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Thomas M. Lietman is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research is concentrated in the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to several subfields including Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Microbiology, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientist's work covers various topics, prominently featuring:

  • Reproductive tract infections research
  • Ocular Infections and Treatments
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Ocular Diseases and Behçet's Syndrome

Thomas M. Lietman has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Jeremy D. Keenan
  • Benjamin F. Arnold
  • Elodie Lebas
  • Catherine E. Oldenburg
  • Travis C. Porco

The frequent publication venues where Lietman has contributed include:

  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ophthalmology
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Cornea

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas M. Lietman are:

  • Macrolide and Nonmacrolide Resistance with Mass Azithromycin Distribution (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Effect of Oral Azithromycin vs Placebo on COVID-19 Symptoms in Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection (2021, JAMA)
  • Predicted Impact of COVID-19 on Neglected Tropical Disease Programs and the Opportunity for Innovation (2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Cause-specific mortality of children younger than 5 years in communities receiving biannual mass azithromycin treatment in Niger: verbal autopsy results from a cluster-randomised controlled trial (2020, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Image-Based Differentiation of Bacterial and Fungal Keratitis Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (2022, Ophthalmology Science)

Best Publications

  • 2016 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome A consensus and data-driven methodology involving three international patient cohorts

    Caroline H Shiboski;Stephen C Shiboski;Raphaèle Seror;Lindsey A Criswell

  • American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for Sjögren's syndrome: a data-driven, expert consensus approach in the Sjögren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance cohort

    S C Shiboski;C H Shiboski;L A Criswell;A N Baer

  • Update on the Management of Infectious Keratitis

    Ariana Austin;Tom Lietman;Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer

  • The Global Trachoma Mapping Project: Methodology of a 34-Country Population-Based Study

    Anthony W. Solomon;Alexandre L. Pavluck;Paul Courtright;Agatha Aboe

  • Antimicrobial susceptibility of Fusarium, Aspergillus, and other filamentous fungi isolated from keratitis.

    Prajna Lalitha;Brett L. Shapiro;Muthiah Srinivasan;Namperumalsamy Venkatesh Prajna

  • Tau-crystallin/alpha-enolase: one gene encodes both an enzyme and a lens structural protein.

    G J Wistow;T Lietman;L A Williams;S O Stapel

  • Effect of mass distribution of azithromycin for trachoma control on overall mortality in Ethiopian children: a randomized trial.

    Travis C. Porco;Teshome Gebre;Berhan Ayele;Jenafir House

  • Corticosteroids for bacterial keratitis: the Steroids for Corneal Ulcers Trial (SCUT).

    Muthiah Srinivasan;Jeena Mascarenhas;Revathi Rajaraman;Meenakshi Ravindran

  • Spectrum of Eye Disease Caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

    Julie Freidlin;Nisha Acharya;Thomas M. Lietman;Vicky Cevallos

  • Effect of Oral Voriconazole on Fungal Keratitis in the Mycotic Ulcer Treatment Trial II (MUTT II): A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    N. Venkatesh Prajna;Tiruvengada Krishnan;Revathi Rajaraman;Sushila Patel

  • The Clinical Differentiation of Bacterial and Fungal Keratitis: A Photographic Survey

    Cyril Dalmon;Travis C. Porco;Thomas M. Lietman;N. Venkatesh Prajna

  • Macrolide and Nonmacrolide Resistance with Mass Azithromycin Distribution.

    Thuy Doan;Lee Worden;Armin Hinterwirth;Ahmed M. Arzika

  • Antimicrobial resistance following mass azithromycin distribution for trachoma: a systematic review.

    Kieran S O'Brien;Paul Emerson;PJ Hooper;Arthur L Reingold

  • Antibiotic selection pressure and macrolide resistance in nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pneumoniae: a cluster-randomized clinical trial.

    Alison H. Skalet;Vicky Cevallos;Berhan Ayele;Teshome Gebre

  • Adverse and Beneficial Secondary Effects of Mass Treatment with Azithromycin to Eliminate Blindness Due to Trachoma in Nepal

    A. M Fry;H. C Jha;T. M Lietman;J. S. P Chaudhary

  • Effect of a single mass antibiotic distribution on the prevalence of infectious trachoma.

    Jaya D. Chidambaram;Wondu Alemayehu;Muluken Melese;Takele Lakew

  • Acanthamoeba, fungal, and bacterial keratitis: a comparison of risk factors and clinical features

    Jeena Mascarenhas;Prajna Lalitha;N. Venkatesh Prajna;Muthiah Srinivasan

  • Assessment of herd protection against trachoma due to repeated mass antibiotic distributions: a cluster-randomised trial.

    Jenafir I House;Berhan Ayele;Travis C Porco;Zhaoxia Zhou

  • Trends in the etiology of infectious corneal ulcers at the F. I. Proctor Foundation.

    Gita Varaprasathan;Kevin Miller;Thomas Lietman;John P. Whitcher

  • Gut microbiome alteration in MORDOR I: a community-randomized trial of mass azithromycin distribution

    T Doan;A Hinterwirth;L Worden;A M Arzika

  • Effect of Oral Azithromycin vs Placebo on COVID-19 Symptoms in Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Catherine E Oldenburg;Benjamin A Pinsky;Jessica Brogdon;Cindi Chen

  • Reliability of clinical diagnosis in identifying infectious trachoma in a low-prevalence area of Nepal

    K. Baral;S. Osaki;B. Shreshta;C. R. Panta

  • Prospective Comparison of Microbial Culture and Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Diagnosis of Corneal Ulcer

    Elma Kim;Jaya D. Chidambaram;Muthiah Srinivasan;Prajna Lalitha

  • Childhood mortality in a cohort treated with mass azithromycin for trachoma.

    Jeremy D. Keenan;Berhan Ayele;Teshome Gebre;Mulat Zerihun

  • Comparison of two azithromycin distribution strategies for controlling trachoma in Nepal

    Susan Osaki Holm;Hem C. Jha;Ramesh C. Bhatta;J.S.P. Chaudhary

  • The decline of pneumococcal resistance after cessation of mass antibiotic distributions for trachoma.

    Sara Haug;Takele Lakew;Gabremaskal Habtemariam;Wondu Alemayehu

  • Reduction and return of infectious trachoma in severely affected communities in Ethiopia.

    Takele Lakew;Jenafir House;Kevin C. Hong;Elizabeth Yi

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin L. Bailey
Robin L. Bailey London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sheila K. West
Sheila K. West University of Pennsylvania
Paul M. Emerson
Paul M. Emerson Carter Center
Julius Schachter
Julius Schachter University of California, San Francisco
Beatriz Munoz
Beatriz Munoz Johns Hopkins University
David V. Glidden
David V. Glidden University of California, San Francisco
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Lindsey A. Criswell
Lindsey A. Criswell National Institutes of Health
David Mabey
David Mabey London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
George W. Rutherford
George W. Rutherford University of California, San Francisco

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