Edna Kara

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Edna Kara is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Edna Kara has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Epidemiology, 12 papers in Infectious Diseases and 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Edna Kara's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (9 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (6 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (5 papers). Edna Kara is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (9 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (6 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (5 papers). Edna Kara collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Brazil. Edna Kara's co-authors include Gayatri Amirthalingam, Norman K. Fry, Mary Ramsay, Helen Campbell, Sonia Ribeiro, Elizabeth Miller, Katherine Donegan, Nick Andrews, Gavin Dabrera and Steve Biko Menezes Hora Alves Ribeiro and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Edna Kara

21 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Effectiveness of maternal pertussis vaccination in England: an observational study

2014 529 citations Gayatri Amirthalingam, Nick Andrews et al. The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edna Kara Switzerland	11	787	628	421	228	183	21	1.1k
Sonia Ribeiro United Kingdom	17	1.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.8×	451 1.1×	264 1.2×	128 0.7×	36	1.5k
Catherine Healy United States	19	934 1.2×	639 1.0×	492 1.2×	499 2.2×	359 2.0×	39	1.6k
Amy Blain United States	16	559 0.7×	531 0.8×	337 0.8×	340 1.5×	62 0.3×	33	1.1k
Nadia van Niekerk South Africa	19	1.2k 1.6×	193 0.3×	324 0.8×	416 1.8×	94 0.5×	38	1.5k
Ángela Gentile Argentina	19	822 1.0×	395 0.6×	236 0.6×	335 1.5×	84 0.5×	119	1.3k
Philipp Lambach Switzerland	21	838 1.1×	98 0.2×	727 1.7×	307 1.3×	175 1.0×	61	1.2k
Ann Lindstrand Sweden	20	733 0.9×	189 0.3×	447 1.1×	287 1.3×	87 0.5×	55	1.2k
Frank Beard Australia	19	778 1.0×	167 0.3×	640 1.5×	367 1.6×	69 0.4×	96	1.2k
Lucia Pastore Celentano Sweden	14	732 0.9×	347 0.6×	589 1.4×	412 1.8×	59 0.3×	20	1.2k
Sharon Balter United States	14	832 1.1×	111 0.2×	196 0.5×	440 1.9×	77 0.4×	30	1.3k

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Calvet, Guilherme Amaral, Edna Kara, Lianne Gonsalves, et al.. (2024). Viral shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in body fluids associated with sexual activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 14(2). e073084–e073084. 6 indexed citations

Castilho, Márcia da Costa, Ana María Bispo de Filippis, Laís Ceschini Machado, et al.. (2024). Evidence of Zika Virus Reinfection by Genome Diversity and Antibody Response Analysis, Brazil. Emerging infectious diseases. 30(2). 310–320. 6 indexed citations

Calvet, Guilherme Amaral, Edna Kara, Camila Bôtto-Menezes, et al.. (2023). Detection and persistence of Zika virus in body fluids and associated factors: a prospective cohort study. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 21557–21557. 10 indexed citations

Bôtto-Menezes, Camila, Izabella Picinin Safe, Armando Menezes‐Neto, et al.. (2022). Myopericarditis associated with acute Zika virus infection: a case report. BMC Infectious Diseases. 22(1). 508–508. 3 indexed citations

Calvet, Guilherme Amaral, Edna Kara, Sihem Landoulsi, et al.. (2021). Cohort profile: Study on Zika virus infection in Brazil (ZIKABRA study). PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244981–e0244981. 6 indexed citations

Rocha, Ana Fátima Braga, Maria Alix Leite Araújo, Melanie Taylor, Edna Kara, & Nathalie Broutet. (2021). Treatment administered to newborns with congenital syphilis during a penicillin shortage in 2015, Fortaleza, Brazil. BMC Pediatrics. 21(1). 166–166. 10 indexed citations

Giozza, Silvana Pereira, Ximena Pamela Díaz Bermúdez, Edna Kara, et al.. (2021). An initiative of cooperation in Zika virus research: the experience of the ZIKABRA study in Brazil. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 572–572. 2 indexed citations

Beebeejaun, Kazim, Zahin Amin‐Chowdhury, Louise Letley, et al.. (2020). Impact of a nurse‐led enhanced monitoring, management and contact tracing intervention for chronic hepatitis B in England, 2015‐2017. Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 28(1). 72–79. 6 indexed citations

Taylor, Melanie, Loulou Kobeissi, Caron Kim, et al.. (2020). Inclusion of pregnant women in COVID-19 treatment trials: a review and global call to action. The Lancet Global Health. 9(3). e366–e371. 86 indexed citations

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Taylor, Melanie, Edna Kara, Maria Alix Leite Araújo, et al.. (2020). Phase II trial evaluating the clinical efficacy of cefixime for treatment of active syphilis in non-pregnant women in Brazil (CeBra). BMC Infectious Diseases. 20(1). 405–405. 17 indexed citations

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Menezes‐Neto, Armando, Márcia da Costa Castilho, Guilherme Amaral Calvet, et al.. (2020). Zika virus RNA excretion in sweat with concomitant detection in other body fluid specimens. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 115. e200339–e200339. 6 indexed citations

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Simmons, Ruth, Samreen Ijaz, Edna Kara, et al.. (2019). Seroprevalence of HCV, HBV and HIV in two inner-city London emergency departments. Epidemiology and Infection. 147. e145–e145. 15 indexed citations

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Calvet, Guilherme Amaral, Edna Kara, Silvana Pereira Giozza, et al.. (2018). Study on the persistence of Zika virus (ZIKV) in body fluids of patients with ZIKV infection in Brazil. BMC Infectious Diseases. 18(1). 49–49. 33 indexed citations

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Bernstein, Kyle, Virginia B. Bowen, Caron Kim, et al.. (2017). Re-emerging and newly recognized sexually transmitted infections: Can prior experiences shed light on future identification and control?. PLoS Medicine. 14(12). e1002474–e1002474. 8 indexed citations

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Kara, Edna, Helen Campbell, Sonia Ribeiro, et al.. (2016). Survey of Household Contacts of Infants With Laboratory-confirmed Pertussis Infection During a National Pertussis Outbreak in England and Wales. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 36(2). 140–145. 25 indexed citations

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Elliot, Alex J., Edna Kara, Paul Loveridge, et al.. (2015). Internet-based remote health self-checker symptom data as an adjuvant to a national syndromic surveillance system. Epidemiology and Infection. 143(16). 3416–3422. 16 indexed citations

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Amirthalingam, Gayatri, Nick Andrews, Helen Campbell, et al.. (2014). Effectiveness of maternal pertussis vaccination in England: an observational study. The Lancet. 384(9953). 1521–1528. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dabrera, Gavin, Gayatri Amirthalingam, Nick Andrews, et al.. (2014). A Case-Control Study to Estimate the Effectiveness of Maternal Pertussis Vaccination in Protecting Newborn Infants in England and Wales, 2012-2013. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 60(3). 333–337. 282 indexed citations

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Edeghere, Obaghe, et al.. (2014). Knowledge, attitudes, experience and behaviour of frontline health care workers during the early phase of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, Birmingham, UK. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 20(1). 26–30. 9 indexed citations

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Kara, Edna, et al.. (2011). Absenteeism in schools during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic: a useful tool for early detection of influenza activity in the community?. Epidemiology and Infection. 140(7). 1328–1336. 21 indexed citations

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