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Asuncion Mejias is affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States and has a substantial body of research within the field of Medicine. Their research primarily focuses on epidemiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, surgery, and immunology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Tracheal and airway disorders

Mejias has coauthored numerous publications with several frequent collaborators, notably:

  • Octavio Ramilo (101 joint publications)
  • Sara Mertz (28 joint publications)
  • Ravi Jhaveri (25 joint publications)
  • Christopher B. Forrest (23 joint publications)
  • Pablo J. Sánchez (23 joint publications)

The scientist's work has been published recurrently in journals such as:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases (22 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (17 publications)
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases (8 publications)
  • The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (7 publications)
  • Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (6 publications)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Asuncion Mejias include:

  • "Global disease burden of and risk factors for acute lower respiratory infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus in preterm infants and young children in 2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis of aggregated and individual participant data", 2024, The Lancet
  • "Respiratory syncytial virus prevention within reach: the vaccine and monoclonal antibody landscape", 2022, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Clinical Features and Burden of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children and Adolescents", 2022, JAMA Pediatrics
  • "Mapping systemic lupus erythematosus heterogeneity at the single-cell level", 2020, Nature Immunology
  • "The journey to a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine", 2020, Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology

Best Publications

  • An interferon-inducible neutrophil-driven blood transcriptional signature in human tuberculosis

    Matthew P. R. Berry;Christine M. Graham;Finlay W. McNab;Zhaohui Xu

  • A Modular Analysis Framework for Blood Genomics Studies: Application to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    Damien Chaussabel;Charles Quinn;Jing Shen;Pinakeen Patel

  • Induction of ICOS+CXCR3+CXCR5+ TH Cells Correlates with Antibody Responses to Influenza Vaccination

    Salah Eddine Bentebibel;Santiago Lopez;Gerlinde Obermoser;Nathalie Schmitt

  • Gene expression patterns in blood leukocytes discriminate patients with acute infections

    Octavio Ramilo;Octavio Ramilo;Windy Allman;Wendy Chung;Wendy Chung;Asuncion Mejias;Asuncion Mejias

  • Management and outcome of children with skin and soft tissue abscesses caused by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

    Michael C. Lee;Ana M. Rios;Monica Fonseca Aten;Asuncion Mejias

  • Respiratory syncytial virus seasonality: A global overview

    Pablo Obando-Pacheco;Antonio José Justicia-Grande;Irene Rivero-Calle;Carmen Rodríguez-Tenreiro

  • The respiratory syncytial virus vaccine landscape: lessons from the graveyard and promising candidates.

    Natalie I Mazur;Deborah Higgins;Marta C Nunes;José A Melero

  • Respiratory syncytial virus prevention within reach: the vaccine and monoclonal antibody landscape

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  • Nasopharyngeal Microbiota, Host Transcriptome and Disease Severity in Children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.

    Wouter A. A. de Steenhuijsen Piters;Santtu Heinonen;Raiza Hasrat;Eleonora Bunsow

  • Mapping systemic lupus erythematosus heterogeneity at the single-cell level

    Djamel Nehar-Belaid;Seunghee Hong;Radu Marches;Guo Chen

  • Risk Factors in Children Hospitalized With RSV Bronchiolitis Versus Non–RSV Bronchiolitis

    Carla G. García;Rafia Bhore;Alejandra Soriano-Fallas;Margaret Trost

  • Whole Blood Gene Expression Profiles to Assess Pathogenesis and Disease Severity in Infants with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection

    Asuncion Mejias;Blerta Dimo;Nicolas M. Suarez;Carla Garcia

  • Infliximab Treatment of Intravenous Immunoglobulin–Resistant Kawasaki Disease

    Jane C. Burns;Brookie M. Best;Asuncion Mejias;Lynn Mahony

  • Lower respiratory tract infection caused by respiratory syncytial virus: current management and new therapeutics

    Natalie I Mazur;Federico Martinón-Torres;Eugenio Baraldi;Brigitte Fauroux

  • Plasticity and Virus Specificity of the Airway Epithelial Cell Immune Response during Respiratory Virus Infection

    Ioannis Ioannidis;Beth McNally;Meredith Willette;Mark E. Peeples;Mark E. Peeples

  • Global respiratory syncytial virus-associated mortality in young children (RSV GOLD): a retrospective case series

    Nienke M Scheltema;Angela Gentile;Florencia Lucion;D James Nokes;D James Nokes

  • Blood leukocyte microarrays to diagnose systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis and follow the response to IL-1 blockade

    Florence Allantaz;Damien Chaussabel;Dorothee Stichweh;Lynda Bennett

  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus Induces Pneumonia, Cytokine Response, Airway Obstruction, and Chronic Inflammatory Infiltrates Associated with Long-Term Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Mice

    Hasan S. Jafri;Susana Chávez-Bueno;Asunción Mejías;Ana M. Gómez

  • Association of RNA Biosignatures With Bacterial Infections in Febrile Infants Aged 60 Days or Younger.

    Prashant Mahajan;Nathan Kuppermann;Asuncion Mejias;Nicolas Suarez

  • Changing trends in acute osteomyelitis in children: impact of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.

    Jesús Saavedra-Lozano;Jesús Saavedra-Lozano;Asunción Mejías;Asunción Mejías;Naveed Ahmad;Estrella Peromingo

  • The association between respiratory syncytial virus infection and the development of childhood asthma: a systematic review of the literature.

    Eduardo G Pérez-Yarza;Antonio Moreno;Pablo Lázaro;Asunción Mejías

  • Abstract O.29: Transcriptional Profiling Discriminates Complete and Incomplete KD from Human Adenovirus

    Preeti Jaggi;Asuncion Mejias;Adriana Tremoulet;Jane Burns

Frequent Co-Authors

Octavio Ramilo
Octavio Ramilo St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Damien Chaussabel
Damien Chaussabel Sidra Medical and Research Center
Mark E. Peeples
Mark E. Peeples The Ohio State University
Virginia Pascual
Virginia Pascual Cornell University
Karolina Palucka
Karolina Palucka Baylor University
Robert J. Wilkinson
Robert J. Wilkinson The Francis Crick Institute
George H. McCracken
George H. McCracken The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos
Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anne O'Garra
Anne O'Garra The Francis Crick Institute

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