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Scott K. Heysell

Researcher at University of Virginia

Publications -  145
Citations -  2181

Scott K. Heysell is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 110 publications receiving 1595 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott K. Heysell include Yale University.

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Therapeutic drug monitoring for slow response to tuberculosis treatment in a state control program, Virginia, USA.

TL;DR: TOC summary: Diabetes was associated with increased risk for slow response and low rifampin levels.
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Understanding pharmacokinetics to improve tuberculosis treatment outcome

TL;DR: Operationalizing pharmacokinetics has the potential to improve TB outcomes in the most difficult-to-treat forms of the disease such as multidrug resistance and clinical studies in these areas are eagerly anticipated and are expected to better define the rational introduction of novel therapeutics.
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Discordance across Several Methods for Drug Susceptibility Testing of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in a Single Laboratory

TL;DR: Phage qPCR and the MycoTB MIC plate were the only methods that yielded second-line susceptibilities and revealed significant quantitative correlations for all drugs except cycloserine, as well as moderate to excellent kappa coefficients for all Drugs except for para-aminosalicylic acid.
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Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa

TL;DR: Of 19 patients with extensively drug-resistant TB identified during February 2008–April 2009, 13 (68%) had isolates resistant to all 8 drugs tested, which leaves no effective treatment with available drugs in South Africa.
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Levofloxacin Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics, Dosing, Susceptibility Breakpoints, and Artificial Intelligence in the Treatment of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis

TL;DR: An ensemble of artificial intelligence algorithms were used to identify the most important predictors of sputum conversion, ADR, and death in Tanzanian patients with pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treated with a levofloxacin-containing regimen.