Ashwin S Dharmadhikari

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Surgical face masks worn by patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: impact on infectivity of air on a hospital ward
    Ashwin S Dharmadhikari
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Room 3A03, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 185:1104-9. 2012
  2. ncbi What animal models teach humans about tuberculosis
    Ashwin S Dharmadhikari
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 39:503-8. 2008
  3. ncbi Tuberculosis and HIV: a global menace exacerbated via sex trafficking
    Ashwin S Dharmadhikari
    Brigham and Women s Hospital, FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Avenue, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Int J Infect Dis 13:543-6. 2009
  4. ncbi Natural infection of guinea pigs exposed to patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis
    Ashwin S Dharmadhikari
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Tuberculosis (Edinb) 91:329-38. 2011

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi Surgical face masks worn by patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: impact on infectivity of air on a hospital ward
    Ashwin S Dharmadhikari
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Room 3A03, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 185:1104-9. 2012
    ..Drug-resistant tuberculosis transmission in hospitals threatens staff and patient health. Surgical face masks used by patients with tuberculosis (TB) are believed to reduce transmission but have not been rigorously tested...
  2. ncbi What animal models teach humans about tuberculosis
    Ashwin S Dharmadhikari
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 39:503-8. 2008
    ..Current concepts in TB pathogenesis have also been derived from animal studies involving experimentally induced infections with related mycobacteria (e.g., Mycobacterium bovis) whose manifestations in select animal hosts mimic human TB...
  3. ncbi Tuberculosis and HIV: a global menace exacerbated via sex trafficking
    Ashwin S Dharmadhikari
    Brigham and Women s Hospital, FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Avenue, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Int J Infect Dis 13:543-6. 2009
    ..We sought to examine the prevalence of TB among repatriated sex trafficked Nepalese girls and women in whom a high HIV prevalence was previously reported...
  4. ncbi Natural infection of guinea pigs exposed to patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis
    Ashwin S Dharmadhikari
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Tuberculosis (Edinb) 91:329-38. 2011
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