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Alexandra Tsitsiklis

@atsitsiklis

Scientist at UCSF studying respiratory infections including COVID-19. PhD in Infectious Diseases and Immunity from UC Berkeley.

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First postdoc preprint! We show that COVID-19 patients who develop ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) have impaired anti-bacterial immune signaling and changes in the lung microbiome weeks before the onset of VAP medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Really proud to have worked with this amazing group of scientists to get an asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 testing program started at UC Berkeley last summer!

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One of the outstanding questions of the COVID-19 pandemic is why severe outcomes occur disproportionately in adults. We investigated this question by comparing the transcriptional response in the upper airway of children & adults with or without SARS-CoV-2 infection

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A 2-Gene Host Signature for Improved Accuracy of COVID-19 Diagnosis Agnostic to Viral Variants medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

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CXCR3 regulates stem and proliferative CD8+ T cells during chronic infection by promoting interactions with DCs in splenic bridging channels dlvr.it/SHjlC4

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New research article> Lower respiratory tract infections in children requiring mechanical ventilation: a multicentre prospective surveillance study incorporating airway metagenomics thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… #LRTI