BackgroundThere is a growing body of evidence positioning targeted provider-initiated testing and counselling (tPITC, also known as index case testing) as a promising HIV case-finding and linkage strategy among children and adolescents.
Habakkuk A Yumo +7 more
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Correlates of HIV seropositivity in young West and Central African women: A pooled analysis of 17 Demographic and Health Surveys. [PDF]
Bommer C, Vollmer S, Zagre NM.
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Reaching high-risk patient populations through emergency department opt-out HIV testing: A retrospective chart review [PDF]
Specific Aims and Hypotheses: This study aimed to identify socioeconomic (SE), sexual, and other risk factors (RFs), among patients diagnosed with HIV infection through an emergency department-based opt-out HIV screening program, and to examine trends ...
Boyce, BA, Tyler G. +1 more
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Tumor-Targeting Anti-CD20 Antibodies Mediate In Vitro Expansion of Memory Natural Killer Cells: Impact of CD16 Affinity Ligation Conditions and In Vivo Priming [PDF]
Natural Killer (NK) cells represent a pivotal player of innate anti-tumor immune responses. The impact of environmental factors in shaping the representativity of different NK cell subsets is increasingly appreciated.
Angela Santoni +10 more
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This review summarizes strategies to optimize lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for improved targeting, endosomal escape, and safety. It highlights mRNA design, alternative delivery systems, and recent therapeutic advances across infectious diseases, cancer, and drug applications.
Xiaochi Li +7 more
wiley +1 more source
Deficiency of immunity to poliovirus type 3: a lurking danger? [PDF]
Background: Europe was certified to be polio-free in 2002 by the WHO. However, wild polioviruses remain endemic in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, occasionally causing polio outbreaks, as in Tajikistan in 2010.
Doerr, Hans W. +3 more
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Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus in voluntary blood donors: Declining trend
Background: Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in selected groups can produce an indication of secular trends of the infection. In this article, we studied the trend of HIV infection in voluntary blood donors over a period of 7 years ...
Pradhan M Pagaro +3 more
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Interleukin-2 production used to detect antigenic peptide recognition by T-helper lymphocytes from asymptomatic HIV-seropositive individuals [PDF]
Mario Clerici +7 more
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Linajes de Trypanosoma cruzi en pacientes con enfermedad de Chagas y coinfección por VIH [PDF]
Introducción. Las poblaciones naturales de T. cruzi han sido clasificadas en seis linajes filogenéticos o unidades de tipificación discreta: T. cruzi I, IIa, IIb, IIc, IId y IIe, que pueden jugar un rol en el tropismo tisular y patogénesis de la ...
Altcheh, Jaime Marcelo +11 more
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Fibroblast growth factors 1 and 2 in cerebrospinal fluid are associated with HIV disease, methamphetamine use, and neurocognitive functioning. [PDF]
BackgroundHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and methamphetamine use commonly affect neurocognitive (NC) functioning. We evaluated the relationships between NC functioning and two fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) in volunteers who differed in HIV ...
Bharti, Ajay R +10 more
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