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Bhargava, A., Bhargava, M., Meher, A., Benedetti, A., Velayutham, B., Teja, G. S., Watson, B., Barik, G., Pathak, R. R., & Prasad, R. (2023). Nutritional supplementation to prevent tuberculosis incidence in household contacts of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in India (RATIONS): a field-based, open-label, cluster-randomised, controlled trial. The Lancet, 402(10402), 627–640.

Bhargava, A., Bhargava, M., Meher, A., Teja, G. S., Velayutham, B., Watson, B., Benedetti, A., Barik, G., Singh, V. P., & Singh, D. (2023). Nutritional support for adult patients with microbiologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis: outcomes in a programmatic cohort nested within the RATIONS trial in Jharkhand, India. The Lancet Global Health, 11(9), e1402–e1411.

Pelzer, P. T., Stuck, L., Martinez, L., Richards, A. S., Acuña-Villaorduña, C., Aronson, N. E., Bonnet, M., Carvalho, A. C., Chan, P.-C., & Huang, L.-M. (2025). Effectiveness of the primary Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine against the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease: a meta-analysis of individual participant data. The Lancet Microbe, 6(2).

Bhargava, A., Bhargava, M., Velayutham, B., Thiruvengadam, K., Watson, B., Kulkarni, B., Singh, M., Dayal, R., Pathak, R. R., & Mitra, A. (2021). The RATIONS study: a cluster randomised trial of nutritional support to reduce TB incidence in household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in Jharkhand, India. BMJ Open, 11(5), e047210.

Selvaraju, S., Thiruvengadam, K., Watson, B., Thirumalai, N., Malaisamy, M., Vedachalam, C., Swaminathan, S., & Padmapriyadarsini, C. (2021). Long-term survival of treated tuberculosis patients in comparison to a general population in South India: a matched cohort study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 110, 385–393.

Krishnan, R., Thiruvengadam, K., Jayabal, L., Selvaraju, S., Watson, B., Malaisamy, M., Nagarajan, K., Tripathy, S. P., Chinnaiyan, P., & Padmapriyadarsini, C. (2022). Influence of dew point temperature on the occurrence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in Chennai, India. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 6147.

Kannayan, S. C., Watson, B., Thiruvengadam, K., Shamail, M. H. G., Velayutham, B., Krishnan, R., & Natarajan, S. (2024). Malnutrition in tribal people living with tuberculosis in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 160(1), 23.

Velayutham, B., Thiruvengadam, K., Kumaran, P. P., Watson, B., Rajendran, K., & Padmapriyadarsini, C. (2023). Revisiting the Chingleput BCG vaccination trial for the impact of BCG revaccination on tuberculosis incidence. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 157(2-3), 152–159.

Periyasamy, M., Thomas, B. E., Watson, B., Rani, S., Jayabal, L., Murugesan, J., Ananthakrishnan, R., Thomas, T., Sumathi, G. N., & Nagarajan, K. (2022). Measuring tuberculosis patient perceived quality of care in public and public–private mix settings in India: an instrument development and validation study. BMJ Open Quality, 11(3).

Rajendran, P., Murugesan, B., Balaji, S., Shanmugam, S., Palanisamy, S., Ramamoorthy, T., Hasini, S., Devaleenal, B., & Watson, B. (2022). Standardization of a stool concentration method for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection in the pediatric population. International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 11(4), 371–377.

Developed inbuilt protection of cyber security for institutional sensitive Tb research digital data as per the government norm

It has data repository of all Epidemiological surveys.

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