Key Publications

1. Desai P, Karl CE, Ying B, Liang CY, Garcia-Salum T, Santana AC, Caten FT, Urban JF, Elbashir SM, Edwards DK, Ribeiro SP, Thackray LB, Sekaly RP, Diamond MS. Intestinal helminth infection impairs vaccine induced T cell responses and protection against SARS-CoV-2.

Science Translational Medicine | August 2024.

2. Desai P, Janova H, White JP, Reynoso G, Hickman HD, Baldridge MT, Urban JF, Stappenbeck TS, Thackray LB, Diamond MS. Enteric helminth coinfection enhances host susceptibility to neurotropic flaviviruses via a tuft cell-IL- 4R signaling axis.                                           

Cell | Feb 2021

News Commentary:

Nature Reviews Immunology - Worm holes in immunity – Yvonne Bordon 2021

Science, Editors’ Choice – Virus worms its way out of trouble – Seth Thomas Scanlon 2021

Cell Research - Helminths blunt immunity against flaviviruses – Kanneganti 2021

3. Desai P, Diamond MS, Thackray LB. Helminth-virus interactions: determinants of coinfection outcomes.

Gut Microbes (Review)| Jan 2021

4. Desai P, Stanfield J, Tahiliani V, Abboud G, Salek-Ardakani S. Lack of B lymphocytes enhances CD8 T cell- mediated resistance against respiratory viral infection but compromises memory cell formation.                                                                       

Journal of Virology| Jan 2020

5. Desai P, Tahiliani V, Abboud G, Stanfield J, Salek-Ardakani S. Batf3-depednent dendritic cells promote optimal CD8 T cell responses against respiratory poxvirus infection.                                                                                                                          

Journal of Virology | August 2018

6. Desai P, Tahiliani V, Hutchinson TE, Dastmalchi F, Stanfield J, Abboud G, Thomas PG, Song J, Ware CF, Croft M, Salek-Ardakani S. The TNF superfamily molecule LIGHT promotes the generation of circulating and lung-resident memory CD8 T cells following an acute respiratory virus infection.                                                                                                     

Journal of Immunology | April 2018

7. Desai P, Tahiliani V, Stanfield J, Abboud G, Salek-Ardakani S. Inflammatory monocytes contribute to the persistence of CXCR3hiCX3CR1lo circulating and lung resident memory CD8+ T cells following respiratory virus infection.                                          

Immunology and Cell Biology | Jan 2018

News Commentary: “Friends help make lasting memories” – Joanna R. Groom

8. Desai P, Abboud G, Stanfield J, Thomas PG, Song J, Ware CF, Croft M, Salek-Ardakani S. HVEM imprints memory potential on effector CD8 T cells required for protective mucosal immunity.

Journal of Immunology | Oct 2017

For complete list of publications click here: Pritesh Desai, google scholar