BenZKatzMD

PubMed

• Somatic, emotional, and gastrointestinal symptom severity are increased among children and adolescents with COVID-19.
  Joshua B Wechsler, Jonathan A Berken, Kaitlyn Keeley, Wolfgang Singer, Ravi Jhaveri
  Neurogastroenterology and Motility. 2024-11-01
• Joint Flexibility and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome After Mononucleosis.
  Jeffrey Thomas Poomkudy, Chelsea Torres, Leonard A Jason, Joseph Fishbein, Ben Z Katz
  Clinical Therapeutics. 2024-03-01
• 2 citations
  Navigating the Spectrum of Two Pediatric COVID-19 Complications: Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
  Simon Parzen-Johnson, Ben Z Katz
  Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2024-02-18

Journal Articles

• Zika virus is more like rubella than human immunodeficiency virus  
  Katz BZ, JAMA Pediatr, 1/1/2016
• A 15 year old female from Nigeria with fever, shock and multiple negative malaria smears  
  Katz BZ, Pediatr Infect Dis J, 1/1/2016
• Incidence of infectious mononucleosis in universities and US military settings  
  Williams-Harmon, Y, Jason LA, Katz BZ, J Diagn Techn and Biomed Anal, 1/1/2016
• BK polyomavirus infection in pediatric heart transplant recipients  
  Ducharme-Smith A,Katz BZ, Bobrowski AE,Backer CL, Pahl E, Pediatr Transplant, 1/1/2016
• Issues in estimating rates of pediatric chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis in a community-based sample  
  Jason l, Katz BZ, Mears C, Jankte R, Brown A, Sunnquist M, O'Connor K, Avicenna Journal of Neuro Psych Physiology, 1/1/2015
• No evidence for salivary cortisol or natural killer cell dysfunction in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and recovered controls 6, 12 and 24 months following ...  
  Katz BZ, Zimmerman D, O'Gorman MRG, Mears CJ, Shiraishi Y, Taylor R, Arch Pediatr Inf Dis, 1/1/2013
• Commentary on "Steroids for symptom control in infectious mononucleosis (Review)" with a response from the reviewers  
  Katz BZ, Evidence Based Child Health: A Cochrane Review Journal, 1/1/2012
• The occupational and quality of life consequences of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in young people  
  Taylor R, O'Brien J, Kielhofner GW, Lee S-W, Katz BZ, Mears CJ, Brit J Occ Therapy, 1/1/2010
• Case-control study of risk factors for the development of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease in a pediatric heart transplant cohort  
  Katz BZ, Pahl E, Crawford SD, Kostyk MC, Rodgers S, Seshadri R, Proytcheva M, Pophal S, Pediatr Transplant, 1/1/2007
• CMV-IVIG for prevention of Epstein-Barr virus disease and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease in pediatric liver transplant recipients  
  Green M, Michaels MG, Katz BZ, Burroughs M, Gerber D, Shneider BL, Newell K, Rowe D, Hulquist M, Reyes J, Am J Transplant, 1/1/2006
• Prevalence of pediatric chronic fatigue syndrome in a community-based sample  
  Jordan KM, Jason LA, Mears CJ, Katz BZ, Rademaker A, Huang C-F, Richman J, McCready W, Ayers P, Taylor KK, J Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 1/1/2006
• Suppurative mesenteric lymphadenitis masquerading as an appendiceal abscess and presenting as prolonged fever: A case report and review of the literature  
  Plipat N, Chang A, Saker MC, Katz BZ, J Infect Dis Antimicrobial Agents, 1/1/2003
• Costs of respiratory syncitial virus hospitalization at a tertiary-care children's hospital  
  Katz BZ, Lo J, Sorrentino M, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 1/1/2003
• From the Guest Editor: Update on herpesvirus  
  Katz BZ, Pediatric Annals, 1/1/2002
• Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) burden in adolescents with systemic lupus erythematosus and serologic evidence of primary or reactivated EBV infection  
  Katz BZ, Salimi B, Kim S, Nsiah-Kumi P, Wagner-Weiner L, Pediatr Infect Dis J, 1/1/2001
• The gp91-phox component of NADPH oxidase is not the voltage-gated proton channel in phagocytes, but it helps  
  DeCoursey TE, Cherny VV, Morgan D, Katz BZ, Dinauer MC, J Biol Chem, 1/1/2001
• Neonatal herpes simplex virus infection presenting with fever alone  
  Filippine MM, Katz BZ, J Human Virol, 1/1/2001
• CD8+ T-cell mediated suppression of human immunodeficiency virus replication in older children with acquired immunodeficency syndrome  
  Salimi B, Yogev R, Kabat W, O'Gorman MRG, Katz BZ, Pediatr Infect Dis J, 1/1/2000
• Long-term outcomes of children with fever of unknown origin in whom no diagnosis is made following initial evaluation  
  Talano JA, Katz BZ, Clin Pediatr, 1/1/2000
• Cryptosporidia enterocolitis in an immunocompetent infant treated with paromomycin  
  Nelson SP, Lin PL, Miller J, Katz BZ, Gonzalez-Crussi F, Clin Pediatr, 1/1/1999
• Rat bite fever in a pet lover  
  Cunningham BB, Paller AS, Katz BZ, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1/1/1998
• Epstein-Barr virus-infected marmoset cells transfected with an activated c-myc oncogene do not form lymphomas in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency  
  Salimi B, O'Gorman MRG, Variakojis D, Bendet M, Katz BZ, Mol Gen Metab, 1/1/1998
• Finger clubbing as a sign of HIV infection in children (letter)  
  Katz BZ, Lancet, 1/1/1997
• Epstein-Barr virus-associated diseases in immuno-compromised patients  
  Katz BZ, Report on Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 1/1/1996
• Histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis with autoimmune phenomena in a 14-year-old girl  
  Debley JS, Rozansky DJ, Miller ML, Green M, Katz BZ, Pediatrics, 1/1/1996
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Books/Book Chapters

• Clinical Decision Support: Pediatrics 
  Chapter: Epstein-Barr virus infections. 
  Katz BZEditors: McMillan JM, Barrett DJ, Boney CM, Jones MD.Decision Support in Medicine, LLC, Wilmington, DE2013
• Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 
  Chapter: Epstein-Barr virus infections (mononucleosis and lymphoproliferative disorders). 
  Page 1036 - 1044Katz BZEditors: SS Long, L Pickering, CG Prober.Churchill Livingstone, NYEdition 3rd,2008
• Current Pediatric Therapy 
  Chapter: Infectious mononucleosis. 
  Page 767 - 769Katz BZEditors: Burg FD, Inglefinger JR, Polin RA, Gershon AA.ElsevierEdition 18th,2006
• Pediatrics: Just the Facts 
  Chapter: Viral Infections. 
  Page 414 - 425AT Davis, Jaggi P, Katz BZ, Yogev REditors: Green T, Franklin W, Tanz RR.McGraw Hill2005
• Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 
  Chapter: Epstein-Barr virus (mononucleosis and lymphoproliferative disorders). 
  Page 1059 - 1068Katz BZEditors: SS Long, L Pickering, CG Prober.Churchill Livingstone, NYEdition 2nd,2003
• Conn's Current Therapy 
  Chapter: Infectious mononucleosis. 
  Page 118 - 119Katz BZEditors: RE Rakel and ET Bope.SaundersEdition 55th,2003
• Pediatric Neurosurgery 
  Chapter: Bacterial and viral meningitis and encephalitis. 
  Page 991 - 1008Katz BZ, Yogev REditors: McLone DG.Edition 4th,2001
• Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease 
  Chapter: Epstein-Barr virus (mononucleosis and lymphoproliferative disorders). 
  Page 1165 - 1176Katz BZEditors: Long SS, Prober CG, Pickering LK.Churchill Livingstone, NY1997
• The Biologic and Clinical Basis of Infectious Diseases 
  Chapter: Viral infections of the upper respiratory tract, infectious mononucleosis and the chronic fatigue syndrome. 
  Page 98 - 109Katz BZEditors: Shulman ST, Phair JP, Peterson L, Warren JR.W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PAEdition 5th,1997
• The Biologic and Clinical Basis of Infectious Diseases 
  Chapter: Viral infections of the lower respiratory tract. 
  Page 143 - 156Katz BZ, Thompson RBEditors: Shulman ST, Phair JP, Peterson L, Warren JR.W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PAEdition 5th,1997
• Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children 
  Chapter: Epstein-Barr virus infections. 
  Page 98 - 115Katz BZ, Miller GEditors: Katz SL, Gershon AA and Hotez PJ.Edition 10th,1997
• Herpesvirus Infections 
  Chapter: Epstein-Barr virus infections in normal and immunosuppressed patients. 
  Page 187 - 226Jones JF, Katz BZEditors: Glaser R and Jones JF.Marcel Dekker, NY1994
• Infectious Diseases of Children 
  Chapter: Epstein-Barr virus infections. 
  Page 87 - 104Miller G, Katz BZ, Niederman JCEditors: Krugman S, Katz S, Wilfert C, and Gershon A.Mosby Year Book, St. Louis, MOEdition 9th,1992
• Tropical and Geographical Medicine 
  Chapter: Epstein-Barr virus. 
  Page 627 - 634Katz BZ, Miller GEditors: KS Warren and AAF Mahmoud.McGraw-Hill, NYEdition 2nd,1990
• "Dermatology in General Medicine" 
  Chapter: Infectious mononucleosis. 
  Page 2372 - 2375Katz BZ, Andiman WAEditors: Fitzpatrick TB.McGraw­Hill, NYEdition 3rd,1986
• Concepts in Viral Pathogenesis II 
  Chapter: Progressive Epstein-Barr virus infection. 
  Page 276 - 286Andiman WA, Katz BZ, Miller GEditors: Notkins AL and Oldstone MBA.Springer-Verlag, NY1986
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Abstracts/Posters

• Detection of Enterovirus and Parechovirus in plasma specimens of pediatric patients in Chicago.
  Analitis EM, Katz BZ, Oberste MS, Rogers SL, Nix WA, Huang W, Carter D, Zheng X, 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium, Daytona Beach, FL, 1/19/2016
• Chronic granulomatous disease: a large, single center US experience.
  Bortoletto P, Lyman K, Camacho A, Khanolkar A, Katz BZ, 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1/5/2014
• Clinical utility of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and respiratory tract biopsies in diagnosing invasive respiratory fungal infection sin children with cancer.
  Batra S, Li B, Underhill N, Katz BZ, Hijiya N, 26th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Miami, FL, 1/24/2013
• Clinical characteristics of patients with an oncologic diagnosis who underwent hematopoetic stem cell transplant who then developed fungal infection.
  Batra S, Underhill N, Katz BZ, Hijiya N, 26th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Miami, FL, 1/24/2013
• Prevalence of BK polyomavirus infection and association with renal function in pediatric heart transplant recipients.
  Ducharme-Smith A, Bobrowski A, Katz BZ, Backer CL, Pahl E, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Conference, San Diego, CA, 1/10/2013
• Clinical characteristics and genotypes of rotavirus in adults.
  Anderson EA, Shippee DB, Larkin B, Tate JE, Davila MD, Weinrobe MH, Katz BZ, Noskin GA, Shane AL, Parasher UD, Yogev R, Fall Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 1/5/2013
• Predicting outcomes of rotavirus-related disease in adults: Does the modified Vesikari score work?
  Anderson EA, Tate JE, Shippee DB, Davila MD, Larkin B, Katz BZ, Noskin GA, Shane AL, Weinrobe MH, Yogev R, Parasher UD, Fall Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 1/3/2013
• Artesunate (ART) Inhibits the Immortalization of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Lymphocytes (HUCL) by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
  Katz BZ, Quintas J, Kabat W, Zollett J, Lott L, Khanolkar A, Fall Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 1/3/2013
• Morning and evening salivary cortisol in a prospective cohort of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and controls following infectious mononucleosis.
  Katz BZ, Zimmerman D, Mears CJ, Shiraishi Y, Taylor R, European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Thessalonika, Greece, 1/10/2012
• Linking lymphocyte metabolism with clinical course in post-infectious fatigue.
  Broderick G, Ben Hamo R, Efroni S, Katz BZ, O'Gorman MRG, Nathanson L, Fletcher MA, Vernon SD, Taylor R, IACSF/ME Biennial Conference, Ottowa, Canada, 1/24/2011
• Natural killer cell number and function in a prospective cohort of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and controls following mononucleosis.
  Katz B, O'Gorman M, Wang D, Mears C, Shiraishi Y, Taylor R, 5th Europediatrics Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 1/24/2011
• Orthostatic tolerance testing in a prospective cohort of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and recovered controls following infectious mononucleosis.
  Katz BZ, Stewart J, Shiraishi Y, Mears CJ, Taylor R, 21st Meeting of the American Autonomic Society, Marco Island, FL, 1/6/2010
• Cytokine expression profiles characteristic of immune imbalances in persistent post-infectious fatigue.
  Katz BZ, Fletcher MA, Smith FA, Taylor R, Vernon S, Broderick G, Cytokines 2010: Cytokines in Infectious Diseases, Autoimmune Disorders and Cancer, the 8th Joint Conference of the International Cytokine Society and the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research, Chicago, IL, 1/6/2010
• Exercise tolerance testing in a prospective cohort of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and recovered controls following infectious mononucleosis.
  Katz BZ, Boas S, Shiraishi Y, Mears CJ, Taylor R, 2009 IDSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 1/31/2009
• Respiratory syncitial virus (RSV) prophylaxis in a tertiary care neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
  Katz BZ, 48th Annual ICAAC/46th Annual IDSA Meeting, Washington, DC, 1/26/2008
• Differentia gene expression of CD8+ T-cell mediated suppression of HIV replication in older children.
  Katz BZ, Salimi S, Perlman E, Gadd S, O'Gorman MRG, Kabat W, Heald T, McCabe CD, Patel D, Rippe J, Katz E, Yogev R, Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research, Honolulu, HI, 1/4/2008
• Chronic fatigue syndrome in adolescents: a prospective cohort study.
  Katz BZ, Shiraishi Y, Mears CJ, Binns H, Taylor R, Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research, Honolulu, HI, 1/3/2008
• Rotavirus in adults: a survey of hospitalized adults with acute gastroenteritis.
  Anderson EJ, Noskin G, Katz BZ, Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1/14/2006
• Risk factors for adenoviral disease in pediatric allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients.
  Anderson EJ, Thormann K, Kletzel M, Guzman-Cottrill JA, Zheng X, Katz BZ, 14th International Symposium of the Immunocompromised Host Society, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, 1/3/2006
• Adenoviral disease and cidofovir in pediatric allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients.
  Guzman-Cottrill JA, Anderson EJ, Kletzel M, Zheng X, Katz BZ, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 1/7/2005
• Evaluation of new rapid antigen detection kits for RSV.
  Zheng X, Quianzon S, Mu Y, Katz B, 43rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, IL, 1/15/2003
• Mechanism of CD8+ suppression of HIV in older children.
  Katz BZ, Salimi B, Patterson B, 2nd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment, Paris, France, 1/15/2003
• PTLD in a pediatric heart transplant cohort is not associated with traditional risk factors.
  Pahl E, Crawford SE, Katz BZ, Kostyk MC, Morgan E, Mavroudis C, Backer CL, 22nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, Vienna, Austria, 1/8/2003
• Multicenter, randomized trial of CMV-IgG in the prevention of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) in pediatric liver transplant...
  Green M, Burroughs M, Katz BZ, Gerber D, Michaels M, Nalesnik M, Shneider B, Rowe D, Reyes J, American Transplant Congress, Washington, DC, 1/1/2003
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 pol expression in older children with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and CD8+ T-cell mediated suppression of HIV replic...
  Katz BZ, Flener ZB, Salimi B, Kabat W, Patterson B, Third International Pediatric Infectious Disease Conference, Monterey, CA, 1/29/2001
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Lectures

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. 
  1/16/2017
• Progressive Epstein-Barr Virus Infections. 
  1/14/2017
• Infectious Mononucleosis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. 
  1/14/2017
• Chronic fatigue syndrome following infectious mononucleosis. 
  Shaare Tzedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel - 1/14/2016
• Visiting Professor: Epstein-Barr virus infections, Travel Medicine, Encephalitis. 
  University of Nevada - 1/9/2016
• Chronic Granulomatous Disease. 
  University of Nevada - 1/8/2016
• Chronic granulomatous disease: A large, single-center, US experience. 
  Shaare Tzedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel - 1/19/2015
• Epstein-Barr virus infections: Infectious mononucleosis and lymphoproliferative Diseases. 
  Advocate Christ Medical Center - 1/4/2015
• Epstein-Barr Virus Pathophysiology. 
  Loyola University - 1/21/2014
• "Chronic fatigue syndrome-fact and fiction" 
  Washington, DC - 1/4/2013
• Influenza update. 
  Evanston, IL - 1/25/2012
• The pathophysiology of EBV infections in children. 
  New York Medical College, Val Halla, NY - 1/10/2010
• The pathophysiology of EBV infections in children, including post-EBV chronic fatigue syndrome. 
  Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL - 1/9/2010
• Many Faces of Epstein-Barr virus infections. 
  Washington, DC - 1/17/2009
• Antimicrobial Update. 
  Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL - 1/14/2009
• Pediatric meningitis. 
  Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, IL - 1/18/2008
• Update on meningococcal and pertussis vaccines. 
  Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL - 1/31/2006
• Update on meningococcal epidemiology and vaccination. 
  LaPorte Hospital, LaPorte, IN - 1/22/2006
• Meningococcal and pertussis vaccines: New ACIP recommendations and updates. 
  Community Hospital of Munster, IN - 1/25/2005
• Antimicrobial Update 
  Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL - 1/30/2004
• EBV: the mystery unraveled. 
  New York, NY - 1/18/2004
• Antibiotic Update 
  St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, IL - 1/2/2004
• Influenza 
  1/26/2003
• Pediatric Vaccine Update 
  1/12/2003
• Encephalitis 
  St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, IL - 1/10/2003
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Other

• Epstein-Barr virus: Disease causation, diagnosis and treatment. 
  Cohen JI, Katz BZ, American Herpes Foundation
  1/1/2005
• Clinical manifestations and serologic diagnosis of Epstein-Barr virus infection. 
  Katz BZ
  1/1/1992
• Progressive and chronic Epstein-Barr virus infections. 
  Katz BZ, Andiman WA, Mediguide to Infectious Diseases
  1/1/1986