Alyssa Ammazzalorso, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Associate Healthcare Epidemiologist, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
B.S. (Biological Sciences)
Fordham University , 2015.
M.D. (Medicine)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2019.
Permanent linkB.S. (Biological Sciences)
Fordham University , 2015.
M.D. (Medicine)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2019.
Selected Publications
Vishnu S. Potluri, David Goldberg, Siqi Zhang, Douglas E. Schaubel, Miklos Z. Molnar, Rachel Forbes, Megan E. Sise, James L. Rogers, Vasanthi Balaraman, Anshul Bhalla, David Shaffer, Beatrice P. Concepcion, Raymond T. Chung, Ian A. Strohbehn, Shristi Mapchan, Vikas Vujjini, Akhila Sangadi, Eric Martin, Roy D. Bloom, Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Emily A. Blumberg, Peter P. Reese: Risk of Cytomegalovirus Viremia Following Transplantation of Hepatitis C-Viremic Donor Kidneys Into Uninfected Recipients: A Multi-Center Retrospective Cohort Study. Transplant Infectious Disease 27(3): e70011, May/June 2025.Karla L. Valdes Morales MD, Marc Bornstein BA, PhD, Claire E. Hannah MD, Thomas Vazquez MD, Corinne Rauck MD, Olaf Rodriguez MD, Rosalie Elenitsas MD, Alyssa Ammazzalorso MD, Ilyas Sahrish MD, Blair C. Weikert MD, Emily Baumrin MD, Meera Sivendran MD, Amy Forrestel MD, Misha Rosenbach MD: Cytomegalovirus anogenital ulcers in an immunosuppressed patient. JAAD Case Reports March 2025.
Alyssa Ammazzalorso, M. Elle Saine, Judith O’Donnell, Leah Turner, Sarah Longworth, Blair Weikert, Emily Blumberg: Sexually Transmitted Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. American Transplant Congress June 2024.
Judith A. Anesi, Ebbing Lautenbach, Kerri A. Thom, Pranita D. Tamma, Emily A. Blumberg, Kevin Alby, Warren B. Bilker, Alissa Werzen, Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Pam Tolomeo, Jacqueline Omorogbe, Lisa Pineles, and Jennifer H. Han: Clinical Outcomes and Risk Factors for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales Bloodstream Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. Transplantation 107(1): 254-263, January 2022.
Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Jennifer Han, Ebbing Lautenbach, Pranita Tamma, Pranita Tamma, Kerri Thom, Kevin Alby, Emily A. Blumberg, Warren B. Bilker, Jacqueline Omorogbe, Pam Tolomeo, Alissa Werzen, and Judith A. Anesi: Risk Factors for Subsequent Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection Following an Initial Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. IDWeek September 2021 Notes: Poster Presentation.
Tracie A. Seimon, Samuel Ayebare, Robert Sekisambu, Emmanuel Muhindo, Guillain Mitamba, Eli Greenbaum, Michelle Menegon, Fabio Pupin, Denise McAloose, Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Danny Meirte, Wilbur Lukwago, Mathias Behangana, Anton Seimon, and Andrew J. Plumptre: Assessing the Threat of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in the Albertine Rift: Past, Present and Future. PLOS ONE 10(12): e0145841, December 2015.
Alyssa D. Ammazzalorso, Christine P. Zolnik, Thomas J. Daniels, and Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis: To Beat or Not to Beat a Tick: Comparison of DNA Extraction Methods for Ticks (Ixodes scapularis). PeerJ 3(1): e1147, August 2015.
Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Christine Zolnik, and Sergios Kolokotronis: The City Mouse and the Suburban Mouse: Urbanization and the Gut Microbiome of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus). Microbes in the City: Mapping the Urban Genome, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York 2015 June 2015 Notes: Poster Presentation.
Robert J. Ossiboff, Bonnie L. Raphael, Alyssa D. Ammazzalorso, Tracie A. Seimon, Alisa L. Newton, Tylis Y. Chang, Brian Zarate, Alison L. Whitlock, and Denise McAloose: Three Novel Herpesviruses of Endangered Clemmys and Glyptemys Turtles. PLOS ONE 10(4): e0122901, April 2015.
Robert J. Ossiboff, Bonnie L. Raphael, Alyssa D. Ammazzalorso, Tracie A. Seimon, Holly Niederriter, Brian Zarate, Alisa L. Newton, and Denise McAloose: A Mycoplasma Species of Emydidae Turtles in the Northeastern USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 51(2): 466-470, April 2015.