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Lana Abusalem

House Staff
Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Publications


Use of the BIOFIRE® FILMARRAY® Pneumonia plus Panel to characterize the etiology of lower respiratory tract infections among hospitalized patients in Southern Province, Sri Lanka.

Journal Article BMC Infect Dis · September 29, 2025 BACKGROUND: Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) account for a heavy burden of illness in low- and middle-income country settings, but the etiology of these infections is often unknown. In this study, we applied the BIOFIRE® FILMARRAY® Pneumonia plus ... Full text Link to item Cite

Limited utility of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) surveillance for predicting post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders in adult EBV seropositive lung transplant recipients.

Journal Article J Clin Virol · February 2025 BACKGROUND: EBV DNAemia surveillance, with reduction of immunosuppression at certain viral load (VL) thresholds, is a common practice for mitigating progression from EBV DNAemia to post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) in lung transplant reci ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Tale of Mummified Eggs in Urine of a US Veteran

Journal Article Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice · March 2024 AbstractSchistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that remains a major threat to global health. Schistosoma is known to cause chronic urogenital infections with an in ... Full text Cite
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