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Alejandro Pironti

Alejandro Pironti

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology

Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Director, Microbial Computational Genomic Core Lab

Postdoctoral Training

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program

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430 East 29th Street, Alexandria – West Tower

5th floor

New York, NY 10016

Capsular Polysaccharide Is Essential for the Virulence of the Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogen Enterobacter hormaechei

St John, Amelia; Perault, Andrew I; Giacometti, Sabrina I; Sommerfield, Alexis G; DuMont, Ashley L; Lacey, Keenan A; Zheng, Xuhui; Sproch, Julia; Petzold, Chris; Dancel-Manning, Kristen; Gonzalez, Sandra; Annavajhala, Medini; Beckford, Colleen; Zeitouni, Nathalie; Liang, Feng-Xia; van Bakel, Harm; Shopsin, Bo; Uhlemann, Anne-Catrin; Pironti, Alejandro; Torres, Victor J

MBio. 2023 Feb 13; e0259022

Clostridia isolated from helminth-colonized humans promote the life cycle of Trichuris species

Sargsian, Shushan; Chen, Ze; Lee, Soo Ching; Robertson, Amicha; Thur, Rafaela Saes; Sproch, Julia; Devlin, Joseph C; Tee, Mian Zi; Er, Yi Xian; Copin, Richard; Heguy, Adriana; Pironti, Alejandro; Torres, Victor J; Ruggles, Kelly V; Lim, Yvonne A L; Bethony, Jeffrey; Loke, P'ng; Cadwell, Ken

Cell reports. 2022 Nov 29; 41(9):111725

Gut microbiome dysbiosis in antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients is associated with microbial translocation and bacteremia

Bernard-Raichon, Lucie; Venzon, Mericien; Klein, Jon; Axelrad, Jordan E; Zhang, Chenzhen; Sullivan, Alexis P; Hussey, Grant A; Casanovas-Massana, Arnau; Noval, Maria G; Valero-Jimenez, Ana M; Gago, Juan; Putzel, Gregory; Pironti, Alejandro; Wilder, Evan; Thorpe, Lorna E; Littman, Dan R; Dittmann, Meike; Stapleford, Kenneth A; Shopsin, Bo; Torres, Victor J; Ko, Albert I; Iwasaki, Akiko; Cadwell, Ken; Schluter, Jonas

Nature communications. 2022 Nov 01; 13(1):5926

Microbiome-Independent Effects of Antibiotics in a Murine Model of Nosocomial Infections

Lacey, Keenan A; Gonzalez, Sandra; Yeung, Frank; Putzel, Gregory; Podkowik, Magdalena; Pironti, Alejandro; Shopsin, Bo; Cadwell, Ken; Torres, Victor J

MBio. 2022 06 28; 13(3):e0124022

Pathogen Species Is Associated With Mortality in Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection in Patients With COVID-19

Gago, Juan; Filardo, Thomas D; Conderino, Sarah; Magaziner, Samuel J; Dubrovskaya, Yanina; Inglima, Kenneth; Iturrate, Eduardo; Pironti, Alejandro; Schluter, Jonas; Cadwell, Ken; Hochman, Sarah; Li, Huilin; Torres, Victor J; Thorpe, Lorna E; Shopsin, Bo

Open forum infectious diseases. 2022 Jun; 9(6):ofac083

Genetic determinants facilitating the evolution of resistance to carbapenem antibiotics

Ma, Peijun; He, Lorrie L; Pironti, Alejandro; Laibinis, Hannah H; Ernst, Christoph M; Manson, Abigail L; Bhattacharyya, Roby P; Earl, Ashlee M; Livny, Jonathan; Hung, Deborah

eLife. 2021 Apr 19; 10:

Author Correction: Adaptive evolution of virulence and persistence in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

Ernst, Christoph M; Braxton, Julian R; Rodriguez-Osorio, Carlos A; Zagieboylo, Anna P; Li, Li; Pironti, Alejandro; Manson, Abigail L; Nair, Anil V; Benson, Maura; Cummins, Kaelyn; Clatworthy, Anne E; Earl, Ashlee M; Cosimi, Lisa A; Hung, Deborah T

Nature medicine. 2020 Aug; 26(8):1307

Adaptive evolution of virulence and persistence in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

Ernst, Christoph M; Braxton, Julian R; Rodriguez-Osorio, Carlos A; Zagieboylo, Anna P; Li, Li; Pironti, Alejandro; Manson, Abigail L; Nair, Anil V; Benson, Maura; Cummins, Kaelyn; Clatworthy, Anne E; Earl, Ashlee M; Cosimi, Lisa A; Hung, Deborah T

Nature medicine. 2020 05; 26(5):705-711

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