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Ajit Limaye, MD

  • Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    Director, Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases Program
  • University of Washington

Dr. Limaye directs the Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Disease Program at University of Washington. He interacts with trainees at "plate rounds", on the general and SOT ID services, and in the SOT ID clinic. His clinical and collaborative research activities are primarily focused on viral and fungal infections in SOT patients.

Specific ongoing research areas include:

  • assessing the role of CMV reactivation in immunocompetent adults with critical illness and acute lung injury
  • comparison of antiviral strategies for prevention of CMV disease in high-risk D+R- SOT recipients
  • identification of immunologic correlates of protection/susceptibility to CMV disease in high-risk SOT recipients
  • treatments for BK Virus infection in kidney transplant recipients.

Limaye has active collaborations with members of the program in infectious diseases at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Boeckh) and at the City of Hope Research Center (Drs Diamond & La Rosa).


Selected Publications


Limaye AP, Boeckh M. CMV in critically ill patients: pathogen or bystander? Rev Med Virol. 2010;20(6),372-9.
[ PubMed Abstract ]


Roxby AC, Gottlieb GS, Limaye AP. Strongyloidiasis in transplant patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2009;49(9),1411-23.
[ PubMed Abstract ]


Limaye AP, Kirby KA, Rubenfeld GD, et al. Cytomegalovirus reactivation in critically ill immunocompetent patients. JAMA. 2008;300(4),413-22.
[ PubMed Abstract ]


Li F, Kenyon KW, Kirby KA, Fishbein DP, Boeckh M, Limaye AP. Incidence and clinical features of ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus disease in heart transplant recipients. Clin Infect Dis. 2007;45(4),439-47.
[ PubMed Abstract ]


Copp DH, Godwin JD, Kirby KA, Limaye AP. Clinical and radiologic factors associated with pulmonary nodule etiology in organ transplant recipients. Am J Transplant. 2006;6(11),2759-64.
[ PubMed Abstract ]


Limaye AP, Bakthavatsalam R, Kim HW, et al. Impact of cytomegalovirus in organ transplant recipients in the era of antiviral prophylaxis. Transplantation. 2006;81(12),1645-52.
[ PubMed Abstract ]