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Honorine D. Ward

Honorine D. Ward

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Microbiology

D-Index
56
Citations
10152
World Ranking
3722
National Ranking
1459

Overview

Honorine D. Ward is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of medicine, with considerable contributions to parasitology, infectious diseases, nutrition and dietetics, psychiatry and mental health, and epidemiology. Their work engages deeply with topics such as parasitic infections and diagnostics, child nutrition and water access, amoebic infections and treatments, child nutrition and feeding issues, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, and Toxoplasma gondii research studies.

Their recent scientific publications include:

  • 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
  • Differential Response to the Course of Cryptosporidium parvum Infection and Its Impact on Epithelial Integrity in Differentiated versus Undifferentiated Human Intestinal Enteroids, 2022, Infection and Immunity
  • Intestinal organoid/enteroid-based models for Cryptosporidium, 2020, Current Opinion in Microbiology
  • Surveillance of potential pathogens and antibiotic resistance in wastewater and surface water from Boston, USA and Vellore, India using long-read metagenomic sequencing, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors in their research include Gagandeep Kang, Rajiv Sarkar, Alan Hubbard, Linda S. Adair, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta.

The venues where Honorine D. Ward has regularly published encompass UNC Libraries, Nature, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Infection and Immunity, and Current Opinion in Microbiology.

Best Publications

  • A review of the global burden, novel diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccine targets for cryptosporidium

    William Checkley;William Checkley;A. Clinton White;Devan Jaganath;Michael J. Arrowood

  • Intestinal Microbiota, Microbial Translocation, and Systemic Inflammation in Chronic HIV Infection

    Duy M. Dinh;Gretchen E. Volpe;Chad Duffalo;Seema Bhalchandra

  • Cryptosporidiosis: biology, pathogenesis and disease.

    Saul Tzipori;Honorine Ward

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

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

  • Analysis of human immune responses in quasi-experimental settings: tutorial in biostatistics

    Rajiv Sarkar;Sitara S Ajjampur;Honorine D Ward;Honorine D Ward;Gagandeep Kang

  • Analysis of Sequence Diversity at the Highly Polymorphic Cpgp40/15 Locus among Cryptosporidium Isolates from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Children in South Africa

    Brett A. Leav;Malanie R. Mackay;Malanie R. Mackay;Akudo Anyanwu;Roberta M. O' Connor

  • Molecular cloning and expression of a gene encoding Cryptosporidium parvum glycoproteins gp40 and gp15.

    Ana Maria Cevallos;Xiaoping Zhang;Matthew K. Waldor;Smitha Jaison

  • Release of luminal exosomes contributes to TLR4-mediated epithelial antimicrobial defense.

    Guoku Hu;Ai Yu Gong;Amanda L. Roth;Bing Q. Huang

  • Implications of Acquired Environmental Enteric Dysfunction for Growth and Stunting in Infants and Children Living in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Gerald T. Keusch;Irwin H. Rosenberg;Donna M. Denno;Christopher Duggan

  • A novel multi-domain mucin-like glycoprotein of Cryptosporidium parvum mediates invasion,

    Debra A Barnes;Alain Bonnin;Jin-Xing Huang;Laurent Gousset

  • Immune Response and Intestinal Permeability in Children With Acute Gastroenteritis Treated With Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Kulandaipalayam N. C. Sindhu;Thuppal V. Sowmyanarayanan;Anu Paul;Sudhir Babji

  • Seasonality of Rotavirus in South Asia: A Meta-Analysis Approach Assessing Associations with Temperature, Precipitation, and Vegetation Index

    Jyotsna S. Jagai;Jyotsna S. Jagai;Rajiv Sarkar;Denise Castronovo;Deepthi Kattula

  • Childhood malnutrition and the intestinal microbiome

    Anne V. Kane;Duy M. Dinh;Honorine D. Ward

  • Multilocus Genotyping of Cryptosporidium sp. Isolates from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Individuals in South India

    Dheepa Muthusamy;Sitara S. Rao;Sasirekha Ramani;Bindhu Monica

  • Molecular and Spatial Epidemiology of Cryptosporidiosis in Children in a Semiurban Community in South India

    Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur;Beryl Primrose Gladstone;David Selvapandian;Jaya Prakash Muliyil

  • In vitro encystation of Giardia lamblia: large-scale production of in vitro cysts and strain and clone differences in encystation efficiency.

    Anne V. Kane;Honorine D. Ward;Gerald T. Keusch;Miercio E. A. Pereira

  • Mediation of Cryptosporidium parvum infection in vitro by mucin-like glycoproteins defined by a neutralizing monoclonal antibody.

    Ana María Cevallos;Najma Bhat;Renaud Verdon;Davidson H. Hamer

  • Cryptosporidiosis in patients with HIV/AIDS

    Roberta M O'connor;Rehaan Shaffie;Gagandeep Kang;Honorine D Ward

  • Associations of Cocaine Use and HIV Infection With the Intestinal Microbiota, Microbial Translocation, and Inflammation

    Gretchen E Volpe;Honorine Ward;Mkaya Mwamburi;Duy Dinh

  • Cryptosporidium Species: New Insights and Old Challenges

    Brett A. Leav;Melanie Mackay;Honorine D. Ward;David Acheson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gagandeep Kang
Gagandeep Kang Christian Medical College & Hospital
Gerald T. Keusch
Gerald T. Keusch Boston University
Christine Wanke
Christine Wanke Tufts University
Saul Tzipori
Saul Tzipori Tufts University
Edward T. Ryan
Edward T. Ryan Harvard University
Richard L. Guerrant
Richard L. Guerrant University of Virginia
Stephen B. Calderwood
Stephen B. Calderwood Massachusetts General Hospital
Aldo A. M. Lima
Aldo A. M. Lima Universidade Federal do Ceará
Linda S. Adair
Linda S. Adair University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven R. Meshnick
Steven R. Meshnick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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