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Overview

Padmini Salgame is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Surgery, Molecular Biology, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Padmini Salgame has published extensively, with papers appearing in a wide range of journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Padmini Salgame include:

  • Food for thought: addressing undernutrition to end tuberculosis, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Diagnostic biomarkers for active tuberculosis: progress and challenges, 2022, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Montelukast in hospitalized patients diagnosed with COVID-19, 2021, Journal of Asthma
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis progresses through two phases of latent infection in humans, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Early alveolar macrophage response and IL-1R-dependent T cell priming determine transmissibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, 2022, Nature Communications

Several co-authors have frequently collaborated with Padmini Salgame, highlighting a network of research partnerships. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Jerrold J. Ellner
  • Sonali Sarkar
  • Natasha S. Hochberg
  • C. Robert Horsburgh
  • Senbagavalli Prakash Babu

Best Publications

  • Differing lymphokine profiles of functional subsets of human CD4 and CD8 T cell clones.

    Padmini Salgame;John S. Abrams;Carol Clayberger;Harris Goldstein

  • Reversal of Proinflammatory Responses by Ligating the Macrophage Fcγ Receptor Type I

    Fayyaz S. Sutterwala;Gary J. Noel;Padmini Salgame;David M. Mosser

  • Revisiting and revising suppressor T cells

    Barry R Bloom;Padmini Salgame;Betty Diamond

  • Effect of helminth-induced immunity on infections with microbial pathogens

    Padmini Salgame;George S Yap;William C Gause

  • Host Innate Immune Response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Kamlesh Bhatt;Padmini Salgame

  • Immunosuppressive roles for IL-10 and IL-4 in human infection. In vitro modulation of T cell responses in leprosy.

    P A Sieling;J S Abrams;M Yamamura;P Salgame

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces differential cytokine production from dendritic cells and macrophages with divergent effects on naive T cell polarization.

    Somia Perdow Hickman;John Chan;Padmini Salgame

  • Host innate and Th1 responses and the bacterial factors that control Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

    Padmini Salgame

  • Differential ability of T cell subsets to undergo activation-induced cell death

    Arun S. Varadhachary;Somia N. Perdow;Chenggang Hu;Malini Ramanarayanan

  • Imatinib-Sensitive Tyrosine Kinases Regulate Mycobacterial Pathogenesis and Represent Therapeutic Targets against Tuberculosis

    Ruth J. Napier;Wasiulla Rafi;Mani Cheruvu;Kimberly Robin Powell

  • Preexisting helminth infection induces inhibition of innate pulmonary anti-tuberculosis defense by engaging the IL-4 receptor pathway

    Julius A. Potian;Wasiulla Rafi;Kamlesh Bhatt;Amanda McBride

  • Stigma Variations: Observations on Suppressor T Cells and Leprosy

    B R Bloom;R L Modlin;P Salgame

  • An ELISA for detection of apoptosis.

    Padmini Salgame;Arun S. Varadhachary;Laura L. Primiano;John E. Fincke

  • Effects of protein calorie malnutrition on tuberculosis in mice.

    John Chan;Yu Tian;Kathryn E. Tanaka;Ming S. Tsang

  • IL-6 and IL-10 induction from dendritic cells in response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis is predominantly dependent on TLR2-mediated recognition.

    Sihyug Jang;Satoshi Uematsu;Shizuo Akira;Padmini Salgame

  • T Cells and T-Cell Cytokine Transcripts in the Synovial Membrane in Patients with Osteoarthritis

    Lazaros I. Sakkas;Carla Scanzello;Norman Johanson;Janet Burkholder

  • Sustained Generation of Nitric Oxide and Control of Mycobacterial Infection Requires Argininosuccinate Synthase 1

    Joseph E. Qualls;Chitra Subramanian;Wasiulla Rafi;Amber M. Smith

  • Latent tuberculosis infection--Revisiting and revising concepts

    Padmini Salgame;Carolina Geadas;Lauren Collins;Edward Jones-López

  • The multifunctional histone-like protein Lsr2 protects mycobacteria against reactive oxygen intermediates.

    R. Colangeli;A. Haq;V. L. Arcus;E. Summers

  • Nucleotide-Binding Oligomerization Domain Protein 2-Deficient Mice Control Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Sheetal Gandotra;Sihyug Jang;Peter J. Murray;Padmini Salgame

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerrold J. Ellner
Jerrold J. Ellner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Barry R. Bloom
Barry R. Bloom Harvard University
William C. Gause
William C. Gause Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Peter H. Krammer
Peter H. Krammer German Cancer Research Center
Marc Monestier
Marc Monestier Temple University
Euzenir Nunes Sarno
Euzenir Nunes Sarno Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Warwick J. Britton
Warwick J. Britton University of Sydney
Min Li-Weber
Min Li-Weber German Cancer Research Center
Delphi Chatterjee
Delphi Chatterjee Colorado State University
Hazel M. Dockrell
Hazel M. Dockrell London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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