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Soumya Swaminathan
Researcher at Indian Council of Medical Research
Publications - 370
Citations - 78067
Soumya Swaminathan is an academic researcher from Indian Council of Medical Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 353 publications receiving 61963 citations. Previous affiliations of Soumya Swaminathan include Yahoo! & Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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Value of bronchoalveolar lavage and gastric lavage in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children.
N. Somu,Soumya Swaminathan,C. N. Paramasivan,D. Vijayasekaran,A. Chandrabhooshanam,V.K. Vijayan,R. Prabhakar +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that gastric lavage is better than BAL for bacteriologic confirmation of pulmonary tuberculosis in children and combining both procedures was 34% while gastric Lavage alone was positive in 32% of the cases.
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Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–17
Rakhi Dandona,G Anil Kumar,Nathaniel J Henry,Vasna Joshua,Siddarth Ramji,Subodh S Gupta,Deepti Agrawal,Rashmi Kumar,Rakesh Lodha,Matthews Mathai,Nicholas J Kassebaum,Anamika Pandey,Haidong Wang,Anju Sinha,Rajkumar Hemalatha,Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader,Vivek Agarwal,Sandra Albert,Atanu Biswas,Roy Burstein,Joy K Chakma,D J Christopher,Michael Collison,Aditya Prasad Dash,Sagnik Dey,Daniel Dicker,William M. Gardner,Scott D Glenn,Mahaveer Golechha,Yihua He,Suparna Ghosh Jerath,Rajni Kant,Anita Kar,Ajay Khera,Sanjay Kinra,Parvaiz A Koul,Varsha Krish,Rinu P Krishnankutty,Anura V Kurpad,Hmwe H Kyu,Avula Laxmaiah,Jagadish Mahanta,Padukudru Anand Mahesh,Ridhima Malhotra,Raja Sriswan Mamidi,Helena Manguerra,Joseph L. Mathew,Manu Raj Mathur,Ravi Mehrotra,Satinath Mukhopadhyay,Gudlavalleti V S Murthy,Parul Mutreja,Balakrishna Nagalla,Grant Nguyen,Anu Mary Oommen,Ashalata Pati,Sanghamitra Pati,Samantha Perkins,Sanjay Prakash,Manorama Purwar,Rajesh Sagar,Mari Jeeva Sankar,Deepika Saraf,D K Shukla,Sharvari Rahul Shukla,Narinder Pal Singh,Vishnubhatla Sreenivas,Babasaheb V. Tandale,Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan,Manjari Tripathi,Suryakant Tripathi,Srikanth Tripathy,Christopher Troeger,Chris M Varghese,Santosh Varughese,Stefanie Watson,Geetika Yadav,Sanjay Zodpey,K. Srinath Reddy,G S Toteja,Mohsen Naghavi,Stephen S Lim,Theo Vos,Hendrik J Bekedam,Soumya Swaminathan,Christopher J L Murray,Simon I. Hay,R S Sharma,Lalit Dandona +88 more
TL;DR: A detailed analysis of subnational trends of child mortality to inform efforts aimed at meeting the India National Health Policy (NHP) and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for child mortality is presented.
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Drug Concentration Thresholds Predictive of Therapy Failure and Death in Children With Tuberculosis: Bread Crumb Trails in Random Forests.
Soumya Swaminathan,Jotam G. Pasipanodya,Geetha Ramachandran,A K Hemanth Kumar,Shashikant Srivastava,Devyani Deshpande,Eric L. Nuermberger,Tawanda Gumbo +7 more
TL;DR: New antibiotic target concentrations are identified, which are potential biomarkers associated with treatment failure and death in children with tuberculosis, and age <3 years, were highly ranked predictors.
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HIV and tuberculosis in India
Soumya Swaminathan,G. Narendran +1 more
TL;DR: Screening of all HIV- infected persons for tuberculosis and vice-versa will help identify co-infected patients who require treatment for both infections, which requires good coordination and communication between the TB and AIDS control programs, in India.
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Paradoxical Tuberculosis Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (TB-IRIS) in HIV Patients with Culture Confirmed Pulmonary Tuberculosis in India and the Potential Role of IL-6 in Prediction
G. Narendran,Bruno B. Andrade,Brian O. Porter,Chockalingam Chandrasekhar,Perumal Venkatesan,Pradeep A. Menon,Sudha Subramanian,Selvaraj Anbalagan,Kannabiran P. Bhavani,Sathiyavelu Sekar,Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarshini,Satagopan Kumar,Narayanan Ravichandran,K. Raja,Kesavamurthy Bhanu,A. Mahilmaran,L Sekar,Alan Sher,Irini Sereti,Soumya Swaminathan +19 more
TL;DR: Low CD4+ T-cell counts, higher plasma HIV RNA levels, lower CD4/CD8 ratio, lower hemoglobin, shorter ATT to ART interval, extra-pulmonary or miliary TB and higher plasma IL-6 and CRP levels at baseline were associated with paradoxical TB-IRIS in the univariate analysis.