Publications
Goig G.A, Loiseau C, Maghradze N, McHedlishvili K, Avaliani T, Brites D, Borrell S, Aspindzelashvili R, Avaliani Z, Kipiani M, Tukvadze N, Jugheli L, Gagneux S. Transmission as a key driver of resistance to the new tuberculosis drugs. N Engl J Med. 2025;392(1):97-99. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2404644
March V.F.A, Maghradze N, McHedlishvili K, Avaliani T, Aspindzelashvili R, Avaliani Z, Kipiani M, Tukvadze N, Jugheli L, Bouaouina S, Doetsch A, Goig G.A, Gagneux S, Borrell S. Drug-induced differential culturability in diverse strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sci Rep. 2025;15:3588. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-85092-7
Pfurtscheller T, Tsutsunava A, Maghradze N, Gujabidze M, Bablishvili N, Yerlikaya S, Denkinger C.M, Tukvadze N, Gupta-Wright A. Programmatic diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of Xpert MTB/XDR in patients with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Georgia. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2025;12(2):ofaf022. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf022
Buziashvili M, Djibuti M, Tukvadze N, DeHovitz J, Baliashvili D. Incidence rate and risk factors for developing active tuberculosis among people living with HIV in Georgia 2019-2020 cohort. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024;11(9):ofae466. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae466
Cirillo D, Anthony R, Gagneux S, Horsburgh C.R. Jr, Hasan R, Darboe S, Laniado-Laborin R, Probandari A, Tukvadze N, Arcêncio R.A, Bimba J.S, Brighenti S, Chesov D, Chiang C.Y, Kalmambetova G, Knight G, Konstantynovska O, Kruse A, Lange C, Mayanja-Kizza H, McBryde E, Min J, Sanchez-Montalva A, Sulis G, Tsogt B, van der Walt M, Yeboah-Manu D, Hauser J. A successful UN High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance must build on the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on tuberculosis. Lancet Glob Health. 2024;12(8):e1225-e1226. DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00229-8
Salindri A.D, Kipiani M, Lomtadze N, Tukvadze N, Avaliani Z, Blumberg H.M, Masyn K.E, Rothenberg R.B, Kempker R.R, Magee M.J. HIV co-infection increases the risk of post-tuberculosis mortality among persons who initiated treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis. Sci Rep. 2024;14:23834. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-68605-2
Loiseau C, Windels E.M, Gygli S.M, Jugheli L, Maghradze N, Brites D, Ross A, Goig G, Reinhard M, Borrell S, Trauner A, Dötsch A, Aspindzelashvili R, Denes R, Reither K, Beisel C, Tukvadze N, Avaliani Z, Stadler T, Gagneux S. The relative transmission fitness of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a drug resistance hotspot. Nat Commun. 2023;14:1988. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37719-y
Maghradze N, Jugheli L, Borrell S, Tukvadze N, Kempker R.R, Blumberg H.M, Gagneux S. Developing customized stepwise MIRU-VNTR typing for tuberculosis surveillance in Georgia. PLoS One. 2022;17(3):e0264472. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264472
Gygli S.M, Loiseau C, Jugheli L, Adamia N, Trauner A, Reinhard M, Ross A, Borrell S, Aspindzelashvili R, Maghradze N, Reither K, Beisel C, Tukvadze N, Avaliani Z, Gagneux S. Prisons as ecological drivers of fitness-compensated multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nat Med. 2021;27:1171–1177. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-021-01358-x
Gygli S.M, Loiseau C, Jugheli L, Adamia N, Trauner A, Reinhard M, Ross A, Borrell S, Aspindzelashvili R, Maghradze N, Reither K, Beisel C, Tukvadze N, Avaliani Z, Gagneux S. Publisher Correction: Prisons as ecological drivers of fitness-compensated multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nat Med. 2021;27(7):1308. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-021-01417-3