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Cristina R Costales, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology

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Publications

  • Impact on hospital length of stay and antimicrobial usage in children diagnosed with viral meningitis by rapid multiplexed PCR assay. J Clin Virol. 2025 Oct; 180:105856.. View in PubMed
  • Epidemiologic and Genomic Characterization of an Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever Among Humans and Dairy Cattle in Northern Tanzania. J Infect Dis. 2025 Aug 14; 232(2):298-307.. View in PubMed
  • Performance evaluation of early growth isolates for automated and manual broth microdilution antimicrobial-susceptibility testing. J Clin Microbiol. 2025 Aug 13; 63(8):e0023625.. View in PubMed
  • Implications of subtyping influenza A amongst H5N1 surveillance efforts. J Clin Virol. 2025 Aug; 179:105810.. View in PubMed
  • A novel framework for the automated characterization of Gram-stained blood culture slides using a large-scale vision transformer. J Clin Microbiol. 2025 Mar 12; 63(3):e0151424.. View in PubMed
  • Development of an automated amplicon-based next-generation sequencing pipeline for rapid detection of bacteria and fungi directly from clinical specimens. J Clin Microbiol. 2024 May 08; 62(5):e0174923.. View in PubMed
  • The Report Says What?: How the Medical Microbiologist can aid in the Interpretation of Next-Generation Sequencing Results. Clin Lab Med. 2024 03; 44(1):75-84.. View in PubMed
  • Clinical utility of SARS-CoV-2 subgenomic RT-PCR in a pediatric quaternary care setting. J Clin Virol. 2023 07; 164:105494.. View in PubMed
  • Near-fatal Legionella pneumonia in a neonate linked to home humidifier by metagenomic next generation sequencing. Med. 2022 08 12; 3(8):565-567.. View in PubMed
  • Performance of Xpert Ultra nasopharyngeal swab for identification of tuberculosis deaths in northern Tanzania. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022 Aug; 28(8):1150.e1-1150.e6.. View in PubMed
  • Cellular and humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and booster dose in immunosuppressed patients: An observational cohort study. J Clin Virol. 2022 08; 153:105217.. View in PubMed
  • Accuracy of Rapid Antigen vs Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in College Athletes During Prevalence of the Omicron Variant. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 06 01; 5(6):e2217234.. View in PubMed
  • Clinical accuracy of malaria loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay as a stand-alone screening tool at a non-endemic Northern California regional health system. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2022 Jun; 103(2):115680.. View in PubMed
  • Vaccine-Associated Measles Encephalitis in Immunocompromised Child, California, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 04; 28(4):906-908.. View in PubMed
  • Immune imprinting, breadth of variant recognition, and germinal center response in human SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination. Cell. 2022 03 17; 185(6):1025-1040.e14.. View in PubMed
  • Diagnosis of Dengue in a returning traveler from Pakistan suspected of COVID-19, California, USA. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2021 Dec; 101(4):115517.. View in PubMed
  • Case-Control Study of Individuals with Discrepant Nucleocapsid and Spike Protein SARS-CoV-2 IgG Results. Clin Chem. 2021 07 06; 67(7):977-986.. View in PubMed
  • SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Resistance Mutations in Patient with HIV/AIDS, California, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021; 27(10):2720-2723.. View in PubMed
  • Clear Cell Variant of Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas: A Report of a Rare Variant and Review of the Literature. Int J Surg Pathol. 2019 Aug; 27(5):535-540.. View in PubMed
  • A Real Pain: Diagnostic Quandaries and Septic Arthritis. J Clin Microbiol. 2018 02; 56(2).. View in PubMed
  • Lung Adenocarcinoma with Miliary Metastases and Left Femur Pathologic Fracture: an Unusual Case Mimicking Disseminated Tuberculosis. HSS J. 2017 Jul; 13(2):201-206.. View in PubMed
  • Asian-variant intravascular large B-cell lymphoma. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2017 Apr; 30(2):186-189.. View in PubMed
  • Malakoplakia of the thyroid gland: a case report and review of literature. Int J Surg Pathol. 2015 Jun; 23(4):308-12.. View in PubMed

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