Dr. Ruvandhi Nathavitharana, MD

• Infectious Disease Medicine

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• University Of London Imperial College Of Science Technology And Medicine / Imperial College Of Scien

  Medical School, 2007

• English

• Spanish

• Treatment as Prevention and Other Interventions to Decrease MDR-TB Transmission, 2019-04-01

• Constructing care cascades for active tuberculosis: A strategy for program monitoring and identifying gaps in quality of care, 2019-02-27

• The Tuberculosis Cascade of Care in India's Public Sector: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, 2016-10-25

• "If I've got latent TB,I would like to get rid of it”: Derivation of the CARD (Constraints, Actions, Risks, and Desires) Framework informed by South African healthcare worker perspectives on latent tuberculosis treatment, 2021-08-18

• Can AI technologies close the diagnostic gap in tuberculosis?, 2021-12-12

• Agents of Change: The Role of Healthcare Workers in the Prevention of Nosocomial and Occupational Tuberculosis, 2017-02-28

• Multicenter Noninferiority Evaluation of Hain GenoType MTBDRplusVersion 2 and Nipro NTM+MDRTB Line Probe Assays for Detection of Rifampin and Isoniazid Resistance Nathavitharana et al., 2016-05-23

• Diagnostic Delays and Treatment Implications for Patients with Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, 2019-05-14

• Top Questions in the Diagnosis and Treatment of PulmonaryM. abscessusDisease, 2019-05-14

• FAST tuberculosis transmission control strategy speeds the start of tuberculosis treatment at a general hospital in Lima, Peru, 2021-10-06

• Mortality among children diagnosed with tuberculosis: Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2016-12-08

• Smear positivity in paediatric and adult tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2016-06-13

• Analysing interventions designed to reduce tuberculosis-related stigma: A scoping review, 2022-10-19

• The role of counselling in tuberculosis diagnostic evaluation and contact tracing: scoping review and stakeholder consultation of knowledge and research gaps, 2022-01-28

• Reimagining the status quo: How close are we to rapid sputum-free tuberculosis diagnostics for all?, 2022-03-23

• FASTImplementation in Bangladesh: High Frequency of Unsuspected Tuberculosis Justifies Challenges of Scale Up, 2017-09-01

• A systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of artificial intelligence-based computer programs to analyze chest x-rays for pulmonary tuberculosis, 2019-09-03

• Accuracy of digital chest x-ray analysis with artificial intelligence software as a triage and screening tool in hospitalized patients being evaluated for tuberculosis in Lima, Peru, 2023-05-24