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Brazil
2025

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Microbiology

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71
Citations
17887
World Ranking
1848
National Ranking
14

Medicine

D-Index
80
Citations
21548
World Ranking
17199
National Ranking
47

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Aldo A. M. Lima is affiliated with Universidade Federal do Ceará in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Nutrition and Dietetics, Infectious Diseases, Physiology, Epidemiology, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's recent contributions include notable papers published mainly in the journal Nature and other respected venues. Noteworthy publications are:

  • Early-childhood linear growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries, 2023, Nature
  • Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low- and middle-income countries, 2023, Nature
  • Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings, 2023, Nature
  • Epidemiology of Shigella infections and diarrhea in the first two years of life using culture-independent diagnostics in 8 low-resource settings, 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Associations Between Eight Earth Observation-Derived Climate Variables and Enteropathogen Infection: An Independent Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Surveillance Studies With Broad Spectrum Nucleic Acid Diagnostics, 2021, GeoHealth

Lima's research topics include:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Escherichia coli research studies

Frequent co-authors associated with their work are:

  • Estomih Mduma
  • Pascal Bessong
  • Margaret Kosek
  • Tahmeed Ahmed
  • Alexandre Havt

The scientist has contributed to several publication venues, with significant output in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nutrients
  • Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Lima has also published books, including titles expected in 2025 by:

  • Editora BAGAI eBooks: "POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS: Diálogos, Experiências e Desafios (Vol. 5)"
  • Editora Perin eBooks: "Práticas de linguagem e protagonismo estudantil contribuições de (futuros) professores para as aulas de língua portuguesa"

Best Publications

  • Pathogen-specific burdens of community diarrhoea in developing countries: a multisite birth cohort study (MAL-ED).

    James A Platts-Mills;Sudhir Babji;Ladaporn Bodhidatta;Jean Gratz;Jean Gratz

  • The impoverished gut—a triple burden of diarrhoea, stunting and chronic disease

    Richard L. Guerrant;Mark D. DeBoer;Sean R. Moore;Rebecca J. Scharf

  • Malnutrition as an enteric infectious disease with long-term effects on child development

    Richard L Guerrant;Reinaldo B Oriá;Sean R Moore;Mônica O B Oriá

  • Association of early childhood diarrhea and cryptosporidiosis with impaired physical fitness and cognitive function four-seven years later in a poor urban community in northeast Brazil

    David I. Guerrant;Sean R. Moore;Aldo A. M. Lima;Peter D. Patrick

  • Morbidity, mortality, and long-term consequences associated with diarrhoea from Cryptosporidium infection in children younger than 5 years: a meta-analyses study

    Ibrahim A Khalil;Christopher Troeger;Puja C Rao;Brigette F Blacker

  • Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to investigate the effect of enteropathogen infections on linear growth in children in low-resource settings: Longitudinal analysis of results from the MAL-ED cohort study

    Elizabeth T Rogawski;Jie Liu;James A Platts-Mills;Furqan Kabir

  • Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to assess the aetiology, burden, and clinical characteristics of diarrhoea in children in low-resource settings: a reanalysis of the MAL-ED cohort study.

    James A Platts-Mills;Jie Liu;Elizabeth T Rogawski;Furqan Kabir

  • Early childhood diarrhea is associated with diminished cognitive function 4 to 7 years later in children in a northeast Brazilian shantytown

    Mark D Niehaus;Sean R Moore;Peter D Patrick;Lori L Derr

  • Cryptosporidiosis: epidemiology and impact

    Rebecca A. Dillingham;Aldo A. Lima;Richard L. Guerrant

  • Fecal markers of intestinal inflammation and permeability associated with the subsequent acquisition of linear growth deficits in infants

    Margaret Kosek;Rashidul Haque;Aldo Lima;Sudhir Babji

  • Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Produce Intestinal Inflammation and Growth Impairment and Cause Interleukin-8 Release from Intestinal Epithelial Cells

    T. S. Steiner;A. A. M. Lima;J. P. Nataro;R. L. Guerrant

  • The MAL-ED Study: A Multinational and Multidisciplinary Approach to Understand the Relationship Between Enteric Pathogens, Malnutrition, Gut Physiology, Physical Growth, Cognitive Development, and Immune Responses in Infants and Children Up to 2 Years of Age in Resource-Poor Environments

    Angel Mendez Acosta;Cesar Banda Chavez;Julian Torres Flores

  • Environmental Enteric Dysfunction: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Clinical Consequences

    Gerald T. Keusch;Donna M. Denno;Robert E. Black;Christopher Duggan

  • Persistent Diarrhea Signals a Critical Period of Increased Diarrhea Burdens and Nutritional Shortfalls: A Prospective Cohort Study among Children in Northeastern Brazil

    A. A. M. Lima;S. R. Moore;M. S. Barboza;A. M. Soares

  • Measuring socioeconomic status in multicountry studies: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study

    Stephanie R Psaki;Stephanie R Psaki;Jessica C Seidman;Jessica C Seidman;Mark Miller;Michael Gottlieb

  • Causal Pathways from Enteropathogens to Environmental Enteropathy: Findings from the MAL-ED Birth Cohort Study.

    Margaret N. Kosek;Tahmeed Ahmed;Zulfiquar Bhutta;Laura Caulfield

  • Prolonged episodes of acute diarrhea reduce growth and increase risk of persistent diarrhea in children

    Sean R. Moore;Noélia L. Lima;Alberto M. Soares;Reinaldo B. Oriá

  • Measurement of fecal lactoferrin as a marker of fecal leukocytes.

    R L Guerrant;V Araujo;E Soares;K Kotloff

  • Use of antibiotics in children younger than two years in eight countries: a prospective cohort study

    Elizabeth T. Rogawski;James A. Platts-Mills;Jessica C. Seidman;Sushil John

  • Longitudinal Study of Cryptosporidium Infection in Children in Northeastern Brazil

    Robert D. Newman;Cynthia Louise Sears;Sean R. Moore;James P. Nataro

  • Magnitude and impact of diarrheal diseases.

    Richard L. Guerrant;Margaret Kosek;Sean Moore;Breyette Lorntz

  • Early childhood diarrhoea and helminthiases associate with long-term linear growth faltering

    S. R. Moore;A. A. M. Lima;M. R. Conaway;J. B. Schorling

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard L. Guerrant
Richard L. Guerrant University of Virginia
Gagandeep Kang
Gagandeep Kang Christian Medical College & Hospital
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Eric R. Houpt
Eric R. Houpt University of Virginia
Rashidul Haque
Rashidul Haque International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Laura E. Caulfield
Laura E. Caulfield Johns Hopkins University
William A. Petri
William A. Petri University of Virginia
Dinesh Mondal
Dinesh Mondal International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Mark A. Miller
Mark A. Miller University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Robert E Black
Robert E Black Johns Hopkins University

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