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Milagritos Tapia
M.D.
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| Academic Title:
Assistant Professor |
| Primary Appointment:
Pediatrics |
| Secondary Appointments:
Medicine |
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mtapia@medicine.umaryland.edu |
| Location:
HSF1,
480 |
| Phone:
(410) 706-5328 |
| Fax:
(410) 706-6205 |
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Research Interests
Dr. Tapia is interested in the utility of oral fluid as a proxy for serum measurement of antibody responses. She has found that there is an excellent correlation between the serum and oral fluid measurements of antibodies against measles, meningococcus and tetanus. She also spends a great deal of her time working at the Center for Vaccine Development field site in Bamako, Mali in West Africa. There, she has been studying the epidemiology of invasive bacterial infections in the pediatric population and has recently completed a clinical trial to compare the immunogenicity of oral cholera vaccine (CVD 103-Hgr, OrocholE®) when administered to 10- to 14-month olds in local weaning porridge versus in buffered water.
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