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Ruth A. Karron is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on epidemiology, obstetrics and gynecology, health, infectious diseases, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their research primarily addresses issues related to respiratory viral infections, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and global maternal and child health.

Their work features prominently in several publication venues. The most frequent include Vaccine, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Open Forum Infectious Diseases, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics.

Some of Ruth A. Karron's recent papers encompass a range of public health and vaccine-related topics, including:

  • Conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 in Nigeria: Implications for vaccine demand generation communications, 2022, Vaccine
  • The need for inclusion of pregnant women in COVID-19 vaccine trials, 2021, Vaccine
  • Does respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory illness in early life cause recurrent wheeze of early childhood and asthma? Critical review of the evidence and guidance for future studies from a World Health Organization-sponsored meeting, 2020, Vaccine
  • Live-attenuated Vaccines Prevent Respiratory Syncytial Virus-associated Illness in Young Children, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Safety of components and platforms of COVID-19 vaccines considered for use in pregnancy: A rapid review, 2021, Vaccine

The scientist collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors, including Rupali J. Limaye, Berhaun Fesshaye, Prachi Singh, Eleonor Zavala, and Maria Deloria Knoll. These collaborations often align with their research focus on vaccine effectiveness, infectious diseases, and public health interventions.

Their contributions span several main topics, notably:

  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Best Publications

  • Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - United States, 2020-21 Influenza Season.

    Lisa A. Grohskopf;Leslie Z. Sokolow;Leslie Z. Sokolow;Sonja J. Olsen;Joseph S. Bresee

  • Causes of severe pneumonia requiring hospital admission in children without HIV infection from Africa and Asia: the PERCH multi-country case-control study

    Katherine L. O'Brien;Henry C. Baggett;W. Abdullah Brooks;Daniel R. Feikin

  • Safety and Immunogenicity Trial in Adult Volunteers of a Human Papillomavirus 16 L1 Virus-Like Particle Vaccine

    Clayton D. Harro;Yuk Ying Susana Pang;Richard B.S. Roden;Allan Hildesheim

  • Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines.

    Lisa A. Grohskopf;Leslie Z. Sokolow;Karen R. Broder;Sonja J. Olsen

  • Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) SH and G proteins are not essential for viral replication in vitro: clinical evaluation and molecular characterization of a cold-passaged, attenuated RSV subgroup B mutant.

    Ruth A. Karron;Deborah A. Buonagurio;Alice F. Georgiu;Stephen S. Whitehead

  • A Role for Immune Complexes in Enhanced Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease

    Fernando P. Polack;Michael N. Teng;Peter L. Collins;Gregory A. Prince

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

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

  • Attenuation and immunogenicity in humans of a live dengue virus type-4 vaccine candidate with a 30 nucleotide deletion in its 3'-untranslated region.

    Anna P. Durbin;Ruth A. Karron;Wellington Sun;David W. Vaughn

  • Evaluation of a live, cold-passaged, temperature-sensitive, respiratory syncytial virus vaccine candidate in infancy

    Peter F. Wright;Ruth A. Karron;Robert B. Belshe;Juliette Thompson

  • Identification of a Recombinant Live Attenuated Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine Candidate That Is Highly Attenuated in Infants

    Ruth A. Karron;Peter F. Wright;Robert B. Belshe;Bhagvanji Thumar

  • Evaluation of Two Live, Cold-Passaged, Temperature-Sensitive Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines in Chimpanzees and in Human Adults, Infants, and Children

    Ruth A. Karron;Peter F. Wright;James E. Crowe;Mary Lou Clements‐Mann

  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines

    Robert A. Dudas;Ruth A. Karron

  • The Definition of Pneumonia, the Assessment of Severity, and Clinical Standardization in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health Study

    J. Anthony G. Scott;J. Anthony G. Scott;Chizoba Wonodi;Jennifer C. Moïsi;Jennifer C. Moïsi;Maria Deloria-Knoll

  • Risk factors for severe respiratory syncytial virus infection among Alaska Native children

    Lisa R Bulkow;Rosalyn J Singleton;Rosalyn J Singleton;Ruth A Karron;Lee H Harrison

  • Differential Production of Inflammatory Cytokines in Primary Infection with Human Metapneumovirus and with Other Common Respiratory Viruses of Infancy

    Federico R. Laham;Victor Israele;Javier M. Casellas;Alejandro M. Garcia

  • Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) — United States, 2014–15 Influenza Season

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  • A Live Attenuated Bovine Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 Vaccine Is Safe, Infectious, Immunogenic, and Phenotypically Stable in Infants and Children

    Ruth A. Karron;Peter F. Wright;Peter F. Wright;Peter F. Wright;Susan L. Hall;Susan L. Hall;Susan L. Hall;Mamodikoe Makhene;Mamodikoe Makhene;Mamodikoe Makhene

  • The absence of enhanced disease with wild type respiratory syncytial virus infection occurring after receipt of live, attenuated, respiratory syncytial virus vaccines.

    Peter F. Wright;Ruth A. Karron;Robert B. Belshe;Jian R. Shi

  • Mortality due to respiratory syncytial virus burden and risk factors

    Sarah Geoghegan;Anabella Erviti;Mauricio T Caballero;Fernando Vallone

  • Live-Attenuated Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines

    Ruth A. Karron;Ursula J. Buchholz;Peter L. Collins

  • Efficacy of motavizumab for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus disease in healthy Native American infants: a phase 3 randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial.

    Katherine L O'Brien;Aruna Chandran;Robert Weatherholtz;Hasan S Jafri

  • rDEN4Δ30, a Live Attenuated Dengue Virus Type 4 Vaccine Candidate, Is Safe, Immunogenic, and Highly Infectious in Healthy Adult Volunteers

    Anna P. Durbin;Stephen S. Whitehead;Julie McArthur;John R. Perreault

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Murdoch
David R. Murdoch University of Otago
Shabir A. Madhi
Shabir A. Madhi University of the Witwatersrand
Martin Antonio
Martin Antonio London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Brian R. Murphy
Brian R. Murphy National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Katherine L. O’Brien
Katherine L. O’Brien Johns Hopkins University
Peter L. Collins
Peter L. Collins National Institutes of Health
Daniel R. Feikin
Daniel R. Feikin Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Maria Deloria Knoll
Maria Deloria Knoll Johns Hopkins University
Karen L. Kotloff
Karen L. Kotloff University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ursula J. Buchholz
Ursula J. Buchholz National Institutes of Health

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