José Zambrana, BS, MPH

MPH, University of California, Berkeley, 2020
BS, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, 2014

Using statistical and epidemiological methods to understand clinical, immunological, and population determinants of arboviral disease.

• Zambrana, J. V., Bustos Carrillo, F. A., Ojeda, S., Lopez Mercado, B., Latta, K., Schiller, A., Kuan, G., Gordon, A., Reingold, A., and Harris, E. (2022). Epidemiologic Features of Acute Pediatric Diarrhea in Managua, Nicaragua, from 2011 to 2019. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 106, 6, 1757-1764

• Katzelnick, L. C., Zambrana, J. V., Elizondo, D., Collado, D., Garcia, N., Arguello, S., ... & Harris, E. (2021). Dengue and Zika virus infections in children elicit cross-reactive protective and enhancing antibodies that persist long term. Science translational medicine, 13(614), eabg9478.

• Zambrana, J. V., Bustos Carrillo, F., Burger-Calderon, R., Collado, D., Sanchez, N., Ojeda, S., ... & Harris, E. (2018). Seroprevalence, risk factor, and spatial analyses of Zika virus infection after the 2016 epidemic in Managua, Nicaragua. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(37), 9294-9299.

• Balmaseda, A., Zambrana, J. V., Collado, D., García, N., Saborío, S., Elizondo, D., ... & Harris, E. (2018). Comparison of four serological methods and two reverse transcription-PCR assays for diagnosis and surveillance of Zika virus infection. Journal of clinical microbiology, 56(3), e01785-17.

• Burger-Calderon, R., Gonzalez, K., Ojeda, S., Zambrana, J. V., Sanchez, N., Cerpas Cruz, C., ... & Harris, E. (2018). Zika virus infection in Nicaraguan households. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 12(5), e0006518.

• Balmaseda, A., Stettler, K., Medialdea-Carrera, R., Collado, D., Jin, X., Zambrana, J. V., ... & Corti, D. (2017). Antibody-based assay discriminates Zika virus infection from other flaviviruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(31), 8384-8389.