Pritesh Desai

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 858 citations indexed

About

Pritesh Desai is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Pritesh Desai has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 858 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Immunology, 9 papers in Infectious Diseases and 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Pritesh Desai's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (11 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (9 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (8 papers). Pritesh Desai is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (11 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (9 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (8 papers). Pritesh Desai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Spain. Pritesh Desai's co-authors include Michael Diamond, Shahram Salek‐Ardakani, Georges Abboud, Vikas Tahiliani, Tarun E. Hutchinson, Kenneth M. Murphy, Theresa L. Murphy, Larissa B. Thackray, William E. Gillanders and Vivek Durai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Pritesh Desai

29 papers receiving 847 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Rorγt-positive dendritic cells are required for the induction of peripheral regulatory T cells in response to oral antigens

2025 20 citations Tihana Tršan, Sujogya Kumar Panda et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pritesh Desai United States	18	533	190	170	139	105	31	858
Adriana Flores‐Langarica United Kingdom	19	550 1.0×	208 1.1×	182 1.1×	68 0.5×	87 0.8×	28	955
Sven Mostböck Austria	19	541 1.0×	115 0.6×	238 1.4×	205 1.5×	91 0.9×	36	991
Daniel Choo United States	9	698 1.3×	155 0.8×	131 0.8×	123 0.9×	135 1.3×	12	914
Panyupa Pankhong United States	10	385 0.7×	150 0.8×	158 0.9×	97 0.7×	243 2.3×	22	717
J. Joseph Kim United States	11	263 0.5×	222 1.2×	168 1.0×	105 0.8×	179 1.7×	13	635
Arash Ronaghy United States	10	826 1.5×	101 0.5×	305 1.8×	60 0.4×	178 1.7×	19	1.2k
Pierre Wallet France	10	347 0.7×	170 0.9×	507 3.0×	72 0.5×	76 0.7×	11	741
Thera Mulvania United States	7	661 1.2×	113 0.6×	145 0.9×	75 0.5×	132 1.3×	10	965
Saheli Sadanand United States	9	477 0.9×	95 0.5×	248 1.5×	32 0.2×	100 1.0×	17	775
Emma L. Reuschel United States	12	193 0.4×	166 0.9×	129 0.8×	44 0.3×	62 0.6×	17	465

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pritesh Desai

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Diego, Juan García-Bernalt, Pritesh Desai, Stephen T. Yeung, et al.. (2025). Helminth infections affect host immune responses to viral infections and vaccines. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 49.

Tršan, Tihana, Sujogya Kumar Panda, José Luís Fachi, et al.. (2025). Rorγt-positive dendritic cells are required for the induction of peripheral regulatory T cells in response to oral antigens. Cell. 188(10). 2720–2737.e22. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Ying, Baoling, Chieh-Yu Liang, Pritesh Desai, et al.. (2024). Ipsilateral or contralateral boosting of mice with mRNA vaccines confers equivalent immunity and protection against a SARS-CoV-2 Omicron strain. Journal of Virology. 98(9). e0057424–e0057424. 3 indexed citations

Ying, Baoling, Tamarand L. Darling, Pritesh Desai, et al.. (2024). Mucosal vaccine-induced cross-reactive CD8+ T cells protect against SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 respiratory tract infection. Nature Immunology. 25(3). 537–551. 18 indexed citations

Ou, Feiya, Tiantian Liu, Pritesh Desai, et al.. (2024). Optimization of the Irf8 +32-kb enhancer disrupts dendritic cell lineage segregation. Nature Immunology. 25(11). 2043–2056. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Leran, Brian C. Ware, Ray A. Ohara, et al.. (2024). Type I interferon signaling in dendritic cells limits direct antigen presentation and CD8 ⁺ T cell responses against an arthritogenic alphavirus. mBio. 15(12). e0293024–e0293024. 3 indexed citations

Jáňová, Hana, Fang Zhao, Pritesh Desai, et al.. (2024). West Nile virus triggers intestinal dysmotility via T cell–mediated enteric nervous system injury. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(21). 4 indexed citations

Mackin, Samantha, Pritesh Desai, Bradley Whitener, et al.. (2023). Fc-γR-dependent antibody effector functions are required for vaccine-mediated protection against antigen-shifted variants of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Microbiology. 8(4). 569–580. 47 indexed citations

Liu, Tiantian, Sun Kyung Kim, Pritesh Desai, et al.. (2022). Ablation of cDC2 development by triple mutations within the Zeb2 enhancer. Nature. 607(7917). 142–148. 66 indexed citations

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Desai, Pritesh, et al.. (2022). HPTLC- Densitometric method for assay of chlorthalidone, metoprolol succinate and telmisartan in combined pharmaceutical formulation. 90–101. 3 indexed citations

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Desai, Pritesh, Hana Jáňová, James P. White, et al.. (2021). Enteric helminth coinfection enhances host susceptibility to neurotropic flaviviruses via a tuft cell-IL-4 receptor signaling axis. Cell. 184(5). 1214–1231.e16. 49 indexed citations

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Ingle, Harshad, Belgacem Mihi, Yuhao Li, et al.. (2021). Murine astrovirus tropism for goblet cells and enterocytes facilitates an IFN-λ response in vivo and in enteroid cultures. Mucosal Immunology. 14(3). 751–761. 32 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rong, James T. Earnest, Arthur S. Kim, et al.. (2019). Expression of the Mxra8 Receptor Promotes Alphavirus Infection and Pathogenesis in Mice and Drosophila. Cell Reports. 28(10). 2647–2658.e5. 49 indexed citations

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Jagger, Brett W., Kimberly A. Dowd, Pritesh Desai, et al.. (2019). 2904. Protective Efficacy of Nucleic Acid Vaccines Against Transmission of Zika Virus During Pregnancy in Mice. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 6(Supplement_2). S84–S84.

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Desai, Pritesh, Vikas Tahiliani, Tarun E. Hutchinson, et al.. (2018). The TNF Superfamily Molecule LIGHT Promotes the Generation of Circulating and Lung-Resident Memory CD8 T Cells following an Acute Respiratory Virus Infection. The Journal of Immunology. 200(8). 2894–2904. 20 indexed citations

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Desai, Pritesh, et al.. (2018). Batf3-Dependent Dendritic Cells Promote Optimal CD8 T Cell Responses against Respiratory Poxvirus Infection. Journal of Virology. 92(16). 26 indexed citations

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Theisen, Derek J., Jesse T. Davidson, Carlos G. Briseño, et al.. (2018). WDFY4 is required for cross-presentation in response to viral and tumor antigens. Science. 362(6415). 694–699. 226 indexed citations

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Desai, Pritesh, Georges Abboud, Paul G. Thomas, et al.. (2017). HVEM Imprints Memory Potential on Effector CD8 T Cells Required for Protective Mucosal Immunity. The Journal of Immunology. 199(8). 2968–2975. 20 indexed citations

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Abboud, Georges, Vikas Tahiliani, Pritesh Desai, et al.. (2016). Transcription Factor Bcl11b Controls Effector and Memory CD8 T cell Fate Decision and Function during Poxvirus Infection. Frontiers in Immunology. 7. 425–425. 15 indexed citations

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Abboud, Georges, Vikas Tahiliani, Pritesh Desai, et al.. (2015). Natural Killer Cells and Innate Interferon Gamma Participate in the Host Defense against Respiratory Vaccinia Virus Infection. Journal of Virology. 90(1). 129–141. 48 indexed citations

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