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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Society Citation Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Overview

Eduardo Gotuzzo is affiliated with the Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt in Peru. Their research work primarily focuses on medicine, with an emphasis on infectious diseases, epidemiology, immunology, surgery, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's research topics include tuberculosis research and epidemiology, T-cell and retrovirus studies, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Their recent notable publications are:

  • Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 - Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Remdesivir and three other drugs for hospitalised patients with COVID-19: final results of the WHO Solidarity randomised trial and updated meta-analyses, 2022, The Lancet
  • A prospective multicentre diagnostic accuracy study for the Truenat tuberculosis assays, 2021, European Respiratory Journal
  • Diagnostic accuracy of 3 urine lipoarabinomannan tuberculosis assays in HIV-negative outpatients, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Estimated life expectancy gains with antiretroviral therapy among adults with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean: a multisite retrospective cohort study, 2021, The Lancet HIV

Eduardo Gotuzzo has published frequently in several journals, including:

  • Pathogens
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The Lancet Microbe

Frequent collaborators include Elsa González-Lagos, Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez, Claudia P. Cortés, Alvaro Schwalb, and Fernando Mejía. These colleagues have co-authored multiple publications with the scientist.

Over the course of their career, Eduardo Gotuzzo has been recognized with the Society Citation Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Leptospirosis: a zoonotic disease of global importance

    Ajay R Bharti;Jarlath E Nally;Jessica N Ricaldi;Michael A Matthias

  • Rapid molecular detection of tuberculosis and rifampin resistance.

    Catharina C. Boehme;Pamela Nabeta;Doris Hillemann;Mark P. Nicol

  • Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 - Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results.

    Hongchao Pan;Richard Peto;Ana-Maria Henao-Restrepo

  • Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study

    Catharina C. Boehme;Mark P. Nicol;Mark P. Nicol;Pamela Nabeta;Joy S. Michael

  • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Culture Conversion with Bedaquiline

    Andreas H. Diacon;Alexander Pym;Martin P. Grobusch;Jorge M. de los Rios

  • Human T-lymphotropic virus 1: recent knowledge about an ancient infection.

    Kristien Verdonck;Kristien Verdonck;Elsa González;Sonia Van Dooren;Anne-Mieke Vandamme

  • Rapid and durable antiretroviral effect of the HIV-1 Integrase inhibitor raltegravir as part of combination therapy in treatment-naive patients with HIV-1 infection: results of a 48-week controlled study.

    Martin Markowitz;Bach-Yen Nguyen;Eduardo Gotuzzo;Fernando Mendo

  • A Randomized Double-Blind Study of Caspofungin versus Amphotericin for the Treatment of Candidal Esophagitis

    Alvaro Villanueva;Eduardo G. Arathoon;Eduardo Gotuzzo;Rayanne S. Berman

  • The laboratory diagnosis and follow up of strongyloidiasis: a systematic review.

    Ana Requena-Méndez;Peter L Chiodini;Zeno Bisoffi;Dora Buonfrate

  • Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome: an emerging global infectious disease

    Luis A. Marcos;Luis A. Marcos;Angelica Terashima;Herbert L. DuPont;Eduardo Gotuzzo

  • A randomized double-blind study of caspofungin versus fluconazole for the treatment of esophageal candidiasis

    Alvaro Villanueva;Eduardo Gotuzzo;Eduardo G Arathoon;L.Miguel Noriega

  • Repurposed antiviral drugs for COVID-19: interim WHO solidarity trial results (Preprint)

    Pan Hongchao;Richard Peto;Ana-Maria Henao-Restrepo;Marie-Pierre Preziosi

  • Arboviral Etiologies of Acute Febrile Illnesses in Western South America, 2000–2007

    Brett M. Forshey;Carolina Guevara;V. Alberto Laguna-Torres;Manuel Cespedes

  • Strongyloides stercoralis: A Plea for Action

    Zeno Bisoffi;Dora Buonfrate;Antonio Montresor;Ana Requena-Méndez

  • Randomized, double-blind, multicenter study of caspofungin versus amphotericin B for treatment of oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiases.

    Eduardo G. Arathoon;Eduardo Gotuzzo;L. Miguel Noriega;Rayanne S. Berman

  • Proposal for diagnostic criteria of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM)

    Carlos M. De Castro-Costa;Abelardo Q. C. Araújo;Márcio M. Barreto;Osvaldo M. Takayanagui

  • Antigen-specific acquired immunity in human brucellosis: implications for diagnosis, prognosis, and vaccine development.

    Anthony P. Cannella;Renee M. Tsolis;Li Liang;Philip L. Felgner

  • Clinical Spectrum of Pulmonary Involvement in Leptospirosis in a Region of Endemicity, with Quantification of Leptospiral Burden

    Eddy R. Segura;Christian A. Ganoza;Kalina Campos;Jessica N. Ricaldi;Jessica N. Ricaldi

  • Cutaneous mycobacterial infections.

    Carlos Franco-Paredes;Luis A. Marcos;Andrés F. Henao-Martínez;Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales

  • Determining risk for severe leptospirosis by molecular analysis of environmental surface waters for pathogenic Leptospira.

    Christian A Ganoza;Michael A Matthias;Devon Collins-Richards;Kimberly C Brouwer

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph M. Vinetz
Joseph M. Vinetz Yale University
Gian Maria Rossolini
Gian Maria Rossolini University of Florence
Robert H. Gilman
Robert H. Gilman Johns Hopkins University
Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Anne-Mieke Vandamme Rega Institute for Medical Research
Beatriz Grinsztejn
Beatriz Grinsztejn Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Douglas M. Watts
Douglas M. Watts The University of Texas at El Paso
Pedro Cahn
Pedro Cahn University of Buenos Aires
Sten H. Vermund
Sten H. Vermund Yale University
King K. Holmes
King K. Holmes University of Washington
Graciela S. Alarcón
Graciela S. Alarcón University of Alabama at Birmingham

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