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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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A phylogeny-based sampling strategy and power calculator informs genome-wide associations study design for microbial pathogens.
Authors: Authors: Farhat MR, Shapiro BJ, Sheppard SK, Colijn C, Murray M.
Genome Med
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Genomic analysis identifies targets of convergent positive selection in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Farhat MR, Shapiro BJ, Kieser KJ, Sultana R, Jacobson KR, Victor TC, Warren RM, Streicher EM, Calver A, Sloutsky A, Kaur D, Posey JE, Plikaytis B, Oggioni MR, Gardy JL, Johnston JC, Rodrigues M, Tang PK, Kato-Maeda M, Borowsky ML, Muddukrishna B, Kreiswirth BN, Kurepina N, Galagan J, Gagneux S, Birren B, Rubin EJ, Lander ES, Sabeti PC, Murray M.
Nat Genet
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Disturbance of respiratory muscle control in a patient with early-stage multiple sclerosis.
Authors: Authors: Farhat MR, Loring SH, Riskind P, Weinhouse G.
Eur Respir J
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Effects of disinfection on Legionella spp., eukarya, and biofilms in a hot water system.
Authors: Authors: Farhat M, Moletta-Denat M, Frère J, Onillon S, Trouilhé MC, Robine E.
Appl Environ Microbiol
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A comparison of early versus late initiation of renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Authors: Authors: Karvellas CJ, Farhat MR, Sajjad I, Mogensen SS, Leung AA, Wald R, Bagshaw SM.
Crit Care
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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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