Maria Ruperez

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Maria Ruperez is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Department of Clinical Research. Her research primarily focuses on tuberculosis and COVID-19, with recent articles examining the prevalence and clinical outcomes of tuberculosis in Zambia and South Africa, as well as the evaluation of COVID-19 rapid diagnostic tests in Lesotho and Zambia. She also investigates the impact of combined TB/HIV interventions and community-based screening approaches for infectious diseases.

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Scaling-up TB/COVID bidirectional screening in Zambia (TBCOV) study

Open Date: 2022-05-01

Close Date: 2023-06-01

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Performance of Antigen (Ag) Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDT) to detect SARS-CoV-2 infection in Zambia

Open Date: 2021-05-01

Close Date: 2022-02-01

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Evaluation of a point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 antigen test within the TREATS-COVID study in Zambia

Open Date: 2021-03-01

Close Date: 2021-11-01

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Azucena Bardají Alonso

Associate Research Professor

Barcelona Institute for Global Health

SPAIN

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Pete Dodd

University of Sheffield

UNITED KINGDOM

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Gilles Cottrell

FRANCE

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Maria Eugenia Castellanos

Lecturer, Epidemiology & Communicable Disease Control

James Cook University

AUSTRALIA

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Nicaise Tuikue Ndam

Research Professor

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

FRANCE

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Clinical outcomes of participants of a TB prevalence survey with an abnormal chest X-ray but no evidence of TB disease after a median follow-up of 9 months in Zambia and South Africa

Evaluation of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing in Lesotho and Zambia

Prevalence of and risk factors for microscopic and submicroscopic malaria infections in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Use of point-of-care C-reactive protein testing for screening of tuberculosis in the community in high-burden settings: a prospective, cross-sectional study in Zambia and South Africa

Tuberculosis prevalence after 4 years of population-wide systematic TB symptom screening and universal testing and treatment for HIV in the HPTN 071 (PopART) community-randomised trial in Zambia and South Africa: A cross-sectional survey (TREATS)

Prevalence and risk factors of M tuberculosis infection in young people across 14 communities in Zambia and South Africa

Assessment of non-tuberculosis abnormalities on digital chest x-rays with high CAD4TB scores from a tuberculosis prevalence survey in Zambia and South Africa.

Creating access to SARS-CoV-2 screening and testing through community-based COVID-19 case-finding, observations from cross-sectional studies in Lesotho and Zambia.

The impact of a combined TB/HIV intervention on the incidence of TB infection among adolescents and young adults in the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial communities in Zambia and South Africa.

Optimising Xpert-Ultra and culture testing to reliably measure tuberculosis prevalence in the community: findings from surveys in Zambia and South Africa.

SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and associated risk factors in periurban Zambia: a population-based study.

Assessing usability of QIAreach QuantiFERON-TB platform in a high tuberculosis prevalence, low-resource setting.

Does tuberculosis screening improve individual outcomes? A systematic review.

Community-based active case-finding interventions for tuberculosis: a systematic review.

Reduced Placental Transfer of Antibodies Against a Wide Range of Microbial and Vaccine Antigens in HIV-Infected Women in Mozambique.

HIV infection and placental malaria reduce maternal transfer of multiple antimalarial antibodies in Mozambican women.

Pathophysiology of Anemia in HIV-Infected Children Exposed to Malaria.

Discordant retention of HIV-infected mothers and children: Evidence for a family-based approach from Southern Mozambique.

Collaborators (5)

Azucena Bardají Alonso

Pete Dodd

Gilles Cottrell

Maria Eugenia Castellanos

Nicaise Tuikue Ndam

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