James Alexander Platts-Mills, MD

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University Of Virginia School Of Medicine - Charlottesville VA
Rank: Associate Professor
Years: 2015 - Present

None Reported

Effect of scheduled antimicrobial and nicotinamide treatment on linear growth in children in rural Tanzania: A factorial randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
PLoS Medicine
Volume: 18
Date: 09 2021
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003617

Shigellosis in young children in low-income and middle-income countries: insights from molecular diagnostics
Curr Opin Infect Dis
Volume: 34
Date: 10 2021
www.ovid.com/jnls/co-infectiousdiseases/fulltext/10.1097/qco.0000000000000758~shigellosis-in-young-c

Frequency of bystander exposure to antibiotics for enteropathogenic bacteria among young children in low-resource settings
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
Volume: 119
Date: 08 2022
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208972119

Aetiology and incidence of diarrhoea requiring hospitalisation in children under 5 years of age in 28 low-income and middle-income countries: findings from the Global Pediatric Diarrhea Surveillance network
BMJ Global Health
Volume: 7
Date: 09 2022
gh.bmj.com/content/7/9/e009548

Burden of diarrhea and antibiotic use among children in low-resource settings preventable by Shigella vaccination: A simulation study
PLoS Medicine
Volume: 20
Date: 11 2023
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004271

Azithromycin for Bacterial Watery Diarrhea: A Reanalysis of the AntiBiotics for Children With Severe Diarrhea (ABCD) Trial Incorporating Molecular Diagnostics
J Infect Dis
Volume: 229
Date: 04 2024
academic.oup.com/jid/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiad252

Estimated global and regional causes of deaths from diarrhoea in children younger than 5 years during 2000-21: a systematic review and Bayesian multinomial analysis
Lancet Global Health
Volume: 12
Date: 06 2024
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X24000780?via%3Dihub

Growth and Cognitive Development in Tanzanian Children are Associated with Timing of Birth in Relation to Seasonal Malnutrition
J Pediatr
Volume: 275
Date: 12 2024
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022347624003056?via%3Dihub

The impact of vaccines for diarrhoea on antibiotic use among children in five low-resource settings: a comparative simulation study
Lancet Global Health
Volume: 12
Date: 12 2024
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X24003784?via%3Dihub

Epidemiology of Shigella species and serotypes in children: a retrospective substudy of the MAL-ED observational birth cohort study
Lancet Microbe
Volume: 6
Date: 06 2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266652472400332X?via%3Dihub