Martie van der Walt

South African Medical Research Council — South Africa

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology(65), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment(31), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections(26), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology(13), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis(12)

Publications110 total

Knowledge gaps and research priorities for understanding the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other airborne infections
International journal of infection control·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Comparing the accuracy of computer-aided detection (CAD) software and radiologists from multiple countries for tuberculosis detection in chest X-Rays
Scientific Reports·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Clinical evaluation of computer-aided digital x-ray detection of pulmonary tuberculosis during community-based screening or active case-finding: a case–control study
The Lancet Global Health·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) Software Versus Radiologists from Multiple Countries: A Comparison of Tuberculosis Detection from Chest X-Rays
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Computer-aided detection of tuberculosis from chest radiographs in a tuberculosis prevalence survey in South Africa: external validation and modelled impacts of commercially available artificial intelligence software
The Lancet Digital Health·2024· 34 citedOpen Access
A successful UN High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance must build on the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on tuberculosis
The Lancet Global Health·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Embracing novel thinking to safeguard against airborne pathogens in indoor spaces
IJTLD OPEN·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Tobacco smoking clusters in households affected by tuberculosis in an individual participant data meta-analysis of national tuberculosis prevalence surveys: Time for household-wide interventions?
PLOS Global Public Health·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Association of diabetes, smoking, and alcohol use with subclinical-to-symptomatic spectrum of tuberculosis in 16 countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis of national tuberculosis prevalence surveys
EClinicalMedicine·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
The role of wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 in developing countries: Cumulative evidence from South Africa supports sentinel site surveillance to guide public health decision-making
The Science of The Total Environment·2023· 27 citedOpen Access
Exploring the role of healthcare personnel in designing Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control measures in healthcare settings: A scoping review
Research Square (Research Square)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Healthcare seeking patterns for TB symptoms: Findings from the first national TB prevalence survey of South Africa, 2017–2019
PLoS ONE·2023· 16 citedOpen Access
The role of wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 in developing countries: cumulative evidence from South Africa supports sentinel site surveillance to guide public health decision-making
2023Open Access
Association of knowledge and practice of Tuberculosis infection prevention and control policies among health care personnel at a regional hospital, in Gauteng province of South Africa
International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences·2023Open Access
Prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in South Africa, 2017–19: a multistage, cluster-based, cross-sectional survey
The Lancet Infectious Diseases·2022· 118 citedOpen Access
Computer-Aided Detection of Tuberculosis from Chest Radiographs in TB Prevalence Survey: External Validation and Modelled Impacts of Commercially Available Artificial Intelligence Software
SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access
The Tuberculosis-Depression Syndemic and Evolution of Pharmaceutical Therapeutics: From Ancient Times to the Future
Frontiers in Psychiatry·2021· 18 citedOpen Access
Qualitative and quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in untreated wastewater in Western Cape Province, South Africa
South African Medical Journal·2021· 43 citedOpen Access
“I got tested at home, the help came to me”: acceptability and feasibility of home‐based TB testing of household contacts using portable molecular diagnostics in South Africa
Tropical Medicine & International Health·2020· 31 citedOpen Access
Developing health policies in patients presenting with SARS-CoV-2: consider tuberculosis
The Lancet Global Health·2020· 8 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Vaira Leimane(11), Charlotte Kvasnovsky(11), Jason E. Farley(9), Joey Lancaster(8), Thelma E. Tupasi(8), Karen Shean(8), Julia Ershova(7), Dennis Falzon(6), Lourdes García‐García(6), Timothy H. Holtz(6), Salmaan Keshavjee(6), Dick Menzies(6), Vija Riekstiņa(6), Laura E. Via(6), Tracy Dalton(6), Janice Caoili(6), Boris Y. Kazennyy(6), Hee Jin Kim(6), Kai Kliiman(6), Ekaterina V. Kurbatova(6)