Dr. Edjola Lulja

Department of Infectious Diseases

American Hospital

Tirana, Albania

Field of interest:

• Infectious diseases, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), vector-borne diseases, antimicrobial resistance, molecular diagnostics,  public health, epidemiology and clinical research.

I am an Infectious Diseases specialist interested in collaborating on clinical research, surveillance of vector-borne diseases,  diagnostics. I would like to contribute to educational activities, guideline development, in collaboration on public health initiatives, epidemiology, and international research consortia.

References:

-  1st International Congress of Health Sciences (Tirana, Albania, 2025) – Oral Presentation: "Visceral leishmaniasis in an adult splenectomized patient with beta thalassemia."

-  ESCMID Global 2024 (Barcelona, Spain) – Co-author Poster: "Visceral leishmaniasis by Leishmania infantum in immunosuppressed patients."

- ESCMID Global 2024 (Barcelona, Spain) – Co-author Oral Presentation: "Usefulness of biomarkers in the management of active chronic visceral leishmaniasis with HIV co-infection: report of three cases."

- 19th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2023, Warsaw, Poland) – Poster Presentation: "A case of co-infection of visceral leishmaniasis and HIV infection with multiple relapses."

-38th IUSTI Congress (Athens, Greece, 2025) – Poster: "Oral manifestations among syphilis cases in a tertiary hospital."

- 33rd International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (Istanbul, Türkiye, 2024) – Poster: "Syphilis frequency and features among newly diagnosed HIV cases."

-  Macedonian Congress of Infectious Diseases (2022) – Poster Presentation: "Assessment of the HIV cascade of care of newly diagnosed patients in Albania during 2020."

-  ESCMID Global 2025 (Vienna, Austria) – Poster: "Urinary tract TB: Don't forget the sterile pyuria."