Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Alix School of Medicine 2013 - 2014
  • Infectious Diseases Fellowship, 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
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2017 - 2020
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2015 - 2017
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • 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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    • 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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    • Arif, Sana, and John R. Perfect. “Emergence of the Molds Other than Aspergillus in Immunocompromised Patients.” Clin Chest Med 38, no. 3 (September 2017): 555–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccm.2017.04.014.
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    • 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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    • Dbeibo, Lana, Sana Arif, Fei He, and Samir K. Gupta. “Frequency of atazanavir-associated leukocyturia development and renal function decline.” Aids 30, no. 9 (June 1, 2016): 1488–89. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000001061.
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    • Livorsi, Daniel J., Sana Arif, Patricia Garry, Madan G. Kundu, Sarah W. Satola, Thomas H. Davis, Byron Batteiger, and Amy B. Kressel. “Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal real-time PCR: a predictive tool for contamination of the hospital environment.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 36, no. 1 (January 2015): 34–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2014.16.
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    • Khare, Reeti, Sounak Gupta, Sana Arif, Mark E. Jentoft, Paul J. Deziel, Anja C. Roden, Mark P. Wilhelm, Raymund R. Razonable, and Nancy L. Wengenack. “Misidentification of Neosartorya pseudofischeri as Aspergillus fumigatus in a lung transplant patient.” J Clin Microbiol 52, no. 7 (July 2014): 2722–25. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00216-14.
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  • Book Sections

    • Arif, S., L. M. Baddour, and M. R. Sohail. “Cardiac device related endocarditis.” In Infective Endocarditis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, and Prevention, 187–205, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32432-6_14.
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  • Conference Papers

    • 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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    • 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.
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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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