Dr. Lesia Kizyma Dropulic

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

United States Department of Defense (DOD): Career Development Award, , 1999 to 2003.
United States Department of Defense (DOD): Idea Award, , 1997 to 2000.

• Thomas A, Dropulic LK, Geetha D (2007) Ureteral stents: novel risk factor for polyomavirus nephropathy, Transplantation, 84 (3), 433-436
• Magill SS, Dropulic LK (2006) Antifungal prophylaxis in transplant recipients: where do we go from here?, Transplant Infectious Diseases, 8 (4), 187-189
• Dropulic LK (2006) The Impact of Cytomegalovirus Infection on Solid Organ Transplantation, Advanced Studied in Medicine, 6 (7), 321-328
• Shlobin OA, West EE, Lechtzin N, Miller SM, Borja M, Orens JB, Dropulic LK, McDyer JF (2006) Persistent cytomegalovirus-specific memory responses in the lung allograft and blood following primary infection in lung transplant recipients, The Journal of Immunology, 176, 2625-2634
• Singh H, Dropulic LK (2006) Candiduria, Avoiding Common ICU Errors, first edition, Philadelphia, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins (bookchapter)
• Shlobin OA, Dropulic LK, Orens JB, McDyer JF, Conte JV, Yang SY, Girgis R (2005) Mediastinal mass due to Aspergillus fumigatus after lung trasnplantation: a case report, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 24 (11), 1991-1994
• Humeau LM, Binder GK, Lu X, Slepushkin V, Merling R, Echeagaray P, Pereira M, Slepushkina T, Barnett S, Dropulic LK, Carroll R, Levine BL, June CH, Dropulic B (Jun 2004) Efficient lentiviral vector-mediated control of HIV-1 replication in CD4 lymphocytes from diverse HIV+ infected patients grouped according to CD4 count and viral load., Molecular Therapy : the Journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 9 (6), 902-13
• Shepherd JC, Subramanian A, Montgomery RA, Samaniego MD, Gong G, Bergmann A, Blythe D, Dropulic L (May 2004) West Nile virus encephalitis in a kidney transplant recipient., American Journal of Transplantation : Official Journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons., 4 (5), 830-3
• Green M, Avery RK, Preiksaitis J, Dropulic LK (contributing author) (2004) Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Infectious Complications of Solid Organ Transplantation, American Journal of Transplantation, 4 (suppl. 10), 5-166
• Dropulic LK, Rubin RH, Bartlett JG (Mar 2003) Smallpox vaccination and the patient with an organ transplant., Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America., 36 (6), 786-8
• Dropulic L K, Hardwick J M, Griffin D E, A single amino acid change in the E2 glycoprotein of Sindbis virus confers neurovirulence by altering an early step of virus replication, Journal of Virology, 71(8), 6100-5, 1997
• Dropulic LK, Hardwick JM, Griffin DE (1997) A single amino acid change in the E2 glycoprotein of Sindbis virus confers neurovirulence by altering an early step of virus replication, Journal of Virology, 71 (8), 6100-6105
• Dropulic L K, Leslie J M, Eldred L J, Zenilman J, Sears C L, Clinical manifestations and risk factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in patients with AIDS published erratum appears in J Infect Dis 1995 Jul;172(1):327, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 171(4), 930-7, 1995
• Dropulic LK, Leslie JM, Eldred LJ, Zenilman J, Sears CL (1995) Clinical manifestations and risk factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 171 (4), 930-937
• Dropulic LK, Jones RJ, Polyoma BK virus infection in blood and marrow transplant recipients, Dropulic LK, In Press
• Cuda JD, Baldwin III WM, Steenbergen C, Judge DP, Dropulic LK, Halushka MK, Extensive cardiac allograft vasculitis and concurrent fat necrosis six years after orthotopic heart transplantation, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, In Press