noemi Borsa, Giovanni Sotgiu, Laura Saderi, Andrea Gori, Marco Mantero, Stefano Aliberti, and Francesco Blasi. “Management of Acute Respiratory Failure Due to Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review.” Medical Sciences 7, no. 1 (n.d.): 10–10. https://doi.org/10.3390/medsci7010010.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Carugati, Manuela, Helen L. Zhang, Kajiru G. Kilonzo, Michael J. Maze, Venance P. Maro, Matthew P. Rubach, and John A. Crump. “Predicting Mortality for Adolescent and Adult Patients with Fever in Resource-Limited Settings.” In Am J Trop Med Hyg, 99:1246–54, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0682.
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