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Melissa M. Higdon

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2015

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Johns Hopkins University(Current)

University of Otago

Canterbury Health Laboratories

Ministry of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Melissa M. Higdon is an author at Johns Hopkins University specializing in medicine, public health, and epidemiology.

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2015–2024

34

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Causes of severe pneumonia requiring hospital admission in children without HIV infection from Africa and Asia: the PERCH multi-country case-control study

Katherine L. O’Brien, Henry C. Baggett, W. Abdullah Brooks et al. · The Lancet · 2019 · 890 citations · Full text

Density of Upper Respiratory Colonization With Streptococcus pneumoniae and Its Role in the Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia Among Children Aged <5 Years in the PERCH Study

Henry C. Baggett, Nora L. Watson, Maria Deloria Knoll et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2017 · 108 citations · Full text

Association of C-Reactive Protein With Bacterial and Respiratory Syncytial Virus–Associated Pneumonia Among Children Aged <5 Years in the PERCH Study

Melissa M. Higdon, Tham Le, Katherine L. O’Brien et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2017 · 105 citations · Full text

The Effect of Antibiotic Exposure and Specimen Volume on the Detection of Bacterial Pathogens in Children With Pneumonia

Amanda J. Driscoll, Maria Deloria Knoll, Laura L. Hammitt et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2017 · 96 citations · Full text

Is Higher Viral Load in the Upper Respiratory Tract Associated With Severe Pneumonia? Findings From the PERCH Study

Daniel R. Feikin, Wei Fu, Daniel E. Park et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2017 · 92 citations · Full text

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