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The association of HIV status with bacterial vaginosis and vitamin D in the United StatesAudrey L French
Stroger Hospital of Cook County The CORE Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:1497-503. 2011..To estimate the association between vitamin D deficiency and bacterial vaginosis (BV) among nonpregnant HIV-infected and uninfected women...- Incidence of tuberculin skin test conversion among HIV-infected and -uninfected women: results of a 6-year studyAudrey L French
CORE Center Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 42:592-6. 2006..To define the incidence of tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion and to evaluate the yield of annual testing in an era of declining tuberculosis incidence rate in the United States... - Long-term serologic follow-up of isolated hepatitis B core antibody in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected womenAudrey L French
CORE Center Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Clin Infect Dis 49:148-54. 2009..Isolated antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) is a common serologic finding in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but the outcome and clinical significance are uncertain... - Longitudinal effect of antiretroviral therapy on markers of hepatic toxicity: impact of hepatitis C coinfectionAudrey L French
CORE Center Cook County Hospital, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:402-10. 2004..65% to increases of 7.57% of the ULN per year; P values of.19-.71). Our findings lend support to assertions that antiretroviral therapy is safe for women with HCV infection... - Trends in mortality and causes of death among women with HIV in the United States: a 10-year studyAudrey L French
CORE Center Stroger Cook County Hospital, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 51:399-406. 2009..To assess trends in mortality and cause of death for women with HIV, we studied deaths over a 10-year period among participants in the Women's Interagency HIV Study, a representative US cohort... - Isolated hepatitis B core antibody is associated with HIV and ongoing but not resolved hepatitis C virus infection in a cohort of US womenAudrey L French
CORE Center Stroger Cook County Hospital, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Infect Dis 195:1437-42. 2007..Anti-HBs levels were lower among anti-HCV-positive women. Isolated anti-HBc was rarely explained by occult HBV in this cohort but may be explained by the influence of viral coinfections on anti-HBs level or durability... - Causes of death among women with human immunodeficiency virus infection in the era of combination antiretroviral therapyMardge H Cohen
Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Med 113:91-8. 2002..Our data suggest that to decrease mortality further among HIV-infected women, attention must be paid to treatable conditions, such as hepatitis C, depression, and drug and tobacco use... - Vitamin D deficiency in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in the United StatesOluwatoyin M Adeyemi
Department of Medicine, CORE Center, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 57:197-204. 2011.... - Pyrosequencing of the genital microbiotas of HIV-seropositive and -seronegative women reveals Lactobacillus iners as the predominant Lactobacillus SpeciesGregory T Spear
Department of Immunology Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:378-81. 2011..Lactobacillus iners sequences were the predominant lactobacillus sequences in 66% of HIV(+) women and 90% of HIV(-) women. This has implications for resistance of HIV(+) and HIV(-) women to genital colonization by pathogenic organisms... - Prevalence and predictors of Toxoplasma seropositivity in women with and at risk for human immunodeficiency virus infectionOluwatoyin Falusi
Cook County Hospital and Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Clin Infect Dis 35:1414-7. 2002..HIV-infected women aged > or =50 years and those born outside of the United States were more likely to have latent Toxoplasma infection, with prevalences of 32% and 41%, respectively... - Positive association between HIV RNA and IL-6 in the genital tract of Rwandan womenGregory T Spear
Department of Immunology Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 24:973-6. 2008..This association of IL-6 with HIV RNA levels suggests that IL-6 is an indicator for conditions that induce HIV expression and that IL-6 may contribute to induction of HIV expression in the genital tract... - Comparison of the diversity of the vaginal microbiota in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women with or without bacterial vaginosisGregory T Spear
Department of Immunology Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Infect Dis 198:1131-40. 2008..Whether human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is associated with a change in the diversity of genital microbiota in women was investigated... - Vitamin A deficiency and genital viral burden in women infected with HIV-1Audrey L French
Division of Infectious Diseases, Durand 115, Cook County Hospital, 1835 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Lancet 359:1210-2. 2002..We noted no association between retinol status and genital HIV-1 load. Our findings lend support to those of studies that reported no association between retinol deficiency and perinatal HIV-1 transmission... - Protecting health care workers from tuberculosis: a 10-year experienceSharon F Welbel
Department of Medicine Infectious Disease, Rush Medical College, and John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Infect Control 37:668-73. 2009..Twenty-five percent of Chicago's tuberculosis (TB) cases are diagnosed at CCH. We wanted to review and analyze interventions implemented over a 10-year period at CCH to prevent TB infection in health care workers... - Factors associated with hepatitis C viremia in a large cohort of HIV-infected and -uninfected womenEva A Operskalski
Maternal Child and Adolescent Center for Infectious Diseases and Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
J Clin Virol 41:255-63. 2008..Co-infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is common among HIV-infected women... - Prevalence and long-term effects of occult hepatitis B virus infection in HIV-infected womenJudith I Tsui
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Clin Infect Dis 45:736-40. 2007..CD4 cell counts of <200 cells/mm3 were more common among occult HBV-infected women than among those without occult HBV infection. Aminotransferase levels did not appear to be associated with being positive for HBV DNA... - Proinflammatory and type 1 cytokine expression in cervical mucosa during HIV-1 and human papillomavirus infectionHomira Behbahani
Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 45:9-19. 2007..These findings suggest the persistence of immune activation and inflammation in the genital tract of women with HPV monoinfection and in HIV-infected women coinfected with HPV... - Use of mammographic screening by HIV-infected women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)Susan Preston-Martin
University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California 90033 0800, USA
Prev Med 34:386-92. 2002..Although HIV-positive women may be less likely than women in general to receive mammography due to socioeconomic disadvantage, HIV diagnosis may increase opportunities for medical interactions which encourage mammography... - Prevalence and correlates of highly active antiretroviral therapy switching in the Women's Interagency HIV StudyLynn M Kirstein
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Room E 7007, Baltimore, MD 21205, U S A
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 29:495-503. 2002..The purpose of this study was to describe the variability in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens over time, the extent to which individuals switch, and the characteristics of those who are switching... - The effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on dermatologic disease in a longitudinal study of HIV type 1-infected womenToby Maurer
Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Clin Infect Dis 38:579-84. 2004..10; 95% confidence interval, 2.00-18.65). History of injection drug use was associated with a higher prevalence of onychomycosis, tinea pedis, and xerosis. Molluscum contagiosum was more prevalent among younger women... - Total lymphocyte count, hemoglobin, and delayed-type hypersensitivity as predictors of death and AIDS illness in HIV-1-infected women receiving highly active antiretroviral therapyKathryn Anastos
Women s Interagency HIV Study, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 35:383-92. 2004..If delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) response predicts clinical response in persons using highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), it may also prove useful in resource-poor settings... - Herpes zoster in women with and at risk for HIV: data from the Women's Interagency HIV StudyMarshall J Glesby
Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 37:1604-9. 2004..Herpes zoster occurs at all CD4 cell counts in HIV-infected adults. It was hypothesized that even in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), zoster risk is higher in HIV-infected than uninfected women... - Prevalence of clinical symptoms associated with highly active antiretroviral therapy in the Women's Interagency HIV StudyMichael J Silverberg
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:717-24. 2004..The extended use of antiretroviral drugs among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seropositive individuals underscores the need for a comprehensive evaluation of therapy-associated clinical symptoms... - Association between syphilis, antibodies to herpes simplex virus type 2, and recreational drug use and hepatitis B virus infection in the Women's Interagency HIV StudyPhyllis C Tien
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:1363-70. 2004..Liver disease is a leading cause of death in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women; however, risk factors for hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection in this population have not been well studied... - Eligibility criteria for HIV clinical trials and generalizability of results: the gap between published reports and study protocolsMonica Gandhi
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94122, USA
AIDS 19:1885-96. 2005.... - The insulin-like growth factor axis and risk of liver disease in hepatitis C virus/HIV-co-infected womenHoward D Strickler
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
AIDS 22:527-31. 2008..To investigate the role of the IGF axis in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver disease among high-risk patients, we prospectively evaluated HCV-viremic/HIV-positive women... - Increased circulating interleukin-7 levels in HIV-1-infected womenLaura A Napolitano
Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, 94158, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 40:581-4. 2005..0032) after controlling for CD4 count, age, and race. Given the important role of IL-7 in T-cell development and homeostasis, these findings suggest that higher IL-7 levels may contribute to higher CD4 counts in women... - Relation of stavudine discontinuation to anthropometric changes among HIV-infected womenPhyllis C Tien
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 44:43-8. 2007..To characterize changes in regional anthropometry associated with stavudine exposure and discontinuation...