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Dante Paolo Melendez-Lecca

Dante Paolo Melendez-Lecca, MD

Languages spoken: English, Spanish
  • Specialties

    Board Certification

    American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Infectious Disease)
    Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
  • Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Internal Medicine -Primary
    Academic Divisions Infectious Diseases
    Board Certification
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Infectious Disease)
    Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates

    Education history

    Fellowship Transplant Infectious Diseases - Mayo Clinic Fellow
    Infectious Diseases - Mayo Clinic Fellow
    Residency Internal Medicine - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Resident
    Medicine - Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia M.B.B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Wolfe CR, Tomashek KM, Patterson TF, Gomez CA, Marconi VC, Jain MK, Yang OO, Paules CI, Palacios GMR, Grossberg R, Harkins MS, Mularski RA, Erdmann N, Sandkovsky U, Almasri E, Pineda JR, Dretler AW, de Castilla DL, Branche AR, Park PK, Mehta AK, Short WR, McLellan SLF, Kline S, Iovine NM, El Sahly HM, Doernberg SB, Oh MD, Huprikar N, Hohmann E, Kelley CF, Holodniy M, Kim ES, Sweeney DA, Finberg RW, Grimes KA, Maves RC, Ko ER, Engemann JJ, Taylor BS, Ponce PO, Larson L, Melendez DP, Seibert AM, Rouphael NG, Strebe J, Clark JL, Julian KG, de Leon AP, Cardoso A, de Bono S, Atmar RL, Ganesan A, Ferreira JL, Green M, Makowski M, Bonnett T, Beresnev T, Ghazaryan V, Dempsey W, Nayak SU, Dodd LE, Beigel JH, Kalil AC, ACTT-4 Study Group (2022). Baricitinib versus dexamethasone for adults hospitalised with COVID-19 (ACTT-4): a randomised, double-blind, double placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Respir Med, 10(9), 888-899.
    2. McGhee M, Melendez-Lecca DP, Agudelo Higuita NI (2021). Pulmonary cannonballs in a patient with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). IDCases, 25, e01229.
    3. Miller MA, Molina KC, Gutman JA, Scherger S, Lum JM, Mossad SB, Burgess M, Cheng MP, Chuang ST, Jacobs SE, Melendez DP, Shah DP, Zimmer A, Sohail MR, Syed S, Walker RC, Poeschla EM, Abidi MZ (2020). Mucormycosis in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients and in Patients With Hematological Malignancies in the Era of New Antifungal Agents. Open Forum Infect Dis, 8(2), ofaa646.
    4. Kim AY, Davis AS, Moreau A, Drevets DA, Melendez DP (2020). Management of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections of the eye and orbit: A retrospective case series. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep, 20, 100971.
    5. Maupin J, Cantrell A, Kupiec K, Melendez DP, Haleem AM (2019). Mycobacterium senegalense Osteomyelitis of the Distal Tibia: A Case Report. J Bone Jt Infect, 4(3), 140-145.
    6. Melendez DP, Greenwood-Quaintance KE, Berbari EF, Osmon DR, Mandrekar JN, Hanssen AD, Patel R (2015). Evaluation of a Genus- and Group-Specific Rapid PCR Assay Panel on Synovial Fluid for Diagnosis of Prosthetic Knee Infection. J Clin Microbiol, 54(1), 120-6.
    7. Melendez DP, Razonable RR (2015). Letermovir and inhibitors of the terminase complex: a promising new class of investigational antiviral drugs against human cytomegalovirus. Infect Drug Resist, 8, 269-77.
    8. Melendez D, Razonable RR (2014). Immune-based monitoring for cytomegalovirus infection in solid organ transplantation: is it ready for clinical primetime? Expert Rev Clin Immunol, 10(9), 1213-27.
    9. Melendez DP, Uhl JR, Greenwood-Quaintance KE, Hanssen AD, Sampath R, Patel R (2014). Detection of prosthetic joint infection by use of PCR-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry applied to synovial fluid. J Clin Microbiol, 52(6), 2202-5.
    10. Romn K, Castillo R, Gilman RH, Caldern M, Vivar A, Cspedes M, Smits HL, Melndez P, Gotuzzo E, Guerra H, Maves RC, Matthias MA, Vinetz JM, Saito M (2013). A foodborne outbreak of brucellosis at a police station cafeteria, Lima, Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 88(3), 552-8.
    11. Smits HL, Espinosa B, Castillo R, Hall E, Guillen A, Zevaleta M, Gilman RH, Melendez P, Guerra C, Draeger A, Broglia A, Nckler K (2008). MLVA genotyping of human Brucella isolates from Peru. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 103(4), 399-402.
    12. Castillo Y, Rodriguez S, Garca HH, Brandt J, Van Hul A, Silva M, Rodriguez-Hidalgo R, Portocarrero M, Melendez DP, Gonzalez AE, Gilman RH, Dorny P, Cysticercosis Working Group in Per (2009). Urine antigen detection for the diagnosis of human neurocysticercosis. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 80(3), 379-83.
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