Lelia H. Chaisson

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Lelia H. Chaisson is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Lelia H. Chaisson has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Infectious Diseases, 19 papers in Epidemiology and 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Lelia H. Chaisson's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (20 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (9 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (9 papers). Lelia H. Chaisson is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (20 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (9 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (9 papers). Lelia H. Chaisson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Uganda and United Kingdom. Lelia H. Chaisson's co-authors include Justin Lessler, Qifang Bi, Lauren M. Kucirka, Derek A. T. Cummings, Andrea C. Carcelen, Nancy Kass, J. Lucian Davis, Holly A. Taylor, Adithya Cattamanchi and Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lelia H. Chaisson

36 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Assessing the global threat from Zika virus

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lelia H. Chaisson United States	17	723	498	392	176	158	40	1.3k
Anita Chakravarti India	21	812 1.1×	796 1.6×	479 1.2×	38 0.2×	89 0.6×	96	1.6k
Sanjay R. Mehta United States	26	1.7k 2.4×	365 0.7×	1.5k 3.8×	121 0.7×	218 1.4×	138	2.7k
Matthew J. Hepburn United States	22	552 0.8×	276 0.6×	404 1.0×	49 0.3×	263 1.7×	49	1.4k
Lasse S Vestergaard Denmark	26	314 0.4×	819 1.6×	186 0.5×	54 0.3×	68 0.4×	56	1.5k
Claire S. Waddington United Kingdom	21	827 1.1×	144 0.3×	261 0.7×	63 0.4×	92 0.6×	48	1.5k
Marguerite Massinga Loembé Gabon	22	606 0.8×	605 1.2×	419 1.1×	43 0.2×	183 1.2×	59	1.7k
Pratima L. Raghunathan United States	22	502 0.7×	137 0.3×	638 1.6×	138 0.8×	451 2.9×	36	1.5k
Steven G.F. Wassilak United States	33	1.7k 2.3×	167 0.3×	1.1k 2.9×	93 0.5×	109 0.7×	73	3.0k
William Walker Atkinson United Kingdom	5	485 0.7×	128 0.3×	1.1k 2.9×	69 0.4×	91 0.6×	10	1.7k
D O’Flanagan Ireland	23	486 0.7×	157 0.3×	1.2k 3.1×	51 0.3×	60 0.4×	79	1.7k

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Chaisson, Lelia H., Fred C. Semitala, Sandra Mwebe, et al.. (2025). Sex differences in systematic screening for tuberculosis among antiretroviral therapy naïve people with HIV in Kampala, Uganda. BMC Infectious Diseases. 25(1). 452–452.

Chaisson, Lelia H., Betina Durovni, Nasir Umar, et al.. (2024). Sex differences in tuberculosis infection and disease among people with HIV. AIDS. 39(2). 184–192.

Lora, Alfredo J Mena, Rodrigo Burgos, Scott Borgetti, Lelia H. Chaisson, & Susan C Bleasdale. (2023). Remdesivir use and antimicrobial stewardship restrictions during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States: A cross-sectional survey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). e63–e63. 1 indexed citations

Lora, Alfredo J Mena, Rodrigo Burgos, Scott Borgetti, Lelia H. Chaisson, & Susan C Bleasdale. (2023). Antimicrobial stewardship and drug formulary restrictions during COVID-19: what is restricted and who decides?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). e116–e116.

Chaisson, Lelia H., et al.. (2023). 1845. Integrating Infectious Diseases and Primary Care Providers in a Syringe Service Program in Chicago to Improve Access to Care for People with Substance Use Disorder. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 10(Supplement_2). 1 indexed citations

Pishgar, Maryam, Samuel Harford, William Galanter, et al.. (2022). A process mining- deep learning approach to predict survival in a cohort of hospitalized COVID‐19 patients. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 22(1). 194–194. 7 indexed citations

Chaisson, Lelia H., et al.. (2022). A systematic review and meta-analysis of active case finding for tuberculosis in India. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100076–100076. 4 indexed citations

Semitala, Fred C., Lelia H. Chaisson, David W. Dowdy, et al.. (2022). Tuberculosis screening improves preventive therapy uptake (TB SCRIPT) trial among people living with HIV in Uganda: a study protocol of an individual randomized controlled trial. Trials. 23(1). 399–399. 5 indexed citations

Leifheit, Kathryn M., et al.. (2021). Elevated Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness With COVID-19. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 8(7). ofab301–ofab301. 30 indexed citations

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Burke, Rachael M., Marriott Nliwasa, Helena R. A. Feasey, et al.. (2021). Community-based active case-finding interventions for tuberculosis: a systematic review. The Lancet Public Health. 6(5). e283–e299. 88 indexed citations

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Rupérez, María, Lawrence Mwenge, Ramya Kumar, et al.. (2021). Does tuberculosis screening improve individual outcomes? A systematic review. EClinicalMedicine. 40. 101127–101127. 15 indexed citations

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Patel, Mahesh, Lelia H. Chaisson, Scott Borgetti, et al.. (2020). Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Mortality During an Outbreak Investigation in a Skilled Nursing Facility. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 71(11). 2920–2926. 76 indexed citations

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Chaisson, Lelia H., Valéria Saraceni, Silvia Cohn, et al.. (2019). CD4+ cell count stratification to guide tuberculosis preventive therapy for people living with HIV. AIDS. 34(1). 139–147. 6 indexed citations

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Shete, Priya B., Resmi Ravindran, Emily Chang, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of antibody responses to panels of M. tuberculosis antigens as a screening tool for active tuberculosis in Uganda. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0180122–e0180122. 26 indexed citations

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Semitala, Fred C., Lelia H. Chaisson, Saskia den Boon, et al.. (2015). Impact of mycobacterial culture among HIV-infected adults with presumed TB in Uganda: a prospective cohort study. Public Health Action. 5(2). 106–111. 2 indexed citations

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Chaisson, Lelia H., Achilles Katamba, Emmanuel Ochom, et al.. (2015). Theory-Informed Interventions to Improve the Quality of Tuberculosis Evaluation at Ugandan Health Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132573–e0132573. 22 indexed citations

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Davis, J. Lucian, L. Masae Kawamura, Lelia H. Chaisson, et al.. (2014). Impact of GeneXpert MTB/RIF on Patients and Tuberculosis Programs in a Low-Burden Setting. A Hypothetical Trial. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 189(12). 1551–1559. 33 indexed citations

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Chaisson, Lelia H., David Cantú de León, Barbara Haller, et al.. (2014). Impact of GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay on Triage of Respiratory Isolation Rooms for Inpatients With Presumed Tuberculosis: A Hypothetical Trial. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 59(10). 1353–1360. 34 indexed citations

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Kruh‐Garcia, Nicole A., Lisa M. Wolfe, Lelia H. Chaisson, et al.. (2014). Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Peptides in the Exosomes of Patients with Active and Latent M. tuberculosis Infection Using MRM-MS. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e103811–e103811. 123 indexed citations

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Chaisson, Lelia H., et al.. (2011). Repeated Assessments of Informed Consent Comprehension among HIV-Infected Participants of a Three-Year Clinical Trial in Botswana. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e22696–e22696. 44 indexed citations

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