Browsing by Subject "infectious diseases"
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Door-to-Door Rapid HIV Testing Among Latino Immigrants and Their HIV Risk Factors in North Carolina
(2010)Latino immigrants in the United States are disproportionally impacted by the HIV epidemic but face barriers to clinic-based testing. We assessed a community-based strategy for rapid HIV testing by conducting "door-to-door'' ... -
Frequency of Occult High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Invasive Cancer within Anal Condylomata in Men Who Have Sex with Men
(2010)Human papillomavirus causes anal condylomata, high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia, and anal squamous cell cancer. We found high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia or squamous cell cancer in 75 (47%) of 159 HIV-seropositive ... -
Genotyping of Human Lice Suggests Multiple Emergences of Body Lice from Local Head Louse Populations
(2010)Background: Genetic analyses of human lice have shown that the current taxonomic classification of head lice ( Pediculus humanus capitis) and body lice ( Pediculus humanus humanus) does not reflect their phylogenetic ... -
Global Trends in Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever
(2010)Typhoid and paratyphoid fever continue to be important causes of illness and death, particularly among children and adolescents in south-central and Southeast Asia, where enteric fever is associated with poor sanitation ... -
Lessons Learned from the Anaerobe Survey: Historical Perspective and Review of the Most Recent Data (2005-2007)
(2010)Background. The rationale and lessons learned through the evolution of the National Survey for the Susceptibility of Bacteroides fragilis Group from its initiation in 1981 through 2007 are reviewed here. The survey was conceived ... -
Perforin and IL-2 Upregulation Define Qualitative Differences among Highly Functional Virus-Specific Human CD8(+) T Cells
(2010)The prevailing paradigm of T lymphocyte control of viral replication is that the protective capacity of virus-specific CD8(+) T cells is directly proportional to the number of functions they can perform, with IL-2 production ... -
Reconciling phylodynamics with epidemiology: the case of dengue virus in southern Vietnam.
(Mol Biol Evol, 2014-02)Coalescent methods are widely used to infer the demographic history of populations from gene genealogies. These approaches-often referred to as phylodynamic methods-have proven especially useful for reconstructing the dynamics ...
