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Megan Murray is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focused expertise in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Surgery. Their research extensively covers topics related to Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

They have several recent significant publications, including:

  • The risk of tuberculosis in children after close exposure: a systematic review and individual-participant meta-analysis (2020) in The Lancet
  • Single-cell eQTL models reveal dynamic T cell state dependence of disease loci (2022) in Nature
  • RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (2024) in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Estimated Demand for US Hospital Inpatient and Intensive Care Unit Beds for Patients With COVID-19 Based on Comparisons With Wuhan and Guangzhou, China (2020) in JAMA Network Open

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Leonid Lecca, Roger Calderón, Chuan-Chin Huang, Carmen Contreras, and Rosa Yataco.

Their work commonly appears in publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Infectious Diseases, BMJ Global Health, Aquaculture Research, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Diabetes Mellitus Increases the Risk of Active Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of 13 Observational Studies

    Christie Y Jeon;Megan B Murray

  • Transmission Dynamics and Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

    Marc Lipsitch;Ted Cohen;Ben Cooper;James M. Robins

  • The impact of diabetes on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A systematic review

    Meghan A Baker;Anthony D Harries;Anthony D Harries;Christie Y Jeon;Christie Y Jeon;Jessica E Hart

  • Tobacco Smoke, Indoor Air Pollution and Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Hsien-Ho Lin;Majid Ezzati;Megan Blanche Murray;Megan Blanche Murray

  • The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis

    Keertan Dheda;Tawanda Gumbo;Gary Maartens;Kelly E. Dooley

  • Tuberculosis drug resistance mutation database.

    Andreas Sandgren;Michael Strong;Preetika Muthukrishnan;Brian K Weiner

  • The adverse effect of iron repletion on the course of certain infections.

    Murray J Murray;Anne B. Murray;Megan B. Murray;C. J. Murray

  • Genomic analysis identifies targets of convergent positive selection in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Maha R Farhat;B Jesse Shapiro;Karen J Kieser;Razvan Sultana

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutation rate estimates from different lineages predict substantial differences in the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis

    Christopher B Ford;Rupal R Shah;Midori Kato Maeda;Sebastien Gagneux;Sebastien Gagneux

  • Population Genetics Study of Isoniazid Resistance Mutations and Evolution of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Manzour Hernando Hazbón;Michael Brimacombe;Miriam Bobadilla del Valle;Magali Cavatore

  • Interpreting expression data with metabolic flux models: predicting Mycobacterium tuberculosis mycolic acid production.

    Caroline Colijn;Caroline Colijn;Caroline Colijn;Aaron Brandes;Jeremy Daniel Hofeld Zucker;Desmond S. Lun;Desmond S. Lun

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

    Caroline Allix-Béguec;Irena Arandjelovic

  • Modeling epidemics of multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis of heterogeneous fitness

    Ted Cohen;Megan Murray

  • A standardised method for interpreting the association between mutations and phenotypic drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Paolo Miotto;Belay Tessema;Elisa Tagliani;Leonid Chindelevitch

  • Treatment Outcomes among Patients with Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Karen R. Jacobson;Dylan B. Tierney;Christie Y. Jeon;Carole D. Mitnick;Carole D. Mitnick

  • Global control of tuberculosis: from extensively drug-resistant to untreatable tuberculosis.

    Keertan Dheda;Tawanda Gumbo;Neel R Gandhi;Megan Murray

  • Effects of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis in China: a time-based, multiple risk factor, modelling study

    Hsien-Ho Lin;Megan Murray;Megan Murray;Ted Cohen;Ted Cohen;Caroline Colijn

  • Isolation and characterization of rat cDNA clones for two distinct thyroid hormone receptors.

    M B Murray;N D Zilz;N L McCreary;M J MacDonald

  • Bi-directional screening for tuberculosis and diabetes: a systematic review.

    Christie Y. Jeon;Anthony D. Harries;Anthony D. Harries;Meghan A. Baker;Jessica E. Hart

  • Population Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Tuberculosis Diagnosis with Xpert MTB/RIF: A Dynamic Simulation and Economic Evaluation

    Nicolas Alan Menzies;Ted Cohen;Ted Cohen;Hsien-Ho Lin;Megan Blanche Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
Robin M. Warren
Robin M. Warren Stellenbosch University
D. Branch Moody
D. Branch Moody Brigham and Women's Hospital
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Soumya Raychaudhuri Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jamie Rossjohn
Jamie Rossjohn Monash University
Christopher Dye
Christopher Dye University of Oxford
Sebastien Gagneux
Sebastien Gagneux University of Basel
Thomas C. Victor
Thomas C. Victor Stellenbosch University
Agnes Binagwaho
Agnes Binagwaho Harvard University
Lisa R. Hirschhorn
Lisa R. Hirschhorn Northwestern University

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