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Zelalem Mekuria

Medicine · The Ohio State University

Mid career · publishing since 2013Rising activity

Publications

39

Citations

230

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

14

Publishing since 2013

Research summary
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This researcher's recent work focuses on public health surveillance of respiratory and gastrointestinal infectious diseases in Ethiopia and neighboring African countries, including SARS-CoV-2, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and cholera-causing Vibrio cholerae. Earlier career publications addressed virology topics in animals, such as equine herpesviruses and equine arteritis virus, suggesting a background spanning both veterinary virology and human infectious disease epidemiology. The bibliographic record also includes a few unrelated topics (e.g., civil engineering materials, oncology-related nephrology), indicating either collaborative side projects or a broad, varied publication history.

Infectious disease surveillance and epidemiologyRespiratory viral infections (influenza, RSV, SARS-CoV-2)Veterinary virology (equine herpesvirus, equine arteritis virus)Outbreak investigation and genomic characterization (e.g., cholera)Public health systems evaluation in Ethiopia

Publication output has grown substantially in the last few years, rising from occasional single or double papers annually before 2022 to a notable peak of 13 publications in 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.6/year recently
17182019: 2 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 6 publications242025: 13 publications13252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • PLoS ONE×4
  • Elsevier eBooks×3
  • BMC Infectious Diseases×3
  • Frontiers in Public Health×3
  • Animals×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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