Professor, Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Dr. Pedro Piedra, MD
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Pedro Piedra works in the field of Pediatric Infectious Disease. He went to medical school at University of South Florida College of Medicine. University of South Florida College of Medicine is ranked 79/85 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 1 awards: "Fellow (FAAP)". Dr. Pedro Piedra is a published physician. He has 100 publications published. The most current publication "Disseminated adenovirus disease in immunocompromised and immunocompetent children."
Publications
- Eligibility for palivizumab prophylaxis in a cohort of children with severe bronchiolitis.
- A randomized, blinded, controlled, dose-ranging study of a respiratory syncytial virus recombinant fusion (F) nanoparticle vaccine in healthy women of childbearing age.
- Discovery of an Oral Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Fusion Inhibitor (GS-5806) and Clinical Proof of Concept in a Human RSV Challenge Study.
- Hospital course and discharge criteria for children hospitalized with bronchiolitis.
- Respiratory syncytial virus genomic load and disease severity among children hospitalized with bronchiolitis: Multicenter cohort studies in the US and Finland.
- The Significance of Transplacental Antibody Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
- Glycan variants of a respiratory syncytial virus antibody with enhanced effector function and in vivo efficacy.
- Development of an Adenoviral-based RSV Vaccine: Preclinical Evaluation of Efficacy, Immunogenicity, and Enhanced Disease in a Cotton Rat Model.
- Detection of NH1N1 Influenza Virus in Nonrespiratory Sites Among Children.
- Influenza vaccine effectiveness in the 2011-2012 season: protection against each circulating virus and the effect of prior vaccination on estimates.
- Apnea in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis.
- Prophylactic and therapeutic testing of Nicotiana-derived RSV-neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies in the cotton rat model.
- Variability in inpatient management of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis.
- Lethal toxicity, severe endothelial injury, and a threshold effect with high doses of an adenoviral vector in baboons.
- Bilamellar cationic liposomes protect adenovectors from preexisting humoral immune responses.
- Safety of the trivalent, cold-adapted influenza vaccine (CAIV-T) in children.
- Future directions in vaccine prevention of respiratory syncytial virus.
- Safety of the trivalent, cold-adapted influenza vaccine in preschool-aged children.
- Clinical experience with respiratory syncytial virus vaccines.
- Immunogenicity of a new purified fusion protein vaccine to respiratory syncytial virus: a multi-center trial in children with cystic fibrosis.
- Safety and immunogenicity of respiratory syncytial virus purified fusion protein-2 vaccine in pregnant women.
- Rapid research response to the 2009 A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza pandemic (Revised).
- Correlates of immunity to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) associated-hospitalization: establishment of minimum protective threshold levels of serum neutralizing anti...
- Estimating efficacy of trivalent, cold-adapted, influenza virus vaccine (CAIV-T) against influenza A (H1N1) and B using surveillance cultures.
- Comparison of the inhibition of human metapneumovirus and respiratory syncytial virus by ribavirin and immune serum globulin in vitro.
- Fiber-modified adenoviruses generate subgroup cross-reactive, adenovirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes for therapeutic applications.
- Genome type analysis of adenovirus types 3 and 7 isolated during successive outbreaks of lower respiratory tract infections in children.
- Direct and total effectiveness of the intranasal, live-attenuated, trivalent cold-adapted influenza virus vaccine against the 2000-2001 influenza A(H1N1) and B epidemi...
- Safety of cold-adapted live influenza vaccine.
- Comparison of the inhibition of human metapneumovirus and respiratory syncytial virus by NMSO3 in tissue culture assays.
- Conserved CTL epitopes on the adenovirus hexon protein expand subgroup cross-reactive and subgroup-specific CD8+ T cells.
- Immunization against viral respiratory disease: a review.
- Herd immunity in adults against influenza-related illnesses with use of the trivalent-live attenuated influenza vaccine (CAIV-T) in children.
- Development of a cotton rat-human metapneumovirus (hMPV) model for identifying and evaluating potential hMPV antivirals and vaccines.
- Adenovirus in the neonatal intensive care unit: formidable, forgotten foe.
- Respiratory viral infections in patients with chronic, obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Live attenuated influenza vaccine, trivalent, is safe in healthy children 18 months to 4 years, 5 to 9 years, and 10 to 18 years of age in a community-based, nonrandom...
- Human metapneumovirus and respiratory syncytial virus infections in older children with cystic fibrosis.
- Efficacy of trivalent, cold-adapted, influenza virus vaccine against influenza A (Fujian), a drift variant, during 2003-2004.
- Immunopathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis.
- Rotavirus antigenemia in children is associated with viremia.
- Trivalent live attenuated intranasal influenza vaccine administered during the 2003-2004 influenza type A (H3N2) outbreak provided immediate, direct, and indirect prot...
- Cost-effectiveness of live-attenuated influenza vaccine, trivalent in preventing influenza in young children attending day-care centres.
- Safety of the intranasal, trivalent, live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) in children with intermittent wheezing in an open-label field trial.
- The search for adenovirus 14 in children in Houston, Texas.
- T lymphocytes contribute to antiviral immunity and pathogenesis in experimental human metapneumovirus infection.
- Societal and economic consequences of influenza.
- Effects of oseltamivir on influenza-related complications in children with chronic medical conditions.
- LDH concentration in nasal-wash fluid as a biochemical predictor of bronchiolitis severity.
- Risk factors for requiring intensive care among children admitted to ward with bronchiolitis.
- Outpatient RSV lower respiratory infections among high-risk infants and other pediatric populations.
- Direct and indirect effectiveness of influenza vaccination delivered to children at school preceding an epidemic caused by 3 new influenza virus variants.
- Picornavirus, the Most Common Respiratory Virus Causing Infection among Patients of All Ages Hospitalized with Acute Respiratory Illness.
- Modulation of systemic and mucosal immune responses to inhaled ragweed antigen in experimentally induced infection with respiratory syncytial virus implication in vira...
- Effect of respiratory syncytial virus infection on the uptake of and immune response to other inhaled antigens.
- Safety and immunogenicity of the PFP vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): the western blot assay aids in distinguishing immune responses of the PFP vacci...
- Enhanced pulmonary pathology associated with the use of formalin-inactivated respiratory syncytial virus vaccine in cotton rats is not a unique viral phenomenon.
- High-dose, short-duration ribavirin aerosol therapy compared with standard ribavirin therapy in children with suspected respiratory syncytial virus infection.
- Comparison of antibody concentrations and protective activity of respiratory syncytial virus immune globulin and conventional immune globulin.
- Studies on reactogenicity and immunogenicity of attenuated bivalent cold recombinant influenza type A (CRA) and inactivated trivalent influenza virus (TI) vaccines in ...
- Combination therapy with aerosolized ribavirin and intravenous immunoglobulin for respiratory syncytial virus disease in adult bone marrow transplant recipients.
- Evaluation of live attenuated influenza vaccines in children 6-18 months of age: safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis...
- Influenza virus pneumonia: pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention.
- Purified fusion protein vaccine protects against lower respiratory tract illness during respiratory syncytial virus season in children with cystic fibrosis.
- Rapid diagnosis of respiratory syncytial virus infections in immunocompromised adults.
- Prevalence of neutralizing antibody to respiratory syncytial virus in sera from mothers and newborns residing in the Gambia and in The United States.
- Isolation of adenovirus type 7 from the urine of children with acute hemorrhagic cystitis.
- Cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses of infants after natural infection or immunization with live cold-recombinant or inactivated influenza A virus vaccine.
- Influenza virus infections in infants.
- Dual respiratory virus infections.
- Sequential annual administration of purified fusion protein vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus in children with cystic fibrosis.
- Description of an adenovirus type 8 outbreak in hospitalized neonates born prematurely.
- Age distribution of patients with medically-attended illnesses caused by sequential variants of influenza A/H1N1: comparison to age-specific infection rates, 1978-1989.
- Evaluation of an intravenous immunoglobulin preparation for the prevention of viral infection among hospitalized low birth weight infants.
- High-dose, short-duration ribavirin aerosol therapy in children with suspected respiratory syncytial virus infection.
- Mechanism of lung injury in cotton rats immunized with formalin-inactivated respiratory syncytial virus.
- Incidence of catheter-associated gram-negative bacteremia in children with short bowel syndrome.
- Immune response to experimentally induced infection with respiratory syncytial virus: possible role in the development of pulmonary disease.
- Safety and immunogenicity of low and high doses of trivalent live cold-adapted influenza vaccine administered intranasally as drops or spray to healthy children.
- Incidence and prevalence of neutralizing antibodies to the common adenoviruses in children with cystic fibrosis: implication for gene therapy with adenovirus vectors.
- Maternal immunization against viral disease.
- Disseminated adenovirus disease in immunocompromised and immunocompetent children.
- Effects of viral lower respiratory tract infection on lung function in infants with cystic fibrosis.
- Normal perinatal rise in serum cholesterol is inhibited by hepatic delivery of adenoviral vector expressing apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme (Apobec1) in rabbits.
- Administration of helper-dependent adenoviral vectors and sequential delivery of different vector serotype for long-term liver-directed gene transfer in baboons.
- Impact of respiratory virus infections on persons with chronic underlying conditions.
- Correlates of immune protection induced by live, attenuated, cold-adapted, trivalent, intranasal influenza virus vaccine.
- Circulation patterns of group A and B human respiratory syncytial virus genotypes in 5 communities in North America.
- Prevention and treatment of respiratory syncytial virus and parainfluenza viruses in immunocompromised patients.
- Respiratory syncytial virus vaccines: recent developments.
- Induction and regulation of nitric oxide synthase in airway epithelial cells by respiratory syncytial virus.
- Gene Sequence Variability of the Three Surface Proteins of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (HRSV) in Texas.
- HLA-restricted CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte, interferon-gamma, and interleukin-4 responses to respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants and children.
- Lower respiratory tract infections due to adenovirus in hospitalized Korean children: epidemiology, clinical features, and prognosis.
- Lifetime correction of genetic deficiency in mice with a single injection of helper-dependent adenoviral vector.
- Efficacy of vaccination with live attenuated, cold-adapted, trivalent, intranasal influenza virus vaccine against a variant (A/Sydney) not contained in the vaccine.
- The efficacy of live attenuated, cold-adapted, trivalent, intranasal influenzavirus vaccine in children.
- Immunologic aspects of surface infections in the lung.
- Children Hospitalized with Rhinovirus Bronchiolitis Have Asthma-Like Characteristics.
Schools
University of South Florida College of Medicine
Med University Sc
Chldns Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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Medical University of South Carolina -
University of South Florida College of Medicine
Hospital
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Texas Children's Hospital
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