- Abscess
- Aspergillosis
- Bacterial infections
- Blastomycosis
- Cellulitis
- Clostridium difficile infection
- COVID-19 virus disease
- Encephalitis
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
- Fever of unknown origin
- Flu (influenza)
- Fungal infection
- Helicobacter pylori (H. Pylori)
- Histoplasmosis
- Infectious complications with solid tumor
- Infectious disease
- Latent tuberculosis (LTBI)
- Lymphadenopathy (Enlarged lymph nodes)
- Meningitis
- Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Parasitic infections
- Pneumonia
- Positive QuantiFERON gold test result
- Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)
- Shingles
- Skin infections
- Skin rash
- Staphylococcal infections
- Transplant infectious disease
- Urinary tract infection
- Viral infectious disorders
- Wound infection
Alyssa Ammazzalorso, MD
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
My education and training
- Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
Reviews
135 reviews
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Insurance accepted
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Infectious Disease, 2024
- Internal Medicine, 2022
- American Society of Transplantation, National
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, National
- SHEA, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Vishnu S. Potluri, David Goldberg, Siqi Zhang, Douglas E. Schaubel, Miklos Z. Molnar, Rachel Forbes, Megan E. Sise, James L. Rogers, Vasanthi Balaraman, Anshul Bhalla, David Shaffer, Beatrice P. Concepcion, Raymond T. Chung, Ian A. Strohbehn, Shristi Mapchan, Vikas Vujjini, Akhila Sangadi, Eric Martin, Roy D. Bloom, Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Emily A. Blumberg, Peter P. Reese Risk of Cytomegalovirus Viremia Following Transplantation of Hepatitis C-Viremic Donor Kidneys Into Uninfected Recipients: A Multi-Center Retrospective Cohort Study , Transplant Infectious Disease, 27(3): 2025,e70011
Karla L. Valdes Morales MD, Marc Bornstein BA, PhD, Claire E. Hannah MD, Thomas Vazquez MD, Corinne Rauck MD, Olaf Rodriguez MD, Rosalie Elenitsas MD, Alyssa Ammazzalorso MD, Ilyas Sahrish MD, Blair C. Weikert MD, Emily Baumrin MD, Meera Sivendran MD, Amy Forrestel MD, Misha Rosenbach MD Cytomegalovirus anogenital ulcers in an immunosuppressed patient. , JAAD Case Reports, 28(65): 2025,112-115
Alyssa Ammazzalorso, M. Elle Saine, Judith O’Donnell, Leah Turner, Sarah Longworth, Blair Weikert, Emily Blumberg Sexually Transmitted Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients , American Transplant Congress: 2024
Judith A. Anesi, Ebbing Lautenbach, Kerri A. Thom, Pranita D. Tamma, Emily A. Blumberg, Kevin Alby, Warren B. Bilker, Alissa Werzen, Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Pam Tolomeo, Jacqueline Omorogbe, Lisa Pineles, and Jennifer H. Han Clinical Outcomes and Risk Factors for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales Bloodstream Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients , Transplantation, 107(1): 2022,254-263
Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Jennifer Han, Ebbing Lautenbach, Pranita Tamma, Pranita Tamma, Kerri Thom, Kevin Alby, Emily A. Blumberg, Warren B. Bilker, Jacqueline Omorogbe, Pam Tolomeo, Alissa Werzen, and Judith A. Anesi Risk Factors for Subsequent Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection Following an Initial Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients , IDWeek: 2021
Tracie A. Seimon, Samuel Ayebare, Robert Sekisambu, Emmanuel Muhindo, Guillain Mitamba, Eli Greenbaum, Michelle Menegon, Fabio Pupin, Denise McAloose, Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Danny Meirte, Wilbur Lukwago, Mathias Behangana, Anton Seimon, and Andrew J. Plumptre Assessing the Threat of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in the Albertine Rift: Past, Present and Future , PLOS ONE, 10(12): 2015,e0145841
Alyssa D. Ammazzalorso, Christine P. Zolnik, Thomas J. Daniels, and Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis To Beat or Not to Beat a Tick: Comparison of DNA Extraction Methods for Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) , PeerJ, 3(1): 2015,e1147
Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Christine Zolnik, and Sergios Kolokotronis The City Mouse and the Suburban Mouse: Urbanization and the Gut Microbiome of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) , Microbes in the City: Mapping the Urban Genome, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York 2015: 2015
Robert J. Ossiboff, Bonnie L. Raphael, Alyssa D. Ammazzalorso, Tracie A. Seimon, Alisa L. Newton, Tylis Y. Chang, Brian Zarate, Alison L. Whitlock, and Denise McAloose Three Novel Herpesviruses of Endangered Clemmys and Glyptemys Turtles , PLOS ONE, 10(4): 2015,e0122901
Robert J. Ossiboff, Bonnie L. Raphael, Alyssa D. Ammazzalorso, Tracie A. Seimon, Holly Niederriter, Brian Zarate, Alisa L. Newton, and Denise McAloose A Mycoplasma Species of Emydidae Turtles in the Northeastern USA , Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 51(2): 2015,466-470