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
Maghradze N, Loiseau C, Goig G.A, Bablishvili N, Jugheli L, Borrell S, Tukvadze N, Kempker R.R, Avaliani Z, Gagneux S. Linking genetic and phenotypic bedaquiline resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Georgia. PLoS One. 2025;20(7):e0326794. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0326794
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
Maghradze N. Molecular epidemiology of "mycobacterium tuberculosis" in the country of Georgia. Basel: Univ. Basel, 2024. Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Science DOI: 10.5451/unibas-ep96414
Thesis
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
Maghradze N, Jugheli L, Borrell S, Tukvadze N, Aspindzelashvili R, Avaliani Z, Reither K, Gagneux S. Classifying recurrent Mycobacterium tuberculosis cases in Georgia using MIRU-VNTR typing. PLoS One. 2019;14(10):e0223610. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223610