Rotem Lapidot, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Rotem Lapidot, MD received her medical degree from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. She has additional training as an intern and resident at the Rambam Health Care Campus. Dr. Lapidot was also a fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Boston University Medical Center. She has worked as an attending at the Rambam Health Care Campus as well as a primary care physician in an urgent care clinic in Haifa, Isreal.

Publications

  • Published 5/19/2025

    MacLeod WB, Mwananyanda L, Kwenda G, Pieciak R, Mupila Z, Murphy C, Chikoti C, Forman L, Berklein F, Lapidot R, Ngoma B, Larson-Williams A, Lungu J, Nakazwe R, Nzara D, Yankonde B, Thea DM, Gill CJ. Bordetella pertussis -related Respiratory Deaths in Infants From 4 Days to 6 Months of Age, Results From a 3-Year, Prospective Postmortem Surveillance Study in Lusaka, Zambia. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2025 Jun 01; 44(6):489-495. PMID: 40106786.

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  • Published 4/3/2025

    Averin A, Weycker D, Lapidot R, Rozenbaum MH, Huang L, Vietri J, Arguedas Mohs A, Cane A, Lonshteyn A, Pelton SI. Cost of invasive pneumococcal disease, all-cause pneumonia, and all-cause otitis media among commercial-insured US children. J Med Econ. 2025 Dec; 28(1):517-523. PMID: 40152182.

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  • Published 3/22/2025

    Averin A, Pelton SI, Weycker D, Huang L, Vietri J, Tort MJ, Arguedas Mohs AG, Cane A, Rozenbaum MH, Lapidot R. Early-life pneumonia and subsequent risk of respiratory disease among commercial-insured and medicaid-insured children with and without high-risk conditions. Respir Med. 2025 May; 241:108050. PMID: 40122404.

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  • Published 3/5/2025

    Ramirez-Zuniga I, MacLeod WB, Chikoti C, Kwenda G, Lapidot R, Gill CJ, Smith AM. Sequential Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Bacterial Infections in the Nasopharynx of Zambian Infants and Mothers. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2025 Mar 05. PMID: 40063743.

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  • Published 10/4/2024

    Kochis EJ, Shaik-Dasthagirisaheb YB, Munarriz N, Kretzmann I, Nahm M, Pelton SI, Lapidot R. Serotype 15C Streptococcus pneumoniae resistant to classical complement deposition and agglutination by polyclonal rabbit anti-capsular 15B sera. Vaccine. 2024 Dec 02; 42(26):126419. PMID: 39368131.

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