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Ben J. Marais is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on infectious diseases. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The researcher's publications primarily address topics related to tuberculosis and respiratory infections. Their main research areas include:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Ben J. Marais has frequently published in several scientific journals over their career, notably:

  • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their coauthorship network includes several researchers with whom they have collaborated extensively. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Vitali Sintchenko (23 joint publications)
  • Guy B. Marks (22 joint publications)
  • Stephen M. Graham (22 joint publications)
  • Greg J. Fox (16 joint publications)
  • H. Simon Schaaf (15 joint publications)

Some of the recent papers associated with Ben J. Marais include:

  • MDR/XDR-TB management of patients and contacts: Challenges facing the new decade. The 2020 clinical update by the Global Tuberculosis Network (2020), published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Vitamin D Supplements for Prevention of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease (2020), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Clinical standards for the assessment, management and rehabilitation of post-TB lung disease (2021), published in The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • Classification of early tuberculosis states to guide research for improved care and prevention: an international Delphi consensus exercise (2024), published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • The Implementation of Mass-Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review of Existing Strategies and Guidelines (2021), published in Vaccines

Best Publications

  • Tuberculous meningitis: a uniform case definition for use in clinical research

    Suzaan Marais;Guy Thwaites;Johan F Schoeman;M Estée Török

  • The natural history of childhood intra-thoracic tuberculosis: a critical review of literature from the pre-chemotherapy era.

    B J Marais;R P Gie;H S Schaaf;A C Hesseling

  • A critical review of interventions to redress the inequitable distribution of healthcare professionals to rural and remote areas.

    Nathan W Wilson;Ian D Couper;Elma De Vries;Steve Reid

  • Tuberculosis in children.

    Carlos M Perez-Velez;Ben J Marais

  • Advances in tuberculosis diagnostics: the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and future prospects for a point-of-care test

    Stephen D Lawn;Peter Mwaba;Peter Mwaba;Matthew Bates;Amy Piatek

  • Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practising in rural and other underserved areas

    Liesl Grobler;Ben J Marais;Ben J Marais;Sikhumbuzo Mabunda

  • Childhood pulmonary tuberculosis: old wisdom and new challenges.

    Ben J. Marais;Robert P. Gie;H. Simon Schaaf;Nulda Beyers

  • Scaling up interventions to achieve global tuberculosis control: progress and new developments

    Mario Raviglione;Ben Marais;Katherine Floyd;Knut Lönnroth

  • Evaluation of Tuberculosis Diagnostics in Children: 1. Proposed Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis Disease. Consensus From an Expert Panel

    Stephen M. Graham;Stephen M. Graham;Tahmeed Ahmed;Farhana Amanullah;Renee Browning

  • A Refined Symptom-Based Approach to Diagnose Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Children

    Ben J Marais;Robert P Gie;Anneke C Hesseling;H Simon Schaaf

  • Tuberculosis comorbidity with communicable and non-communicable diseases: integrating health services and control efforts

    Ben J Marais;Knut Lönnroth;Stephen D Lawn;Stephen D Lawn;Giovanni Battistai Migliori

  • The risk of disseminated Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) disease in HIV-infected children

    Anneke C. Hesseling;Ben J. Marais;Robert P. Gie;H. Simon Schaaf

  • Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children: An Update

    Stephen M. Graham;Stephen M. Graham;Stephen M. Graham;Luis E. Cuevas;Patrick Jean-Philippe;Renee Browning

  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis: time for visionary political leadership

    Ibrahim Abubakar;Ibrahim Abubakar;Matteo Zignol;Dennis Falzon;Mario Raviglione

  • Tuberculosis and chronic respiratory disease: a systematic review.

    Anthony L. Byrne;Anthony L. Byrne;Ben J. Marais;Carole D. Mitnick;Leonid Lecca

  • Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine-induced disease in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children.

    A. C. Hesseling;H. Rabie;B. J. Marais;M. Manders

  • Tuberculosis—advances in development of new drugs, treatment regimens, host-directed therapies, and biomarkers

    Robert S Wallis;Markus Maeurer;Peter Mwaba;Jeremiah Chakaya

  • Diagnostic and Management Challenges for Childhood Tuberculosis in the Era of HIV

    B. J Marais;S. M Graham;S. M Graham;M. F Cotton;N Beyers

  • The clinical epidemiology of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis: A critical review of literature from the pre-chemotherapy era

    B J Marais;R P Gie;H S Schaaf;A C Hesseling

  • Tuberculosis in children

    Ben J Marais

Frequent Co-Authors

Vitali Sintchenko
Vitali Sintchenko University of Sydney
Nulda Beyers
Nulda Beyers Stellenbosch University
Stephen M. Graham
Stephen M. Graham Royal Children's Hospital
Alimuddin Zumla
Alimuddin Zumla University College London
Peter R. Donald
Peter R. Donald Stellenbosch University
Robin M. Warren
Robin M. Warren Stellenbosch University
Markus Maeurer
Markus Maeurer Champalimaud Foundation
Giovanni Battista Migliori
Giovanni Battista Migliori Queen Mary University of London
David Isaacs
David Isaacs Children's Hospital at Westmead
Ibrahim Abubakar
Ibrahim Abubakar University College London

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