Robert F. Breiman

Research interests

Publications

• A New Pneumococcal Capsule Type, 10D, is the 100th Serotype and Has a Large cps Fragment from an Oral Streptococcus

  mBio · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00937-20

• Incidence of invasive salmonella disease in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicentre population-based surveillance study

  The Lancet Global Health · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(17)30022-0

• Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2015: a systematic review and modelling study

  The Lancet · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(17)30938-8

• Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to identify causes of diarrhoea in children: a reanalysis of the GEMS case-control study

  The Lancet · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31529-x

• Phylogeographical analysis of the dominant multidrug-resistant H58 clade of Salmonella Typhi identifies inter- and intracontinental transmission events

  Nature Genetics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3281

• Shigella Isolates From the Global Enteric Multicenter Study Inform Vaccine Development

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu468

• Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: a systematic analysis

  The Lancet · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61901-1

• Case Definitions, Diagnostic Algorithms, and Priorities in Encephalitis: Consensus Statement of the International Encephalitis Consortium

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cit458

• Burden and aetiology of diarrhoeal disease in infants and young children in developing countries (the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, GEMS): a prospective, case-control study

  The Lancet · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60844-2

• Estimated global mortality associated with the first 12 months of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus circulation: a modelling study

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(12)70121-4

• Global burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  The Lancet · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)61051-9

• Efficacy of pentavalent rotavirus vaccine against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

  The Lancet · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60889-6

• Chikungunya Fever: An Epidemiological Review of a Re‐Emerging Infectious Disease

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1086/605496

• Effectiveness of Maternal Influenza Immunization in Mothers and Infants

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa0708630

• Person-to-Person Transmission of Nipah Virus in a Bangladeshi Community

  Emerging infectious diseases · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1307.061128

• Workgroup Report: Public Health Strategies for Reducing Aflatoxin Exposure in Developing Countries

  Environmental Health Perspectives · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9302

• Nipah Virus Encephalitis Reemergence, Bangladesh

  Emerging infectious diseases · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1012.040701

• Cigarette Smoking and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200003093421002

• Community‐Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: Guidelines for Management

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1086/513953

• Respiratory Syncytial Virus Is an Important Cause of Community-Acquired Lower Respiratory Infection among Hospitalized Adults

  The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/174.3.456

• The Prevalence of Drug-ResistantStreptococcus pneumoniaeIn Atlanta

  New England Journal of Medicine · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199508243330803

• Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia

  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.2307/30147436

• Emergence of Drug-Resistant Pneumococcal Infections in the United States

  JAMA · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1994.03510470035031

• Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: A Clinical Description of 17 Patients with a Newly Recognized Disease

  New England Journal of Medicine · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199404073301401

• Defining the Group A Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome

  JAMA · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1993.03500030088038

• Changing epidemiology of group A streptococcal infection in the USA

  The Lancet · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0140-6736(90)92777-f

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