W. Abdullah Brooks

Best Publications

• Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2015: a systematic review and modelling study

  Ting Shi;David A. McAllister;Katherine L. O'Brien;Eric A. F. Simoes

  2723
  Citations

• Estimated global mortality associated with the first 12 months of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus circulation: a modelling study

  Fatimah S. Dawood;A. Danielle Iuliano;Carrie Reed;Martin I. Meltzer

  1677
  Citations

• Global burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Harish Nair;Harish Nair;W Abdullah Brooks;Mark Katz;Anna Roca

  1203
  Citations

• Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: a systematic analysis

  Harish Nair;Harish Nair;Eric Af Simões;Igor Rudan;Bradford D Gessner

  920
  Citations

• 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

  839
  Citations

• Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis

  You Li;Rachel M Reeves;Xin Wang;Quique Bassat

  509
  Citations

• Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study.

  Xin Wang;You Li;Katherine L. O'Brien;Shabir A. Madhi

  452
  Citations

• Bacteremic typhoid fever in children in an urban slum, Bangladesh.

  W. Abdullah Brooks;Anowar Hossain;Doli Goswami;Amina Tahia Sharmeen

  313
  Citations

• Pneumonia research to reduce childhood mortality in the developing world.

  J. Anthony G. Scott;W. Abdullah Brooks;J.S. Malik Peiris;Douglas Holtzman

  288
  Citations

• The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health Project: A 21st Century Childhood Pneumonia Etiology Study

  Orin S. Levine;Katherine L. O’Brien;Maria Deloria-Knoll;David R. Murdoch

  226
  Citations

• Global burden of acute lower respiratory infection associated with human metapneumovirus in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study.

  Xin Wang;You Li;Maria Deloria-Knoll;Shabir A Madhi

  204
  Citations

• Efficacy and Safety of Oseltamivir in Children: Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

  Ryan E Malosh;Emily T Martin;Terho Heikkinen;W Abdullah Brooks

  188
  Citations

• Leptospirosis during dengue outbreak, Bangladesh.

  Regina C. LaRocque;Robert F. Breiman;Mary D. Ari;Roger E. Morey

  182
  Citations

• Efficacy of oseltamivir treatment started within 5 days of symptom onset to reduce influenza illness duration and virus shedding in an urban setting in Bangladesh: a randomised placebo-controlled trial

  Alicia M Fry;Doli Goswami;Kamrun Nahar;Amina Tahia Sharmin

  174
  Citations

• Respiratory Syncytial Virus Circulation in Seven Countries With Global Disease Detection Regional Centers

  Amber K. Haynes;Arie P. Manangan;Marika K. Iwane;Katharine Sturm-Ramirez;Katharine Sturm-Ramirez

  166
  Citations

• Influenza is a major contributor to childhood pneumonia in a tropical developing country.

  W. Abdullah Brooks;Doli Goswami;Mustafizur Rahman;Kamrun Nahar

  161
  Citations

• Burden of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in a densely populated urban community, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  Aliya Naheed;Pavani K. Ram;Pavani K. Ram;W. Abdullah Brooks;M. Anowar Hossain

  146
  Citations

• Influenza in Outpatient ILI Case-Patients in National Hospital-Based Surveillance, Bangladesh, 2007–2008

  Rashid Uz Zaman;A. S. M. Alamgir;Mustafizur Rahman;Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner;Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner

  131
  Citations

• Density of Upper Respiratory Colonization With Streptococcus pneumoniae and Its Role in the Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia Among Children Aged <5 Years in the PERCH Study

  Henry C. Baggett;Nora L. Watson;Maria Deloria Knoll;W. Abdullah Brooks;W. Abdullah Brooks

  130
  Citations

• Association of C-Reactive Protein With Bacterial and Respiratory Syncytial Virus–Associated Pneumonia Among Children Aged <5 Years in the PERCH Study

  Melissa M. Higdon;Tham Le;Tham Le;Katherine L. O’Brien;David R. Murdoch;David R. Murdoch

  116
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