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A population-based study of the clinical course of chronic fatigue syndromeRosane Nisenbaum
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 1:49. 2003..We conducted a longitudinal population-based study to characterize the clinical course of CFS...- Exercise responsive genes measured in peripheral blood of women with chronic fatigue syndrome and matched control subjectsToni Whistler
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
BMC Physiol 5:5. 2005..To search for markers of CFS-associated post-exertional fatigue, we measured peripheral blood gene expression profiles of women with CFS and matched controls before and after exercise challenge... - Sleep characteristics of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome and non-fatigued controls: results from a population-based studyWilliam C Reeves
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
BMC Neurol 6:41. 2006.... - Perception versus polysomnographic assessment of sleep in CFS and non-fatigued control subjects: results from a population-based studyMatthias Majer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA
BMC Neurol 7:40. 2007..We conducted this study to determine whether alterations in objective sleep characteristics are associated with subjective measures of poor sleep quality in persons with CFS... - Analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences and circulating cell-free DNA from plasma of chronic fatigue syndrome and non-fatigued subjectsSuzanne D Vernon
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
BMC Microbiol 2:39. 2002..Plasma DNA from 34 CFS and 55 non-fatigued subjects was assessed to determine plasma DNA concentration and the presence of bacterial 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequences... - An evaluation of exclusionary medical/psychiatric conditions in the definition of chronic fatigue syndromeJames F Jones
Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS A15, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
BMC Med 7:57. 2009..This study compares illness parameters between individuals with CFS who have and those who do not have exclusionary conditions... - Chronic fatigue syndrome--a clinically empirical approach to its definition and studyWilliam C Reeves
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
BMC Med 3:19. 2005..The lack of standardized criteria for defining chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has constrained research. The objective of this study was to apply the 1994 CFS criteria by standardized reproducible criteria... - Bioelectronic DNA detection of human papillomaviruses using eSensor: a model system for detection of multiple pathogensSuzanne D Vernon
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
BMC Infect Dis 3:12. 2003..We used human papillomaviruses (HPV) as a model system to evaluate the utility of a nucleic acid, hybridization-based bioelectronic DNA detection platform (eSensor) in identifying multiple pathogens... - Assessing the relationship between HIV infection and cervical cancer in Côte d'Ivoire: a case-control studyGeorgette Adjorlolo-Johnson
Projet RETRO CI, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global HIV AIDS Program, Abidjan, Cote d Ivoire
BMC Infect Dis 10:242. 2010..We conducted a case-control study in a West African population to assess the relationship between HIV infection and invasive cervical cancer, taking into account HPV infection and other potential risk factors for cervical cancer... - Identification of ambiguities in the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome research case definition and recommendations for resolutionWilliam C Reeves
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
BMC Health Serv Res 3:25. 2003..Difficulties with accurate case ascertainment contribute to this ignorance... - Implementation of exon arrays: alternative splicing during T-cell proliferation as determined by whole genome analysisToni Whistler
Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases proposed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA 30333, USA
BMC Genomics 11:496. 2010..We use this system to examine whole genome transcription and alternate exon usage events that are regulated during lymphocyte proliferation in an attempt to evaluate the exon arrays... 
Optimization of SELDI-TOF protein profiling for analysis of cervical mucousGitika Panicker
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Proteomics 71:637-46. 2009..Current data showed that optimizing pre-analytical parameters can help in standardization and reproducibility of protein profiles produced by cervical mucous, and thus can be used for protein biomarker discovery with the SELDI platform...
In situ diagnosis of human papillomavirusesE R Unger
Human Papillomavirus Section, Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Clin Lab Med 20:289-301, vi. 2000..The major limitations of the method are the potential for error in HPV typing because of probe cross-hybridization and relatively low sensitivity if the method is not fully optimized...- Sleep assessment in a population-based study of chronic fatigue syndromeElizabeth R Unger
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
BMC Neurol 4:6. 2004..Conversely, many sleep disorders present similarly to CFS. Few studies characterizing sleep in unselected CFS subjects have been published and none have been performed in cases identified from population-based studies... - Detection of human papillomavirus in archival tissues. Comparison of in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reactionE R Unger
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Histochem Cytochem 46:535-40. 1998..This degree of concordance required individual optimization of assay conditions for each block. ISH and PCR assays for HPV yield complementary results, and both can be successfully applied to archival tissues... - Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA copy number is dependent on grade of cervical disease and HPV typeD C Swan
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, U S Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 37:1030-4. 1999..This study suggests that the clinical usefulness of HPV quantitation requires reassessment and is assay dependent... - Real-time PCR-based fluorescent assay for quantitation of human papillomavirus types 6, 11, 16, and 18R A Tucker
Human Papillomavirus Section, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Mol Diagn 6:39-47. 2001..Quantitation of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in clinical samples may yield important clinical information... - Comparison of human papillomavirus detection and typing by cycle sequencing, line blotting, and hybrid captureS D Vernon
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 38:651-5. 2000.... - Validation of array-based gene expression profiles by real-time (kinetic) RT-PCRM S Rajeevan
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U S Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Mol Diagn 3:26-31. 2001..Real-time RT-PCR based on LightCycler technology is well-suited to validate DNA array results because it is quantitative, rapid, and requires 1000-fold less RNA than conventional assays... - Latent Epstein-Barr virus infection is an unlikely event in the pathogenesis of immunoproliferative small intestinal diseaseF K Baddoura
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Cancer 74:1699-705. 1994..One such environmental factor, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), has been associated with other B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders... - Human papillomaviruses: into the new millenniumE R Unger
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 28:653-66, vii-viii. 2001..Current knowledge about HPV virology, epidemiology, testing, and the prospects for vaccination and other prevention measures is summarized... - Use of real-time quantitative PCR to validate the results of cDNA array and differential display PCR technologiesM S Rajeevan
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Ceners for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Public Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Methods 25:443-51. 2001.... - Factors associated with prevalent abnormal anal cytology in a large cohort of HIV-infected adults in the United StatesL Conley
National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 202:1567-76. 2010..The prevalence of and risk factors for abnormal anal cytology among men and women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have not been extensively investigated... - Monitoring HPV type-specific prevalence over time through clinic-based surveillance: a perspective on vaccine effectivenessN H Gaffga
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States
Vaccine 30:1959-64. 2012..With sufficient sample size and stable population characteristics, clinic-based surveillance systems can contribute to monitoring HPV vaccine impact in the cervical screening population... - Glucocorticoid receptor polymorphisms and haplotypes associated with chronic fatigue syndromeM S Rajeevan
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Genes Brain Behav 6:167-76. 2007.... - Improved detection of viral RNA isolated from liquid-based cytology samplesT A Tarkowski
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Mol Diagn 6:125-30. 2001..With chemiluminscent Southern blot detection, samples with one HPV-positive cell in 30,000 were consistently detected. CONCLUSION: PreservCyt-fixed cells can yield RNA suitable for molecular assays even after one year of storage... - Clinical determinants of survival from stage Ib cervical cancer in an inner-city hospitalW W Thoms
Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Marietta, GA 30060, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 90:303-8. 1998..Age, race, histology, and cervical lesion size were not significantly associated with survival... - Prevalence of HPV infection among females in the United StatesEileen F Dunne
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
JAMA 297:813-9. 2007..Baseline population prevalence data for HPV infection in the United States before widespread availability of a prophylactic HPV vaccine would be useful... - Effect of specimen order on Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae test performance and adequacy of Papanicolaou smearKhalil G Ghanem
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue B3 North, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 19:23-30. 2006..To evaluate the effect of specimen collection order on the performance of diagnostic tests for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC), and the specimen adequacy of ThinPrep Papanicolaou (Pap) smears... - Gene expression correlates of unexplained fatigueToni Whistler
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pharmacogenomics 7:395-405. 2006..Gene expression correlates of other phenotypic measures in the CFS Computational Challenge (C3) data set could be useful. Future studies of CFS should include as many precise measures of disease phenotype as is practical... - Identifying illness parameters in fatiguing syndromes using classical projection methodsGordon Broderick
University of Alberta, Institute for Biomolecular Design, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H7, Canada
Pharmacogenomics 7:407-19. 2006.... - Exploration of statistical dependence between illness parameters using the entropy correlation coefficientR Cameron Craddock
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pharmacogenomics 7:421-8. 2006..Highly related variables are candidates for data reduction, and novel relationships could lead to hypotheses regarding the pathogenesis of CFS... - Seroepidemiology of human papillomavirus type 11 in the United States: results from the third National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey, 1991--1994Susan Hariri
National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:298-303. 2008..The objectives of this study were to estimate the national seroprevalence and evaluate predictors of HPV-11 seropositivity... - Effect of storage temperatures on the stability of cytokines in cervical mucousGitika Panicker
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Cytokine 37:176-9. 2007..The results suggest that refrigeration of mucous samples immediately after collection would allow for better conservation of the cytokines in cervical mucous... - Human papillomavirus type 16 variant assignment by pyrosequencingDavid C Swan
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, U S Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Virol Methods 136:166-70. 2006..Pyrosequencing of 97 HPV16-positive exfoliated cervical samples confirmed the Sanger sequencing results; however pyrosequencing identified additional variants in several samples containing mixed variants... - Longitudinal measures of human papillomavirus 6 and 11 viral loads and antibody response in children with recurrent respiratory papillomatosisElizabeth M Maloney
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 132:711-5. 2006.... - Simultaneous amplification and identification of 25 human papillomavirus types with Templex technologyJian Han
Genaco Biomedical Products, Inc, Huntsville, Alabama 35805, USA
J Clin Microbiol 44:4157-62. 2006..The entire Templex procedure, including DNA extraction, can be completed within 5 hours, providing a rapid and reliable diagnostic tool for HPV detection and typing that is amenable to automation... - Human papillomavirus infection and cervical cytology in women screened for cervical cancer in the United States, 2003-2005S Deblina Datta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:493-500. 2008..Millions of women in the United States receive cervical screening in sexually transmitted disease (STD), family planning, and primary care clinical settings... - Early adverse experience and risk for chronic fatigue syndrome: results from a population-based studyChristine Heim
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1258-66. 2006..Identification of developmental risk factors for CFS is critical to inform pathophysiological research and devise targets for primary prevention... - Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)Lauri E Markowitz
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention Proposed, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
MMWR Recomm Rep 56:1-24. 2007..Vaccination is not a substitute for routine cervical cancer screening, and vaccinated females should have cervical cancer screening as recommended... - Cervical cancer incidence in a prevaccine era in the United States, 1998-2002Mona Saraiya
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Obstet Gynecol 109:360-70. 2007..To report the incidence of cervical cancer by geography, race or ethnicity, and histology... - Evaluation of RNA markers for early detection of cervical neoplasia in exfoliated cervical cellsMartin Steinau
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Disease, Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS G 41, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:295-301. 2007.... - Quantitation of site-specific HPV 16 DNA methylation by pyrosequencingMangalathu S Rajeevan
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MSG41, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Virol Methods 138:170-6. 2006..Pyrosequencing provides a quantitative site-specific assessment of methylation at multiple CpG sites without cloning, and is thus suited to large-scale molecular epidemiologic studies... - Type-specific reproducibility of the Roche linear array HPV genotyping testMartin Steinau
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Clin Virol 42:412-4. 2008..Inter-assay comparability studies have been performed, but the robustness of type-specific results has neither been emphasized nor has the degree of intra-assay reproducibility been addressed... - Coping styles in people with chronic fatigue syndrome identified from the general population of Wichita, KSUrs M Nater
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Psychosom Res 60:567-73. 2006.... - Correlates of cervical mucosal antibodies to human papillomavirus 16: results from a case control studyCynthia Bierl
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Gynecol Oncol 99:S262-8. 2005..In addition, standardization of mucosal sample collection and testing methods are required... - Modifying differential display polymerase chain reaction to detect relative changes in gene expression profilesDaya G Ranamukhaarachchi
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Anal Biochem 306:343-6. 2002 - Factor analysis of symptoms among subjects with unexplained chronic fatigue: what can we learn about chronic fatigue syndrome?Rosane Nisenbaum
Viral Exhanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Mail Stop A 15, Building 6, Room 116, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Psychosom Res 56:171-8. 2004..Our objective was to compare the 1994 CFS case-defining symptoms with those identified by factor analysis... - Molecular quality of exfoliated cervical cells: implications for molecular epidemiology and biomarker discoveryAngelique H Habis
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:492-6. 2004..However, with a sensitive gold particle-based detection method, reproducible microarray results were obtained using this RNA... - Epidemiology of human papillomavirus infection and abnormal cytologic test results in an urban adolescent populationTrudee A Tarkowski
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Infect Dis 189:46-50. 2004..0% had high- or low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions) and were significantly associated with detection of HPV (P=.0001); however, most (51.6%) subjects with HPV had normal cytologic test results... - Predictors of remission in juvenile-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosisSnehal Ruparelia
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 129:1275-8. 2003..Sex and race were not important factors in determining remission... - Impact of RNA extraction from limited samples on microarray resultsHanna Ojaniemi
Karolinska Institutet at Huddinge University Hospital, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Biotechniques 35:968-73. 2003..These experiments illustrate that microarray technology holds great promise for the use of limited clinical samples in the diagnostic setting... - Global amplification of sense RNA: a novel method to replicate and archive mRNA for gene expression analysisMangalathu S Rajeevan
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Genomics 82:491-7. 2003..00001-0.1%). This reflects the high fidelity of sRNA synthesis for mRNA as low as 0.3 copies/cell. sRNA is amplified synthetic mRNA in the 5'-->3' direction; the appropriate template for any gene expression analysis... - National registry for juvenile-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosisWilliam C Reeves
Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 129:976-82. 2003..Juvenile-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (JORRP) is an infrequent but debilitating disease. Because JORRP is uncommon, it has proven difficult for studies at single institutions to accurately evaluate its natural history... - Prevalence and incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome in Wichita, KansasMichele Reyes
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:1530-6. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Chronic fatigue syndrome constitutes a major public health problem. Longitudinal follow-up of this cohort will be used to further evaluate the natural history of this illness... - The effect of time interval between referral and colposcopy on detection of human papillomavirus DNA and on outcome of biopsyZuzana Berkova
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 188:932-7. 2003..The presence of high-risk HPV DNA does not predict the actual histologically verifiable tissue changes but indicates a lower probability of negative biopsy results in all time intervals between referral and biopsy... - Utility of the blood for gene expression profiling and biomarker discovery in chronic fatigue syndromeSuzanne D Vernon
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Dis Markers 18:193-9. 2002..These results successfully demonstrate the utility of the blood for gene expression profiling to distinguish subjects with CFS from healthy controls and for identifying genes that could serve as CFS biomarkers... - Seroprevalence of human papillomavirus type 16 infection in the United StatesKatherine M Stone
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 186:1396-402. 2002..Information on HPV-16 seroepidemiology will be important for designing prevention efforts including vaccine programs... - Molecular markers for early detection of cervical neoplasiaElizabeth R Unger
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Dis Markers 20:103-16. 2004 - Gene expression profile of cervical tissue compared to exfoliated cells: impact on biomarker discoveryMartin Steinau
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
BMC Genomics 6:64. 2005..However, because of keratinization and terminal differentiation it is not clear that these cells have an mRNA profile representative of cervical tissue, and that the profile can distinguish the lesions targeted for early detection... - The effect of correct and consistent condom use on chlamydial and gonococcal infection among urban adolescentsGabriela Paz-Bailey
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:536-42. 2005..2-1.0) and highly protective for gonorrhea (odds ratio, 0.1; 95% confidence interval, 0-0.7). CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that assessing both correctness and consistency of use is important for evaluation of condom effectiveness... - Gene expression profiling of dysplastic differentiation in cervical epithelial cells harboring human papillomavirus 16Daya G Ranamukhaarachchi
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service/US DHHS, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Genomics 85:727-38. 2005..Some of the genes with altered expression identified in this model of dysplastic differentiation may be useful biomarkers for early detection of cervical neoplasia and other HPV-associated oropharyngeal and anogenital cancers... - Association of Chlamydia trachomatis with persistence of high-risk types of human papillomavirus in a cohort of female adolescentsErika Samoff
Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:668-75. 2005..8, 95% confidence interval: 1.6, 4.9). The association between chlamydia infection and cervical cancer may be due to an effect of chlamydia infection on persistence of high-risk HPV... - Seroprevalence of human papillomavirus type 16 in childrenEileen F Dunne
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 191:1817-9. 2005..To explain HPV-16 seropositivity in this population, further study is required... - Molecular characterization of human papillomaviruses by PCR and in situ hybridizationSuzanne D Vernon
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Methods Mol Med 97:159-80. 2004 - Human papillomavirus type 16 E2 and E6/E7 variantsDavid C Swan
U S Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Gynecol Oncol 96:695-700. 2005.... - Epidemiologic and viral factors associated with cervical neoplasia in HPV-16-positive womenMangalathu S Rajeevan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Int J Cancer 115:114-20. 2005..Cellular proliferation and differentiation pathways affected by HPV should be investigated as biomarkers for cervical cancer screening... - Low-dose topical delivery of all-trans retinoic acid for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia II and IIIMack T Ruffin
Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, 1018 Fuller Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0708, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:2148-52. 2004..The objective of this study was to determine an effective dose for all-trans retinoic acid (atRA) delivered with a cervical cap and sponge for 4 days to women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) II/III... - Differential-display PCR of peripheral blood for biomarker discovery in chronic fatigue syndromeMartin Steinau
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MSG-41, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Mol Med 82:750-5. 2004..The real-time reverse-transcription PCR assays that we developed for assay of these biomarkers will facilitate high-throughput testing of these additional samples... - Human papillomavirus and cervical cancerElizabeth R Unger
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:2031-2. 2004 - DNA and RNA references for qRT-PCR assays in exfoliated cervical cellsMartin Steinau
Human Papillomavirus Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MS G41, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Mol Diagn 8:113-8. 2006..These genes also showed the highest correlation with DNA contents in the same samples. If special attention to intraepithelial lesions is appropriate, RPL4 and PGK1 are recommended as the best combination of two genes... - Assessment of normal variability in peripheral blood gene expressionCatherine Campbell
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Dis Markers 18:201-6. 2002..These results suggest that observed variation was due to experimental variability... - Exploration of neuroendocrine and immune gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cellsAinsley C Nicholson
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Brain Res Mol Brain Res 129:193-7. 2004.... - Alterations in diurnal salivary cortisol rhythm in a population-based sample of cases with chronic fatigue syndromeUrs M Nater
Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop A 15, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Psychosom Med 70:298-305. 2008..Previous studies of CFS patients have implicated the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the immune system in the pathophysiology of CFS, although results have been equivocal... - Short duration of elevated vIRF-1 expression during lytic replication of human herpesvirus 8 limits its ability to block antiviral responses induced by alpha interferon in BCBL-1 cellsVeronika P Pozharskaya
Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, 1365-B Clifton Road N.E, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Virol 78:6621-35. 2004....