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Overview

Francis Drobniewski is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research activity is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry, and Molecular Medicine.

The scientist's work spans several key topics, particularly Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Ximena Gonzalo
  • Agnieszka Broda
  • Marcia Ashmi
  • Miłosz Parczewski
  • Björn-Erik Ole Jensen

Drobniewski's research has appeared in multiple publication venues, notably Eurosurveillance, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Antibiotics, and Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Drobniewski include:

  • False-positive COVID-19 results: hidden problems and costs, 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • GenomegaMap: Within-Species Genome-Wide dN/dS Estimation from over 10,000 Genomes, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • In-hospital mortality during the wild-type, alpha, delta, and omicron SARS-CoV-2 waves: a multinational cohort study in the EuCARE project, 2024, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Performance of lipid fingerprint-based MALDI-ToF for the diagnosis of mycobacterial infections, 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • An Improved Method for Rapid Detection of Mycobacterium abscessus Complex Based on Species-Specific Lipid Fingerprint by Routine MALDI-TOF, 2021, Frontiers in Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Bacillus cereus and related species.

    F A Drobniewski

  • The geographic diversity of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from pulmonary samples: an NTM-NET collaborative study

    Wouter Hoefsloot;Jakko Van Ingen;Claire Andrejak;Kristian Ängeby

  • A systematic review of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of tuberculosis infection.

    J Dinnes;J Deeks;H Kunst;A Gibson

  • High-dose vitamin D(3) during intensive-phase antimicrobial treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a double-blind randomised controlled trial.

    Adrian R Martineau;Adrian R Martineau;Peter M Timms;Graham H Bothamley;Yasmeen Hanifa

  • Worldwide Emergence of Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

    N. Sarita Shah;Abigail Wright;Gill-Han Bai;Lucia Barrera

  • Whole-genome sequencing for prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility and resistance: a retrospective cohort study.

    Timothy M Walker;Thomas A Kohl;Shaheed V Omar;Jessica Hedge

  • Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage

    Matthias Merker;Camille Blin;Stefano Mona;Nicolas Duforet-Frebourg

  • Evolution and transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a Russian population

    Nicola Casali;Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy;Yanina Balabanova;Simon R Harris

  • Epidemiology of antituberculosis drug resistance 2002–07: an updated analysis of the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance

    Abigail Wright;Matteo Zignol;Armand Van Deun;Armand Van Deun;Dennis Falzon

  • Prediction of Susceptibility to First-Line Tuberculosis Drugs by DNA Sequencing.

    Caroline Allix-Béguec;Irena Arandjelovic

  • SIMULTANEOUS GENOTYPING AND SPECIES IDENTIFICATION USING HYBRIDIZATION PATTERN RECOGNITION ANALYSIS OF GENERIC MYCOBACTERIUM DNA ARRAYS

    Thomas R. Gingeras;Ghassan Ghandour;Eugene Wang;Anthony Berno

  • Management of patients with multidrug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement

    Christoph Lange;Ibrahim Abubakar;Jan Willem C. Alffenaar;Graham Bothamley

  • Vitamin D accelerates resolution of inflammatory responses during tuberculosis treatment

    Anna K. Coussens;Robert J. Wilkinson;Robert J. Wilkinson;Yasmeen Hanifa;Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy

  • False-positive COVID-19 results: hidden problems and costs.

    Elena Surkova;Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy;Francis Drobniewski

  • Snapshot of Moving and Expanding Clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Their Global Distribution Assessed by Spoligotyping in an International Study

    Ingrid Filliol;Jeffrey R. Driscoll;Dick van Soolingen;Barry N. Kreiswirth

  • Rapid Whole-Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates Directly from Clinical Samples

    Amanda C. Brown;Josephine M. Bryant;Katja Einer-Jensen;Jolyon Holdstock

  • Genetic association and expression studies indicate a role of toll-like receptor 8 in pulmonary tuberculosis.

    Sonia Davila;Martin L. Hibberd;Ranjeeta Hari Dass;Hazel E. E. Wong

  • Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Clinical Virulence, and the Dominance of the Beijing Strain Family in Russia

    Francis Drobniewski;Yanina Balabanova;Vladyslav Nikolayevsky;Micheal Ruddy

  • Management of opportunist mycobacterial infections: Joint Tuberculosis Committee guidelines 1999

    Francis Drobniewski

  • Silent nucleotide polymorphisms and a phylogeny for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Lucy Baker;Tim Brown;Martin C. J. Maiden;Francis Drobniewski

Frequent Co-Authors

Ibrahim Abubakar
Ibrahim Abubakar University College London
Richard Coker
Richard Coker London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Rifat Atun
Rifat Atun Harvard University
Sven Hoffner
Sven Hoffner Karolinska Institute
Marc Lipman
Marc Lipman Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes
Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes Kiel University
Mark Jit
Mark Jit New York University
Stefan Niemann
Stefan Niemann Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Daniela M. Cirillo
Daniela M. Cirillo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Mario Raviglione
Mario Raviglione University of Milan

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