Peter MacPherson

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Peter MacPherson is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter MacPherson has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Infectious Diseases, 76 papers in Epidemiology and 26 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Peter MacPherson's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (60 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (41 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (25 papers). Peter MacPherson is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (60 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (41 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (25 papers). Peter MacPherson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Malawi and United States. Peter MacPherson's co-authors include Elizabeth L. Corbett, Rein M G J Houben, Katherine C. Horton, Augustine Choko, Richard G. White, Katharina Kranzer, S. Bertel Squire, David G. Lalloo, Emily L. Webb and Hendramoorthy Maheswaran and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter MacPherson

146 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Burden and Notifications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

2016 319 citations Katherine C. Horton, Peter MacPherson et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Risk and determinants of mortality associated with invasive group A streptococcus (iGAS) disease in Scotland: A national surveillance study 2025 ·International Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Ebrahim Ghaderi, Eisin McDonald, (unknown), Melissa Llano, Diane Lindsay, Morris C Muzyamba, (unknown), Peter MacPherson	0
2	Diagnostic accuracy of the WHO clinical staging system for detection of immunologically defined advanced HIV disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis 2025 ·HIV Medicine ·(unknown), Akitoshi Ueno, (unknown), Ross Murtagh, (unknown), Seyed Alireza Mortazavi, David S. Lawrence, Augustine Choko, (unknown), Kelvin Balakasi, Ajay Rangaraj, Nathan Ford, Joseph N Jarvis, Peter MacPherson	0
3	Tuberculosis Immunoreactivity Surveillance in Malawi (Timasamala)—A protocol for a cross-sectional Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunoreactivity survey in Blantyre, Malawi 2024 ·PLoS ONE ·Hannah M. Rickman, (unknown), Helena R. A. Feasey, (unknown), Marriott Nliwasa, (unknown), George Chagaluka, Katherine Fielding, Henry C. Mwandumba, Katherine C. Horton, Emily Nightingale, Marc Henrion, (unknown), (unknown), Elizabeth L. Corbett, Peter MacPherson	1
4	Interventions to reduce deaths in people living with HIV admitted to hospital in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Rachael M. Burke, (unknown), (unknown), Marriott Nliwasa, Ankur Gupta‐Wright, Katherine Fielding, Nathan Ford, Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L. Corbett	7
5	Prevalence of bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in urban Blantyre, Malawi 2019–20: Substantial decline compared to 2013–14 national survey 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Helena R. A. Feasey, McEwen Khundi, (unknown), Emily Nightingale, Rachael M. Burke, Marc Henrion, (unknown), Helen Burchett, (unknown), Marriott Nliwasa, (unknown), (unknown), Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L. Corbett	8
6	Impact of active case-finding for tuberculosis on case-notifications in Blantyre, Malawi: A community-based cluster-randomised trial (SCALE) 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Helena R. A. Feasey, McEwen Khundi, (unknown), Christian Bottomley, (unknown), Helen Burchett, Marriott Nliwasa, (unknown), (unknown), Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L. Corbett	7
7	A prospective diagnostic evaluation of accuracy of self-taken and healthcare worker-taken swabs for rapid COVID-19 testing 2022 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Lorna Finch, Richard Body, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Gail Hayward, Eloïse Cook, Ana I. Cubas-Atienzar, Luís E. Cuevas, Peter MacPherson, Emily R. Adams	10
8	TB Hackathon: Development and Comparison of Five Models to Predict Subnational Tuberculosis Prevalence in Pakistan 2022 ·Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease ·Sandra Alba, Ente Rood, (unknown), Jennifer M. Ross, Peter J. Dodd, Stewart T. Chang, (unknown), Gaia Bertarelli, Nathaniel J Henry, Kate E LeGrand, (unknown), Debebe Shaweno, Peter MacPherson, Zhi Zhen Qin, Christina Mergenthaler, Federica Giardina, Ellen-Wien Augustijn, (unknown), Abdullah Latif	8
9	Accuracy of computer-aided chest X-ray in community-based tuberculosis screening: Lessons from the 2016 Kenya National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Brenda Mungai, (unknown), (unknown), Marc Henrion, Ben Morton, Elizabeth Joekes, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Enos Masini, Joseph Sitienei, Veronica Manduku, (unknown), S. Bertel Squire, Peter MacPherson	14
10	Design and protocol for a cluster randomised trial of enhanced diagnostics for tuberculosis screening among people living with HIV in hospital in Malawi (CASTLE study) 2022 ·PLoS ONE ·Rachael M. Burke, Moffat Nyirenda, (unknown), Marriott Nliwasa, Elizabeth Joekes, Naomi F. Walker, Rose Nyirenda, Ankur Gupta‐Wright, Katherine Fielding, Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L. Corbett	1
11	Household Contact Tracing With Intensified Tuberculosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening in South Africa: A Cluster-Randomized Trial 2021 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Neil Martinson, Limakatso Lebina, Emily L. Webb, (unknown), (unknown), Anthony Kinghorn, Sanjay G. Lala, Jonathan E. Golub, (unknown), (unknown), Peter MacPherson	15
12	Clinical, health systems and neighbourhood determinants of tuberculosis case fatality in urban Blantyre, Malawi: a multilevel epidemiological analysis of enhanced surveillance data 2021 ·Epidemiology and Infection ·McEwen Khundi, Peter MacPherson, Helena R. A. Feasey, (unknown), Marriott Nliwasa, Elizabeth L. Corbett, James R. Carpenter	2
13	Durations of asymptomatic, symptomatic, and care-seeking phases of tuberculosis disease with a Bayesian analysis of prevalence survey and notification data 2021 ·BMC Medicine ·(unknown), Peter MacPherson, McEwen Khundi, (unknown), Helena R. A. Feasey, Marriott Nliwasa, Katherine C. Horton, Elizabeth L. Corbett, Peter J. Dodd	27
14	What is the optimum time to start antiretroviral therapy in people with HIV and tuberculosis coinfection? A systematic review and meta‐analysis 2021 ·Journal of the International AIDS Society ·Rachael M. Burke, Hannah M. Rickman, (unknown), Elizabeth L. Corbett, Helen Ayles, Andreas Jahn, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Robert J. Wilkinson, Peter MacPherson	14
15	‘If not TB, what could it be?’ Chest X-ray findings from the 2016 Kenya Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey 2021 ·Thorax ·Brenda Mungai, Elizabeth Joekes, Enos Masini, Angela Obasi, Veronica Manduku, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Joseph Sitienei, Rose Oronje, Ben Morton, S. Bertel Squire, Peter MacPherson	22
16	Palliative care and catastrophic costs in Malawi after a diagnosis of advanced cancer: a prospective cohort study 2021 ·The Lancet Global Health ·Jane Bates, (unknown), Stephen B. Gordon, (unknown), Adamson S. Muula, Helena Davies, Claire Morris, Gerald Manthalu, Eve Namisango, Leo Masamba, Marc Henrion, Peter MacPherson, S. Bertel Squire, Louis Niessen	24
17	Patient outcomes associated with post-tuberculosis lung damage in Malawi: a prospective cohort study 2020 ·Thorax ·Jamilah Meghji, Maia Lesosky, Elizabeth Joekes, Peter Banda, Jamie Rylance, Stephen B. Gordon, Joseph Jacob, Harmien M. Zonderland, Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L. Corbett, Kevin Mortimer, S. Bertel Squire	104
18	Blood Flow Induced Wall Stress In The LeftVentricle Of The Heart 2004 ·WIT transactions on engineering sciences ·(unknown), Sudhakar Neti, J A Mannisi, Peter MacPherson	1
19	Walk on by. As Medicaid managed care changes the need for--and nature of--emergency departments, will the poor and needy be left behind? 1996 ·PubMed ·Peter MacPherson	1
20	Association between previous tuberculous infection and glioma. 1976 ·BMJ ·Peter MacPherson	3

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