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Robert Steffen is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on public health, epidemiology, infectious diseases, cardiology, and hepatology. Their research spans across various subfields including public health, environmental and occupational health, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, epidemiology, infectious diseases, and hepatology.

Their scholarly work encompasses relevant topics such as travel-related health issues, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, mosquito-borne diseases and control, hepatitis viruses studies and epidemiology, infective endocarditis diagnosis and management, viral infections and vectors, as well as vector-borne infectious diseases.

Robert Steffen has published multiple papers, some of the more recent and notable works include:

  • The changing epidemiology of human monkeypox-A potential threat? A systematic review, 2022, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • The changing epidemiology of human monkeypox - a potential threat? A systematic review, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Travel restrictions and lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic-impact on notified infectious diseases in Switzerland, 2020, Journal of Travel Medicine
  • Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coverage, 2023, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Bacterial travellers' diarrhoea: A narrative review of literature published over the past 10 years, 2022, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as João L. Cavalcante, Vinayak Bapat, Lin H. Chen, Paul Sorajja, and Eveline M. Bunge, indicating collaborative research efforts within their scientific community.

Robert Steffen has contributed to several publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Journal of Travel Medicine
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • Journal of Viral Hepatitis
  • The Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Use of the inactivated intranasal influenza vaccine and the risk of Bell's palsy in Switzerland.

    Margot Mutsch;Weigong Zhou;Philip Rhodes;Matthias Bopp

  • Health Problems After Travel to Developing Countries

    Robert Steffen;Martin Rickenbach;Urs Wilhelm;Andrée Helminger

  • Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Travel-related Infectious Diseases: The European Airport Survey

    Koen Iran Herck;Francesco Castelli;Jane Zuckerman;Hans Nothdurft

  • Traveler's diarrhea: a clinical review.

    Robert Steffen;Robert Steffen;David R. Hill;Herbert L. DuPont;Herbert L. DuPont;Herbert L. DuPont

  • Prevalence of enteric pathogens among international travelers with diarrhea acquired in Kenya (Mombasa), India (Goa), or Jamaica (Montego Bay).

    Zhi-Dong Jiang;Brett Lowe;M. P. Verenkar;David Ashley

  • Mefloquine compared with other malaria chemoprophylactic regimens in tourists visiting East Africa

    R Steffen;E Fuchs;J Schildknecht;U Naef

  • Epidemiology of Diarrhea in Travelers

    R Steffen;F van der Linde;K Gyr;M Schär

  • Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli as a Major Etiologic Agent in Traveler's Diarrhea in 3 Regions of the World

    Javier A. Adachi;Zhi Dong Jiang;John J. Mathewson;John J. Mathewson;Mangala P. Verenkar

  • Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of travelers’ diarrhea: a graded expert panel report

    Mark S. Riddle;Bradley A. Connor;Nicholas J. Beeching;Herbert L. DuPont

  • Risk and aetiology of diarrhoea at various tourist destinations

    Frank von Sonnenburg;Nadia Tornieporth;Peter Waiyaki;Brett Lowe

  • Tolerability of malaria chemoprophylaxis in non-immune travellers to sub-Saharan Africa: multicentre, randomised, double blind, four arm study

    Patricia Schlagenhauf;Alois Tschopp;Richard Johnson;Hans D Nothdurft

  • Mass gatherings medicine: public health issues arising from mass gathering religious and sporting events

    Ziad A Memish;Ziad A Memish;Robert Steffen;Robert Steffen;Paul White;Osman Dar

  • Imported malaria (1985-95): trends and perspectives.

    P Muentener;Patricia Schlagenhauf;Robert Steffen

  • Emergence of medicine for mass gatherings: lessons from the Hajj

    Ziad A Memish;Gwen M Stephens;Robert Steffen;Robert Steffen;Qanta A Ahmed

  • Epidemiology and Prevention of Hepatitis A in Travelers

    Robert Steffen;Mark A. Kane;Craig N. Shapiro;Nils Billo

  • ‘Boil it Cook it, Peel it or Forget it’: Does this Rule Prevent Travellers‘ Diarrhoea?

    Markus Kozicki;Robert Steffen;Meinrad Schär

  • Epidemiology, etiology, and impact of traveler's diarrhea in Jamaica.

    Robert Steffen;Françoise Collard;Nadia Tornieporth;Nadia Tornieporth;Sheila Campbell-Forrester

  • Therapy of travelers' diarrhea with rifaximin on various continents.

    Robert Steffen;David A Sack;Lise Riopel;Zhi Dong Jiang

  • Traveler’s Diarrhea

    Robert Steffen;David R. Hill;Herbert L. DuPont

  • Use of the Inactivated Intranasal Influenza Vaccine and the Risk of Bell's Palsy

    Margot Mutsch;Weigong Zhou;Philip Rhodes;Matthias Bopp

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert L. DuPont
Herbert L. DuPont The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Herwig Kollaritsch
Herwig Kollaritsch Medical University of Vienna
Zhi-Dong Jiang
Zhi-Dong Jiang The University of Texas at Austin
Annelies Wilder-Smith
Annelies Wilder-Smith University of Bern
Blaise Genton
Blaise Genton University of Lausanne
David N. Taylor
David N. Taylor Johns Hopkins University
Fred Paccaud
Fred Paccaud University of Lausanne
Ziad A. Memish
Ziad A. Memish Emory University
Brett Lowe
Brett Lowe London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Joseph Torresi
Joseph Torresi University of Melbourne

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