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| D H OsmondSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Factors associated with mortality in patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosisPayam Nahid
Curry International Tuberculosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
BMC Infect Dis 11:1. 2011..Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death worldwide, yet the determinants of death are not well understood. We sought to determine risk factors for mortality during treatment of drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis under program settings...- Changes in prevalence of HIV infection and sexual risk behavior in men who have sex with men in San Francisco: 1997 2002Dennis H Osmond
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1677-83. 2007..We assessed differences in HIV prevalence and sexual risk behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) between 1997 and 2002 in San Francisco... 
Impact of bacterial pneumonia and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia on human immunodeficiency virus disease progression. Pulmonary Complications of HIV Study GroupD H Osmond
San Francisco General Hospital, California, USA
Clin Infect Dis 29:536-43. 1999..an AIDS-defining opportunistic infection and the proportion of cases occurring in association with a CD4 lymphocyte count of >200 suggest that measures to prevent bacterial pneumonia should be emphasized...- Prevalence of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection in homosexual men at beginning of and during the HIV epidemicDennis H Osmond
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
JAMA 287:221-5. 2002.... - Obtaining HIV test results with a home collection test kit in a community telephone sampleD H Osmond
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, AIDS Research Institute and Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 24:363-8. 2000..To test the feasibility of obtaining HIV test results by home collection kit from a probability telephone sample of men who have sex with men (MSM)... - Name-based surveillance and public health interventions for persons with HIV infection. Multistate Evaluation of Surveillance for HIV Study GroupD H Osmond
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Ann Intern Med 131:775-9. 1999..These results suggest that the potential for such effects has been exaggerated... - Decline in HIV infectivity following the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapyTravis C Porco
San Francisco Department of Public Health, Community Health and Epidemiology Section, San Francisco, CA, USA
AIDS 18:81-8. 2004..048 after the widespread use of HAART- a decline of 60% (P=0.028). CONCLUSIONS: Use of HAART by infected persons in a community appears to reduce their infectiousness and therefore may provide an important HIV prevention tool... - Friend or foe? How primary care physicians perceive hospitalistsA Fernandez
Primary Care Research Center, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:2902-8. 2000..Whether primary care physicians welcome this transition is unknown. We examined primary care physicians' perceptions of how hospitalists affect their practices, their patient relationships, and overall patient care... - Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and sexual transmission of cancer riskJ N Martin
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, 94105, USA
Curr Opin Oncol 11:508-15. 1999..Spread via renal allograft appears to occur, and in endemic areas of Europe and Africa, nonsexual horizontal and perhaps vertical spread are the dominant modes of transmission... - Primary care physicians' experience with disease management programsA Fernandez
Primary Care Research Center, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif 94110, USA
J Gen Intern Med 16:163-7. 2001..To examine primary care physicians' perceptions of how disease management programs affect their practices, their relationships with their patients, and overall patient care... - Sensitivity and specificity of fluorescence microscopy for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis in a high HIV prevalence settingA Cattamanchi
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 13:1130-6. 2009..Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda... 
Detailed analysis of the radiographic presentation of Mycobacterium kansasii lung disease in patients with HIV infectionAdithya Cattamanchi
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Chest 133:875-80. 2008..In patients with HIV infection, the radiographic findings of M kansasii lung disease are not well described...- Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosisPayam Nahid
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, 5K1, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 175:1199-206. 2007..The optimal length of tuberculosis treatment in patients coinfected with HIV is unknown... - Use of saliva as a lubricant in anal sexual practices among homosexual menLisa M Butler
From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 50:162-7. 2009..Because one common element between these organisms is their presence in saliva, we evaluated saliva exposure among MSM in a heretofore relatively unrecognized route-via use of saliva as a lubricant in anal sex... - Evaluation of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's HIV behavioral surveillance of men who have sex with men: sampling issuesLance M Pollack
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:581-9. 2005..The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is embarking on a program of biannual venue-based time-space sampling surveys to monitor prevalence and incidence of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM)... - Tuberculosis treatment outcomes: directly observed therapy compared with self-administered therapyRobert M Jasmer
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, Room 5K 1, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 170:561-6. 2004..We conclude that treatment plans that emphasize directly observed therapy from the start of therapy have the greatest success in improving tuberculosis treatment outcomes... - Trends in causes of death among persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy, San Francisco, 1994-1998Janice K Louie
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
J Infect Dis 186:1023-7. 2002..With increasing AIDS survival, prevention of chronic diseases, assessment of long-term toxicity from HAART, and surveillance for additional causes of mortality will become increasingly important... - A 13-year molecular epidemiological analysis of tuberculosis in San FranciscoA Cattamanchi
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 10:297-304. 2006..These data suggest that intensification of measures designed to identify and treat persons with latent TB infection will be necessary to further reduce TB incidence... - Use of epidemiologically well-defined subjects and existing immunofluorescence assays to calibrate a new enzyme immunoassay for human herpesvirus 8 antibodiesJ N Martin
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94105, USA
J Clin Microbiol 38:696-701. 2000.... - Correlates of heavy substance use among young gay and bisexual men: The San Francisco Young Men's Health StudyG L Greenwood
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, 5th Floor, 74 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 61:105-12. 2001..These correlates of heavier substance use among young gay and bisexual men could be used to identify and intervene early with members of this population who are at risk of substance misuse, as well as HIV/AIDS risk... - The effect of venue sampling on estimates of HIV prevalence and sexual risk behaviors in men who have sex with menQiang Xia
California Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS, Sacramento, California, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:545-50. 2006.... - Risk of HIV infection attributable to oral sex among men who have sex with men and in the population of men who have sex with menKimberly Page-Shafer
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
AIDS 16:2350-2. 2002..PAR%, based on the number of fellatio partners, ranges from 0.10% for one partner to 0.31% for three partners. The risk of HIV attributable to fellatio is extremely low... - Awareness of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus among men who have sex with menAbigail M Phillips
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:1011-4. 2008..This is particularly the case for men who have sex with men (MSM), the group at greatest risk for infection... - The impact of Medicaid managed care on hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditionsAndrew B Bindman
Primary Care Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-1364, USA
Health Serv Res 40:19-38. 2005.... - Knowledge of sexual partner's HIV serostatus and serosorting practices in a California population-based sample of men who have sex with menQiang Xia
California Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS, Sacramento, CA, USA
AIDS 20:2081-9. 2006..The findings emphasize the need for studies to report serocordant and serodiscordant unprotected anal intercourse separately, as the former presents significant lower risk of HIV transmission... - HIV prevalence and sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with men: results from a statewide population-based survey in CaliforniaQiang Xia
Office of AIDS, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 41:238-45. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: HIV prevalence among MSM living in California continues to be high across the whole state, and population-based studies are needed periodically to complement findings from surveys using other sampling designs...