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Partner referral tools and techniques for the clinician diagnosing a sexually transmitted infectionJohn J Potterat
Int J STD AIDS 18:293-6. 2007..Successful referral to medical attention has been shown to help prevent re-infection of the index patient and to curtail community transmission...
Sexual network structure as an indicator of epidemic phaseJ J Potterat
STD HIV Programs, El Paso County Department of Health and Environment, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80910, USA
Sex Transm Infect 78:i152-8. 2002..These observations accord with intuitive and stochastic predictions...
Risk network structure in the early epidemic phase of HIV transmission in Colorado SpringsJ J Potterat
STD HIV Program, El Paso County Department of Health and Environment, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80910, USA
Sex Transm Infect 78:i159-63. 2002..The results suggest that a combined dendritic and cyclic structural network pattern is associated with low to moderate HIV propagation in Colorado Springs, and may account for the absence of intense propagation of the virus...
AIDS epidemiology in Africa: a changing of the guardJ J Potterat
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Int J STD AIDS 20:812-5. 2009....
A passage to India's HIV epidemics: sending out an SOSJohn J Potterat
Int J STD AIDS 17:718-9. 2006..Contenders for leading roles in HIV transmission are under-suspected and unmeasured skin-puncturing exposures...
Blind spots in the epidemiology of HIV in black AmericansJohn J Potterat
Int J STD AIDS 19:1-3. 2008..Appropriate prevention strategies depend critically on direct, rather than ecologic, evidence...
Birds of a feather: using a rotational box plot to assess ascertainment biasS Q Muth
El Paso County Department of Health and Environment, Colorado Springs, CO 80910 3123, USA
Int J Epidemiol 29:899-904. 2000..In a previously reported study of heterosexuals at elevated risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), traditional methods suggested distributional differences in the demographic characteristics of participants and non-participants...
HIV epidemicity in context of STI declines: a telling discordanceJ J Potterat
Colorado Springs, USA
Sex Transm Infect 78:467. 2002
HIV partner notification in the United States: a national survey of program coverage and outcomesMatthew R Golden
Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for AIDS and STD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Sex Transm Dis 31:709-12. 2004..The objective of this study was to define the scope and case-finding success of HIV partner notification (PN) in the United States...
Running on empty: sexual co-factors are insufficient to fuel Africa's turbocharged HIV epidemicDavid Gisselquist
Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Int J STD AIDS 15:442-52. 2004....
Randomized trial of supplementary interviewing techniques to enhance recall of sexual partners in contact interviewsDevon D Brewer
Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:189-93. 2005..CONCLUSION: Elicitation of sex partners can be enhanced in contact interviews with simple interviewing techniques, resulting in improved network ascertainment and sexually transmitted disease case finding...
Social and geographic distance in HIV riskRichard Rothenberg
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:506-12. 2005....
Impact of sexual networks on risk for gonorrhea and chlamydia among low-income urban African American adolescentsJonathan M Ellen
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Pediatr 146:518-22. 2005..To determine whether African American adolescents, whose recent sex partners reported having another sex partner, are at increased risk for exposure to genital chlamydial infection or gonorrhea...
HIV epidemiology in Africa: weak variables and tendentiousness generate wobbly conclusionsStuart Brody
PLoS Med 2:e137; author reply e147. 2005
Using gay men's sexual networks to reduce sexually transmitted disease (STD)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmissionDan Wohlfeiler
California Department of Health Services, Sexually Transmitted Diseases STD Control Branch, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:S48-52. 2005..Network-level interventions are particularly well suited for places such as commercial sex venues and Internet sites where gay and bisexual men meet new sexual partners...
The protective effect of male circumcision as a faith lift for the troubled paradigm of HIV epidemiology in sub-Saharan AfricaJohn J Potterat
PLoS Med 3:e64; author reply e67. 2006
Agreement in reported sexual partnership dates and implications for measuring concurrencyDevon D Brewer
Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:277-83. 2006..Data designed for the purpose and analyzed with adequate attention to the statistical and epidemiologic issues of assessing concurrency are needed...
Partner notification for HIV and STD in the United States: low coverage for gonorrhea, chlamydial infection, and HIVMatthew R Golden
Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for AIDS and STD, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359777, 325 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:490-6. 2003..Little is known about the scope of current public health partner-notification (PN) activities in the United States...
Disconnects in presumed heterosexual HIV transmission in MalawiDevon D Brewer
AIDS 22:1377; author reply 1378-9. 2008
Review of evidence from risk factor analyses associating HIV infection in African adults with medical injections and multiple sexual partnersDavid Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 15:222-33. 2004....
Confound it: latent lessons from the Mwanza trial of STD treatment to reduce HIV transmissionDavid Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 14:179-84. 2003..To control for confound, additional data and analyses from the Mwanza study are warranted...
Heterosexual transmission of HIV in Africa: an empiric estimateDavid Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 14:162-73. 2003..These findings call for reconceptualization of research to more accurately assess routes of HIV transmission...
Mortality in a long-term open cohort of prostitute womenJohn J Potterat
El Paso County Department of Health and Environment, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:778-85. 2004..7 (95% CI: 6.2, 29.3). Deaths from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome occurred exclusively among prostitutes who admitted to injecting drug use or were inferred to have a history of it...
Research design determines what can be known about modes of HIV transmissionDevon D Brewer
AIDS 20:1208-9; author reply 1209. 2006
Efficiency of human immunodeficiency virus transmission through injections and other medical procedures: evidence, estimates, and unfinished businessDavid Gisselquist
Independent Consultant, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27:944-52. 2006..To estimate the transmission efficiency of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through medical injections and other invasive procedures...
Data-free modeling of HIV transmission in Sub-Saharan AfricaDevon D Brewer
Sex Transm Dis 34:54-6; author reply 57-8. 2007
Male and female circumcision associated with prevalent HIV infection in virgins and adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho, and TanzaniaDevon D Brewer
Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, Seattle, WA 98115, USA via www interscientific net contact html
Ann Epidemiol 17:217-26. 2007..We assessed the relation between male and female circumcision (genital cutting) and prevalent HIV infection in Kenyan, Lesothoan, and Tanzanian virgins and adolescents...
Converging evidence suggests nonsexual HIV transmission among adolescents in sub-Saharan AfricaDevon D Brewer
J Adolesc Health 40:290-1; author reply 291-3. 2007
Association of HIV infection with poor genital hygiene and medical treatment for prior serious illness suggests iatrogenic transmissionStuart Brody
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 44:365-6; author reply 366. 2007
Male circumcision in HIV preventionDevon D Brewer
Lancet 369:1597; author reply 1598-9. 2007
Let it be sexual: how health care transmission of AIDS in Africa was ignoredDavid Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 14:148-61. 2003..We urge renewed, evidence-based, investigations into the proportion of African HIV from non-sexual exposures...
Investigating iatrogenic HIV transmission in Ugandan childrenDevon D Brewer
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 45:253-4. 2007
Valid evaluation of iatrogenic and sexual HIV transmission requires proofDevon D Brewer
AIDS 21:2556-7; author reply 2558-9. 2007
Mounting anomalies in the epidemiology of HIV in Africa: cry the beloved paradigmDevon D Brewer
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Int J STD AIDS 14:144-7. 2003
Disease intervention specialists as a corps, not corpseJohn J Potterat
Sex Transm Dis 35:703. 2008
Gonorrhea surveillance: the missing linksRichard Rothenberg
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 29:806-10. 2002
Miscarriage of HIV epidemiology in sub-Saharan AfricaJohn J Potterat
AIDS 20:955-6; author reply 956-8. 2006
Evidence of iatrogenic HIV transmission in children in South AfricaStuart Brody
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, , Germany
BJOG 110:450-2. 2003
HIV transmission during paediatric health care in sub-Saharan Africa--risks and evidenceDavid Gisselquist
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, , Germany
S Afr Med J 94:109-16. 2004..Research is required to determine the extent of iatrogenic HIV infection among African children as well as to identify high-risk procedures and settings. Such research can motivate and direct prevention efforts...
Still not understanding the uneven spread of HIV within AfricaJohn J Potterat
Sex Transm Dis 31:365. 2004
Does selected ecological evidence give a true picture of HIV transmission in Africa?David Gisselquist
Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Int J STD AIDS 15:434-9. 2004..We commend the emerging consensus to improve the safety of health care delivery. In countries with generalized HIV epidemics, we urge public education about the risks for HIV acquisition from unsterile health care...
Establishing valid AIDS monitoring and research in countries with generalized epidemicsStuart Brody
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Germany
Int J STD AIDS 15:1-6. 2004..Multimethod approaches for developing sound HIV/AIDS research are presented...
Autoinoculation of human papillomavirus and vaginal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus: an appeal for rigorous verificationStuart Brody
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, , Germany
Sex Transm Dis 31:65-6. 2004
Four policies to reduce HIV transmission through unsterile health careDavid Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 14:717-22. 2003..3) Promote safe health care practices equally for clients and staff. (4) Establish a zero-tolerance policy for iatrogenic HIV infections, with publicly reported monitoring and investigations...
[A neglected relationship: iatrogenic transmission of HIV in Africa]Francois Vachon
Presse Med 32:1205-7. 2003
Assessing the role of anal intercourse in the epidemiology of AIDS in AfricaStuart Brody
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Germany
Int J STD AIDS 14:431-6. 2003....
Psychiatric and characterological factors relevant to excess mortality in a long-term cohort of prostitute womenStuart Brody
Institute for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Germany
J Sex Marital Ther 31:97-112. 2005..We observed consistency between the observed pattern of mortality in prostitute women and mortality that would be expected in a sample of persons at high risk for antisocial and borderline personality disorder...
Estimating female-to-male infectivity of HIV-1 in Kenya: potential threats to validityJohn J Potterat
J Infect Dis 191:2154-5; author reply 2155-6. 2005
Uncontrolled herpes simplex virus-2 as a cofactor in HIV transmissionDavid Gisselquist
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 33:119-20. 2003
Active detection of men with asymptomatic chlamydial or gonorrhoeal urethritisJohn J Potterat
Int J STD AIDS 16:458. 2005
The algebra of condoms and abstinenceRichard Rothenberg
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:252-4. 2005
Questioning Wawer et al.'s estimated rate of sexual HIV transmission from persons with early HIV infectionsDavid Gisselquist
J Infect Dis 192:1497-9; author reply 1499-1500. 2005
Partner notification for HIV: running out of excusesJohn J Potterat
Sex Transm Dis 30:89-90. 2003
AIDS in AfricaDavid Gisselquist
Lancet 360:1422-3; author reply 1423-4. 2002
