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Samantha Malatesta

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South Africa

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Kulkarni SG, Green AG, Mann BC, Malatesta S, Kulkarni-Goodwin S, Cesare N, Mulaudzi S, Rawoot N, , Warren RM, Jacobson KR, Farhat MR. (2026). Convolutional neural networks quantify antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with diagnostic grade accuracy and predict treatment response. Nature communications, 17(1)

Malatesta S, Jacobson KR, Horsburgh CR, Farhat M, Carney T, Gile KJ, Kolaczyk ED, White LF. (2025). An Integrated Data-Driven Model for Clinical Phenotyping of Tuberculosis Disease Severity. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Wijk M, Denti P, Gausi K, Myers B, Carney T, White LF, Theron D, Parry CDH, Horsburgh CR, Rawoot N, Warren RM, Court R, Kulkarni SG, Farhat MR, Buys C, Malatesta S, Weber SE, Kulkarni S, McIlleron H, Jacobson KR, Kloprogge F. (2025). Insights into the Role of Rifampicin Exposure and Clinical Baseline Covariates on the Response to Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Tzelios CA, Malatesta S, Carney T, White LF, Weber SE, Thomson S, Theron D, Myers B, Parry CDH, Warren RM, Horsburgh CR, Farhat MR, Jacobson KR. (2025). Patient Determinants and Effects on Adherence of Adverse Drug Reactions to Tuberculosis Treatment: A Prospective Cohort Analysis. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Malatesta S, Carney T, Niemand Wolhuter N, Overbeck V, Theron D, Weber SE, Meade CS, Thomson S, Bouton TC, Farhat M, Myers B, Wood R, Ratangee F, Horsburgh CR, White LF, Warren RM, Jacobson KR. (2025). Tuberculosis Disease Prevalence Among People Who Smoke Illicit Drugs: A Respondent- Driven Sampling Study in the Western Cape, South Africa. The Journal of infectious diseases

Malatesta S, Jacobson KR, Carney T, Kolaczyk ED, Gile KJ, White LF. (2025). Inferring bivariate associations with continuous data from studies using respondent-driven sampling. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics, 74(2)

Overbeck V, Malatesta S, Carney T, Myers B, Parry CDH, Horsburgh CR, Theron D, White LF, Warren RM, Jacobson KR, Bouton TC. (2024). Understanding the impact of pandemics on long-term medication adherence: directly observed therapy in a tuberculosis treatment cohort pre- and post-COVID-19 lockdowns. BMC infectious diseases, 24(1)

Wijk M, Gausi K, Malatesta S, Weber SE, Court R, Myers B, Carney T, Parry CDH, Horsburgh CR, White LF, Wiesner L, Warren RM, Uren C, McIlleron H, Kloprogge F, Denti P, Jacobson KR. (2024). The impact of alcohol and illicit substance use on the pharmacokinetics of first-line TB drugs. The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Myers B, Carney T, Rooney J, Malatesta S, Ragan EJ, White LF, Natcheva H, Bouton TC, Weber SE, Farhat M, McIlleron H, Theron D, Parry CDH, Horsburgh CR, Warren RM, Jacobson KR. (2023). Smoked drug use in patients with TB is associated with higher bacterial burden. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 27(6)

Malatesta S, Weir IR, Weber SE, Bouton TC, Carney T, Theron D, Myers B, Horsburgh CR, Warren RM, Jacobson KR, White LF. (2022). Methods for handling missing data in serially sampled sputum specimens for mycobacterial culture conversion calculation. BMC medical research methodology, 22(1)

Myers B, Carney T, Rooney J, Malatesta S, White LF, Parry CDH, Bouton TC, Ragan EJ, Horsburgh CR Jr., Warren RM, Jacobson KR. (2021). Alcohol and Tobacco Use in a Tuberculosis Treatment Cohort during South Africa's COVID-19 Sales Bans: A Case Series. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(10)

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