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Mathuram Santosham
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 295
Citations - 18600
Mathuram Santosham is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 295 publications receiving 17348 citations. Previous affiliations of Mathuram Santosham include Cairo University & Ithaca College.
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Safety and Efficacy of a Pentavalent Human–Bovine (WC3) Reassortant Rotavirus Vaccine
Timo Vesikari,David O. Matson,Penelope H. Dennehy,Pierre Van Damme,Mathuram Santosham,Zoe M. Rodriguez,Michael J. Dallas,Joseph F. Heyse,Michelle G. Goveia,Steven Black,Henry R. Shinefield,Celia D. C. Christie,Samuli Ylitalo,Robbin F. Itzler,Michele L. Coia,Matthew T. Onorato,Ben A. Adeyi,Gary S. Marshall,Leif Gothefors,Dirk Campens,Aino Karvonen,James P. Watt,Katherine L. O'Brien,Mark J. DiNubile,H Fred Clark,John W. Boslego,Paul A. Offit,Penny M. Heaton +27 more
TL;DR: This vaccine was efficacious in preventing rotavirus gastroenteritis, decreasing severe disease and health care contacts, and the risk of intussusception was similar in vaccine and placebo recipients.
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Effect of community-based newborn-care intervention package implemented through two service-delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Abdullah H Baqui,Abdullah H Baqui,Shams El-Arifeen,Gary L. Darmstadt,Saifuddin Ahmed,Emma K. Williams,Habibur R Seraji,Habibur R Seraji,Ishtiaq Mannan,Ishtiaq Mannan,Syed Moshfiqur Rahman,Rasheduzzaman Shah,Rasheduzzaman Shah,Samir K. Saha,Uzma Syed,Peter J. Winch,Amnesty E LeFevre,Mathuram Santosham,Robert E. Black +18 more
TL;DR: A home-care strategy to promote an integrated package of preventive and curative newborn care is effective in reducing neonatal mortality in communities with a weak health system, low health-care use, and high Neonatal mortality.
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Effect of community-based behaviour change management on neonatal mortality in Shivgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Vishwajeet Kumar,Saroj Mohanty,Aarti Kumar,Rajendra P Misra,Mathuram Santosham,Shally Awasthi,Abdullah H Baqui,Pramod K. Singh,Vivek Singh,R.C. Ahuja,Jai Singh,Gyanendra Kumar Malik,Saifuddin Ahmed,Robert E. Black,Mahendra Bhandari,Gary L. Darmstadt +15 more
TL;DR: A socioculturally contextualised, community-based intervention, targeted at high-risk newborn-care practices, can lead to substantial behavioural modification and reduction in neonatal mortality.
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Efficacy and safety of seven-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine in American Indian children: group randomised trial
Katherine L. O'Brien,Lawrence H. Moulton,Raymond Reid,Robert Weatherholtz,Jane Oski,Laura H Brown,Gaurav Kumar,Alan J. Parkinson,Diana Hu,Jill G. Hackell,Ih Chang,Robert Kohberger,George R. Siber,Mathuram Santosham +13 more
TL;DR: PnCRM7 vaccine prevents vaccine serotype invasive pneumococcal disease even in a high risk population and other regions with similar disease burden should consider including this vaccine in the routine childhood vaccine schedule.
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Long-term Efficacy of BCG Vaccine in American Indians and Alaska Natives: A 60-Year Follow-up Study
Naomi E. Aronson,Mathuram Santosham,George W. Comstock,Robin S. Howard,Lawrence H. Moulton,Everett R. Rhoades,Lee H. Harrison +6 more
TL;DR: In this trial,BCG vaccine efficacy persisted for 50 to 60 years, suggesting that a single dose of an effective BCG vaccine can have a long duration of protection.