Flor Muñoz Rivas is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases doctor. She works mainly at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, she does also go to other big hospitals to work. She takes care of chidden, mainly toddlers and infant, that have very serious infections. Her main focus is research, she has been published in many medical magazines and gives talks all over the country.
Publications
Muñoz FM, Englund JA, Cheesman CC, Maccato ML, Pinell PM, Nahm MH, Mason EO, Kozinetz CA, Thompson RA, Glezen WP. Maternal Immunization with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in the third trimester of gestation. Vaccine 20 (2002): 826-837.
Muñoz FM, Ong LT, Seavey D, Medina D, Correa A, Starke JR. Tuberculosis among adult visitors of children with suspected tuberculosis and employees at a children’s hospital. Infect Contr Hosp Epidemiol 2002, 23(10): 1-5.
Piedra, PA, Yan Lihan, Kotloff K, Zangwill MD, Bernstein DI, King J, Treanor J, Muñoz FM, Wolff M, Cho I, Mendelman PM, Cordova J, Belshe RB. Safety of the Trivalent, Cold-Adapted Influenza Vaccine (CAIV-T) in Pre-school Aged Children. Pediatrics 2002, 110:662-672.
O’Donnell, FT, Muñoz FM, Atmar RL, Hwang LY, Demmler GJ, Glezen WP. Epidemiology and molecular characterization of co-circulating influenza A/H3N2 virus variants in children: Houston, Texas, 1997-98. Epidemiology and Infection 2003, 130:521-531.
Healy CM, Muñoz FM, Rench MA, Halasa N, Edwards KM, Baker CJ. Low levels of maternal antibodies to pertussis: A predictos of infant susceptibility? Submitted to New Engl J Med, 2003.
