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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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Adequacy of examining one sputum specimen in tuberculosis drug resistance surveys
S. Balaji,Vanaja Kumar,Prabu Seenivasan,Rajesh Radhakrishnan,Gomathi Sekar,T Kannan,Vedhachalam Chandrasekaran,Soumya Swaminathan,Nagamiah Selvakumar +8 more
TL;DR: The findings of the study reveal the adequacy of single spot sputum specimen from smear positive pulmonary TB patients for bacteriological examination in a quality-assured TB laboratory to determine precisely the level of drug resistance in a province of India.
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Plasma efavirenz in HIV infected children treated with generic antiretroviral drugs in India.
Geetha Ramachandran,Agibothu Kupparam Hemanth Kumar,Mahalingam Vasantha,Ira Shah,Soumya Swaminathan +4 more
TL;DR: The majority of children treated with generic EFV at currently recommended doses had blood levels within the therapeutic range, and the most common cause of death was diarrhoea and vomiting.
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CD4+ T-lymphocyte count/CD8+ T-lymphocyte count ratio: surrogate for HIV infection in infants?
Poorana Ganga Devi Navaneethapandian,Ramesh Karunaianantham,Sudha Subramanyan,Ponnuraja Chinnayan,Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran,Soumya Swaminathan +5 more
TL;DR: CD4/CD8 ratio <1.0 is a more sensitive surrogate marker of HIV infection in Indian infants than a CD4 count <1500 cells/µl or CD4% <25%.
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Booster vaccines for COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases? – Authors' reply
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Hiccups as an unusual manifestation of tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.
G. Narendran,Bruno B. Andrade,Krishnamoorthy Vijay,Stella Susaimuthu,C. Chandrasekar,Sekhar Sathiyavelu,Soumya Swaminathan +6 more
TL;DR: Andrade, Bruno de Bezerril “Documento produzido em parceria ou por autor vinculado a Fiocruz, mas nao consta a informacao no documento”.