Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 1976 - 1977
  • Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Harvard University 1975 - 1976
  • Resident in Preventive Medicine, Center for Disease Control 1974 - 1975
  • Medical Resident, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 1970 - 1972
  • M.D., State University of New York at Brooklyn 1970
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Director, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2006 - 2017
  • Director of the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2011 - 2016
  • Interim Vice President/Vice Provost of Global Strategies and Programs, Duke University 2011 - 2012
  • Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2006
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • OCT 16, 2017

    Merson Book Sheds Light on Crucial Unknown Work in the AIDS Pandemic Crisis

  • JUN 27, 2017

    Duke Global Health Institute

    Five Questions with Outgoing DGHI Director Michael Merson

  • MAY 30, 2017

    Duke Global Health Institute

    DGHI Director Co-Authors National Academy Report on Role of Global Health in the U.S.

  • AUG 4, 2016

    New Duke MOOC Sets out to Inspire and Train Global Innovators

  • OCT 27, 2015

    Mike Merson on 50 Years in Global Health

  • OCT 25, 2015

    Michael Merson on Global Engagement: Duke Global Stories

  • JUL 16, 2015

    Durham Herald-Sun

    Dr. Michael Merson: Why should North Carolinians care about global health?

  • JUL 16, 2015

    the (Durham) Herald-Sun

    Why Should We Care About Global Health?

  • JUL 15, 2015

    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gives Duke Global Health Institute $20 Million

  • FEB 25, 2015

    allAfrica, IRIN News

    Dr. Michael Merson comments: 3 tips for WHO's new director for Africa

  • FEB 13, 2015

    News Tip: World Health Organization Needs ‘Major Reform,’ Duke Expert Says

  • NOV 11, 2014

    DGHI to Help Launch Amsterdam Health and Technology Institute

  • NOV 4, 2014

    The New York Times

    Dr. Michael Merson comments: Fighting an epidemic with hands tied
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  Awards & Honors

  • Member. Institute of Medicine of The National Academies. 2002
  • Bellagio Center Residence. Rockefeller Foundation, The. 2001
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Africa (Continent) 
    • Bangladesh (Country) 
    • India (Country) 

  • Research

    • Africa (Continent) 
    • Bangladesh (Country) 
    • Botswana (Country) 
    • China (Country) 
    • Congo (Country) 
    • Lesotho (Country) 
    • Namibia (Country) 
    • Russian Federation (Country) 
    • Singapore (Country) 
    • South Africa (Country) 
    • Swaziland (Country) 
    • Uganda (Country) 
    • United States of America (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • An Ecosystem Approach to Funding & Scaling the Impact of Innovations in Healthcare awarded by US Agency for International Development 2012 - 2022
  • Control of Childhood Diarrhea Mortality: Past Success and Future Prospects awarded by Johns Hopkins University - School of Public Health 2016 - 2017
  • GHTC R&D Mapping awarded by PATH 2016 - 2017
  • Training for the Prevention and Treatment of Stroke in China awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2017
  • Peer-Based Duke-IITGN Research Partnership awarded by Research Triangle Institute International 2015 - 2016
  • Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Global Health awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2012
  • Enhancing Capacity in Human Subject Protections for Chinese Research Studies awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2012
  • You are What You Eat Awareness - Centered Nutrition Education Program awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation 2008 - 2011
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Book Sections

    • Heimer, R, Booth, RE, Irwin, K, and Merson, M. "HIV and drug use in Eurasia." In HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia: Volume I, 141-163. January 1, 2007.  Full Text

  • Conference Papers

    • MERSON, MH. "AIDS - NEW DISEASES AND MORBIDITY PATTERNS." 1994.  Full Text  Link to Item

  • Journal Articles

    • Fuster, V, Frazer, J, Snair, M, Vedanthan, R, Dzau, V, Frazer, J, Fuster, V, Abbam, G, Batson, A, Burkle, F, Chin, L, Fernald, LH, Ferguson, S, Lamptey, P, Laxminarayan, R, Merson, M, Narasimhan, V, Osterholm, M, and Puyana, JC. "The Future Role of the United States in Global Health: Emphasis on Cardiovascular Disease." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 70, no. 25 (December 26, 2017): 3140-3156. (Review)  Full Text
    • Wilson, BS, Tucci, DL, Merson, MH, and O'Donoghue, GM. "Global hearing health care: new findings and perspectives." Lancet (London, England) 390, no. 10111 (December 2017): 2503-2515. (Review)  Full Text
    • Batson, A, Merson, M, and Dzau, V. "Innovating through “interesting times” in global health." The Lancet 390, no. 10106 (October 2017): e33-e34.  Full Text
    • Bartlett, JA, Cao, S, Mmbaga, B, Qian, X, Merson, M, and Kramer, R. "Partnership Conference." Annals of global health 83, no. 3-4 (May 2017): 630-636.  Full Text
    • Boender, TS, Barré-Sinoussi, F, Cooper, D, Goosby, E, Hankins, C, Heidenrijk, M, de Jong, M, Kazatchkine, M, Laoye, F, Merson, M, Reiss, P, Rinke de Wit, TF, Rogo, K, Schellekens, O, Schultsz, C, Sigaloff, KCE, Simon, J, and Zewdie, D. "Research in action: from AIDS to global health to impact. A symposium in recognition of the scientific contributions of Professor Joep Lange." Antiviral therapy 20, no. 1 (January 2015): 101-108.  Full Text
    • Merson, MH. "University engagement in global health." The New England journal of medicine 370, no. 18 (May 2014): 1676-1678.  Full Text
    • Merson, MH, Curran, JW, Griffith, CH, and Ragunanthan, B. "The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: from successes of the emergency response to challenges of sustainable action." Health Aff (Millwood) 31, no. 7 (July 2012): 1380-1388.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Ackerly, DC, Udayakumar, K, Taber, R, Merson, MH, and Dzau, VJ. "Perspective: global medicine: opportunities and challenges for academic health science systems." Acad Med 86, no. 9 (September 2011): 1093-1099. (Review)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Haglund, MM, Kiryabwire, J, Parker, S, Zomorodi, A, MacLeod, D, Schroeder, R, Muhumuza, M, and Merson, M. "Surgical capacity building in Uganda through twinning, technology, and training camps." World J Surg 35, no. 6 (June 2011): 1175-1182.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Lamptey, P, Merson, M, Piot, P, Reddy, KS, and Dirks, R. "Informing the 2011 UN session on noncommunicable diseases: Applying lessons from the AIDS response." PLoS Medicine 8, no. 9 (2011).  Full Text
    • Thirumurthy, H, Jafri, A, Srinivas, G, Arumugam, V, Saravanan, RM, Angappan, SK, Ponnusamy, M, Raghavan, S, Merson, M, and Kallolikar, S. "Two-year impacts on employment and income among adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in Tamil Nadu, India: A cohort study." AIDS 25, no. 2 (2011): 239-246.  Full Text
    • NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group, . "Results of the NIMH collaborative HIV/sexually transmitted disease prevention trial of a community popular opinion leader intervention." Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 54, no. 2 (June 2010): 204-214.  Full Text
    • Dzau, VJ, Ackerly, DC, Sutton-Wallace, P, Merson, MH, Williams, RS, Krishnan, KR, Taber, RC, and Califf, RM. "The role of academic health science systems in the transformation of medicine." Lancet 375, no. 9718 (March 13, 2010): 949-953.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Tucci, D, Merson, MH, and Wilson, BS. "A summary of the literature on global hearing impairment: current status and priorities for action." Otol Neurotol 31, no. 1 (January 2010): 31-41. (Review)  Link to Item
    • Beckwith, CG, Cornwall, AH, Dubrow, R, Chapin, K, Ducharme, R, Rodriguez, I, Velasquez, L, Merson, MH, Sikkema, KJ, and Mayer, K. "Identifying acute HIV infection in Rhode Island." Med Health R I 92, no. 7 (July 2009): 231-233.  Link to Item
    • Koplan, JP, Bond, TC, Merson, MH, Reddy, KS, Rodriguez, MH, Sewankambo, NK, Wasserheit, JN, and Consortium of Universities for Global Health Executive Board, . "Towards a common definition of global health." Lancet 373, no. 9679 (June 6, 2009): 1993-1995.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Dubrow, R, Sikkema, KJ, Mayer, KH, Bruce, RD, Julian, P, Rodriguez, I, Beckwith, C, Roome, A, Dunne, D, Boeving, A, Kidder, TJ, Jenkins, H, Dobson, M, Becker, J, and Merson, MH. "Diagnosis of acute HIV infection in Connecticut." Conn Med 73, no. 6 (June 2009): 325-331.  Link to Item
    • Kerndt, PR, Dubrow, R, Aynalem, G, Mayer, KH, Beckwith, C, Remien, RH, Truong, H-HM, Uniyal, A, Chien, M, Brooks, RA, Vigil, OR, Steward, WT, Merson, M, Rotheram-Borus, MJ, and Morin, SF. "Strategies used in the detection of Acute/early HIV infections. The NIMH multisite acute HIV infection study: I." AIDS and Behavior 13, no. 6 (2009): 1037-1045.  Full Text
    • Merson, MH, O'Malley, J, Serwadda, D, and Apisuk, C. "The history and challenge of HIV prevention." Lancet 372, no. 9637 (August 9, 2008): 475-488. (Review)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Williams, RS, Casey, PJ, Kamei, RK, Buckley, EG, Soo, KC, Merson, MH, Krishnan, RK, and Dzau, VJ. "A global partnership in medical education between Duke University and the National University of Singapore." Acad Med 83, no. 2 (February 2008): 122-127.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, M, Padian, N, Coates, TJ, Gupta, GR, Bertozzi, SM, Piot, P, Mane, P, Bartos, M, and authors, FTLHIVPS. "Combination HIV prevention." The Lancet 372, no. 9652 (2008): 1805-1806.  Full Text
    • Merson, M, and Denny, TN. "The global health and diagnostic (flow) cytometry--breakthroughs in HIV and tuberculosis." Cytometry B Clin Cytom 74 Suppl 1 (2008): S4-S5.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Rosenberg, A, Hartwig, K, and Merson, M. "Government-NGO collaboration and sustainability of orphans and vulnerable children projects in southern Africa." Evaluation and Program Planning 31, no. 1 (2008): 51-60.  Full Text
    • Tarakeshwar, N, Srikrishnan, AK, Johnson, S, Vasu, C, Solomon, S, Merson, M, and Sikkema, K. "A social cognitive model of health for HIV-positive adults receiving care in India." AIDS and Behavior 11, no. 3 (2007): 491-504.  Full Text
    • Ntumbanzondo, M, Dubrow, R, Niccolai, LM, Mwandagalirwa, K, and Merson, MH. "Unprotected intercourse for extra money among commercial sex workers in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo." AIDS Care 18, no. 7 (October 2006): 777-785.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "The HIV-AIDS pandemic at 25--the global response." N Engl J Med 354, no. 23 (June 8, 2006): 2414-2417.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, M. "Uganda's HIV/AIDS epidemic: Guest editorial." AIDS and Behavior 10, no. 4 (2006): 333-334.  Full Text
    • Tarakeshwar, N, Krishnan, AK, Johnson, S, Solomon, S, Sikkema, K, and Merson, M. "Living with HIV infection: Perceptions of patients with access to care at a non-governmental organization in Chennai, India." Culture, Health and Sexuality 8, no. 5 (2006): 407-421.  Full Text
    • Rosenberg, A, Mabude, Z, Hartwig, K, Rooholamini, S, Oracca-Tetteh, D, and Merson, M. "Improving home-based care in Southern Africa: An analysis of project evaluations." Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine , no. 19 (2005): 30-36.
    • Kapczynski, A, Crone, ET, and Merson, M. "Global health and university patents." Science 301, no. 5640 (2003): 1629--.  Full Text
    • Kaplan, EH, and Merson, MH. "Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity." Am J Public Health 92, no. 12 (December 2002): 1905-1907.  Link to Item
    • Holtgrave, DR, Pinkerton, SD, and Merson, M. "Estimating the cost of unmet HIV-prevention needs in the United States." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 23, no. 1 (2002): 7-12.  Full Text
    • Muehrer, PR, Salovey, P, Afifi, AA, Coyne, JC, Kring, AM, Merson, MH, Prohaska, TR, and Rozensky, RH. "Overcoming barriers to collaboration between basic behavioral scientists and public health scientists in research on mental disorders." Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings 9, no. 4 (2002): 253-266.  Full Text
    • Hale, P, Makgoba, MW, Merson, MH, Quinn, TC, Richman, DD, Vella, S, Wabwire-Mangen, F, Wain-Hobson, S, and Weiss, RA. "Mission now possible for AIDS fund." Nature 412, no. 6844 (July 19, 2001): 271-272.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Hale, P, Makgoba, MW, Merson, MH, Quinn, TC, Richman, DD, Vella, S, Wabwire-Mangen, F, Wain-Hobson, S, and Weiss, RA. "Success hinges on support for treatment." Nature 412, no. 6844 (July 19, 2001): 272-.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "Early detection: the next steps." J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 25 Suppl 2 (December 15, 2000): S157-S159.  Link to Item
    • Dayton, JM, and Merson, MH. "Global dimensions of the AIDS epidemic: implications for prevention and care." Infect Dis Clin North Am 14, no. 4 (December 2000): 791-808. (Review)  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Dayton, JM, and O'Reilly, K. "Effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions in developing countries." AIDS 14 Suppl 2 (September 2000): S68-S84.  Link to Item
    • Blankenship, KM, Bray, SJ, and Merson, MH. "Structural interventions in public health." AIDS 14 Suppl 1 (June 2000): S11-S21. (Review)  Link to Item
    • Merson, M, and Rosenfield, A. "The AIDS epidemic: lessons learned?." Lancet 356, no. 9236 (2000): 1204--.
    • Sumartojo, E, Doll, L, Holtgrave, D, Gayle, H, and Merson, M. "Enriching the mix: Incorporating structural factors into HIV prevention." AIDS 14, no. 11 SUPPL. (2000): S1-S2.  Full Text
    • Merson, MH. "Ethics of placebo-controlled trials of zidovudine to prevent the perinatal transmission of HIV in the Third World." N Engl J Med 338, no. 12 (March 19, 1998): 836-. (Letter)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Feldman, EA, Bayer, R, and Stryker, J. "Rapid self testing for HIV infection." Lancet 349, no. 9048 (February 1, 1997): 352-353.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, M, and Bradley, EH. "Enhancing Awareness of Hospice Through Physician Assisted Living: Public Health Perspectives." Connecticut Medicine 61, no. 12 (1997): 789-791.
    • Merson, MH. "Returning home: reflections on the USA's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic." Lancet 347, no. 9016 (June 15, 1996): 1673-1676.  Link to Item
    • Mertens, TE, Belsey, E, Stoneburner, RL, Beer, DL, Sato, P, Burton, A, and Merson, MH. "Global estimates and epidemiology of HIV-1 infections and AIDS: further heterogeneity in spread and impact." AIDS 9 Suppl A (1995): S259-S272.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "Making AIDS prevention a national priority." Integration , no. 42 (December 1994): 2-5.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "Explaining long-term HIV survivors." Int Nurs Rev 41, no. 6 (November 1994): 169-170.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "Slowing the spread of HIV: agenda for the 1990s." Science 260, no. 5112 (May 28, 1993): 1266-1268.  Link to Item
    • Kim-Farley, RJ, Merson, MH, and Tulloch, JL. "Childhood immunizations." N Engl J Med 328, no. 19 (May 13, 1993): 1420-1421. (Letter)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "Foreword." AIDS 5, no. SUPPL. 1 (1991): I+II+-.
    • Merson, MH. "Global AIDS prevention and control." Hygie 9, no. 4 (December 1990): 5-7.  Link to Item
    • Claeson, M, and Merson, MH. "Global progress in the control of diarrheal diseases." Pediatr Infect Dis J 9, no. 5 (May 1990): 345-355. (Review)  Link to Item
    • Petros-Barvazian, A, and Merson, M. "AIDS: a special threat to women." World Health , no. Nov-Dec (January 1, 1990).
    • Petros-Barvazian, A, and Merson, M. "AIDS: a special threat to women." World Health , no. Nov-Dec (1990).
    • Fariss, MW, Merson, MH, and O'Hara, TM. "α-tocopheryl succinate protects hepatocytes from chemical-induced toxicity under physiological calcium conditions." Toxicology Letters 47, no. 1 (1989): 61-75.
    • Martinez, CA, Barua, D, and Merson, MH. "Control of diarrhoeal diseases." World Health Stat Q 41, no. 2 (1988): 74-81.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "[Confronting diarrhea on a worldwide scale]." Servir 34, no. 4 (July 1986): 198-199.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "Confronting diarrhea on a worldwide scale." Servir (Lisbon, Portugal) 34, no. 4 (July 1, 1986): 198-199.
    • Merson, MH. "Oral rehydration therapy - from theory to practice ( diarrhoeal disease)." WHO Chronicle 40, no. 3 (1986): 116-118.
    • Merson, MKH, Lishnevskii, MS, and Oblapenko, GP. "[Oral rehydration in acute intestinal diseases]." Sovetskaia meditsina , no. 3 (January 1986): 60-63.
    • Litvinov, SK, Merson, MH, Oblapenko, GP, Herniman, R, and Lishnevskiĭ, MS. "[The WHO program for controlling diarrheic diseases: its status and developmental outlook--the organizational and operative components of the program]." Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol , no. 6 (June 1985): 93-98. (Review)  Link to Item
    • Litvinov, SK, Merson, MH, Oblapenko, GP, Herniman, R, and Lishnevskiǐ, MS. "The WHO program for controlling diarrheic diseases: its status and developmental outlook--the organizational and operative components of the program." Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii , no. 6 (June 1, 1985): 93-98. (Review)
    • Black, RE, Merson, MH, Eusof, A, Huq, I, and Pollard, R. "Nutritional status, body size and severity of diarrhoea associated with rotavirus or enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli." J Trop Med Hyg 87, no. 2 (April 1984): 83-89.  Link to Item
    • Sutton, RG, and Merson, MH. "Oral typhoid vaccine Ty21a." Lancet 1, no. 8323 (March 5, 1983): 523-.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH. "Prevention of traveler's diarrhea." Gastroenterology 84, no. 2 (February 1983): 424-426.  Link to Item
    • Feachem, RG, Hogan, RC, and Merson, MH. "Diarrhoeal disease control: reviews of potential interventions." Bull World Health Organ 61, no. 4 (1983): 637-640. (Review)  Link to Item
    • Svennerholm, AM, Holmgren, J, Black, R, Levine, M, and Merson, M. "Serologic differentiation between antitoxin responses to infection with Vibrio cholerae and enterotoxin-producing Escherichia coli." Journal of Infectious Diseases 147, no. 3 (1983): 514-522.
    • Glass, RI, Becker, S, Huq, MI, Stoll, BJ, Khan, MU, Merson, MH, Lee, JV, and Black, RE. "Endemic cholera in rural Bangladesh, 1966-1980." Am J Epidemiol 116, no. 6 (December 1982): 959-970.  Link to Item
    • Black, RE, Brown, KH, Becker, S, Alim, AR, and Merson, MH. "Contamination of weaning foods and transmission of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea in children in rural Bangladesh." Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 76, no. 2 (1982): 259-264.  Link to Item
    • Snyder, JD, and Merson, MH. "The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: a review of active surveillance data." Bull World Health Organ 60, no. 4 (1982): 605-613.  Link to Item
    • Hughes, JM, Blumenthal, JR, Merson, MH, Lombard, GL, Dowell, VR, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Clinical features of types A and B food-borne botulism." Ann Intern Med 95, no. 4 (October 1981): 442-445.  Link to Item
    • Black, RE, Merson, MH, Huq, I, Alim, AR, and Yunus, M. "Incidence and severity of rotavirus and Escherichia coli diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh. Implications for vaccine development." Lancet 1, no. 8212 (January 17, 1981): 141-143.  Link to Item
    • Black, RE, Merson, MH, Rowe, B, Taylor, PR, Abdul Alim, AR, Gross, RJ, and Sack, DA. "Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea: acquired immunity and transmission in an endemic area." Bull World Health Organ 59, no. 2 (1981): 263-268.  Link to Item
    • Black, RE, Merson, MH, Taylor, PR, Yolken, RH, and Sack, DA. "Glucose vs sucrose in oral rehydration solutions for infants and young children with rotavirus-associated diarrhea." Pediatrics 67, no. 1 (January 1981): 79-83.  Link to Item
    • Mahalanabis, D, Merson, MH, and Barua, D. "Oral rehydration therapy: Recent advances." World Health Forum 2, no. 2 (1981): 245-249.
    • Oberle, MW, Merson, MH, Islam, MS, Rahman, AS, Huber, DH, and Curlin, G. "Diarrhoeal disease in Bangladesh: epidemiology, mortality averted and costs at a rural treatment centre." Int J Epidemiol 9, no. 4 (December 1980): 341-348.  Link to Item
    • Black, RE, Merson, MH, Rahman, AS, Yunus, M, Alim, AR, Huq, I, Yolken, RH, and Curlin, GT. "A two-year study of bacterial, viral, and parasitic agents associated with diarrhea in rural Bangladesh." J Infect Dis 142, no. 5 (November 1980): 660-664.  Link to Item
    • Ryder, RW, Blake, PA, Murlin, AC, Carter, GP, Pollard, RA, Merson, MH, Allen, SD, and Brenner, DJ. "Increase in antibiotic resistance among isolates of Salmonella in the United States, 1967-1975." J Infect Dis 142, no. 4 (October 1980): 485-491.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Rowe, B, Black, RE, Huq, I, Gross, RJ, and Eusof, A. "Use of antisera for identification of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli." Lancet 2, no. 8188 (August 2, 1980): 222-224.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Yolken, RH, Sack, RB, Froehlich, JL, Greenberg, HB, Huq, I, and Black, RW. "Detection of Escherichia coli enterotoxins in stools." Infect Immun 29, no. 1 (July 1980): 108-113.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Sack, RB, Islam, S, Saklayen, G, Huda, N, Huq, I, Zulich, AW, Yolken, RH, and Kapikian, AZ. "Disease due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Bangladeshi adults: clinical aspects and a controlled trial of tetracycline." J Infect Dis 141, no. 6 (June 1980): 702-711.  Link to Item
    • Taylor, PR, Merson, MH, Black, RE, Mizanur Rahman, AS, Yunus, MD, Alim, AR, and Yolken, RH. "Oral rehydration therapy for treatment of rotavirus diarrhoea in a rural treatment centre in Bangladesh." Arch Dis Child 55, no. 5 (May 1980): 376-379.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Black, RE, Sack, DA, Svennerholm, AM, and Holmgren, J. "Maternal cholera immunisation and scecretory IgA in breast milk." Lancet 1, no. 8174 (April 26, 1980): 931-932. (Letter)  Link to Item
    • Chen, LC, Black, RE, Sarder, AM, Merson, MH, Bhatia, S, Yunus, M, and Chakraborty, J. "Village-based distribution of oral rehydration therapy packets in Bangladesh." Am J Trop Med Hyg 29, no. 2 (March 1980): 285-290.  Link to Item
    • Huq, I, Alam, AKMJ, Morris, GK, Wathen, G, and Merson, M. "Foodborne outbreak of shigellosis caused by an unusual Shigella strain." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 11, no. 4 (1980): 337-339.
    • Merson, MH. "Doxycycline and the traveller." Gastroenterology 76, no. 6 (June 1979): 1485-1488.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Sack, RB, Kibriya, AK, Al-Mahmood, A, Adamed, QS, and Huq, I. "Use of colony pools for diagnosis of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhea." J Clin Microbiol 9, no. 4 (April 1979): 493-497.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Orskov, F, Orskov, I, Sack, RB, Huq, I, and Koster, FT. "Relationship between enterotoxin production and serotype in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli." Infect Immun 23, no. 2 (February 1979): 325-329.  Link to Item
    • Blake, PA, Merson, MH, Weaver, RE, Hollis, DG, and Heublein, PC. "Disease caused by a marine Vibrio. Clinical characteristics and epidemiology." N Engl J Med 300, no. 1 (January 4, 1979): 1-5.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Greenberg, HB, Levine, MM, Merson, MH, Sack, RB, Sack, DA, Valdesuso, JR, Nalin, D, Hoover, D, Chanock, RM, and Kapikian, AZ. "Solid-phase microtiter radioimmunoassay blocking test for detection of antibodies to Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin." J Clin Microbiol 9, no. 1 (January 1979): 60-64.  Link to Item
    • Morris, GK, Merson, MH, Huq, I, Kibrya, AK, and Black, R. "Comparison of four plating media for isolating Vibrio cholerae." J Clin Microbiol 9, no. 1 (January 1979): 79-83.  Link to Item
    • Sack, DA, Chowdhury, AM, Eusof, A, Ali, MA, Merson, MH, Islam, S, Black, RE, and Brown, KH. "Oral hydration rotavirus diarrhoea: a double blind comparison of sucrose with glucose electrolyte solution." Lancet 2, no. 8084 (August 5, 1978): 280-283.  Link to Item
    • Huang, CTL, Udall, JN, Merson, M, and Nichols, BL. "Fecal steroids in diarrhea. II. Travellers' diarrhea." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 31, no. 4 (1978): 626-632.
    • Horwitz, MA, Pollard, RA, Merson, MH, and Martin, SM. "A large outbreak of foodborne salmonellosis on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation, epidemiology and secondary transmission." Am J Public Health 67, no. 11 (November 1977): 1071-1076.  Link to Item
    • Yolken, RH, Greenberg, HB, Merson, MH, Sack, RB, and Kapikian, AZ. "Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin." J Clin Microbiol 6, no. 5 (November 1977): 439-444.  Link to Item
    • Dowell, VR, Hatheway, CL, Lombard, GL, McCroskey, LM, Hughes, JM, and Merson, MH. "Coproexamination for Botulinal Toxin and Clostridium botulinum: A New Procedure for Laboratory Diagnosis of Botulism." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 238, no. 17 (October 24, 1977): 1829-1832.  Full Text
    • Dowell, VR, McCroskey, LM, Hatheway, CL, Lombard, GL, Hughes, JM, and Merson, MH. "Coproexamination for botulinal toxin and clostridium botulinum. A new procedure for laboratory diagnosis of botulism." JAMA 238, no. 17 (October 24, 1977): 1829-1832.  Link to Item
    • Gurwith, M, and Hinder, D. "Escherichia coli serotypes and diarrhea." The New England journal of medicine 297, no. 9 (September 1977): 510-511. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Ryder, RW, Lawrence, DN, Nitzkin, JL, Feeley, JC, and Merson, MH. "An evaluation of penicillin prophylaxis during an outbreak of foodborne streptococcal pharyngitis." Am J Epidemiol 106, no. 2 (August 1977): 139-144.  Link to Item
    • Horwitz, MA, Hughes, JM, Merson, MH, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Food-borne botulism in the United States, 1970-1975." J Infect Dis 136, no. 1 (July 1977): 153-159.  Link to Item
    • Gangarosa, EJ, and Merson, MH. "Epidemiologic assessment of the relevance of the so-called enteropathogenic serogroups of Escherichia coli in diarrhea." N Engl J Med 296, no. 21 (May 26, 1977): 1210-1213.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Hughes, JM, Merson, MH, and Gangarosa, EJ. "The safety of eating shellfish." JAMA 237, no. 18 (May 2, 1977): 1980-1981.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Martin, WT, Craig, JP, Morris, GK, Blake, PA, Craun, GF, Feeley, JC, Camacho, JC, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Cholera on Guam, 1974: epidemiologic findings and isolation of non-toxinogenic strains." Am J Epidemiol 105, no. 4 (April 1977): 349-361.  Link to Item
    • Payne, CA, and Payne, SN. "Ciguatera in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands." The New England journal of medicine 296, no. 16 (April 1977): 949-950. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Hughes, JM, Horwitz, MA, Merson, MH, Barker, WH, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Foodborne disease outbreaks of chemical etiology in the United States, 1970-1974." Am J Epidemiol 105, no. 3 (March 1977): 233-244.  Link to Item
    • Kennedy, TL, and Merson, MH. "An infected wound as a cause of botulism in a 12-year-old boy: debridement, medical management, and intensive respiratory support resulted in complete recovery." Clin Pediatr (Phila) 16, no. 2 (February 1977): 151-153.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Blake, PA, Horwitz, MA, Hopkins, L, Lombard, GL, McCroan, JE, Prucha, JC, and Merson, MH. "Type A botulism from commercially canned beef stew." South Med J 70, no. 1 (January 1977): 5-7.  Link to Item
    • Moore, MA, Merson, MH, Charache, P, and Shepard, RH. "The characteristics and mortality of outpatient-acquired pneumonia." Johns Hopkins Med J 140, no. 1 (January 1977): 9-14.  Link to Item
    • Hughes, JM, and Merson, MH. "Current concepts fish and shellfish poisoning." N Engl J Med 295, no. 20 (November 11, 1976): 1117-1120.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Morris, GK, Sack, DA, Wells, JG, Feeley, JC, Sack, RB, Creech, WB, Kapikian, AZ, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Travelers' diarrhea in Mexico. A prospective study of physicians and family members attending a congress." N Engl J Med 294, no. 24 (June 10, 1976): 1299-1305.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Morris, GK, Merson, MH, Sack, DA, Wells, JG, Martin, WT, Dewitt, WE, Feeley, JC, Sack, RB, and Bessudo, DM. "Laboratory investigation of diarrhea in travelers to Mexico: evaluation of methods for detecting enterotoxigenic Echerichia coli." J Clin Microbiol 3, no. 5 (May 1976): 486-495.  Link to Item
    • Ryder, RW, Sack, DA, Kapikian, AZ, McLaughlin, JC, Chakraborty, J, Mizanur Rahman, AS, Merson, MH, and Wells, JG. "Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Reovirus-like agent in rural Bangladesh." Lancet 1, no. 7961 (March 27, 1976): 659-663.  Link to Item
    • Patton, CM, Gangarosa, EJ, Weissman, JB, Merson, MH, and Morris, GK. "Diagnostic value of indirect hemagglutination in the seroepidemiology of Shigella infections." J Clin Microbiol 3, no. 2 (February 1976): 143-148.  Link to Item
    • Ryder, RW, Merson, MH, Jr, RAP, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Salmonellosis in the United States, 1968-1974." Journal of Infectious Diseases 133, no. 4 (1976): 483-486.
    • Horwitz, MA, Marr, JS, Merson, MH, Dowell, VR, and Ellis, JM. "A continuing common-source outbreak of botulism in a family." Lancet 2, no. 7940 (November 1, 1975): 861-863.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Travelers' diarrhea." JAMA 234, no. 2 (October 13, 1975): 200-201.  Link to Item
    • Sack, DA, Merson, MH, Wells, JG, Sack, RB, and Morris, GK. "Diarrhoea associated with heat-stable enterotoxin-producing strains of Escherichia coli." Lancet 2, no. 7928 (August 9, 1975): 239-241.  Link to Item
    • Dowell, VR, Torres-Anjel, MJ, Riemann, HP, Merson, M, Whaley, D, and Darland, G. "A new criterion for implicating Clostridium perfringens as the cause of food poisoning." Revista latinoamericana de microbiologia 17, no. 3 (July 1975): 137-142.
    • Merson, MH. "Editorial: Toxigenic turista." N Engl J Med 292, no. 18 (May 1, 1975): 969-970.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Hughes, JM, Wood, BT, Yashuk, JC, and Wells, JG. "Gastrointestinal Illness on Passenger Cruise Ships." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 231, no. 7 (February 17, 1975): 723-727.  Full Text
    • Merson, MH, Hughes, JM, Wood, BT, Yashuk, JC, and Wells, JG. "Gastrointestinal illness on passenger cruise ships." JAMA 231, no. 7 (February 17, 1975): 723-727.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Tenney, JH, Meyers, JD, Wood, BT, Wells, JG, Rymzo, W, Cline, B, DeWitt, WE, Skaliy, P, and Mallison, F. "Shigellosis at sea: an outbreak aboard a passenger cruise ship." Am J Epidemiol 101, no. 2 (February 1975): 165-175.  Link to Item
    • Hughes, JM, Merson, MH, Craun, GF, and McCabe, LJ. "From the Center for Disease Control: outbreaks of waterborne for disease control: outbreaks of Waterborne disease in the United States, 1973." Journal of Infectious Diseases 132, no. 3 (1975): 336-339.
    • Hughes, JM, Merson, MH, and Craun, GF. "EPIDEMIOLOGY OF WATERBORNE DISEASE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1971-1973." (1975): 38-55.
    • Hughes, JM, Merson, MH, and Jr, RAP. "Food borne disease outbreaks in the United States, 1973." Journal of Infectious Diseases 132, no. 2 (1975): 224-228.
    • Merson, MH, Hughes, JM, Dowell, VR, Taylor, A, Barker, WH, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Current Trends in Botulism in the United States." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 229, no. 10 (September 2, 1974): 1305-1308.  Full Text
    • Merson, MH, Hughes, JM, Dowell, VR, Taylor, A, Barker, WH, and Gangarosa, EJ. "Current trends in botulism in the United States." JAMA 229, no. 10 (September 2, 1974): 1305-1308.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Goldmann, DA, Boyer, KM, Peterson, NJ, Patton, C, Everett, LG, Downs, H, Steckler, A, and Barker, WH. "An outbreak of Shigella sonnei gastroenteritis on Colorado River raft trips." Am J Epidemiol 100, no. 3 (September 1974): 186-196.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Baine, WB, Gangarosa, EJ, and Swanson, RC. "Scombroid fish poisoning. Outbreak traced to commercially canned tuna fish." JAMA 228, no. 10 (June 3, 1974): 1268-1269.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Barker, WH, and Taylor, A. "Surveillance of foodborne disease in the United States, 1971-1972." J Infect Dis 129, no. 3 (March 1974): 365-368.  Link to Item
    • Merson, MH, Jr, WHB, Craun, GF, and McCabe, LJ. "Outbreaks of waterbone disease in the United States, 1971-1972." Journal of Infectious Diseases 129, no. 5 (1974): 614-615.
    • Merson, MH, and Jr, VRD. "Epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory aspects of wound botulism." New England Journal of Medicine 289, no. 19 (1973): 1105-1110.
    • Sherr, HP, Light, RW, Merson, MH, Wolf, RO, Taylor, LL, and Hendrix, TR. "Origin of pleural fluid amylase in esophageal rupture." Ann Intern Med 76, no. 6 (June 1972): 985-986.  Link to Item
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