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  1. Zha BS, Ieong M, Cheng I, Bokser S, Fenton C, Muniyappa A, Tarnow J, Jue V, DeVoe C, Kleinhenz ME, Thakur N. Formation and Growth of a Bronchiectasis and Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Multidisciplinary Program Using a Patient-Centered and Integrated Care Model Improves Outcomes. Chest 2026. PMID: 41534706


  2. Daley CL, Flume PA, van Ingen J, Khare R, Mingora CM, Nguyen MH, Winthrop KL, Zha BS. A systematic review of tetracyclines for nontuberculous mycobacteria: focus on rapidly growing mycobacteria. European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society 2025. PMID: 41193247


  3. Marmor M, Brunton AE, Fraulino D, Ruoss SJ, Henkle E, Zha BS, Metersky M, Winthrop K, Bronchiectasis and NTM Research Registry Investigators. The Association Between Incident Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Isolation and Antibiotic Exposure in Patients With Bronchiectasis. Chest 2025. PMID: 41076063


  4. Zheng W, Borja M, Dorman LC, Liu J, Zhou A, Seng A, Arjyal R, Sunshine S, Nalyvayko A, Pisco AO, Rosenberg OS, Neff N, Zha BS. Single-cell analysis reveals Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESX-1-mediated accumulation of permissive macrophages in infected mouse lungs. Science advances 2025. PMID: 39813329


  5. Spottiswoode N, Tsitsiklis A, Chu VT, Phan HV, DeVoe C, Love C, Ghale R, Bloomstein J, Zha BS, Maguire CP, Glascock A, Sarma A, Mourani PM, Kalantar KL, Detweiler A, Neff N, Haller SC, COMET Consortium, DeRisi JL, Erle DJ, Hendrickson CM, Kangelaris KN, Krummel MF, Matthay MA, Woodruff PG, Calfee CS, Langelier CR. Microbial dynamics and pulmonary immune responses in COVID-19 secondary bacterial pneumonia. Nature communications 2024. PMID: 39472555


  6. Aksamit TR, Locantore N, Addrizzo-Harris D, Ali J, Barker A, Basavaraj A, Behrman M, Brunton AE, Chalmers S, Choate R, Dean NC, DiMango A, Fraulino D, Johnson MM, Lapinel NC, Maselli DJ, McShane PJ, Metersky ML, Miller BE, Naureckas ET, O'Donnell AE, Olivier KN, Prusinowski E, Restrepo MI, Richards CJ, Rhyne G, Schmid A, Solomon GM, Tal-Singer R, Thomashow B, Tino G, Tsui K, Varghese SA, Warren HE, Winthrop K, Zha BS. Five-Year Outcomes Among U.S. Bronchiectasis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Registry Patients. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2024. PMID: 38668710


  7. Zheng W, Chang IC, Limberis J, Budzik JM, Zha BS, Howard Z, Chen L, Ernst JD. Mycobacterium tuberculosis resides in lysosome-poor monocyte-derived lung cells during chronic infection. PLoS pathogens 2024. PMID: 38701094


  8. Sunshine S, Puschnik AS, Replogle JM, Laurie MT, Liu J, Zha BS, Nuñez JK, Byrum JR, McMorrow AH, Frieman MB, Winkler J, Qiu X, Rosenberg OS, Leonetti MD, Ye CJ, Weissman JS, DeRisi JL, Hein MY. Systematic functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 host factors using Perturb-seq. Nature communications 2023. PMID: 37803001


  9. Hackney JA, Shivram H, Vander Heiden J, Overall C, Orozco L, Gao X, Kim E, West N, Qamra A, Chang D, Chakrabarti A, Choy DF, Combes AJ, Courau T, Fragiadakis GK, Rao AA, Ray A, Tsui J, Hu K, Kuhn NF, Krummel MF, Erle DJ, Kangelaris K, Sarma A, Lyon Z, Calfee CS, Woodruff PG, Ghale R, Mick E, Byrne A, Zha BS, Langelier C, Hendrickson CM, van der Wijst MGP, Hartoularos GC, Grant T, Bueno R, Lee DS, Greenland JR, Sun Y, Perez R, Ogorodnikov A, Ward A, Ye CJ, UCSF COMET Consortium, Ramalingam T, McBride JM, Cai F, Teterina A, Bao M, Tsai L, Rosas IO, Regev A, Kapadia SB, Bauer RN, Rosenberger CM. A myeloid program associated with COVID-19 severity is decreased by therapeutic blockade of IL-6 signaling. iScience 2023. PMID: 37810211


  10. Zha BS, Desvignes L, Fergus TJ, Cornelius A, Cheng TY, Moody DB, Ernst JD. Bacterial Strain-Dependent Dissociation of Cell Recruitment and Cell-to-Cell Spread in Early M. tuberculosis Infection. mBio 2022. PMID: 35695454


  11. Tsitsiklis A, Zha BS, Byrne A, Devoe C, Levan S, Rackaityte E, Sunshine S, Mick E, Ghale R, Jauregui A, Sarma A, Neff N, Serpa PH, Deiss TJ, Kistler A, Carrillo S, Ansel KM, Leligdowicz A, Christenson S, Jones N, Wu B, Darmanis S, Matthay MA, Lynch SV, DeRisi JL, COMET Consortium+ , Hendrickson CM, Kangelaris KN, Krummel MF, Woodruff PG, Erle DJ, Rosenberg O, Calfee CS, Langelier CR. Impaired antibacterial immune signaling and changes in the lung microbiome precede secondary bacterial pneumonia in COVID-19. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2021. PMID: 33791731


  12. Sarma A, Christenson SA, Byrne A, Mick E, Pisco AO, DeVoe C, Deiss T, Ghale R, Zha BS, Tsitsiklis A, Jauregui A, Moazed F, Detweiler AM, Spottiswoode N, Sinha P, Neff N, Tan M, Serpa PH, Willmore A, Ansel KM, Wilson JG, Leligdowicz A, Siegel ER, Sirota M, DeRisi JL, Matthay MA, COMET Consortium , Hendrickson CM, Kangelaris KN, Krummel MF, Woodruff PG, Erle DJ, Calfee CS, Langelier CR. Tracheal aspirate RNA sequencing identifies distinct immunological features of COVID-19 ARDS. Nature communications 2021. PMID: 34446707


  13. Sarma A, Christenson S, Mick E, Deiss T, DeVoe C, Pisco A, Ghale R, Jauregui A, Byrne A, Moazed F, Spottiswoode N, Sinha P, Zha B, Neff N, Tan M, Serpa PH, Ansel KM, Wilson J, Leligdowicz A, Seigel E, Sirota M, DeRisi J, Matthay M, Consortium C, Hendrickson C, Kangelaris K, Krummel M, Woodruff P, Erle D, Calfee C, Langelier C. COVID-19 ARDS is characterized by a dysregulated host response that differs from cytokine storm and is modified by dexamethasone. Research square 2021. PMID: 33469573


  14. Schoof M, Faust B, Saunders RA, Sangwan S, Rezelj V, Hoppe N, Boone M, Billesbølle CB, Puchades C, Azumaya CM, Kratochvil HT, Zimanyi M, Deshpande I, Liang J, Dickinson S, Nguyen HC, Chio CM, Merz GE, Thompson MC, Diwanji D, Schaefer K, Anand AA, Dobzinski N, Zha BS, Simoneau CR, Leon K, White KM, Chio US, Gupta M, Jin M, Li F, Liu Y, Zhang K, Bulkley D, Sun M, Smith AM, Rizo AN, Moss F, Brilot AF, Pourmal S, Trenker R, Pospiech T, Gupta S, Barsi-Rhyne B, Belyy V, Barile-Hill AW, Nock S, Liu Y, Krogan NJ, Ralston CY, Swaney DL, García-Sastre A, Ott M, Vignuzzi M, QCRG Structural Biology Consortium, Walter P, Manglik A. An ultrapotent synthetic nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by stabilizing inactive Spike. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020. PMID: 33154106


  15. Bracken CJ, Lim SA, Solomon P, Rettko NJ, Nguyen DP, Zha BS, Schaefer K, Byrnes JR, Zhou J, Lui I, Liu J, Pance K, QCRG Structural Biology Consortium, Zhou XX, Leung KK, Wells JA. Bi-paratopic and multivalent VH domains block ACE2 binding and neutralize SARS-CoV-2. Nature chemical biology 2020. PMID: 33082574


  16. Kurz SG, Zha BS, Herman DD, Holt MR, Daley CL, Ruminjo JK, Thomson CC. Summary for Clinicians: 2020 Clinical Practice Guideline Summary for the Treatment of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2020. PMID: 32870060


  17. Zha BS, Nahid P. Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis. Volume 40 of Issue 4. Clinics in chest medicine 2019. PMID: 31731983


  18. Zha BS, Flanagan M, Coulson C, Garvin KW. Difficult to Identify: Malignant Primary Peritoneal Mesothelioma. The American journal of medicine 2015. PMID: 26164565


  19. Zha BS, Wan X, Zhang X, Zha W, Zhou J, Wabitsch M, Wang G, Lyall V, Hylemon PB, Zhou H. HIV protease inhibitors disrupt lipid metabolism by activating endoplasmic reticulum stress and inhibiting autophagy activity in adipocytes. PloS one 2013. PMID: 23533630


  20. Zha W, Wang G, Xu W, Liu X, Wang Y, Zha BS, Shi J, Zhao Q, Gerk PM, Studer E, Hylemon PB, Pandak WM, Zhou H. Inhibition of P-glycoprotein by HIV protease inhibitors increases intracellular accumulation of berberine in murine and human macrophages. PloS one 2013. PMID: 23372711


  21. Zha W, Zha BS, Zhou F, Zhou H, Wang G. The cellular pharmacokinetics of HIV protease inhibitors: current knowledge and future perspectives. Current drug metabolism 2012. PMID: 22746305


  22. Zha BS, Zhou H. ER Stress and Lipid Metabolism in Adipocytes. Biochemistry research international 2012. PMID: 22400114


  23. Zhang J, Zhou F, Wu X, Zhang X, Chen Y, Zha BS, Niu F, Lu M, Hao G, Sun Y, Sun J, Peng Y, Wang G. Cellular pharmacokinetic mechanisms of adriamycin resistance and its modulation by 20(S)-ginsenoside Rh2 in MCF-7/Adr cells. British journal of pharmacology 2012. PMID: 21615726


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