Mark A. Miller
National Institutes of Health
247 Papers
1.2K Citations
Mark A. Miller is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Pandemic. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 243 publications. Previous affiliations of Mark A. Miller include Analytica & McGill University.
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Papers
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.
A predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortality.
Vivian G. Loo,Louise Poirier,Mark A. Miller,Matthew Oughton,Michael Libman,Sophie Michaud,Anne-Marie Bourgault,Tuyen Nguyen,Charles Frenette,Mirabelle Kelly,Anne Vibien,Paul Brassard,Susan Fenn,Ken Dewar,Thomas J. Hudson,Ruth Horn,Pierre René,Yury Monczak,Andre Dascal +18 more
TL;DR: A strain of C. difficile that was resistant to fluoroquinolones and had binary toxin and a partial deletion of the tcdC gene was responsible for this outbreak ofC.difficile-associated diarrhea.
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Fidaxomicin versus Vancomycin for Clostridium difficile Infection
Thomas J. Louie,Mark A. Miller,Kathleen M. Mullane,Karl Weiss,Arnold Lentnek,Yoav Golan,Sherwood L. Gorbach,Pamela Sears,Youe-Kong Shue +8 more
TL;DR: Fidaxomicin was associated with a significantly lower rate of recurrence of C. difficile infection associated with non–North American Pulsed Field type 1 strains and the adverse-event profile was similar for the two therapies.
Synchrony, Waves, and Spatial Hierarchies in the Spread of Influenza
Cécile Viboud,Ottar N. Bjørnstad,Ottar N. Bjørnstad,David L. Smith,Lone Simonsen,Mark A. Miller,Bryan T. Grenfell,Bryan T. Grenfell +7 more
TL;DR: Influenza-related mortality data is used to analyze the between-state progression of interpandemic influenza in the United States over the past 30 years and a simple epidemiological model captures the observed increase of influenza spatial synchrony with transmissibility.
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A review of the global burden, novel diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccine targets for cryptosporidium
William Checkley,William Checkley,A. Clinton White,Devan Jaganath,Michael J. Arrowood,Rachel M. Chalmers,Xian Ming Chen,Ronald Fayer,Jeffrey K. Griffiths,Richard L. Guerrant,Lizbeth Hedstrom,Christopher D. Huston,Karen L. Kotloff,Gagandeep Kang,Jan R. Mead,Jan R. Mead,Mark A. Miller,William A. Petri,Jeffrey W. Priest,David S. Roos,Boris Striepen,R.C. Andrew Thompson,Honorine D. Ward,Wesley A. Van Voorhis,Lihua Xiao,Guan Zhu,Eric R. Houpt +26 more
TL;DR: Use of cryptosporidium genomes has helped to identify promising therapeutic targets, and drugs are in development, but methods to assess the efficacy in vitro and in animals are not well standardised.