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Institutional review boards' use and understanding of certificates of confidentiality.
(PloS one, 2012-01)
Certificates of Confidentiality, issued by agencies of the U.S. government, are regarded
as an important tool for meeting ethical and legal obligations to safeguard research
participants' privacy and confidentiality. By ...
Lifetime prevalence of intimate partner violence against women in an urban Brazilian city: A cross-sectional survey.
(PloS one, 2019-01)
BACKGROUND:Intimate partner violence is a global health burden that disproportionately
affects women and their health outcomes. Women in Brazil are also affected by interpersonal
violence. We aimed to estimate the lifetime ...
Dual infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis and a spotted fever group rickettsia: a case report.
(Emerging infectious diseases, 1998-04)
Well-documented cases of simultaneous human infection with more than one tick-borne
pathogen are rare. To our knowledge only two dual infections have been reported: simultaneous
human infection with the agent of ...
Differential prevalence and geographic distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes in acute and chronic hepatitis C patients in Vietnam.
(PloS one, 2019-01)
BACKGROUND:The highest burden of disease from hepatitis C virus (HCV) is found in
Southeast Asia, but our understanding of the epidemiology of infection in many heavily
burdened countries is still limited. In particular, ...
Leave no one behind: response to new evidence and guidelines for the management of cryptococcal meningitis in low-income and middle-income countries.
(The Lancet. Infectious Diseases, 2019-04)
In 2018, WHO issued guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of HIV-related
cryptococcal disease. Two strategies are recommended to reduce the high mortality
associated with HIV-related cryptococcal meningitis ...
Detection and Characterization of Human Pegivirus 2, Vietnam.
(Emerging infectious diseases, 2018-11)
We report human pegivirus 2 (HPgV-2) infection in Vietnam. We detected HPgV-2 in some
patients with hepatitis C virus/HIV co-infection but not in patients with HIV or hepatitis
A, B, or C virus infection, nor in healthy ...
Gene expression signatures of radiation response are specific, durable and accurate in mice and humans.
(PLoS One, 2008-04-02)
BACKGROUND: Previous work has demonstrated the potential for peripheral blood (PB)
gene expression profiling for the detection of disease or environmental exposures.
METHODS AND FINDINGS: We have sought to determine the ...
"Thinking too much": A systematic review of a common idiom of distress.
(Soc Sci Med, 2015-12)
Idioms of distress communicate suffering via reference to shared ethnopsychologies,
and better understanding of idioms of distress can contribute to effective clinical
and public health communication. This systematic review ...
Discordance in Grading Methods of Aortic Stenosis by Pre-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Transesophageal Echocardiography.
(Anesth Analg, 2016-04)
BACKGROUND: Current guidelines define severe aortic valve stenosis (AS) as an aortic
valve area (AVA) ≤1.0 cm by the continuity equation and mean gradient (ΔPm) ≥ 40 mm
Hg. However, these measurements can be discordant when ...
Reference periods in retrospective behavioral self-report: A qualitative investigation.
(The American journal on addictions, 2015-12)
Self-report questions in substance use research and clinical screening often ask individuals
to reflect on behaviors, symptoms, or events over a specified time period. However,
there are different ways of phrasing conceptually ...