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Overview

Roberto Badaró is affiliated with the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and specializes predominantly in the field of Medicine. Their work extensively covers subfields including Infectious Diseases, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research topics focus heavily on areas related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, including clinical research studies, detection and testing methods, diagnosis using artificial intelligence, infection control and ventilation, and epidemiological studies. Additionally, Badaró has contributed to research on bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Badaró are the following:

  • Current Clinical Landscape and Global Potential of Bacteriophage Therapy, 2023, Viruses
  • The Main Molecular and Serological Methods for Diagnosing COVID-19: An Overview Based on the Literature, 2020, Viruses
  • The Importance of Vaccination in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Brief Update Regarding the Use of Vaccines, 2022, Vaccines
  • The Importance of RNA-Based Vaccines in the Fight against COVID-19: An Overview, 2021, Vaccines
  • Optimization of convolutional neural network hyperparameters for automatic classification of adult mosquitoes, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Badaró include:

  • Bruna Aparecida Souza Machado
  • Milena Botelho Pereira Soares
  • Katharine Valéria Saraiva Hodel
  • Josiane Dantas Viana Barbosa
  • Larissa Moraes dos Santos Fonseca

Publications have appeared mainly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Bioengineering Technologies and Health
  • Vaccines
  • Viruses
  • PLoS ONE
  • Applied Sciences

Best Publications

  • Identification of differentially expressed genes in human prostate cancer using subtraction and microarray.

    Jiangchun Xu;John A. Stolk;Xinqun Zhang;Sandra J. Silva

  • New Perspectives on a Subclinical Form of Visceral Leishmaniasis

    R. Badaro;T. C. Jones;E. M. Carvalho;D. Sampaio

  • Molecular characterization of a kinesin-related antigen of Leishmania chagasi that detects specific antibody in African and American visceral leishmaniasis.

    James M. Burns;Wayne G. Shreffler;Darin R. Benson;Hashim W. Ghalib

  • A Prospective Study of Visceral Leishmaniasis in an Endemic Area of Brazil

    R. Badaró;T. C. Jones;R. Lorenço;B. J. Cerf

  • Leishmaniasis in Bahia, Brazil: evidence that Leishmania amazonensis produces a wide spectrum of clinical disease.

    Barral A;Pedral-Sampaio D;Grimaldi Júnior G;Momen H

  • Absence of gamma interferon and interleukin 2 production during active visceral leishmaniasis.

    Edgar M. Carvalho;Roberto Badaro;Steven G. Reed;Thomas C. Jones

  • Zika Virus and the Guillain–Barré Syndrome — Case Series from Seven Countries

    Thais dos Santos;Angel Rodriguez;Maria Almiron;Antonio Sanhueza

  • rK39: A Cloned Antigen of Leishmania chagasi that Predicts Active Visceral Leishmaniasis

    R. Badaró;D. Benson;M. C. Eulálio;M. Freire

  • Treatment of visceral leishmaniasis with pentavalent antimony and interferon gamma.

    Roberto Badaro;Ernesto Falcoff;Fernando S. Badaro;Edgar M. Carvalho

  • Epidemiology of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Due to Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis

    Jones Tc;Johnson Wd;Barretto Ac;Lago E

  • Malnutrition as a Risk Factor for Severe Visceral Leishmaniasis

    B. J. Cerf;T. C. Jones;R. Badaro;D. Sampaio

  • Human and Murine Immune Responses to a Novel Leishmania major Recombinant Protein Encoded by Members of a Multicopy Gene Family

    John R. Webb;Antonio Campos-Neto;Pamela J. Ovendale;Tricia I. Martin

  • Molecular and immunological characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis CFP-10, an immunodiagnostic antigen missing in Mycobacterium bovis BCG.

    Davin C. Dillon;Mark R. Alderson;Craig H. Day;Teresa Bement

  • Selection of a skin test antigen for American visceral leishmaniasis

    Steven G. Reed;Roberto Badaró;Henry Masur;Edgar M. Carvalho

  • A recombinant Leishmania antigen that stimulates human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to express a Th1-type cytokine profile and to produce interleukin 12

    Yasir A. W. Skeiky;Jeffrey A. Guderian;Darin R. Benson;Olivia Bacelar

  • Molecular characterization and human T-cell responses to a member of a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis mtb39 gene family

    Davin C. Dillon;Mark R. Alderson;Craig H. Day;David M. Lewinsohn

  • Immunologic Markers of Clinical Evolution in Children Recently Infected with Leishmania donovani chagasi

    Edgar M. Carvalho;Aldina Barral;Diana Pedral-Sampaio;Manoel Barral-Netto

  • Leishmania donovani: an opportunistic microbe associated with progressive disease in three immunocompromised patients.

    Roberto Badaró;Roberto Badaró;Heonir Rocha;Heonir Rocha;EdgarM. Carvalho;EdgarM. Carvalho;AristidesC. Queiroz;AristidesC. Queiroz

  • Use of Multiepitope Polyproteins in Serodiagnosis of Active Tuberculosis

    Raymond L. Houghton;Michael J. Lodes;Davin C. Dillon;Lisa D. Reynolds

  • Evaluation of the micro enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for antibodies in American visceral leishmaniasis: antigen selection for detection of infection-specific responses.

    Roberto Badaró;Steven G. Reed;Aldina Barral;Gloria Orge

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven G. Reed
Steven G. Reed Infectious Disease Research Institute
Warren D. Johnson
Warren D. Johnson Cornell University
Edgar M. Carvalho
Edgar M. Carvalho Federal University of Bahia
Manoel Barral-Netto
Manoel Barral-Netto Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Aldina Barral
Aldina Barral Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Robert T. Schooley
Robert T. Schooley University of California, San Diego
Yasir A. W. Skeiky
Yasir A. W. Skeiky International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
John R. David
John R. David Harvard University
Rhea N. Coler
Rhea N. Coler University of Washington
Constance A. Benson
Constance A. Benson University of California, San Diego

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