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Overview

Octavio Ramilo is affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of medicine, with significant work in epidemiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, surgery, and immunology.

The scientist's major topics of work include:

  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Neonatal respiratory health research
  • Pneumonia and respiratory infections
  • Congenital diaphragmatic hernia studies
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Respiratory support and mechanisms

Frequent publication venues where Octavio Ramilo's work appears include:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • PEDIATRICS

Octavio Ramilo has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Asunción Mejías
  • Sara Mertz
  • Zhaohui Xu
  • Amy L. Leber
  • Pablo J. Sánchez

Some recent and highly cited papers linked to Octavio Ramilo's contributions are:

  • "Respiratory syncytial virus prevention within reach: the vaccine and monoclonal antibody landscape," 2022, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Mapping systemic lupus erythematosus heterogeneity at the single-cell level," 2020, Nature Immunology
  • "The journey to a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine," 2020, Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
  • "Global disease burden of and risk factors for acute lower respiratory infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus in preterm infants and young children in 2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis of aggregated and individual participant data," 2024, The Lancet
  • "Immune profiles provide insights into respiratory syncytial virus disease severity in young children," 2020, Science Translational Medicine

Best Publications

  • An interferon-inducible neutrophil-driven blood transcriptional signature in human tuberculosis

    Matthew P. R. Berry;Christine M. Graham;Finlay W. McNab;Zhaohui Xu

  • A Modular Analysis Framework for Blood Genomics Studies: Application to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    Damien Chaussabel;Charles Quinn;Jing Shen;Pinakeen Patel

  • Induction of ICOS+CXCR3+CXCR5+ TH Cells Correlates with Antibody Responses to Influenza Vaccination

    Salah Eddine Bentebibel;Santiago Lopez;Gerlinde Obermoser;Nathalie Schmitt

  • Gene expression patterns in blood leukocytes discriminate patients with acute infections

    Octavio Ramilo;Octavio Ramilo;Windy Allman;Wendy Chung;Wendy Chung;Asuncion Mejias;Asuncion Mejias

  • Respiratory syncytial virus seasonality: A global overview

    Pablo Obando-Pacheco;Antonio José Justicia-Grande;Irene Rivero-Calle;Carmen Rodríguez-Tenreiro

  • Challenges in infant immunity: implications for responses to infection and vaccines

    Mercy Prabhudas;Becky Adkins;Hayley Gans;Christopher King

  • The respiratory syncytial virus vaccine landscape: lessons from the graveyard and promising candidates.

    Natalie I Mazur;Deborah Higgins;Marta C Nunes;José A Melero

  • Respiratory syncytial virus prevention within reach: the vaccine and monoclonal antibody landscape

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  • Nasopharyngeal Microbiota, Host Transcriptome and Disease Severity in Children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.

    Wouter A. A. de Steenhuijsen Piters;Santtu Heinonen;Raiza Hasrat;Eleonora Bunsow

  • Correlation of interleukin-1β and cachectin concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid and outcome from bacterial meningitis

    Mahmoud M. Mustafa;Marc H. Lebel;Octavio Ramilo;Kurt D. Olsen

  • Mapping systemic lupus erythematosus heterogeneity at the single-cell level

    Djamel Nehar-Belaid;Seunghee Hong;Radu Marches;Guo Chen

  • Infliximab for intensification of primary therapy for Kawasaki disease: a phase 3 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Adriana H Tremoulet;Adriana H Tremoulet;Sonia Jain;Preeti Jaggi;Susan Jimenez-Fernandez;Susan Jimenez-Fernandez

  • Elevated cytokine concentrations in the nasopharyngeal and tracheal secretions of children with respiratory syncytial virus disease

    Paul Sheeran;Hasan Jafri;Cecilia Carubelli;Jesus Saavedra

  • Tumor necrosis factor alpha/cachectin and interleukin 1 beta initiate meningeal inflammation.

    Octavio Ramilo;Xavier Sáez-Llorens;Jussi Mertsola;Hamid Jafari

  • A Clinical Prediction Rule to Identify Febrile Infants 60 Days and Younger at Low Risk for Serious Bacterial Infections

    Nathan Kuppermann;Peter S. Dayan;Deborah A. Levine;Melissa Vitale

  • Risk Factors in Children Hospitalized With RSV Bronchiolitis Versus Non–RSV Bronchiolitis

    Carla G. García;Rafia Bhore;Alejandra Soriano-Fallas;Margaret Trost

  • Whole Blood Gene Expression Profiles to Assess Pathogenesis and Disease Severity in Infants with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection

    Asuncion Mejias;Blerta Dimo;Nicolas M. Suarez;Carla Garcia

  • Infliximab Treatment of Intravenous Immunoglobulin–Resistant Kawasaki Disease

    Jane C. Burns;Brookie M. Best;Asuncion Mejias;Lynn Mahony

  • A phase I study of an anti-CD22-deglycosylated ricin A chain immunotoxin in the treatment of B-cell lymphomas resistant to conventional therapy

    P. L. Amlot;M. J. Stone;D. Cunningham;J. Fay

  • Lower respiratory tract infection caused by respiratory syncytial virus: current management and new therapeutics

    Natalie I Mazur;Federico Martinón-Torres;Eugenio Baraldi;Brigitte Fauroux

  • Clinical Chorioamnionitis, Elevated Cytokines, and Brain Injury in Term Infants

    Lina F. Shalak;Abbot R. Laptook;Hasan S. Jafri;Octavio Ramilo

  • Molecular pathophysiology of bacterial meningitis: current concepts and therapeutic implications.

    Xavier Sáez-Llorens;Octavio Ramilo;Mahmoud M. Mustafa;Jussi Mertsold

  • Abstract O.29: Transcriptional Profiling Discriminates Complete and Incomplete KD from Human Adenovirus

    Preeti Jaggi;Asuncion Mejias;Adriana Tremoulet;Jane Burns

Frequent Co-Authors

Asuncion Mejias
Asuncion Mejias St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
George H. McCracken
George H. McCracken The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Damien Chaussabel
Damien Chaussabel Sidra Medical and Research Center
Virginia Pascual
Virginia Pascual Cornell University
Mark E. Peeples
Mark E. Peeples The Ohio State University
Eric J. Hansen
Eric J. Hansen The University of Texas System
Ellen S. Vitetta
Ellen S. Vitetta The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Karolina Palucka
Karolina Palucka Baylor University
Nigel Curtis
Nigel Curtis Royal Children's Hospital

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