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Overview

Ken B. Waites is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to subfields including Microbiology, Epidemiology, Hematology, Surgery, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist has focused on topics such as Reproductive tract infections research, Microbial infections and disease research, Blood groups and transfusion, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Respiratory viral infections research, Streptococcal Infections and Treatments, and Genital Health and Disease.

Ken B. Waites has coauthored studies frequently with colleagues including Li Xiao, Donna M. Crabb, T. Prescott Atkinson, Amy E. Ratliff, and William M. Geisler.

Their publications are most often found in the following journals:

  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • ClinMicroNow
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Transplant Infectious Disease
  • DeckerMed Medicine

Notable recent papers by Ken B. Waites include:

  • Randomised trial of azithromycin to eradicate Ureaplasma in preterm infants, 2020, Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal
  • Molecular Characterization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Isolates in the United States from 2012 to 2018, 2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Mycoplasma genitalium Detection in Urogenital Specimens from Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Men and Women by Use of the cobas TV/MG Test, 2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Latest Advances in Laboratory Detection of Mycoplasma genitalium, 2023, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Evaluation of Commercial Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Detection and Determination of Macrolide Resistance in Mycoplasma pneumoniae, 2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Its Role as a Human Pathogen

    Ken B. Waites;Deborah F. Talkington

  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae from the Respiratory Tract and Beyond

    Ken B. Waites;Li Xiao;Yang Liu;Mitchell F. Balish

  • Clinical applications of C-reactive protein in pediatrics.

    David L. Jaye;Ken B. Waites

  • Mycoplasmas and Ureaplasmas as Neonatal Pathogens

    Ken B. Waites;Brenda Katz;Robert L. Schelonka

  • Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, pathogenesis and laboratory detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections.

    Thomas Prescott Atkinson;Mitchell F. Balish;Ken B. Waites

  • Chronic Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis infections of central nervous system in preterm infants.

    Waites Kb;Rudd Pt;Rudd Pt;Crouse Dt;Canupp Kc

  • Helicobacter pylori-Induced Mucosal Inflammation Is Th1 Mediated and Exacerbated in IL-4, But Not IFN-γ, Gene-Deficient Mice

    Lesley E. Smythies;Ken B. Waites;J. Russell Lindsey;Paul R. Harris

  • Ureaplasma urealyticum intrauterine infection: role in prematurity and disease in newborns.

    G H Cassell;K B Waites;H L Watson;D T Crouse

  • ASSOCIATION OF UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM INFECTION OF THE LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT WITH CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE AND DEATH IN VERY-LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT INFANTS

    GailH Cassell;DennisT Crouse;KayC Canupp;KenB Waites

  • Association Rules and Data Mining in Hospital Infection Control and Public Health Surveillance

    Stephen E. Brossette;Alan P. Sprague;J. Michael Hardin;Ken B. Waites

  • Prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance

    George A. Jacoby;Nancy Chow;Ken B. Waites

  • Isolation of Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum from amniotic fluid at 16-20 weeks of gestation: potential effect on outcome of pregnancy.

    G H Cassell;R O Davis;K B Waites;M B Brown

  • New insights into the pathogenesis and detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections

    Ken B Waites;Mitchell F Balish;T Prescott Atkinson

  • Ureaplasma parvum or Mycoplasma hominis as sole pathogens cause chorioamnionitis, preterm delivery, and fetal pneumonia in rhesus macaques

    Miles J. Novy;Lynn Duffy;Michael K. Axthelm;Drew W. Sadowsky

  • Congenital and opportunistic infections: Ureaplasma species and Mycoplasma hominis.

    Ken B. Waites;Robert L. Schelonka;Li Xiao;Peta L. Grigsby

  • Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma

    Ken B. Waites;Li Xiao;Vanya Paralanov;Rose M. Viscardi

  • Critical appraisal of the role of Ureaplasma in the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia with metaanalytic techniques.

    Robert L. Schelonka;Brenda Katz;Ken B. Waites;Daniel K. Benjamin

  • New concepts of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in children

    Ken B. Waites

  • Molecular methods for the detection of Mycoplasma and ureaplasma infections in humans: a paper from the 2011 William Beaumont Hospital Symposium on molecular pathology

    Ken B. Waites;Li Xiao;Vanya Paralanov;Rose M. Viscardi

  • Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Preterm Neonate

    Nicholaus J. Hilliard;Robert L. Schelonka;Ken B. Waites

  • Spontaneously colitic C3H/HeJBir mice demonstrate selective antibody reactivity to antigens of the enteric bacterial flora.

    Steven L. Brandwein;Robert P. McCabe;Yingzi Cong;Ken B. Waites

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail H. Cassell
Gail H. Cassell Harvard University
Phillip D. Smith
Phillip D. Smith University of Alabama at Birmingham
William H. Benjamin
William H. Benjamin University of Alabama at Birmingham
John I. Glass
John I. Glass J. Craig Venter Institute
Sergio Stagno
Sergio Stagno University of Alabama at Birmingham
Yi-Wei Tang
Yi-Wei Tang Chongqing Medical University
Namasivayam Ambalavanan
Namasivayam Ambalavanan University of Alabama at Birmingham
Susan K. Hollingshead
Susan K. Hollingshead University of Alabama at Birmingham
Julius Schachter
Julius Schachter University of California, San Francisco
Kathryn M. Edwards
Kathryn M. Edwards Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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