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Nazir Ismail

National Health Laboratory Service ·
Area of research
Infectious Diseases · Epidemiology
Research interest
Research interests include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections.
h-index
44
citations
7,704
works
205
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
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Recent publications

Effects of conditional cash transfers and pre-test and post-test tuberculosis counselling on patient outcomes and loss to follow-up across the continuum of care in South Africa: a randomised controlled trial
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2025cited by 6position: firstdoi
Clinical standards for antimicrobial stewardship in TB care
IJTLD OPEN 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
Future-proofing tuberculosis therapy: framework for concurrent drug and resistance testing development
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Quantitative measurement of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals genetic determinants of resistance and susceptibility in a target gene approach
Nature Communications 2024cited by 45position: middledoi
The epidemiology, transmission, diagnosis, and management of drug-resistant tuberculosis—lessons from the South African experience
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2024cited by 41position: middledoi
Systematic review of the economic impact of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis specific antigen-based skin tests for detection of TB infection compared with tuberculin skin test and interferon-gamma release assays
PLOS Global Public Health 2024cited by 10position: middledoi
Careful classification of potential bedaquiline resistance mutations is critical when analysing their clinical impact
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2024cited by 4position: middledoi
Assessing the Diagnostic Performance of New Commercial Interferon-γ Release Assays for<i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2023cited by 39position: middledoi
Updating the WHO target product profile for next-generation Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing at peripheral centres
PLOS Global Public Health 2023cited by 39position: middledoi
Genotype–Phenotype Characterization of Serial <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Isolates in Bedaquiline-Resistant Tuberculosis
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2023cited by 17position: middledoi
Economic evaluation of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis specific antigen-based skin tests for detection of TB infection: A modelling study
PLOS Global Public Health 2023cited by 8position: middledoi
High fluoroquinolone resistance proportions among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis driven by dominant L2 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clones in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Genome Medicine 2022cited by 48position: middledoi
Prior Pulmonary Tuberculosis Is a Risk Factor for Asymptomatic Cryptococcal Antigenemia in a Cohort of Adults With Advanced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2022cited by 3position: middledoi
Effectiveness and Cardiac Safety of Bedaquiline-Based Therapy for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Prospective Cohort Study
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2021cited by 49position: middledoi
Tryptophan catabolism reflects disease activity in human tuberculosis
JCI Insight 2020cited by 109position: middledoi
MDR M. tuberculosis outbreak clone in Eswatini missed by Xpert has elevated bedaquiline resistance dated to the pre-treatment era
Genome Medicine 2020cited by 82position: middledoi
Validation of Bedaquiline Phenotypic Drug Susceptibility Testing Methods and Breakpoints: a Multilaboratory, Multicountry Study
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2020cited by 40position: middledoi
A Multimethod, Multicountry Evaluation of Breakpoints for Bedaquiline Resistance Determination
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2020cited by 14position: firstdoi
Antibiotic resistance prediction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from genome sequence data with Mykrobe
Wellcome Open Research 2019cited by 201position: middledoi
Cryptococcal-related Mortality Despite Fluconazole Preemptive Treatment in a Cryptococcal Antigen Screen-and-Treat Program
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2019cited by 58position: middledoi
Treatment outcomes among children, adolescents, and adults on treatment for tuberculosis in two metropolitan municipalities in Gauteng Province, South Africa
BMC Public Health 2019cited by 40position: middledoi
Pre-detection history of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019cited by 33position: middledoi
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis ‘hotspots' and sociodemographic associations in Durban, South Africa
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2019cited by 26position: middledoi
Data quality of drug-resistant tuberculosis and antiretroviral therapy electronic registers in South Africa
BMC Public Health 2019cited by 10position: middledoi
Genetic sequencing for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis in highly endemic countries: a multi-country population-based surveillance study
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2018cited by 160position: middledoi
Using mHealth to improve tuberculosis case identification and treatment initiation in South Africa: Results from a pilot study
PLoS ONE 2018cited by 39position: middledoi
Spatial Patterns of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Transmission in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2018cited by 38position: middledoi
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa: genomic evidence supporting transmission in communities
European Respiratory Journal 2018cited by 35position: middledoi
Transmission of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa
New England Journal of Medicine 2017cited by 293position: middledoi
Some Synonymous and Nonsynonymous <i>gyrA</i> Mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lead to Systematic False-Positive Fluoroquinolone Resistance Results with the Hain GenoType MTBDR <i>sl</i> Assays
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2017cited by 35position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Shaheed Vally Omar · National Institute for Communicable Diseases15 papers (2015–2025)Neel R. Gandhi · Emory University8 papers (2017–2023)James C.M. Brust · Albert Einstein College of Medicine8 papers (2017–2023)Barun Mathema · Boston University7 papers (2017–2024)Neha Shah · Walter Reed Army Institute of Research6 papers (2017–2023)Koleka Mlisana · National Health Laboratory Service6 papers (2017–2021)Salim Allana · Aga Khan University Hospital5 papers (2017–2021)Tyler S. Brown · Boston University5 papers (2017–2023)Daniela María Cirillo · Johns Hopkins Medicine5 papers (2020–2025)Sara C. Auld · Emory University5 papers (2017–2019)Pravi Moodley · National Health Laboratory Service4 papers (2017–2019)Claudio U. Köser · Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4 papers (2015–2024)Stefan Niemann · University Hospital of Bern4 papers (2015–2024)Angela Campbell · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention4 papers (2017–2021)Ibrahim Abubakar · Federal University Birnin Kebbi4 papers (2015–2025)Kristin N. Nelson · Emory University4 papers (2018–2019)Gavin Churchyard · Médecins Sans Frontières3 papers (2015–2018)A Sarah Walker · Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections at University of Liverpool3 papers (2017–2025)Lara Goscé · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine3 papers (2023–2025) · 3 papers (2023–2024)