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Umesh D. Parashar
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 632
Citations - 45080
Umesh D. Parashar is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rotavirus & Rotavirus vaccine. The author has an hindex of 99, co-authored 601 publications receiving 40869 citations. Previous affiliations of Umesh D. Parashar include World Health Organization & National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
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Global Illness and Deaths Caused by Rotavirus Disease in Children
TL;DR: The tremendous incidence of rotavirus disease underscores the urgent need for interventions, such as vaccines, to prevent childhood deaths in developing nations.
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Prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis among infants and children. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
TL;DR: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends routine vaccination of U.S. infants with 3 doses of this rotavirus vaccine administered orally at ages 2, 4, and 6 months.
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Rotavirus and Severe Childhood Diarrhea
TL;DR: Application of this proportion to the recent World Health Organization estimates of diarrhea-related childhood deaths gave an estimated 611,000 rotavirus-related deaths.
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2008 estimate of worldwide rotavirus-associated mortality in children younger than 5 years before the introduction of universal rotavirus vaccination programmes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Jacqueline E. Tate,Anthony H. Burton,Cynthia Boschi-Pinto,A. Duncan Steele,Jazmin Duque,Umesh D. Parashar +5 more
TL;DR: The estimated number of deaths worldwide in children younger than 5 years due to diarrhoea attributable to rotavirus infection is updated to help advocate for rotav virus vaccine introduction and to monitor the effect of vaccination on mortality once introduced.
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Systematic literature review of role of noroviruses in sporadic gastroenteritis.
Manish M. Patel,Marc-Alain Widdowson,Roger I. Glass,Kenichiro Akazawa,Jan Vinjé,Umesh D. Parashar +5 more
TL;DR: Noroviruses accounted for 12% of severe gastroenteritis cases among children <5 years of age and 10% among children under the age of five, according to World Health Organization data.