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Carlos Alvarez

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Associate ProfessorMedicine DeptUniversity of Alberta

Carlos Alvarez

Associate Professor

Medicine Dept

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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26 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 8 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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241

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Research

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Latest papers

Pretransplant screening for infections in lung and heart transplant candidates.
JHLT open · 2026
Cell-mediated Immunity to Guide Primary Prophylaxis for CMV Infection in Organ Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Single-arm Prospective Study.
Transplantation · 2025
Donor-derived bartonellosis in solid organ transplant recipients from unhoused donors in Alberta.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2025

All 241 publications

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Pretransplant screening for infections in lung and heart transplant candidates.

Riunga F, Cervera C, Kabbani D

JHLT open20263 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhlto.2025.100409 PMID: 41356173

Cell-mediated Immunity to Guide Primary Prophylaxis for CMV Infection in Organ Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Single-arm Prospective Study.

Solera JT, Ferreira VH, Cervera C, Hosseini-Moghaddam SM, Gill J, Shalhoub S, Zaltzman J, Kumar D, Humar A

Transplantation202518 citations

DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000005173 PMID: 39160648

Donor-derived bartonellosis in solid organ transplant recipients from unhoused donors in Alberta.

Kabbani D, Orenbuch-Harroch E, Boodman C, Broad S, Paz-Infanzon M, Belga S, Fernández-García OA, Christie E, L N Sikosana M, Shojai S, Gourishankar S, Cervera C, Doucette K

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons20257 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.09.026 PMID: 39326850

Respiratory Viruses at Time of Lung Transplant and the Relationship to Primary Graft Dysfunction.

van den Bosch L, Kaur K, Varughese R, Hirji A, Weatherald J, Weinkauf J, Lien D, Garcia OF, Alvarez CC, Doucette K, Kabbani D, Halloran K

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/tid.70078 PMID: 40717602

Clinical management and burden of cytomegalovirus in D+/R-Kidney transplant recipients in Canada

Gill J, House AA, Chagla Z, Tchervenkov J, Kim SJ, Vinson A, Cervera C, Keown PA, Sun SLW, Khoury C

Frontiers in Immunology20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1618748

Correction: Clinical management and burden of cytomegalovirus in D+/R-Kidney transplant recipients in Canada

Gill J, House AA, Chagla Z, Tchervenkov J, Kim SJ, Vinson A, Cervera C, Keown PA, Sun SLW, Khoury C

Frontiers in Immunology2025Open Access

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1712602

P-1816. Stepwise Implementation of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Prospective Audit and Feedback Intervention at a Large Academic Center in Canada

Teagan Zeggil, Carlos Cervera, Stephanie Wrenn Smith, Dima Kabbani, Serena Bains, Cecilia Lau, Karen G Fong, Jackson J Stewart, Karen Elizabeth Doucette, Justin Z. Chen

Open Forum Infectious Diseases2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae631.1979

Drug Resistance Assessed in a Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Maribavir Therapy for Refractory or Resistant Cytomegalovirus Infection in Transplant Recipients.

Chou S, Alain S, Cervera C, Chemaly RF, Kotton CN, Lundgren J, Papanicolaou GA, Pereira MR, Wu JJ, Murray RA, Buss NE, Fournier M

The Journal of infectious diseases202485 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiad293 PMID: 37506264

The impact of colonization by multidrug resistant bacteria on graft survival, risk of infection, and mortality in recipients of solid organ transplant: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Almohaya A, Fersovich J, Weyant RB, Fernández García OA, Campbell SM, Doucette K, Lotfi T, Abraldes JG, Cervera C, Kabbani D

Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases202444 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.03.036 PMID: 38608872

Incidence of valganciclovir-related leukopenia and neutropenia in solid organ transplant recipients at high risk of cytomegalovirus disease.

Belga S, Hernandez C, Kabbani D, Cervera C

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society202427 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/tid.14227 PMID: 38180285

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Carlos Alvarez

Research

Latest papers

Pretransplant screening for infections in lung and heart transplant candidates.

Cell-mediated Immunity to Guide Primary Prophylaxis for CMV Infection in Organ Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Single-arm Prospective Study.

Donor-derived bartonellosis in solid organ transplant recipients from unhoused donors in Alberta.

Respiratory Viruses at Time of Lung Transplant and the Relationship to Primary Graft Dysfunction.

Clinical management and burden of cytomegalovirus in D+/R-Kidney transplant recipients in Canada

Correction: Clinical management and burden of cytomegalovirus in D+/R-Kidney transplant recipients in Canada

P-1816. Stepwise Implementation of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Prospective Audit and Feedback Intervention at a Large Academic Center in Canada

Drug Resistance Assessed in a Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Maribavir Therapy for Refractory or Resistant Cytomegalovirus Infection in Transplant Recipients.

The impact of colonization by multidrug resistant bacteria on graft survival, risk of infection, and mortality in recipients of solid organ transplant: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Incidence of valganciclovir-related leukopenia and neutropenia in solid organ transplant recipients at high risk of cytomegalovirus disease.

Frequent collaborators

Carlos Cervera

Dima Kabbani

Karen Doucette

Kieran Halloran

James Karlowsky

Justin Weinkauf

Alim Hirji

Dale Lien

Elie Akl

John Gill

Maryna Yaskina

Soroush Shojai

Rhea Varughese

Andrew Morris

Neal Irfan

Yoav Keynan

Jason Weatherald

Gregory Tyrrell

Amanda Vinson

Sergio Borgia

Zain Chagla

Andrew House

Andrew Walkty

Jens Walter

Paul Keown

Cecilia Chaparro

Seyed Hosseini-Moghaddam

Sita Gourishankar

Coleman Rotstein

Raymond Lai

Kelsey Roelofs

Laura van den Bosch

Gavin Low

Sunita Ghosh

Kristen Brown

Lianne Singer

Puneeta Tandon