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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 mortality associated with rotavirus disease among children in 2004.
Umesh D. Parashar,Anthony H. Burton,Claudio F. Lanata,Cynthia Boschi-Pinto,Kenji Shibuya,Duncan Steele,Maureen Birmingham,Roger I. Glass +7 more
TL;DR: The high mortality associated with rotavirus disease underscores the need for targeted interventions, such as vaccines, to realize the full life-saving potential of vaccines.
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Norovirus and Medically Attended Gastroenteritis in U.S. Children
Daniel C. Payne,Jan Vinjé,Peter G. Szilagyi,Kathryn M. Edwards,Mary A. Staat,Geoffrey A. Weinberg,Caroline B. Hall,James D. Chappell,David I. Bernstein,Aaron T. Curns,Mary E Wikswo,S. Hannah Shirley,Aron J. Hall,Benjamin A. Lopman,Umesh D. Parashar +14 more
TL;DR: Nationally, it is estimated that the average numbers of annual hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and outpatient visits due to norovirus infection in 2009 and 2010 among U.S. children in this age group exceeded 14,000, 281,000 and 627, thousands, respectively, with more than $273 million in treatment costs each year.
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Nipah Virus Encephalitis Reemergence, Bangladesh
Vincent P. Hsu,Mohammed Jahangir Hossain,Umesh D. Parashar,Mohammed Monsur Ali,Thomas G. Ksiazek,Ivan V. Kuzmin,Michael Niezgoda,Charles E. Rupprecht,Joseph S. Bresee,Robert F. Breiman +9 more
TL;DR: Two Nipah virus encephalitis outbreaks in Bangladesh may be associated with person-to-person transmission.
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Deaths of Children during an Outbreak of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Sarawak, Malaysia: Clinical and Pathological Characteristics of the Disease
L. G. Chan,Umesh D. Parashar,M. S. Lye,Flora Ong,Sherif R. Zaki,James Alexander,K. K. Ho,Linda L. Han,Mark A. Pallansch,Abu Bakar Suleiman,M. Jegathesan,Larry J. Anderson +11 more
TL;DR: Brain-stem specimens from 2 patients were available, and both specimens showed extensive neuronal degeneration, inflammation, and necrosis, suggesting that a central nervous system infection was responsible for the disease, with the cardiopulmonary dysfunction being neurogenic in origin.
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Norovirus Disease in the United States
Aron J. Hall,Ben Lopman,Daniel C. Payne,Manish M. Patel,Paul A. Gastañaduy,Jan Vinjé,Umesh D. Parashar +6 more
TL;DR: Findings support continued development and targeting of appropriate interventions, including vaccines, for norovirus disease, which occurs year round but exhibits a pronounced winter peak and increases by ≤50% during years in which pandemic strains emerge.