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Marcelo B. Sztein is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, as well as immunology and microbiology. The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of immunology, infectious diseases, and related subfields such as endocrinology, epidemiology, and food science.

The main topics covered in their work include viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, Escherichia coli research studies, immune cell function and interaction, hepatitis B virus studies, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and research on Vibrio bacteria.

Marcelo B. Sztein has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Myron M. Levine
  • Marcela F. Pasetti
  • Rosângela Salerno-Gonçalves
  • Franklin R. Toapanta
  • Jayaum S. Booth

The publications of this scientist are often found in several key academic venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Nature Communications
  • Immunity & Ageing

Recent papers include:

  • Safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a chimpanzee adenovirus vectored Ebola vaccine in adults in Africa: a randomised, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial (2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases)
  • Safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a chimpanzee adenovirus vectored Ebola vaccine in children in Africa: a randomised, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial (2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases)
  • Tick extracellular vesicles enable arthropod feeding and promote distinct outcomes of bacterial infection (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Viral status, immune microenvironment and immunological response to checkpoint inhibitors in hepatocellular carcinoma (2020, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer)
  • Multi-omic profiling of lung and liver tumor microenvironments of metastatic pancreatic cancer reveals site-specific immune regulatory pathways (2021, Genome Biology)

Best Publications

  • Serum levels of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and IL-12(p70) in malian children with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria and matched uncomplicated malaria or healthy controls

    K. E. Lyke;R. Burges;Y. Cissoko;L. Sangare

  • Clinical trials of Shigella vaccines: two steps forward and one step back on a long, hard road

    Myron M. Levine;Karen L. Kotloff;Eileen M. Barry;Marcela F. Pasetti

  • Safety of live oral Salmonella typhi vaccine strains with deletions in htrA and aroC aroD and immune response in humans.

    Carol O. Tacket;Marcelo B. Sztein;Genevieve A. Losonsky;Steven S. Wasserman

  • Immunology of gut mucosal vaccines

    Marcela F. Pasetti;Jakub K. Simon;Marcelo B. Sztein;Myron M. Levine

  • Adjuvanted Intranasal Norwalk Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Elicits Antibodies and Antibody-Secreting Cells That Express Homing Receptors for Mucosal and Peripheral Lymphoid Tissues

    Samer S. El-Kamary;Marcela F. Pasetti;Paul M. Mendelman;Sharon E. Frey

  • Humoral, mucosal, and cellular immune responses to oral Norwalk virus-like particles in volunteers.

    Carol O Tacket;Marcelo B Sztein;Genevieve A Losonsky;Steven S Wasserman

  • Vaccination in the elderly: an immunological perspective

    Wilbur H. Chen;Bernard F. Kozlovsky;Rita B. Effros;Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein

  • Vaccine development strategies for improving immunization: the role of modern immunology

    Myron M Levine;Marcelo B Sztein

  • Safety and Immunogenicity of Oral Inactivated Whole-Cell Helicobacter pylori Vaccine with Adjuvant among Volunteers with or without Subclinical Infection

    Karen L. Kotloff;Marcelo B. Sztein;Steven S. Wasserman;Genevieve A. Losonsky

  • Use of ChAd3-EBO-Z Ebola virus vaccine in Malian and US adults, and boosting of Malian adults with MVA-BN-Filo: a phase 1, single-blind, randomised trial, a phase 1b, open-label and double-blind, dose-escalation trial, and a nested, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Milagritos D. Tapia;Samba O. Sow;Kirsten E. Lyke;Fadima Cheick Haidara

  • Association of TLR4 polymorphisms with symptomatic respiratory syncytial virus infection in high-risk infants and young children.

    Agnes A. Awomoyi;Prasad Rallabhandi;Toni I. Pollin;Eva Lorenz

  • The role of macrophages in the acute-phase response: SAA inducer is closely related to lymphocyte activating factor and endogenous pyrogen

    Marcelo B. Sztein;Stefanie N. Vogel;Jean D. Sipe;Jean D. Sipe;Patrick A. Murphy;Patrick A. Murphy

  • Phase 2 clinical trial of attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi oral live vector vaccine CVD 908-htrA in U.S. Volunteers

    Carol O. Tacket;Marcelo B. Sztein;Steven S. Wasserman;Genevieve Losonsky

  • Differentiation between African populations is evidenced by the diversity of alleles and haplotypes of HLA class I loci

    Kai Cao;A. M. Moormann;K. E. Lyke;C. Masaberg

  • Regulation of human peripheral blood monocyte DR antigen expression in vitro by lymphokines and recombinant interferons.

    M B Sztein;P S Steeg;H M Johnson;J J Oppenheim

  • Successful immunization of humans with irradiated malaria sporozoites: humoral and cellular responses of the protected individuals.

    Deirdre Herrington;Jonathan Davis;Elizabeth Nardin;Magda Beier

  • Optimization of plasmid maintenance in the attenuated live vector vaccine strain Salmonella typhi CVD 908-htrA.

    James E. Galen;Jay Nair;Jin Yuang Wang;Steven S. Wasserman

  • Identification of a Human HLA-E-Restricted CD8+ T Cell Subset in Volunteers Immunized with Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Strain Ty21a Typhoid Vaccine

    Rosângela Salerno-Gonçalves;Marcelo Fernandez-Viña;David M. Lewinsohn;Marcelo B. Sztein

  • Salmonella typhi Vaccine Strain CVD 908 Expressing the Circumsporozoite Protein of Plasmodium falciparum: Strain Construction and Safety and Immunogenicity in Humans

    C. Gonzalez;D. Hone;F. R. Noriega;C. O. Tacket

  • Modulation of human natural killer cell cytotoxic activity, lymphokine production, and interleukin 2 receptor expression by thymic hormones.

    S A Serrate;R S Schulof;L Leondaridis;A L Goldstein

  • Safety of Live OralSalmonella typhiVaccine Strains with Deletions inhtrAandaroC aroDand Immune Response in Humans

    Carol O. Tacket;Marcelo B. Sztein;Genevieve A. Losonsky;Steven S. Wasserman

Frequent Co-Authors

Myron M. Levine
Myron M. Levine University of Maryland, Baltimore
Marcela F. Pasetti
Marcela F. Pasetti University of Maryland, Baltimore
Alessio Fasano
Alessio Fasano Mead Johnson (United States)
Christopher V. Plowe
Christopher V. Plowe University of Maryland, Baltimore
Genevieve Losonsky
Genevieve Losonsky University of Maryland, Baltimore
Karen L. Kotloff
Karen L. Kotloff University of Maryland, Baltimore
Carol O. Tacket
Carol O. Tacket University of Maryland, Baltimore
Robert R. Edelman
Robert R. Edelman Northwestern University
James P. Nataro
James P. Nataro University of Virginia
Ogobara K. Doumbo
Ogobara K. Doumbo University of Bamako

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