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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Distinguished International Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)

Overview

Esper G. Kallas is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and focuses on medical research with an emphasis on infectious diseases. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including infectious diseases, public health, epidemiology, neurology, and virology. The scientist's research covers various topics such as mosquito-borne diseases and control, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, viral infections and vectors, long-term effects of COVID-19, viral infections and outbreaks research, and HIV/AIDS research and interventions.

Several recent publications by Esper G. Kallas are as follows:

  • Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan-Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults, 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Cabotegravir for HIV Prevention in Cisgender Men and Transgender Women, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of treating Healthcare Professionals with the Adsorbed COVID-19 (Inactivated) Vaccine Manufactured by Sinovac - PROFISCOV: A structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial, 2020, Trials
  • Efficacy and Safety of a COVID-19 Inactivated Vaccine in Healthcare Professionals in Brazil: The PROFISCOV Study, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Immunogenicity and safety of the CoronaVac inactivated vaccine in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a phase 4 trial, 2021, Nature Medicine

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Éster Cerdeira Sabino (23 collaborations)
  • Carlos Roberto Ribeiro de Carvalho (16 collaborations)
  • Eloísa Bonfá (15 collaborations)
  • Anna S. Levin (15 collaborations)
  • Cássia Gisele Terrassani Silveira (14 collaborations)

Esper G. Kallas publishes regularly in various venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 16 publications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal with 7 publications
  • Clinics with 4 publications
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases with 4 publications
  • Vaccine with 4 publications

Their scientific contributions are largely situated within the field of medicine, totaling 272 publications, with a pronounced focus on infectious diseases accounting for 119 publications. The scientist is recognized as a Distinguished International Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), an award received in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men

    Robert M. Grant;Javier R. Lama;Peter L. Anderson;Vanessa McMahan

  • Uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis, sexual practices, and HIV incidence in men and transgender women who have sex with men: a cohort study

    Robert M. Grant;Robert M. Grant;Robert M. Grant;Peter L. Anderson;Vanessa McMahan;Albert Liu

  • Emtricitabine-tenofovir concentrations and pre-exposure prophylaxis efficacy in men who have sex with men.

    Peter L. Anderson;David V. Glidden;Albert Liu;Susan Buchbinder

  • Cabotegravir for HIV Prevention in Cisgender Men and Transgender Women

    Raphael J Landovitz;Deborah Donnell;Meredith E Clement;Brett Hanscom

  • Circulating Follicular Helper–Like T Cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Association With Disease Activity

    Jin Young Choi;John Hsi En Ho;Sandra G. Pasoto;Viviane Bunin

  • Nonhuman primate models and the failure of the Merck HIV-1 vaccine in humans.

    David I Watkins;Dennis R Burton;Esper G Kallas;John P Moore

  • HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in transgender women: a subgroup analysis of the iPrEx trial

    Madeline B Deutsch;David V Glidden;Jae Sevelius;Joanne Keatley

  • Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of treating Healthcare Professionals with the Adsorbed COVID-19 (Inactivated) Vaccine Manufactured by Sinovac - PROFISCOV: A structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

    Ricardo Palacios;Elizabeth González Patiño;Roberta de Oliveira Piorelli;Monica Tilli Reis Pessoa Conde

  • No Evidence of sexual risk compensation in the iPrEx trial of daily oral HIV preexposure prophylaxis

    Julia L. Marcus;David V. Glidden;Kenneth H. Mayer;Albert Y. Liu

  • International epidemiology of human pre-existing adenovirus (Ad) type-5, type-6, type-26 and type-36 neutralizing antibodies: Correlates of high Ad5 titers and implications for potential HIV vaccine trials

    T. Christopher Mast;Lisa Kierstead;Swati B. Gupta;Alexander A. Nikas

  • Retention, engagement, and adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis for men who have sex with men and transgender women in PrEP Brasil: 48 week results of a demonstration study

    Beatriz Grinsztejn;Brenda Hoagland;Ronaldo I Moreira;Esper G Kallas

  • Prior Dengue Virus Exposure Shapes T Cell Immunity to Zika Virus in Humans.

    Alba Grifoni;John Pham;John Sidney;Patrick H O'Rourke

  • Syphilis predicts HIV incidence among men and transgender women who have sex with men in a preexposure prophylaxis trial.

    Marc M. Solomon;Kenneth H. Mayer;Kenneth H. Mayer;David V. Glidden;Albert Y. Liu

  • Efficacy and Safety of a COVID-19 Inactivated Vaccine in Healthcare Professionals in Brazil: The PROFISCOV Study

    Palacios R;Batista Ap;Albuquerque Csn;Patiño Eg

  • Upregulation of reactive oxygen species generation and phagocytosis, and increased apoptosis in human neutrophils during severe sepsis and septic shock.

    Paulo Sergio Martins;Esper Georges Kallas;Miguel Cendoroglo Neto;Maria Aparecida Dalboni

  • Immunogenicity and safety of the CoronaVac inactivated vaccine in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a phase 4 trial.

    Ana C Medeiros-Ribeiro;Nadia E Aikawa;Carla G S Saad;Emily F N Yuki

  • Changes in renal function associated with oral emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate use for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.

    Marc M. Solomon;Javier R. Lama;David V. Glidden;Kathleen Mulligan

  • Strong HIV-1-specific T cell responses in HIV-1-exposed uninfected infants and neonates revealed after regulatory T cell removal.

    Fatema A. Legrand;Douglas F. Nixon;Christopher P. Loo;Erika Ono

  • QS-21 promotes an adjuvant effect allowing for reduced antigen dose during HIV-1 envelope subunit immmunization in humans

    Thomas G. Evans;M.Juliana McElrath;Tom Matthews;David Montefiori

  • Differential Persistence of Transmitted HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutation Classes

    Vivek Jain;Maria C. Sucupira;Peter Bacchetti;Wendy Hartogensis

  • Independent assessment of candidate HIV incidence assays on specimens in the CEPHIA repository

    Reshma Kassanjee;Reshma Kassanjee;Christopher D. Pilcher;Sheila M. Keating;Shelley N. Facente

  • Genealogical evidence for positive selection in the nef gene of HIV-1.

    Paolo M. de A. Zanotto;Esper G. Kallas;Robson F. de Souza;Edward C. Holmes

  • High pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake and early adherence among men who have sex with men and transgender women at risk for HIV Infection: the PrEP Brasil demonstration project

    Brenda Hoagland;Ronaldo I. Moreira;Raquel B. De Boni;Esper G. Kallas

  • IVIg immune reconstitution treatment alleviates the state of persistent immune activation and suppressed CD4 T cell counts in CVID.

    Dominic Paquin-Proulx;Bianca A. N. Santos;Karina I. Carvalho;Myrthes Toledo-Barros

  • Immunophenotypic characterization of peripheral T lymphocytes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease.

    Denise do Socorro da Silva Rodrigues;Eduardo Alexandrino Servolo de Medeiros;Lily Yin Weckx;W. Bonnez

  • Zika in the Americas, year 2: What have we learned? What gaps remain? A report from the Global Virus Network.

    Matthew T. Aliota;Leda Bassit;Shelton S. Bradrick;Bryan Cox

  • Human CD8+ T-Cell Responses Against the 4 Dengue Virus Serotypes Are Associated With Distinct Patterns of Protein Targets

    Daniela Weiskopf;Cristhiam Cerpas;Michael A. Angelo;Derek J. Bangs

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas F. Nixon
Douglas F. Nixon Cornell University
Ester C. Sabino
Ester C. Sabino Universidade de São Paulo
Robert M. Grant
Robert M. Grant University of California, San Francisco
Jorge Kalil
Jorge Kalil Universidade de São Paulo
Michael P. Busch
Michael P. Busch University of California, San Francisco
David I. Watkins
David I. Watkins George Washington University
Alessandro Sette
Alessandro Sette La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Mauro Schechter
Mauro Schechter Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Jeffrey N. Martin
Jeffrey N. Martin University of California, San Francisco
Dennis R. Burton
Dennis R. Burton Scripps Research Institute

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