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Lydia Barakat

Researcher at Yale University

Publications -  44
Citations -  853

Lydia Barakat is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 35 publications receiving 686 citations.

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Complicated left-sided native valve endocarditis in Adults: Risk classification for mortality

TL;DR: Adults with complicated left-sided native valve endocarditis can be accurately risk stratified using baseline features into 4 groups of prognostic severity, and this prognostic classification system might be useful for facilitating management decisions.
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Fatal Inhalational Anthrax in a 94-Year-Old Connecticut Woman

TL;DR: The patient's clinical course was characterized by progression of respiratory insufficiency, pleural effusions and pulmonary edema, and, ultimately, death, and viable B anthracis was present in postmortem mediastinal lymph node specimens.
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Increased Levels of Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins Result in Resistance to R5-Tropic HIV-1 in a Subset of Elite Controllers

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a subgroup of elite controllers possess CD4+ T cells that are specifically resistant to R5-tropic HIV while remaining fully susceptible to X4- Tropic and vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSV-G)-pseudotyped viruses.