Dr. Weinberg coordinates a number of clinical vaccine trials for the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. He also directs the activities of the Pediatric HIV Program, which participates in NIH-funded, multicenter clinical trials of pediatric HIV therapy (AIDS Clinical Trials Group). The Program also provides medical care for 40 HIV-infected infants, children, and adolescents, as well as for an additional 20 HIV-exposed infants undergoing serodiagnosis. Collaborative clinical studies of the complications and therapy of pediatric HIV disease are in progress with faculty from the Divisions of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Pediatric Gastroenterology/Nutrition, and Pediatric Dentistry. Other areas of research interest include; molecular epidemiology of Pneumocystis carinii and Haemophilus influenzae; the role of iron in infection; and vaccine immunology.

Weinberg GA, Erdman DD, Edwards KM, Hall CB, Walker FJ, Griffin MR, Schwartz B; New Vaccine Surveillance Network Study Group. Superiority of reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction to conventional viral culture in the diagnosis of acute respiratory tract infections in children. J Infect Dis. 189:706-10, 2004.

Belshe RB, Newman FK, Tsai TF, Karron RA, Reisinger K, Roberton D, Marshall H, Schwartz R, King J, Henderson FW, Rodriguez W, Severs JM, Wright PF, Keyserling H, Weinberg GA......Anderson E. Phase 2 evaluation of parainfluenza type 3 cold passage mutant 45 live attenuated vaccine in healthy children 6-18 months old. Infect Dis. 189:462-7, 2004.

Mabanta CG, Pryhuber GS, Weinberg GA, Phelps DL. Erythromycin for the prevention of chronic lung disease in intubated preterm infants at risk for, or colonized or infected with Ureaplasma urealyticum. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. (4):CD003744, 2003. Review.

Erdman DD, Weinberg GA, Edwards KM, Walker FJ, Anderson BC, Winter J, Gonzalez M, Anderson LJ. GeneScan reverse transcription-PCR assay for detection of six common respiratory viruses in young children hospitalized with acute respiratory illness. J Clin Microbiol. 41:4298-303, 2003.

Schaffer SJ, Szilagyi PG, Shone LP, Ambrose SJ, Dunn MK, Barth RD, Edwards K, Weinberg GA, Balter S, Schwartz B. Physician perspectives regarding pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Pediatrics 110:e68, 2002.

Weinberg GA. Postexposure prophylaxis against human immunodeficiency virus infection after sexual assault. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 21:959-60, 2002.

Weinberg GA. Question from the clinician: phages in infections. Pediatr Rev. 23:329-30, 2002.

Chen S, Weinberg GA. Acute retinal necrosis syndrome in a child. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 21:78-80, 2002.

Weinberg GA, Friis H, Boelaert JR, Weinberg ED. Iron status and the severity of HIV infection in pregnant women. Clin Infect Dis. 33:2098-100.

King Jr JC, Fast PE, Zangwill KM, Weinberg GA, Wolff M, Yan L, Newman F, Belshe RB, Kovacs A, Deville JG, Jelonek M, Group MF. Safety, vaccine virus shedding and immunogenicity of trivalent, cold-adapted, live attenuated influenza vaccine administered to human immunodeficiency virus-infected and noninfected children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 20:1124-1131, 2001.

Gigliotti F, Murante BL, Weinberg GA. Short course directly observed therapy to monitor compliance with antiretroviral therapy in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 20:716-8, 2001.

Hauk MJ, Moss ME, Weinberg GA, Berkowitz RJ. Delayed tooth eruption: association with severity of HIV infection. Pediatr Dent. 23:260-2, 2001.

Miller TL, Mawn BE, Orav EJ, Wilk D, Weinberg GA, Nicchitta J, Furuta L, Cutroni R, McIntosh K, Burchett SK, Gorbach SL. The effect of protease inhibitor therapy on growth and body composition in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected children. Pediatrics. 107:E77, 2001.

Weinberg GA. The Dilemma of Postnatal Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: To Breastfeed or Not? Birth 27:199-205, 2000.

Lee LH, Gigliotti F, Wright TW, Simpson-Haidaris PJ, Weinberg GA, Haidaris CG. Molecular characterization of KEX1, a kexin-like protease in mouse Pneumocystis carinii. Gene. 242:141-50, 2000.