Pranay Vishwanath

Baltimore, Maryland
Role: 
Scholar
Pranay-Vishwanath

Pranay Vishwanath is a master's candidate in the field of Bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and anticipated to graduate in Fall 2018. He is working with Drs. Amita Gupta and Jeffrey Tornheim, and is focusing on organization of data and generation/streamlining of bioinformatic pipelines for analysis of TB drug resistance assays.

He received a bachelor's degree in Biotechnology at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in 2016.

Faculty Mentor(s): 
Amita Gupta, MD, MHS
Jeff Tornheim, MD, MPH

Heightened microbial translocation is a prognostic biomarker of recurrent tuberculosis

Post Date: 
2022-03-30
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Countries: 
India
Publication: 
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Background Microbial translocation is a known characteristic of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). Whether microbial translocation is also a biomarker of recurrence in PTB is not known. Methods We examined the presence of microbial translocation in a cohort of newly diagnosed, sputum smear, and culture...