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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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Exercise testing in children: indications and technique.
TL;DR: Exercise testing uses the increased metabolic demands of exercise to stress systems and can reveal cardiopulmonary abnormalities at an early stage and can demonstrate whether other mechanisms are hiding, disguising or aggravating the primary defect.
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Induction and maintenance of bi-functional (IFN-γ + IL-2+ and IL-2+ TNF-α+) T cell responses by DNA prime MVA boosted subtype C prophylactic vaccine tested in a Phase I trial in India
Sivasankaran Munusamy Ponnan,Sathyamurthy Pattabiram,Kannan Thiruvengadam,Rajat Goyal,Nikhil Singla,Joyeeta Mukherjee,Shweta Chatrath,Philip Bergin,Jakub Kopycinski,Jill Gilmour,Sriram Kumar,Malathy Muthu,Sudha Subramaniam,Soumya Swaminathan,Srikanth Tripathy,Hanna Elizabeth Luke +15 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that an in-depth analysis of vaccine-induced cellular immune response can aid in the identification of correlates of an effective immunogenic response, and inform future design of HIV vaccines.
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Deciphering the Role of Mucosal Immune Responses and the Cervicovaginal Microbiome in Resistance to HIV Infection in HIV-Exposed Seronegative (HESN) Women.
Sivasankaran Munusamy Ponnan,Sivasankaran Munusamy Ponnan,Kannan Thiruvengadam,Chaitanya Tellapragada,Anoop T. Ambikan,Aswathy Narayanan,Sujitha Kathirvel,Manikannan Mathayan,Janani Shankar,Akshaya Rajaraman,Mehar Afshan Amanulla,Thongadi Ramesh Dinesha,Selvamuthu Poongulali,Shanmugam Saravanan,Kailapuri G. Murugavel,Soumya Swaminathan,Vijayakumar Velu,Vijayakumar Velu,Barbara L. Shacklett,Ujjwal Neogi,Ujjwal Neogi,Luke Elizabeth Hanna +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive analysis of soluble immune mediators, secretory immunoglobulins (sIg), natural killer (NK) cells, CXCR5+ CD8+ T cells, Tfh cells, and T regulatory cells (Tregs) in the vaginal mucosa as well as the nature and composition of the cervicovaginal microbiome in HESN women was conducted.
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Clinical Benefits and Cost-Effectiveness of Laboratory Monitoring Strategies to Guide Antiretroviral Treatment Switching in India.
Kenneth A. Freedberg,Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy,Ethan D. Borre,Eric L. Ross,Kenneth H. Mayer,Elena Losina,Soumya Swaminathan,Timothy P. Flanigan,Rochelle P. Walensky +8 more
TL;DR: In India, routine HIV RNA monitoring of patients on first-line ART would increase life expectancy, decrease transmissions, be cost-effective, and should be implemented.
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Urine nevirapine as a predictor of antiretroviral adherence.
TL;DR: In view of its long half-life, NVP gets excreted in urine for a long period of time, and testing spot urine samples for NVP may not be a useful measure to monitor patient adherence to treatment.