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Neeraj K Surana

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
Box 103055, Durham, NC 27710
3 Genome Ct, MSRBIII Room 4126, Durham, NC 27710

Featured Works


Enterococcus Intestinal Domination is Associated with Increased Mortality in the Acute Leukemia Chemotherapy Population.

Journal article Clin Infect Dis · December 20, 2021 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Enterococcus intestinal domination (EID), a state of dysbiosis wherein enterococci comprise ≥30% abundance within the microbiota, has been associated with Enterococcus bacteremia, graft-versus-host disease, and mortality in the allogeneic hemat ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Modern-World View of Host-Microbiota-Pathogen Interactions.

Journal article J Immunol · October 1, 2021 Featured Publication The microbiota-the diverse set of commensal microbes that normally colonize humans-represents the first line of defense against infectious diseases. In this review, we summarize the direct and indirect mechanisms by which the microbiota modulates susceptib ... Full text Link to item Cite

Transcriptional and proteomic insights into the host response in fatal COVID-19 cases.

Journal article Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · November 10, 2020 Featured Publication Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, has resulted thus far in greater than 933,000 deaths worldwide; yet disease pathogenesis remains unclear. Clinical and immunological features of patients with COVID-19 have high ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moving beyond microbiome-wide associations to causal microbe identification.

Journal article Nature · December 14, 2017 Featured Publication Microbiome-wide association studies have established that numerous diseases are associated with changes in the microbiota. These studies typically generate a long list of commensals implicated as biomarkers of disease, with no clear relevance to disease pa ... Full text Link to item Cite