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Maha Reda Farhat, M.D., M.D.,C.M.

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Maha Farhat  holds an MD from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and a MSc in biostatistics from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is also a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

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Dr. Farhat's research focuses on the development and application of methods for associating genotype and phenotype in infectious disease pathogens, with a strong emphasis on translation to better diagnostics and surveillance in resource-poor settings. To date, Farhat's work has focused on the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and spans the spectrum from computational analysis to field studies. She is PI and Co-Investigator on several large projects funded by NIH including the NIAID and the BD2K initiative.


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Interpreting expression data with metabolic flux models: predicting Mycobacterium tuberculosis mycolic acid production.
Authors: Authors: Colijn C, Brandes A, Zucker J, Lun DS, Weiner B, Farhat MR, Cheng TY, Moody DB, Murray M, Galagan JE.
PLoS Comput Biol
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Thinking in three dimensions: a web-based algorithm to aid the interpretation of tuberculin skin test results.
Authors: Authors: Menzies D, Gardiner G, Farhat M, Greenaway C, Pai M.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
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False-positive tuberculin reactions due to non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections.
Authors: Authors: Cobelens FG, Menzies D, Farhat M.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
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False-positive tuberculin skin tests: what is the absolute effect of BCG and non-tuberculous mycobacteria?
Authors: Authors: Farhat M, Greenaway C, Pai M, Menzies D.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
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