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Muhamed-Kheir Taha

Muhamed-Kheir Taha

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Microbiology

D-Index
64
Citations
15154
World Ranking
2606
National Ranking
157

Overview

Muhamed-Kheir Taha is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Epidemiology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Medicine, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The primary topics of their work include bacterial infections and vaccines, pneumonia and respiratory infections, respiratory viral infections research, influenza virus research studies, infective endocarditis diagnosis and management, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and virology and viral diseases.

Taha has contributed to numerous scientific papers, with recent examples including:

  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Group (GPIP) position paper on the immune debt of the COVID-19 pandemic in childhood, how can we fill the immunity gap? (2021) published in Infectious Diseases Now
  • Trends in invasive bacterial diseases during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses of prospective surveillance data from 30 countries and territories in the IRIS Consortium (2023) published in The Lancet Digital Health
  • Meningococcal disease surveillance in the Asia-Pacific region (2020): The global meningococcal initiative (2020) published in Journal of Infection
  • Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults: in-hospital prognosis, long-term disability and determinants of outcome in a multicentre prospective cohort (2020) published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Surveillance and control of meningococcal disease in the COVID-19 era: A Global Meningococcal Initiative review (2021) published in Journal of Infection

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Infection
  • Microorganisms
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Vaccine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators of Muhamed-Kheir Taha include:

  • Ala-Eddine Deghmane
  • Eva Hong
  • Ray Borrow
  • Aude Terrade
  • Heike Claus

Best Publications

  • Nod1 Detects a Unique Muropeptide from Gram-Negative Bacterial Peptidoglycan

    Stephen E Girardin;Ivo G Boneca;Leticia A M Carneiro;Aude Antignac

  • Changes in the incidence of invasive disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis during the COVID-19 pandemic in 26 countries and territories in the Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance Initiative: a prospective analysis of surveillance data.

    Angela B. Brueggemann;Melissa J. Jansen van Rensburg;David Shaw;Noel D. McCarthy

  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Group (GPIP) position paper on the immune debt of the COVID-19 pandemic in childhood, how can we fill the immunity gap?

    Robert Cohen;Marion Ashman;Muhamed-Kheir Taha;Emmanuelle Varon

  • Predicted strain coverage of a meningococcal multicomponent vaccine (4CMenB) in Europe: a qualitative and quantitative assessment

    Ulrich Vogel;Muhamed-Kheir Taha;Julio A Vazquez;Jamie Findlow

  • Serogroup W135 meningococcal disease in Hajj pilgrims.

    Muhamed-Kheir Taha;Mark Achtman;Jean-Michel Alonso;Brian Greenwood

  • Simultaneous Approach for Nonculture PCR-Based Identification and Serogroup Prediction of Neisseria meningitidis

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  • Outbreak of W135 Meningococcal Disease in 2000: Not Emergence of a New W135 Strain but Clonal Expansion within the Electophoretic Type-37 Complex

    Leonard W. Mayer;Michael W. Reeves;Nasser Al-Hamdan;Claudio T. Sacchi

  • The Global Meningococcal Initiative: global epidemiology, the impact of vaccines on meningococcal disease and the importance of herd protection

    Ray Borrow;Pedro Alarcón;Josefina Carlos;Dominique A. Caugant

  • Meningococcal meningitis: unprecedented incidence of serogroup X-related cases in 2006 in Niger.

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  • Genomic resolution of an aggressive, widespread, diverse and expanding meningococcal serogroup B, C and W lineage

    Jay Lucidarme;Dorothea M.C. Hill;Holly B. Bratcher;Steve J. Gray

  • Sequence Diversity of the Factor H Binding Protein Vaccine Candidate in Epidemiologically Relevant Strains of Serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis

    Ellen Murphy;Lubomira Andrew;Kwok Leung Lee;Deborah A. Dilts

  • The Global Meningococcal Initiative meeting on prevention of meningococcal disease worldwide: epidemiology, surveillance, hypervirulent strains, antibiotic resistance and high-risk populations

    Reinaldo Acevedo;Xilian Bai;Ray Borrow;Dominique A Caugant

  • Down‐regulation of pili and capsule of Neisseria meningitidis upon contact with epithelial cells is mediated by CrgA regulatory protein

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  • The Global Meningococcal Initiative: recommendations for reducing the global burden of meningococcal disease.

    Lee H. Harrison;Stephen I. Pelton;Annelies Wilder-Smith;Johan Holst

  • Trends in invasive bacterial diseases during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses of prospective surveillance data from 30 countries and territories in the IRIS Consortium

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  • Correlations between carbon metabolism and virulence in bacteria.

    Sandrine Poncet;Eliane Milohanic;Alain Mazé;Jamila Nait Abdallah

  • Neisseria meningitidis Serogroups W135 and A Were Equally Prevalent among Meningitis Cases Occurring at the End of the 2001 Epidemics in Burkina Faso and Niger

    Muhamed-Kheir Taha;Isabelle Parent du Chatelet;Martin Schlumberger;Idrissa Sanou

  • Could the multicomponent meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (4CMenB) control Neisseria meningitidis capsular group X outbreaks in Africa

    Eva Hong;Marzia Monica Giuliani;Ala-Eddine Deghmane;Maurizio Comanducci

  • From tailor-made to ready-to-wear meningococcal B vaccines: longitudinal study of a clonal meningococcal B outbreak

    François Caron;Isabelle Parent du Châtelet;Jean-Philippe Leroy;Corinne Ruckly

  • Target Gene Sequencing To Characterize the Penicillin G Susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis

    Muhamed-Kheir Taha;Julio A. Vázquez;Eva Hong;Desiree E. Bennett

  • Interlaboratory Comparison of PCR-Based Identification and Genogrouping of Neisseria meningitidis

    Muhamed Kheir Taha;Jean Michel Alonso;Mary Cafferkey;Dominique A. Caugant;Dominique A. Caugant

  • Interaction of Neisseria meningitidis with the Components of the Blood-Brain Barrier Correlates with an Increased Expression of PilC

    Bénédicte Pron;Muhamed-Kheir Taha;Caroline Rambaud;Jean-Christophe Fournet

  • The concept of "tailor-made", protein-based, outer membrane vesicle vaccines against meningococcal disease.

    Johan Holst;Berit Feiring;Lisbeth M. Næss;Gunnstein Norheim

  • The rise and fall of epidemic Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 meningitis in Burkina Faso, 2002-2005.

    Yves Traoré;Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade;Kokou-Louis-Sewonou Adjogble;Mathilde Lourd

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique A. Caugant
Dominique A. Caugant Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Ray Borrow
Ray Borrow Manchester Royal Infirmary
Ivo G. Boneca
Ivo G. Boneca Institut Pasteur
Ulrich Vogel
Ulrich Vogel University of Würzburg
Corinne Levy
Corinne Levy Université Paris Cité
Edouard Bingen
Edouard Bingen Université Paris Cité
Keith A. Jolley
Keith A. Jolley University of Oxford
Bruno Dupuy
Bruno Dupuy Institut Pasteur
Xavier Nassif
Xavier Nassif Université Paris Cité
Martin C. J. Maiden
Martin C. J. Maiden University of Oxford

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