Karen C. Bloch

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Karen C. Bloch is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen C. Bloch has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Infectious Diseases, 37 papers in Epidemiology and 19 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Karen C. Bloch's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (19 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (18 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (15 papers). Karen C. Bloch is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (19 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (18 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (15 papers). Karen C. Bloch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Karen C. Bloch's co-authors include Carol Glaser, Jere W. McBride, Nahed Ismail, David M. Aronoff, James J. Sejvar, Barry J. Hartman, Allan R. Tunkel, Richard J. Whitley, Karen L. Roos and Christina M. Marra and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Karen C. Bloch

69 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

The Management of Encephalitis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

2008 702 citations Allan R. Tunkel, Carol Glaser et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karen C. Bloch United States	27	1.7k	1.3k	1.0k	668	325	72	3.2k
Hubert Lépidi France	50	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	2.3k 2.2×	1.6k 2.4×	162 0.5×	200	6.7k
J. F. P. Schellekens Netherlands	25	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	902 0.9×	388 0.6×	1.2k 3.7×	55	3.2k
Éric Caumes France	31	1.6k 0.9×	972 0.7×	489 0.5×	690 1.0×	102 0.3×	149	2.8k
Alje P. van Dam Netherlands	39	2.3k 1.4×	726 0.5×	2.5k 2.5×	733 1.1×	892 2.7×	153	4.9k
D. Scott Schmid United States	46	1.2k 0.7×	5.2k 3.9×	1.2k 1.2×	862 1.3×	242 0.7×	148	6.8k
Edison Luíz Durigon Brazil	35	2.6k 1.6×	1.7k 1.3×	203 0.2×	518 0.8×	176 0.5×	266	4.5k
Susan J. Wong United States	35	2.8k 1.7×	561 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	2.1k 3.2×	84 0.3×	73	4.3k
Nobuhiko Okabe Japan	31	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	204 0.2×	399 0.6×	313 1.0×	180	3.3k
Stephan W. Aberle Austria	36	1.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	360 0.4×	800 1.2×	87 0.3×	121	3.2k
Sherif R. Zaki United States	24	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	152 0.1×	569 0.9×	303 0.9×	42	2.9k

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Bloch, Karen C., Carol Glaser, David C. Gaston, & Arun Venkatesan. (2023). Executive Summary: State-of-the Art: Acute Encephalitis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 77(5). 669–671. 2 indexed citations

Bloch, Karen C., Carol Glaser, David C. Gaston, & Arun Venkatesan. (2023). State of the Art: Acute Encephalitis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 77(5). e14–e33. 15 indexed citations

Bloch, Karen C., et al.. (2022). Gram stain to the rescue: a case report of cerebral phaeohyphomycosis by Cladophialophora bantiana in an immunocompetent 24-year-old. BMC Infectious Diseases. 22(1). 13–13. 3 indexed citations

Walker, David H., Lucas S. Blanton, Karen C. Bloch, et al.. (2021). Rickettsiosis subcommittee report to the tick-borne disease working group. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 13(1). 101855–101855. 11 indexed citations

Bloch, Karen C., Rachel C. Forbes, Anthony Langone, et al.. (2021). Monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID‐19 in solid organ transplant recipients. Transplant Infectious Disease. 24(1). e13759–e13759. 33 indexed citations

Shelite, Thomas R., Nathen E. Bopp, Abelardo C. Moncayo, et al.. (2020). Isothermal Recombinase Polymerase Amplification-Lateral Flow Point-of-Care Diagnostic Test for Heartland Virus. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 21(2). 110–115. 7 indexed citations

Bradshaw, Michael, et al.. (2016). Clinical, Biological and Radiological Characteristics of Patients with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Encephalitis (S53.008). Neurology. 86(16_supplement).

Bradshaw, Michael, Siddharama Pawate, Karen C. Bloch, Paul L. Moots, & Nishitha Reddy. (2016). Clinical Reasoning: A 52-year-old man with diplopia and ataxia. Neurology. 87(13). e140–3. 3 indexed citations

Delisle, Josie, et al.. (2016). Human Infections by Multiple Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Tennessee. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 94(6). 1212–1217. 59 indexed citations

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Hariri, Susan, Elizabeth R. Unger, Sean Schafer, et al.. (2014). HPV Type Attribution in High-Grade Cervical Lesions: Assessing the Potential Benefits of Vaccines in a Population-Based Evaluation in the United States. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 24(2). 393–399. 39 indexed citations

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Mason, William J., et al.. (2011). Avoiding a Rash Diagnosis. New England Journal of Medicine. 364(5). 466–471. 1 indexed citations

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Tunkel, Allan R., Carol Glaser, Karen C. Bloch, et al.. (2008). The Management of Encephalitis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 47(3). 303–327. 702 indexed citations breakdown →

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Trabue, Christopher, Karen C. Bloch, James W. Myers, & Jonathan P. Moorman. (2008). Case report and literature review: HHV-6-associated meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent adult.. PubMed. 15(2). 33–5. 10 indexed citations

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Bloch, Karen C. & Carol Glaser. (2007). Diagnostic approaches for patients with suspected encephalitis. Current Infectious Disease Reports. 9(4). 315–322. 27 indexed citations

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Doyle, C. Kuyler, Marcelo B. Labruna, Edward B. Breitschwerdt, et al.. (2005). Detection of Medically Important Ehrlichia by Quantitative Multicolor TaqMan Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction of the dsb Gene. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 7(4). 504–510. 195 indexed citations

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Bloch, Karen C.. (2005). Predictors of Tick-Borne Rickettsial Disease among Patients Hospitalized with Encephalitis. 2 indexed citations

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Bloch, Karen C. & Frederick L. Schuster. (2005). Inability To Make a Premortem Diagnosis ofAcanthamoebaSpecies Infection in a Patient with Fatal Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 43(6). 3003–3006. 37 indexed citations

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Weinberg, Adriana, Karen C. Bloch, Shaobing Li, et al.. (2004). Dual Infections of the Central Nervous System with Epstein‐Barr Virus. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 191(2). 234–237. 82 indexed citations

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Lu, Hongzhou, Karen C. Bloch, & Yi‐Wei Tang. (2002). Molecular techniques in the diagnosis of central nervous system infections. Current Infectious Disease Reports. 4(4). 339–350. 9 indexed citations

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Paddock, Christopher D., Scott M. Folk, Linda J. Machado, et al.. (2001). Infections withEhrlichia chaffeensisandEhrlichia ewingiiin Persons Coinfected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 33(9). 1586–1594. 116 indexed citations

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