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Laura C. Rodrigues is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions across pediatrics, perinatology, child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and general health professions.

Their work frequently addresses topics including global maternal and child health, mosquito-borne diseases and control, child nutrition and water access, maternal and neonatal healthcare, viral infections and vectors, leprosy research and treatment, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Recent scholarly articles authored by Rodrigues include:

  • Factors associated with low birth weight at term: a population-based linkage study of the 100 million Brazilian cohort, 2020, published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Cohort Profile: The 100 Million Brazilian Cohort, 2021, published in International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Ethnoracial inequalities and child mortality in Brazil: a nationwide longitudinal study of 19 million newborn babies, 2022, published in The Lancet Global Health
  • Incidence of and Factors Associated With Leprosy Among Household Contacts of Patients With Leprosy in Brazil, 2020, published in JAMA Dermatology
  • Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on leprosy treatment adherence and cure in patients from the nationwide 100 Million Brazilian Cohort: a quasi-experimental study, 2020, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases

They often collaborate with several researchers including:

  • Maurício L. Barreto
  • Enny S. Paixão
  • Elizabeth B. Brickley
  • Maria Yury Ichihara
  • Júlia Moreira Pescarini

The primary venues for Rodrigues's publications include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • PLoS Medicine
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Best Publications

  • Protection by BCG Vaccine Against Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

    Punam Mangtani;Ibrahim Abubakar;Cono Ariti;Rebecca Beynon

  • Study of infectious intestinal disease in England: rates in the community, presenting to general practice, and reported to national surveillance

    Jeremy G Wheeler;Dinesh Sethi;John M Cowden;Patrick G Wall

  • Decreased atopy in children infected with Schistosoma haematobium: a role for parasite-induced interleukin-10.

    Anita H. J. Van Den Biggelaar;Ronald Van Ree;Laura C. Rodrigues;Bertrand Lell

  • Protective Effect of BCG against Tuberculous Meningitis and Miliary Tuberculosis: A Meta-Analysis

    Laura C Rodrigues;Vinod K Diwan;Jeremy G Wheeler

  • Effect of BCG vaccination against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children: systematic review and meta-analysis

    A Roy;M Eisenhut;R J Harris;L C Rodrigues

  • Longitudinal study of infectious intestinal disease in the UK (IID2 study): incidence in the community and presenting to general practice

    Clarence C. Tam;Laura C. Rodrigues;Laura Viviani;Julie P. Dodds

  • Leprosy now: epidemiology, progress, challenges, and research gaps

    Laura C Rodrigues;Diana N J Lockwood

  • Prevalence of major comorbidities in subjects with COPD and incidence of myocardial infarction and stroke: a comprehensive analysis using data from primary care

    Johanna R Feary;Laura C Rodrigues;Christopher J Smith;Richard B Hubbard

  • Association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil, January to May, 2016: preliminary report of a case-control study

    Thalia Velho Barreto de Araújo;Laura Cunha Rodrigues;Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes;Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes;Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho

  • Successes and failures in the control of infectious diseases in Brazil: social and environmental context, policies, interventions, and research needs

    Mauricio L Barreto;M Gloria Teixeira;Francisco I Bastos;Ricardo A A Ximenes

  • Long-Term Treatment of Intestinal Helminths Increases Mite Skin-Test Reactivity in Gabonese Schoolchildren

    Anita H. J. van den Biggelaar;Anita H. J. van den Biggelaar;Laura C. Rodrigues;Ronald van Ree;Jaring S. van der Zee

  • Does the efficacy of BCG decline with time since vaccination

    J. A. C. Sterne;L. C. Rodrigues;I. N. Guedes

  • Reduced risk of atopy among school-age children infected with geohelminth parasites in a rural area of the tropics.

    Philip J. Cooper;Martha E. Chico;Laura C. Rodrigues;Marisol Ordonez

  • Assessment of the Protective Efficacy of Vaccines against Common Diseases Using Case-Control and Cohort Studies

    P G Smith;L C Rodrigues;P E M Fine

  • Zika, chikungunya and dengue: the causes and threats of new and re-emerging arboviral diseases.

    Enny S. Paixão;Maria Gloria Teixeira;Laura C Rodrigues

  • Association between microcephaly, Zika virus infection, and other risk factors in Brazil: final report of a case-control study

    Thalia Velho Barreto de Araújo;Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes;Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes;Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho;Wayner Vieira Souza

  • Initial Description of the Presumed Congenital Zika Syndrome.

    Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho;Celina Maria Turchi Martelli;Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes;Thalia Velho Barreto Araújo

  • Effect of BCG revaccination on incidence of tuberculosis in school-aged children in Brazil: the BCG-REVAC cluster-randomised trial

    Laura C Rodrigues;Susan M Pereira;Sergio S Cunha;Bernd Genser;Bernd Genser

  • MMR vaccination and pervasive developmental disorders: a case-control study.

    Liam Smeeth;Claire Cook;Eric Fombonne;Lisa Heavey

  • History, Epidemiology, and Clinical Manifestations of Zika: A Systematic Review

    Enny Santos Paixão;Florisneide Barreto;Maria da Glória Teixeira;Maria da Conceição N. Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Mauricio Lima Barreto
Mauricio Lima Barreto Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Philip J. Cooper
Philip J. Cooper St George's, University of London
Ibrahim Abubakar
Ibrahim Abubakar University College London
Alvaro A. Cruz
Alvaro A. Cruz Federal University of Bahia
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Liam Smeeth
Liam Smeeth London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Maria Yazdanbakhsh
Maria Yazdanbakhsh Leiden University Medical Center
Marc Lipman
Marc Lipman Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Paul Roderick
Paul Roderick University of Southampton
Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University

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