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C. Robert Horsburgh
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 209
Citations - 10473
C. Robert Horsburgh is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 170 publications receiving 9027 citations. Previous affiliations of C. Robert Horsburgh include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & San Francisco General Hospital.
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What Can Genetic Relatedness Tell Us About Risk Factors for Tuberculosis Transmission
Sarah V. Leavitt,C. Robert Horsburgh,Robyn S. Lee,Andrew Tibbs,Laura F. White,Helen E. Jenkins +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a naive Bayes approach to modify the genetic links and nonlinks to resemble the true links more closely and estimated modified odds ratios with this approach, and compared these two sets of ORs with the true ORs for transmission.
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Spatial heterogeneity of extensively drug resistant-tuberculosis in Western Cape Province, South Africa
Karla Therese L Sy,Sarah V. Leavitt,Margaretha de Vos,Tania Dolby,Jacob Bor,C. Robert Horsburgh,Robin M. Warren,Elizabeth M. Streicher,Helen E. Jenkins,Karen R. Jacobson +9 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors used laboratory TB test results from Western Cape province, South Africa between 2012 and 2015 to identify XDRTB and pre-XDR-TB (RR-TB with resistance to one second-line drug) spatial hotspots.
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Gender and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Nigeria
Olanrewaju Oladimeji,Bamidele Paul Atiba,Felix Emeka Anyiam,Babatunde A Odugbemi,Tolulope O Afolaranmi,Ayuba I. Zoakah,C. Robert Horsburgh +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors characterized the gender distribution of DR-TB cases and the association between demographics and clinical data, such as age, treatment category, number of previous TB treatment cycles, and geographical region, with gender.
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M. tuberculosis infection before, during and after pregnancy.
Selby Knudsen,Senbagavalli Prakash Babu,Jayalakshmy Ramakrishnan,Helen E. Jenkins,Neil Joseph,Chelsie Cintron,Prakash Babu Narasimhan,Padmini Salgame,Natasha S. Hochberg,David L. Hom,J. J. Ellner,C. Robert Horsburgh,Satyajit Sarkar +12 more