Rima El-Herte

Assistant Professor

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School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Infectious Diseases Division
Infectious Diseases Fellowships

Rima El-Herte

Assistant Professor

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.
Areas of Interest: Virology, CMV
Fellowship: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics; and American Universify of Beirut Medical Center.
Residency: University of Iowa-Des Moines and American University of Beirut Medical Center.
Medical School: Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanon.

Research Focus

CMV
EBV
Herpes Viruses
HIV
Viral disease
 

Department

Medicine

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

  • Clinical Infectious Disease, Second Edition
    El-Herte Rima I., etal Cytomegalovirus [Book Chapter] 2015

Publications

  • Open forum infectious diseases
    Samuel Shrestha, etal Deciphering Positive Cytomegalovirus Immunoglobulin M Test Results in Immunocompetent Adults Hospitalized With Illness Suspicious for Acute Cytomegalovirus Infection: A Multihospital Study
    12:3, p. ofaf144 2025
  • Antibiotics (Basel)
    Destache Christopher J., etal Impact of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) on Serum Concentrations of Cefepime
    13:11, p. 1024 2024
  • Chest
    Isern RAUL, etal IMPACT OF EXTRA-CORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION (ECMO) ON PLASMA CONCENTRATIONS OF CEFEPIME
    164:4, p. A1615 2023
  • BMC infectious diseases
    Azeem Ahad, etal Herpes simplex virus dissemination with necrotizing hepatitis following Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty
    23:1, p. 465 - 465 2023
  • Wisconsin medical journal (Madison, Wis.)
    Jerabek Julie, etal Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis With Fungemia and Possible Strongyloides Co-infection
    122:3, p. 200 - 204 2023
  • Jerabek Julie, etal Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis With Fungemia and Possible Strongyloides Co-infection 2023
  • Case reports in infectious diseases
    Elliott Ross P., etal Acute Cytomegalovirus Illness in an Immunocompetent Adult Causing Intravascular Hemolysis and Suspected Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
    2022, p. 1 - 7 2022
  • Curēus (Palo Alto, CA)
    Creech Zachary A, etal Unusual Freshwater-Related Infections Caused by Haematospirillum jordaniae
    14:5 2022
  • IDCases
    El-Herte Rima I., etal Phaeoacremonium parasiticum phaeohyphomycosis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus treated successfully with surgical debridement and voriconazole
    1:4, p. 84 - 88 2014
  • Journal of Infection and Public Health
    El-Herte Rima I., etal The threat of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Lebanon
    5:3, p. 233 - 243 2012
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    El-Herte Rima I., etal Detection of carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae producing NDM-1 in Lebanon
    6:5, p. 457 - 461 2012
  • Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
    El-Herte Rima I., etal Recurrent refractory Clostridium difficile colitis treated successfully with rifaximin and tigecycline
    44:3, p. 228 - 230 2012
  • Case reports in infectious diseases
    El-Herte Rima I., etal First Report of Nocardia asiatica Presenting as an Anterior Mediastinal Mass in a Patient with Myasthenia Gravis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
    2012, p. 1 - 4 2012
  • Advances in infectious diseases
    I. El-Herte Rima, etal Mucormycosis: A Review on Environmental Fungal Spores and Seasonal Variation of Human Disease
    2:3, p. 76 - 81 2012
  • Journal Medical Libanais
    El-Herte Rima I., etal Salmonella enteritidis bacteremia with septic arthritis of the sacroiliac joint in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
    59:4, p. 235 - 237 2011
  • Journal Medical Libanais
    El-Herte Rima, etal A patient with headache, right upper extremity and right hemithorax hypothermalgesia
    59:2, p. 109 - 113 2011