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| Joanne D SteklerSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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HIV dynamics in seminal plasma during primary HIV infectionJoanne Stekler
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 24:1269-74. 2008..Incorporating seminal plasma HIV levels into future mathematical models may increase the accuracy of these models...
Screening for acute HIV infection: lessons learnedJoanne Stekler
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Clin Infect Dis 44:459-61. 2007..We present cases to illustrate unusual instances of acute HIV screening, which include "window period" testing and the discovery of low-level HIV RNA...
Abacavir hypersensitivity reaction in primary HIV infectionJoanne Stekler
Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
AIDS 20:1269-74. 2006..To evaluate risk factors associated with the abacavir hypersensitivity reaction during primary HIV infection (PHI)...
Primary HIV infection education: knowledge and attitudes of HIV-negative men who have sex with men attending a public health sexually transmitted disease clinicJoanne Stekler
Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Center for AIDS Research, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 42:123-6. 2006..Until more individuals with PHI seek evaluation, the public health impact of RNA testing is likely to be small...
Primary HIV InfectionJoanne Stekler
Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep 1:68-73. 2004..Immunomodulators and vaccines are also under study as adjuvant therapy for treatment of primary HIV infection...
HIV testing in a high-incidence population: is antibody testing alone good enough?Joanne D Stekler
Departments of Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Center for AIDS and STD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Clin Infect Dis 49:444-53. 2009..However, antibody tests have longer "window periods" after HIV acquisition than do nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs)...
Failure of serosorting to protect African American men who have sex with men from HIV infectionMatthew R Golden
Public Health Seattle King County, Seattle, WA, USA
Sex Transm Dis 39:659-64. 2012..The extent to which serosorting protects African American (AA) and Hispanic men who have sex with men (MSM) is unknown...
HIV intertest interval among MSM in King County, WashingtonDavid A Katz
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Sex Transm Infect 89:32-7. 2013..The authors examined temporal trends and correlates of HIV testing frequency among men who have sex with men (MSM) in King County, Washington...
Prevalence and impact of minority variant drug resistance mutations in primary HIV-1 infectionJoanne D Stekler
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e28952. 2011..To evaluate minority variant drug resistance mutations detected by the oligonucleotide ligation assay (OLA) but not consensus sequencing among subjects with primary HIV-1 infection...
Population-based metrics for the timing of HIV diagnosis, engagement in HIV care, and virologic suppressionJulia C Dombrowski
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
AIDS 26:77-86. 2012..To compare population-based metrics for assessing progress toward the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) goals...
Use of a home-use test to diagnose HIV infection in a sex partner: a case reportDavid A Katz
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Res Notes 5:440. 2012..To our knowledge, this is the first report of an individual diagnosed with HIV using a home-use test with a sex partner...
Understanding barriers to routine HIV screening: knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare providers in King County, WashingtonAlexandra Shirreffs
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e44417. 2012..We designed this survey to ascertain the current state of HIV testing and barriers to routine screening in King County, Washington...
Patient acceptance of universal screening for hepatitis C virus infectionPhillip O Coffin
Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
BMC Infect Dis 11:160. 2011..Although universal screening might be a cost-effective way to identify infections, prevent morbidity, and reduce transmission, few efforts have been made to determine patient opinions about new approaches to screening...
Antiretroviral therapy use among HIV-infected men who have sex with men attending a sexually transmitted diseases clinicJulia C Dombrowski
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 55:524-7. 2010..Sexually transmitted disease clinics may be an important venue in which to identify persons who are not taking ART. Treating these persons could help diminish HIV transmission...
HIV serosorting in men who have sex with men: is it safe?Matthew R Golden
Public Health Seattle and King County, Center for AIDS and STD, 400 Yesler Way, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 49:212-8. 2008..Serosorting is the practice of preferentially having sex with partners of concordant HIV status or of selectively using condoms with HIV-discordant partners...
Targeted screening for primary HIV infection through pooled HIV-RNA testing in men who have sex with menJoanne Stekler
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
AIDS 19:1323-5. 2005..3%) had detectable antibody and RNA, and seven out of 3439 antibody-negative specimens (0.2%) had HIV RNA. Targeted screening for primary infection through pooled RNA testing in MSM is a useful addition to HIV case finding...
Env length and N-linked glycosylation following transmission of human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 subtype B virusesYi Liu
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195 8070, USA
Virology 374:229-33. 2008....
Negative rapid HIV antibody testing during early HIV infectionJoanne Stekler
Ann Intern Med 147:147-8. 2007
Transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance: are we seeing just the tip of an epidemiological iceberg?Joanne Stekler
J Infect Dis 196:336-8. 2007
Concurrent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in sex partners of patients with selected STIs: implications for patient-delivered partner therapyJoanne Stekler
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Clin Infect Dis 40:787-93. 2005..However, PDPT for male partners of women with trichomoniasis and for MSM requires further study...
Research Grants
- Primary HIV Infection: the Public Health PerspectiveJoanne Stekler; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Comparisons of Public Health Screening Methods for Acute and Early HIV InfectionJoanne Stekler; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Low-frequency HIV-1 Drug Resistance in Primary HIV-1 InfectionJOANNE DONNA STEKLER; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Comparisons of Public Health Screening Methods for Acute and Early HIV InfectionJOANNE DONNA STEKLER; Fiscal Year: 2010....
