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| David CohenSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Rapid HIV screening: missed opportunities for HIV diagnosis and preventionPragna Patel
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Clin Virol 54:42-7. 2012..Although rapid HIV tests increase the number of persons who are aware of their HIV status, they may fail to detect early HIV infection...- Prevalence and risk factors associated with herpes simplex virus-2 infection in a contemporary cohort of HIV-infected persons in the United StatesPragna Patel
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 39:154-60. 2012..We compared the herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) seroprevalence in a contemporary HIV cohort with the general US population and determined risk factors for HSV-2 infection among HIV-infected persons... - Detection of acute HIV infections in high-risk patients in CaliforniaPragna Patel
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 42:75-9. 2006..The detection of acute HIV infection, however, is not routine and requires the use of HIV RNA testing in combination with HIV antibody testing... - Circuit parties: sexual behaviors and HIV disclosure practices among men who have sex with men at the White Party, Palm Springs, California, 2003P Patel
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
AIDS Care 18:1046-9. 2006..The self-protecting attitudes of HIV-negative men in our sample outweighed the partner-protecting attitudes of HIV-positive men. This suggests that prevention interventions focusing on HIV-positive persons are warranted... - Incidence of types of cancer among HIV-infected persons compared with the general population in the United States, 1992-2003Pragna Patel
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University, and Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:728-36. 2008..Persons who are HIV-infected may be at higher risk for certain types of cancer than the general population... - Detecting acute human immunodeficiency virus infection using 3 different screening immunoassays and nucleic acid amplification testing for human immunodeficiency virus RNA, 2006-2008Pragna Patel
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:66-74. 2010..The yield of nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) after routine screening for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody to detect acute HIV infection (AHI) may vary with different HIV-antibody assays... - Predictors of smoking cessation after a myocardial infarction: the role of institutional smoking cessation programs in improving successNazeera Dawood
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1961-7. 2008..Smoking cessation after myocardial infarction (MI) is an important goal for secondary prevention of mortality. Whether new initiatives to promote cessation improve patients' quit rates after MI is unknown... - Long-term survival and serious cardiovascular events in HIV-infected patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapySamuel A Bozzette
Veterans Medical Research Foundation, Veterans Affairs Quality Enhancement Research Initiative for HIV at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Health Care System, San Diego, CA, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:338-41. 2008..The risk of serious cardiovascular events should be factored into individual patient management but does not pose an important public health risk...