Professor oF Global Health Director, MD/MPH Program Boston University School of Public Health
Infectious Disease
Dr. Donald M. Thea, MD
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Donald M. Thea is an expert in the field of Infectious Disease. He went to medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is a top medical university. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is ranked 8 in research and 52 in primary care medicine Donald Thea is a published MD. He has 100 publications published. The most current publication "Association of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) load early in life with disease progression among HIV-infected infants. New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Coll..."
Publications
- Editorial commentary: ambulatory management of chest-indrawing pneumonia.
- Engagement of the community, traditional leaders, and public health system in the design and implementation of a large community-based, cluster-randomized trial of umb...
- Antibiotic trials for community-acquired pneumonia.
- Oligosaccharide Composition of Breast Milk Influences Survival of Uninfected Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers in Lusaka, Zambia.
- Childhood anemia at high altitude: risk factors for poor outcomes in severe pneumonia.
- Human Milk Galectin-3 Binding Protein and Breastfeeding-Associated HIV Transmission.
- Low rates of treatment failure in children aged 2-59 months treated for severe pneumonia: a multisite pooled analysis.
- HIV-1 Concentrations in Human Breast Milk Before and After Weaning.
- Coverage of primary mother-to-child HIV transmission isolates by second-generation broadly neutralizing antibodies.
- Dynamics of breast milk HIV-1 RNA with unilateral mastitis or abscess.
- Human milk oligosaccharide concentration and risk of postnatal transmission of HIV through breastfeeding.
- Community case management of severe pneumonia with oral amoxicillin in children aged 2-59 months in Haripur district, Pakistan: a cluster randomised trial.
- Exclusive breastfeeding, maternal HIV disease, and the risk of clinical breast pathology in HIV-infected, breastfeeding women.
- Early weaning increases diarrhea morbidity and mortality among uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers in Zambia.
- Community case management of fever due to malaria and pneumonia in children under five in Zambia: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
- Elevations in mortality associated with weaning persist into the second year of life among uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers.
- Restriction of HIV-1 genotypes in breast milk does not account for the population transmission genetic bottleneck that occurs following transmission.
- High concentrations of interleukin 15 in breast milk are associated with protection against postnatal HIV transmission.
- Detection of low levels of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be critical for early diagnosis of pediatric HIV infection by use of dried blood spots.
- Mortality and virologic outcomes after access to antiretroviral therapy among a cohort of HIV-infected women who received single-dose nevirapine in Lusaka, Zambia.
- Growth faltering due to breastfeeding cessation in uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers in Zambia.
- A clinical tool to predict failed response to therapy in children with severe pneumonia.
- Reduced mortality associated with breast-feeding-acquired HIV infection and breast-feeding among HIV-infected children in Zambia.
- Temporal and lateral dynamics of HIV shedding and elevated sodium in breast milk among HIV-positive mothers during the first 4 months of breast-feeding.
- Bystander effects: children who escape infection but not harm.
- Two-dose versus monthly intermittent preventive treatment of malaria with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in HIV-seropositive pregnant Zambian women.
- Low and undetectable breast milk interleukin-7 concentrations are associated with reduced risk of postnatal HIV transmission.
- Veterinary field test as screening tool for mastitis and HIV-1 viral load in breastmilk from HIV-infected Zambian women.
- Re: HIV-1 disease progression in breast-feeding and formula-feeding mothers: a prospective 2-year comparison of T cell subsets, HIV-1 RNA levels, and mortality.
- The mucosae-associated epithelial chemokine (MEC/CCL28) modulates immunity in HIV infection.
- High uptake of exclusive breastfeeding and reduced early post-natal HIV transmission.
- Brief hospitalization and pulse oximetry for predicting amoxicillin treatment failure in children with severe pneumonia.
- Reduction in preterm delivery and neonatal mortality after the introduction of antenatal cotrimoxazole prophylaxis among HIV-infected women with low CD4 cell counts.
- Violence and abuse among HIV-infected women and their children in Zambia: a qualitative study.
- Nevirapine resistance viral mutations after repeat use of nevirapine for prevention of perinatal HIV transmission.
- Predictors of nonadherence to single-dose nevirapine therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
- Does severity of HIV disease in HIV-infected mothers affect mortality and morbidity among their uninfected infants?
- Alpha-defensins in the prevention of HIV transmission among breastfed infants.
- Adherence to zidovudine for the prevention of perinatal transmission in HIV-infected pregnant women: the impact of social network factors, side effects, and perceived ...
- Issues in the design of a clinical trial with a behavioral intervention--the Zambia exclusive breast-feeding study.
- Questions regarding the effectiveness of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (cotrimoxazole) prophylaxis in African children.
- AIDS is your business.
- Maternal adherence to the zidovudine regimen for HIV-exposed infants to prevent HIV infection: a preliminary study.
- Human immunodeficiency virus-specific CD8(+) T cells in human breast milk.
- Finding a Needle in the Haystack: The Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment during Pregnancy to Prevent Congenital Syphilis in Kalomo Distri...
- Validation of the UCLA Child Post traumatic stress disorder-reaction index in Zambia.
- Analyzing media coverage of the global fund diseases compared with lower funded diseases (childhood pneumonia, diarrhea and measles).
- Multiple independent lineages of HIV-1 persist in breast milk and plasma.
- 4E10-resistant HIV-1 isolated from four subjects with rare membrane-proximal external region polymorphisms.
- Lactation-associated postpartum weight changes among HIV-infected women in Zambia.
- Potential impact of new WHO criteria for antiretroviral treatment for prevention of mother-to- child HIV transmission.
- Effects of early, abrupt weaning on HIV-free survival of children in Zambia.
- Neonatal mortality--4 million reasons for progress.
- Differential effects of early weaning for HIV-free survival of children born to HIV-infected mothers by severity of maternal disease.
- Role of breastfeeding cessation in mediating the relationship between maternal HIV disease stage and increased child mortality among HIV-exposed uninfected children.
- Barriers to acceptance and adherence of antiretroviral therapy in urban Zambian women: a qualitative study.
- Reuse of single-dose nevirapine in subsequent pregnancies for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Lusaka, Zambia: a cohort study.
- Ambulatory short-course high-dose oral amoxicillin for treatment of severe pneumonia in children: a randomised equivalency trial.
- Chloramphenicol versus ampicillin plus gentamicin for community acquired very severe pneumonia among children aged 2-59 months in low resource settings: multicentre ra...
- Use of evidence in WHO recommendations.
- Impact of chloroquine on viral load in breast milk.
- Post-weaning breast milk HIV-1 viral load, blood prolactin levels and breast milk volume.
- Failure of standard antimicrobial therapy in children aged 3-59 months with mild or asymptomatic HIV infection and severe pneumonia.
- No room for complacency about adherence to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Prolonged breast-feeding and mortality up to two years post-partum among HIV-positive women in Zambia.
- Treatment of paediatric malaria during a period of drug transition to artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia: cross sectional study.
- Oral amoxicillin versus injectable penicillin for severe pneumonia in children aged 3 to 59 months: a randomised multicentre equivalency study.
- Women in couples antenatal HIV counseling and testing are not more likely to report adverse social events.
- The cost of HIV/AIDS to businesses in southern Africa.
- Quantitation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in breast milk.
- Hiv-specific secretory IgA in breast milk of HIV-positive mothers is not associated with protection against HIV transmission among breast-fed infants.
- Impact of HIV-1 status on the radiological presentation and clinical outcome of children with WHO defined community-acquired severe pneumonia.
- Impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization and seroepidemiology among Zambian women.
- Inferiority of single-dose sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine intermittent preventive therapy for malaria during pregnancy among HIV-positive Zambian women.
- Identification and partial purification of a lectin on the surface of the sporozoite of Cryptosporidium parvum.
- Persistent diarrhea associated with AIDS.
- Use of antibacterial agents in infections of the central nervous system.
- Intestinal and metabolic responses to an alpha-glucosidase inhibitor in normal volunteers.
- Efficacy of antenatal zidovudine in reducing perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1. The New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Collaborative ...
- Neonatal predictors of infection status and early death among 332 infants at risk of HIV-1 infection monitored prospectively from birth. New York City Perinatal HIV Tr...
- Ethical issues in the use of zidovudine to reduce vertical transmission of HIV.
- A prospective study of diarrhea and HIV-1 infection among 429 Zairian infants.
- Prevalence of enteric viruses among hospital patients with AIDS in Kinshasa, Zaire.
- Malnutrition in AIDS.
- Benefit of primary prophylaxis before 18 months of age in reducing the incidence of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and early death in a cohort of 112 human immunodefic...
- Plasma cytokines, cytokine antagonists, and disease progression in African women infected with HIV-1.
- Sensitivity of HIV-1 DNA polymerase chain reaction in the neonatal period. The New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Collaborative Study Group.
- Heterosexual behavior during pregnancy and perinatal transmission of HIV-1. New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Collaborative Study Group.
- Lack of increased risk for perinatal human immunodeficiency virus transmission to subsequent children born to infected women.
- Prospective study of human immunodeficiency virus 1-related disease among 512 infants born to infected women in New York City. The New York City Perinatal HIV Transmis...
- Early detection of perinatal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 infection using HIV RNA amplification and detection. New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Co...
- Timing of maternal-infant HIV transmission: associations between intrapartum factors and early polymerase chain reaction results. New York City Perinatal HIV Transmiss...
- The effect of maternal viral load on the risk of perinatal transmission of HIV-1. New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Collaborative Study Group.
- Vitamin A deficiency and maternal-infant transmissions of HIV in two metropolitan areas in the United States.
- Effect of maternal CD4+ cell count, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and viral load on disease progression in infants with perinatally acquired human immunodeficien...
- Neutralizing antibody and perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1. New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Collaborative Study Group.
- Genetic evaluation of suspected cases of transient HIV-1 infection of infants.
- Incubation period of HIV-1 in perinatally infected children. New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Collaborative Study Group.
- Association of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) load early in life with disease progression among HIV-infected infants. New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Coll...
Schools
Columbia University College of Physicians And Surgeons
St Lukes Roosevelt Hospital
Tufts New England Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
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Education
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Tufts Medical Center -
St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center -
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Hospital
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Boston Medical Center
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