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  1. Molecular Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria with Drug Resistance Profiling Using Line Probe Assay in Clinical Samples from Suspected Tuberculosis Patients in North Sumatra, Indonesia

    Article • International Journal of Mycobacteriology, October 2025, Wolters Kluwer Health

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  2. Detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Suspected Melioidosis at Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) Hospital, North Sumatra, Indonesia

    Article • Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, June 2025, Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  3. Comparison of GeneXpert and line probe assay for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in direct sputum samples

    Article • Indonesian Journal of Biomedicine and Clinical Sciences, April 2025, Universitas Gadjah Mada

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  4. Increasing Blood Culture Positivity for Streptococcus pneumoniae Using Tryptic Soy Sheep Blood Agar with Gentamicin (TSSBA-G) in Suspected Bacteremia and Pneumonia at Universitas Sumatera Utara Hospital, Indonesia

    Article • Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, January 2025, Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  5. Role of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphisms on COVID-19 outcome and disease severity in adult patients: A prospective cohort study in a tertiary hospital, Indonesia

    Article • Narra J, August 2024, Narra T

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  6. Comparison of RT-PCR cycle threshold values between individual and pooled SARS-CoV-2 infected nasopharyngeal swab specimens

    Article • Narra J, June 2024, Narra T

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  7. Proportion of children with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia

    Article • May 2024, ScienceOpen

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  8. The Association of Age, Parity, and History of Cesarean Section with the Occurrence of Placenta Accreta Spectrum (Pas) at H. Adam Malik Hospital in Medan 2020-2022

    Article • Journal of Endocrinology Tropical Medicine and Infectiouse Disease (JETROMI), March 2024, Universitas Sumatera Utara

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  9. Prevalence of Panton-Valentine leucocidin (pvl) and exfoliative toxin A (eta) gene within methicillin resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in an urban tertiary hospital: A molecular epidemiology pilot study

    Article • F1000Research, February 2024, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Ridwan Balatif, R. Lia Kusumawati

  10. Prevalence of Panton-Valentine leucocidin (pvl) and exfoliative toxin A (eta) gene within methicillin resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in an urban tertiary hospital: A molecular epidemiology pilot study

    Article • F1000Research, January 2024, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  11. Sensitivity of nasopharyngeal swab and saliva specimens in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus among boarding school girls

    Article • IJID Regions, September 2023, Elsevier

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  12. The trend of paediatric cases during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in North Sumatra, Indonesia

    Article • IJID Regions, September 2023, Elsevier

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  13. Use of saliva as an alternative diagnostic method for diagnosis of COVID-19

    Article • IJID Regions, September 2023, Elsevier

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  14. Diversity of <em>Spa</em> gene between methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> bacteria in a tertiary referral hospital, Indonesia

    Article • Medical Journal of Indonesia, August 2023, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia

    Ridwan Balatif, R. Lia Kusumawati

  15. Prevalence of Panton-Valentine leucocidin (pvl) and exfoliative toxin A (eta) gene within methicillin resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus in an urban tertiary referral hospital: A molecular epidemiology pilot study

    Article • F1000Research, August 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  16. Missing Cases of Bacteriologically Confirmed TB/DR-TB from the National Treatment Registers in West and North Sumatra Provinces, Indonesia

    Article • Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, January 2023, MDPI AG

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  17. Whole-genome sequencing analysis of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Java, Indonesia

    Article • Journal of Medical Microbiology, July 2020, Society for General Microbiology

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  18. Correlation of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Expression and Asymmetric Dimethylarginine (ADMA) Levels in Helicobacter pylori Infection

    Article • May 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  19. The effect of Channa striata extract and standard eradication regimen on asymmetric dimethylarginine in Helicobacter pylori gastritis rat model

    Article • Veterinary World, January 2020, Veterinary World

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  20. Proteotyping of Clostridioides difficile as Alternate Typing Method to Ribotyping Is Able to Distinguish the Ribotypes RT027 and RT176 From Other Ribotypes

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, September 2019, Frontiers

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  21. Rethinking Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance: A Role for Lot Quality Assurance Sampling

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Frank van Leth, R. Lia Kusumawati

  22. Prevalence and Strain Characterization of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in Representative Regions of Germany, Ghana, Tanzania and Indonesia – A Comparative Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2018, Frontiers

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  23. Predictive value of the urinary dipstick test in the management of patients with urinary tract infection-associated symptoms in primary care in Indonesia: a cross-sectional study

    Article • BMJ Open, August 2018, BMJ

    Dr Frank van Leth, R. Lia Kusumawati

  24. Detection of meca gene from methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus isolates of north sumatera

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, March 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  25. Phenotypic and molecular detection of BLACTX-M gene extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in escherichia coli and klebsiella pneumoniae of north sumatera isolates

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, March 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    R. Lia Kusumawati

  26. Antimicrobial resistance in uropathogens and appropriateness of empirical treatment: a population-based surveillance study in Indonesia

    Article • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Frank van Leth, R. Lia Kusumawati