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Madhukar Pai

Madhukar Pai

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Medicine

D-Index
122
Citations
61283
World Ranking
3448
National Ranking
143

Overview

Madhukar Pai is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has a significant publication record primarily in the field of medicine, with a focus on infectious diseases, epidemiology, and public health. Their research covers subfields including infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their work addresses several important topics, with a concentration on tuberculosis research and epidemiology, pneumonia and respiratory infections, global health and surgery, COVID-19 diagnosis using AI, COVID-19 clinical research studies, antibiotic use and resistance, and healthcare systems and reforms.

Frequent publication venues for Madhukar Pai include:

  • BMJ Global Health
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • The Lancet
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Medicine

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Charity Oga-Omenka
  • Mikashmi Kohli
  • Giorgia Sulis
  • Angelina Sassi
  • Benjamin Daniels

Selected recent papers by Madhukar Pai include:

  • "The Lancet Commission on diagnostics: transforming access to diagnostics," 2021, The Lancet
  • "Will global health survive its decolonisation?," 2020, The Lancet
  • "Antibiotic prescription practices in primary care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis," 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • "The intersecting pandemics of tuberculosis and COVID-19: population-level and patient-level impact, clinical presentation, and corrective interventions," 2022, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • "How we classify countries and people-and why it matters," 2022, BMJ Global Health

Their publication output numbered 283 works classified under medicine, with particularly high numbers in infectious diseases (107 publications) and epidemiology (63 publications).

Best Publications

  • Systematic review: T-cell-based assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: an update.

    Madhukar Pai;Alice Zwerling;Dick Menzies

  • Xpert® MTB/RIF assay for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults.

    Karen R Steingart;Ian Schiller;David J Horne;Madhukar Pai

  • Meta-analysis: new tests for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: areas of uncertainty and recommendations for research.

    Dick Menzies;Madhukar Pai;George Comstock

  • Interferon-γ assays in the immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis: a systematic review

    Madhukar Pai;Lee W Riley;John M Colford

  • Fluorescence versus conventional sputum smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic review.

    Karen R Steingart;Megan Henry;Vivienne Ng;Philip C Hopewell

  • Gamma Interferon Release Assays for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

    Madhukar Pai;Claudia M. Denkinger;Claudia M. Denkinger;Sandra V. Kik;Molebogeng X. Rangaka

  • False-positive tuberculin skin tests: what is the absolute effect of BCG and non-tuberculous mycobacteria?

    M Farhat;C Greenaway;M Pai;D Menzies

  • Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children

    David M. Lewinsohn;Michael K. Leonard;Philip A. LoBue;David L. Cohn

  • Tuberculosis among Health-Care Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

    Rajnish Joshi;Arthur L Reingold;Dick Menzies;Madhukar Pai

  • Risk of tuberculosis from exposure to tobacco smoke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Michael N. Bates;Asheena Khalakdina;Madhukar Pai;Lisa Chang

  • Sputum processing methods to improve the sensitivity of smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic review

    Karen R Steingart;Vivienne Ng;Megan Henry;Philip C Hopewell

  • Multidrug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Regimens and Patient Outcomes: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of 9,153 Patients

    Shama D. Ahuja;David Ashkin;Monika Avendano;Rita Banerjee

  • The BCG World Atlas: A Database of Global BCG Vaccination Policies and Practices

    Alice Zwerling;Marcel A. Behr;Marcel A. Behr;Aman Verma;Timothy F. Brewer

  • Predictive value of interferon-γ release assays for incident active tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Molebogeng X Rangaka;Molebogeng X Rangaka;Katalin A Wilkinson;Katalin A Wilkinson;Judith R Glynn;Daphne Ling

  • Point-of-care testing for infectious diseases: diversity, complexity, and barriers in low- and middle-income countries.

    Nitika Pant Pai;Caroline Vadnais;Claudia Denkinger;Claudia Denkinger;Nora Engel

  • Biomarkers and diagnostics for tuberculosis: progress, needs, and translation into practice

    Robert S Wallis;Madhukar Pai;Madhukar Pai;Dick Menzies;Dick Menzies;T Mark Doherty

  • Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Claudia M. Denkinger;Claudia M. Denkinger;Samuel G. Schumacher;Catharina C. Boehme;Nandini Dendukuri

  • Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: an illustrated, step-by-step guide.

    Madhukar Pai;Michael McCulloch;Jennifer D Gorman;Nitika Pai

  • Tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection in close contacts of people with pulmonary tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Janina Morrison;Madhukar Pai;Philip C Hopewell

  • International standards for tuberculosis care.

    Philip C Hopewell;Madhukar Pai;Dermot Maher;Mukund Uplekar

Frequent Co-Authors

Dick Menzies
Dick Menzies McGill University
Keertan Dheda
Keertan Dheda University of Cape Town
Philip C. Hopewell
Philip C. Hopewell University of California, San Francisco
Marcel A. Behr
Marcel A. Behr McGill University
Jishnu Das
Jishnu Das Georgetown University
Lee W. Riley
Lee W. Riley University of California, Berkeley
Alimuddin Zumla
Alimuddin Zumla University College London
Arthur L. Reingold
Arthur L. Reingold University of California, Berkeley
Helen Cox
Helen Cox University of Cape Town
Anna Vassall
Anna Vassall London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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