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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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Treatment of W. bancrofti (Wb) in HIV/Wb coinfections in South India.
Kawsar R. Talaat,Subash Babu,Pradeep A. Menon,N. Kumarasamy,Jabin Sharma,Jeeva Arumugam,Kalaivani Dhakshinamurthy,Ramalingam Srinivasan,Selvamuthu Poongulali,Wenjuan Gu,Michael P. Fay,Soumya Swaminathan,Thomas B. Nutman +12 more
TL;DR: It was unable to find a significant effect of W. bancrofti infection or its treatment on HIV clinical course or surrogate markers of HIV disease progression, and this study was limited by the smaller than predicted sample size and by the use of ART in half of the patients.
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Randomized Clinical Trial of High-Dose Rifampicin With or Without Levofloxacin Versus Standard of Care for Pediatric Tuberculous Meningitis: The TBM-KIDS Trial
Mandar Paradkar,D Bella Devaleenal,Tisungane Mvalo,Ana Arenivas,Kiran T. Thakur,Lisa Wolf,Smita Nimkar,Sadaf Inamdar,Prathiksha Giridharan,E. Selladurai,Aarti Kinikar,Chhaya Valvi,Saltanat Khwaja,Daphne Gadama,Sarath Balaji,Krishna Kattagoni,Mythily Venkatesan,Radojka M. Savic,Soumya Swaminathan,Amita Gupta,Nikhil Gupte,Vidya Mave,Kelly E. Dooley +22 more
TL;DR: In a pediatric TBM trial, functional outcomes were excellent overall and the trend towards higher frequency of adverse events but better neurocognitive outcomes in children receiving high-dose rifampicin requires confirmation in a larger trial.
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Evidence for Highly Variable, Region-Specific Patterns of T-Cell Epitope Mutations Accumulating in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains.
Arunachalam Ramaiah,Soumya Nayak,Srabanti Rakshit,Abigail L. Manson,Thomas Abeel,Sivakumar Shanmugam,Pravat Nalini Sahoo,Anto Jesuraj Uday Kumar John,Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi,Sujatha Narayanan,George D'Souza,Paul von Hoegen,Tom H. M. Ottenhoff,Soumya Swaminathan,Ashlee M. Earl,Annapurna Vyakarnam +15 more
TL;DR: This first evidence of region-specific TCE mutations potentially employed by Mtb to escape host immunity has important implications for TB vaccine design.
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Does effect of BCG vaccine decrease with time since vaccination and increase tuberculin skin test reaction
TL;DR: The study suggests that the effect of BCG may decrease since vaccination and the tuberculin positive was higher at post-vaccination test period due to BCG.
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Multifocal tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome - a case report of a complicated scenario.
G. Narendran,Deivide Oliveira-de-Souza,Caian L. Vinhaes,Kevan Akrami,Kevan Akrami,Kiyoshi F. Fukutani,Kesavamurthy Banu,Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran,Narayanan Ravichandran,Irini Sereti,Soumya Swaminathan,Bruno B. Andrade +11 more
TL;DR: A 51-year-old woman living with HIV who developed a series of TB-IRIS events occurring at multiple sites sequentially is presented, highlighting the clinical complexity in diagnosis and management.