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Juan Carlos Rico

Associate Professor

Also affiliated: Northwell Health (2015); University of South Florida (2019); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2018–2020); Universidad Ricardo Palma (2019); Comunidad de Madrid (2019)

Internal Med, College of Medicine

8 h-index 39 pubs 265 cited

  • Humans
  • Fusariosis
  • Male
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Antifungal Agents
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Voriconazole
  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Bacteremia
  • Blood Transfusion
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Aged
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Itraconazole

Biography and Research Information

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Juan Carlos Rico is an Associate Professor in Internal Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His research focuses on infectious diseases, particularly invasive fungal infections and their treatment outcomes. He has investigated the clinical impact of rapid blood culture detection systems on bacteremic patients and examined the outcomes of patients with invasive fusariosis undergoing further immunosuppressive treatments, including the role of secondary prophylaxis. Rico's work also includes exploring possible transfusion-transmitted infections and the sequelae of specific medical treatments, such as daratumumab in multiple myeloma. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 8, with 40 total publications and 265 total citations. He has collaborated on multiple publications with researchers at his institution, including Mohammad Khrais, Shahrukh Arif, Tanmay Gandhi, and Jake Smith.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 39
  • Citations: 265

Positions

  • Associate Professor publications 2016–2025
    University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Internal Med, College of Medicine Institutional directory

Selected Publications

  • A cautionary tale of false-positive histoplasma urine antigen in an HIV patient: a case report (2025)
    Access Microbiology DOI OpenAlex
  • A Cautionary Tale of False Positive Histoplasma Urine Antigen in an HIV Patient: A Case Report (2025)
  • It’s Here, It’s There, There’s Fungi Everywhere: A Case Series Utilizing Rezafungin for Invasive Candidiasis (2025)
    Infectious Diseases and Therapy 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Cautionary Tale of False Positive Histoplasma Urine Antigen in an HIV Patient: A Case Report (2024)
  • Do high MICs predict the outcome in invasive fusariosis? (2020)
    Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 59 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Clinical Impact of Accelerate Pheno Rapid Blood Culture Detection System in Bacteremic Patients (2020)
    Clinical Infectious Diseases 47 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Outcomes of patients with invasive fusariosis who undergo further immunosuppressive treatments, is there a role for secondary prophylaxis? (2019)
    Mycoses 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Infectious and immunological sequelae of daratumumab in multiple myeloma (2018)
    British Journal of Haematology 44 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • An Enlarging Lung Nodule in an Immunocompromised Host (2017)
    Clinical Infectious Diseases DOI OpenAlex
  • A Quality Improvement project to decrease overuse of vancomycin in an inpatient Hematology/Oncology service. (2016)
    Journal of Clinical Oncology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • <i>Lasiodiplodia</i> species fungal osteomyelitis in a multiple myeloma patient (2016)
    Transplant Infectious Disease 8 citations DOI OpenAlex

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