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Rasim Tahirli
Publications - 5
Citations - 3170
Rasim Tahirli is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: GeneXpert MTB/RIF & Tuberculosis. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 2979 citations.
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Rapid molecular detection of tuberculosis and rifampin resistance.
Catharina Boehme,Pamela Nabeta,Doris Hillemann,Mark P. Nicol,Shubhada Shenai,Fiorella Krapp,Jenny Allen,Rasim Tahirli,Robert Blakemore,Roxana Rustomjee,Ana Milovic,Martin Jones,Sean M. O'Brien,David H. Persing,Sabine Ruesch-Gerdes,Eduardo Gotuzzo,Camilla Rodrigues,David Alland,Mark D. Perkins +18 more
TL;DR: The MTB/RIF test provided sensitive detection of tuberculosis and rifampin resistance directly from untreated sputum in less than 2 hours with minimal hands-on time.
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Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study
Catharina Boehme,Mark P. Nicol,Mark P. Nicol,Pamela Nabeta,Joy Sarojini Michael,Eduardo Gotuzzo,Rasim Tahirli,Ma Tarcela Gler,Robert Blakemore,William Worodria,Christen Gray,Laurence Huang,Tatiana Cáceres,Rafail Mehdiyev,Lawrence Raymond,Andrew Whitelaw,Andrew Whitelaw,Kalaiselvan Sagadevan,Heather Alexander,Heather Alexander,Heidi Albert,Frank Cobelens,Helen M Cox,David Alland,Mark D. Perkins +24 more
TL;DR: The Xpert MTB/RIF test can effectively be used in low-resource settings to simplify patients' access to early and accurate diagnosis, thereby potentially decreasing morbidity associated with diagnostic delay, dropout and mistreatment.
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A Multisite Assessment of the Quantitative Capabilities of the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay
Robert Blakemore,Pamela Nabeta,Amy L. Davidow,Viral Vadwai,Rasim Tahirli,Vanisha Munsamy,Mark P. Nicol,Martin Jones,David H. Persing,Doris Hillemann,Sabine Ruesch-Gerdes,Felicity Leisegang,Carlos Zamudio,Camilla Rodrigues,Catharina Boehme,Mark D. Perkins,David Alland +16 more
TL;DR: Xpert MTB/RIF quantitation offers a new, standardized approach to measuring bacterial burden in the sputum of patients with tuberculosis, and Comparisons between the grade of the acid-fast bacilli smear and XpertMTB/ RIF quantitative data across study sites enabled us to identify a site outlier in microscopy.
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Mitigation of Discordant Rifampicin-Susceptibility Results Obtained by Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Rifampicin and Mycobacterium Growth Indicator Tube
Elmira Gurbanova,Rafail Mehdiyev,Kai Blondal,Rasim Tahirli,Fuad Mirzayev,Doris Hillemann,Asker Ismayilov,Alan Altraja +7 more
TL;DR: The Xpert MTB/RIF and MGIT testing may be used in sequential sputum samples without increase in the RIF-susceptibility discordance rate, and its clinical relevance may be low.
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Interpretation of indeterminate RIF-susceptibility results obtained by rapid molecular diagnostics test
Elmira Gurbanova,Rafail Mehdiyev,Kai Blondal,Rasim Tahirli,Fuad Mirzayev,Doris Hillemann,Asker Ismayilov,Alan Altraja,Alan Altraja +8 more
TL;DR: The indeterminate RIF-susceptibility detected on sputum samples directly by XpertMTB/RIF is significant and this drawback may be resolved with the use of Xpert MTB/ RIF on cultures.