Prof. Ron Dagan Profile

Prof. Ron Dagan

Professor
M.D.

Department :	Pediatric Infectious Disease
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Email :	rdagan@bgu.ac.il
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infectious diseases, pediatrics, pneumonia, bacteria, vaccinology, epidemiology

Research Topics

Major expertise and techniques in the lab

Publications and funding summary / representative publications and grants

Givon-Lavi N, Greenberg D, Dagan R. Immunogenicity of alternative regimens of the conjugated 7-valent pneumococcal vaccine – A randomized controlled trial. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2010;29:756-762.
Dagan R, Givon-Lavi N, Greenberg D, Frizell B, Siegrist CA. Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae shortly before vaccination with a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine causes serotype-specific hyporesponsiveness in early infancy. J Infect Dis 2010;201:1570-1579
Wolf D, Greenberg D, Shemer-Avni Y, Givon-Lavi N, Saleh N, Bar-Ziv J, Dagan R. Human metapneumovirus involvement in radiologically-diagnosed community-acquired alveolar pneumonia in young children. Journal of Pediatrics 2010;156:115-20
Porat N, Amit U, Givon-Lavi N, Leibovitz E, Dagan R. Increasing Importance of Multidrug Resistant Serotype 6A S. pneumoniae Clones in Acute Otitis Media in Southern Israel. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2010;29:126-130
Dagan R, Givon-Lavi N, Leibovitz E, Greenberg D, Porat N. Introduction and Proliferation of Multidrug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 19A Clones that Cause Acute Otitis Media in an Unvaccinated Population. J Infect Dis 2009;199:776-785

Existing collaborations

Yaffa Mizrachi Nebenzahl-: S. pneumoniae pathogenesis
Nurit Porath: molecular epidemiology
Angel Porgador: Innate immune response to S. pneumonaie Esther Priel: Bacterial infection of human cells and topoisomerase response
Daniel Weinberger – mathematical modeling of vaccine effect
Keith Klugman – international Pneumococcal dynamicas
Kate O’Brien, Helena Kayhty , others – pneumococcal carriage and immunology