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| Avy ViolariSummaryAffiliation: University of Cape Town Country: South Africa Publications
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Early antiretroviral therapy and mortality among HIV-infected infantsAvy Violari
Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
N Engl J Med 359:2233-44. 2008..We investigated antiretroviral-treatment strategies in the Children with HIV Early Antiretroviral Therapy (CHER) trial...- Early Antiretroviral Therapy reduces the incidence of otorrhea in a randomized study of early and deferred antiretroviral therapy: Evidence from the Children with HIV Early Antiretroviral Therapy (CHER) StudyClotilde Hainline
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Children s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit KID CRU, Tygerberg Children s Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa
BMC Res Notes 4:448. 2011..abstract:.. - Utility of clinical parameters to identify HIV infection in infants below ten weeks of age in South Africa: a prospective cohort studyHeather B Jaspan
Children s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa
BMC Pediatr 11:104. 2011..Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves were compiled using combinations of clinical findings... - Inferior quantitative and qualitative immune responses to pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in infants with nasopharyngeal colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae during the primary series of immunizationShabir A Madhi
University of the Witwatersrand, Department of Science and Technology National Research Foundation Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa
Vaccine 29:6994-7001. 2011.... - Nevirapine versus ritonavir-boosted lopinavir for HIV-infected childrenAvy Violari
Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
N Engl J Med 366:2380-9. 2012..Regardless of whether there has been prior exposure to nevirapine, the performance of nevirapine versus ritonavir-boosted lopinavir in young children has not been rigorously established... - Effect of HIV infection status and anti-retroviral treatment on quantitative and qualitative antibody responses to pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in infantsShabir A Madhi
Department of Science National Research Foundation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
J Infect Dis 202:355-61. 2010..Nevertheless, M-/I- infants had superior OPA responses, compared with those in HIV+/ART+ infants, who in turn had better OPA responses, compared with those in HIV+/ART- infants... - Primary isoniazid prophylaxis against tuberculosis in HIV-exposed childrenShabir A Madhi
Department of Science and Technology National Research Foundation Vaccine Preventable Diseases and the Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
N Engl J Med 365:21-31. 2011..We conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of preexposure isoniazid prophylaxis against tuberculosis in HIV-infected children and uninfected children exposed to HIV during the perinatal period... 
Combining PMTCT with active case finding for tuberculosisPaula B N Kali
Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 42:379-81. 2006..We conclude that rates of TB in HIV-infected pregnant women are high, and screening for TB during routine antenatal care should be implemented in high HIV-prevalence settings...- Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of viral isolates from HIV-1 subtype C-infected children with slow and rapid disease progressionIsaac Choge
AIDS Virus Research Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 22:458-65. 2006..Similar to adults, CXCR4 usage was uncommon among HIV-1 subtype C isolates from pediatric infections... - A randomized trial of two postexposure prophylaxis regimens to reduce mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission in infants of untreated mothersGlenda E Gray
Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa
AIDS 19:1289-97. 2005..Where women do not access antenatal care or HIV testing, postexposure prophylaxis to the infant may be an important preventative strategy...