Herpes simplex virus type 2 seroprevalence and incidence in acute and chronic HIV-1 infection.

abstract：:The blood-taking practices and prevalence of needle-stick injuries were recorded for 46 house officers working at the two largest teaching hospitals in Sheffield and 38 house officers working at three hospitals in London. Wearing gloves when performing venesection or inserting an intravenous cannula was generally perc...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Woolley PD,Palfreeman AJ,Patel R,Talbot MD,Samarasinghe PL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National guidelines state that hepatitis B and C testing should be targeted to those with risk factors. However, there is little data to support this recommendation. There is also limited data of viral hepatitis prevalence in attendees at genitourinary medicine clinics. We report the prevalence of hepatitis B infectio...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Price H,Salimee S,Coelho D

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae testing guidance recommends extragenital screening with locally validated nucleic acid amplification tests, with anatomical sites tested separately. Evidence supports multi-patient combined aliquot pooled sampling (PS) for population screening; evidence for within-patien...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Shaw J,Saunders JM,Hughes G

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary aim of the current study was to test the effect of the presentation design of a test alert system on healthcare workers' (HCWs') decision-making regarding blood-borne virus (BBV) testing. The secondary aim was to determine HCWs' acceptance of the system. An online survey used a within-subjects research des...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： van Schaik P,Lorrimer S,Chadwick D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the conditions in which self-reports provide an accurate assessment of adherence to HIV antiretrovirals. In a sample of 58 participants, self-reported and electronically monitored adherence to antiretroviral therapy were compared over a three-day period. Of the 16 who reporte...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Kimmerling M,Wagner G,Ghosh-Dastidar B

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to determine the association of neurocognitive impairment with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Seventy subjects were cross-sectionally analysed with a standardized neuropsychological test battery and a questionnai...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Tozzi V,Balestra P,Murri R,Galgani S,Bellagamba R,Narciso P,Antinori A,Giulianelli M,Tosi G,Fantoni M,Sampaolesi A,Noto P,Ippolito G,Wu AW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dried blood spots (DBS) are widely used to test for HIV in a variety of research and service delivery settings; however, uniform guidelines regarding collection, storage and DNA extraction processes have neither been developed nor evaluated. Previously published reports suggested DBS may be stored at room temperature ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Montgomery ET,van der Pol B,van der Straten A,Ramjee G,de Bruyn G,Chipato T,Blanchard K,Padian NS,MIRA Team.

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study of sexual behaviour in the city of Lisbon is based on data obtained from 2 random samples, one of individuals aged 16-20 (n = 400) and another of individuals over the age of 20 (n = 400). Samples have been stratified by district, gender and age. Data were obtained by personal interview and by questionnaires...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Amaro F,Dantas AM,Teles Lda C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People tend to believe that their chance of experiencing undesirable events is lower and their chance of experiencing desirable events is higher than that of the average person like them. Two explanatory models of such 'unrealistic optimism' (UO) have been proposed: While the motivational account holds that UO serves ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Gold RS

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates that were resistant to ciprofloxacin and/or penicillin were analysed to investigate the escalating problem of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea in the north east of England. Opa-typing (outer membrane opacity protein) was carried out on isolates resistant to ciprofloxacin and of nutrient n...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Elawad BB,Narayanan M,Pattman RS,Sankar KN,Freeman R

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined treatment-seeking behaviours amongst a consecutive sample of 188 first-time attenders at a busy genitourinary (GU) clinic in a general hospital. Participants were interviewed and completed a battery of questionnaires prior to receiving diagnosis or treatment. Delay in treatment seeking was measured in 3 wa...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Pitts MK,Woolliscroft J,Cannon S,Johnson I,Singh G

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The World Health Organization expects the rate of new HIV infections to decline in all global regions before the year 2005, except in South East Asia. More than 3 million people become HIV infected each year in South East Asia. It is incorrect to discuss it as a whole since the cultures in the region are so differen...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Dwyer JM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to implement a sexual health behavioural intervention in Greenland in order to reduce sexually transmitted infection rates among a population of Greenland youth. This behavioural intervention was called Inuulluataarneq (Having the Good Life). Inuulluataarneq's objects included: (1) increa...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Rink E,Montgomery-Andersen R,Anastario M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for new hypotheses to supplement existing explanations for the observed differences in HIV prevalence between countries and within countries. Due to high levels of viraemia during the initial phase of HIV infection, networks of concurrent regular partnerships in a community could be the determining fac...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Hudson CP

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of cryptococcal meningitis in a patient known to have HIV who presented initially with ocular cryptococcosis. This case highlights to clinicians the need to be aware of this association and to carry out relevant investigations so as to treat these patients appropriately. ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Chai SM,Teoh SC

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sweet's syndrome is a rare skin condition associated with both drug treatment and a number of different disease processes including haematological malignancies, inflammatory conditions and HIV infection. In this case report, we present a patient with HIV, haemophilia and hepatitis C who presented to our team with sign...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Deasy AM,Walker B,Layton AM,Lacey CJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current teaching on Reiter's syndrome is that keratoderma blennorrhagica lesions appear characteristically on the soles of feet, although they can be seen on other parts of the body infrequently. We therefore thought that it would be interesting to report the case of keratoderma blennorrhagica lesions found on the gla...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Edirisinghe DN,Sankar KN,Pattman RS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) interact uniquely with HIV infection, regardless of the form of sexual transmission of HIV. Both STDs and HIV infection are behaviorally and biologically intertwined with one another. This concept is called epidemiologic synergy since they facilitate the sexual transmission of on...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Quinn TC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bambari and Bria, 2 towns in the Central African Republic (CAR), we analysed a patient-led partner referral programme within enhanced sexually transmitted disease (STD) services. New (index) patients received syndromic management, counselling about notifying and treating contacts, and vouchers for distribution. Fro...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Koumans EH,Barker K,Massanga M,Hawkins RV,Somse P,Parker KA,Moran J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have conducted a longitudinal study on factors associated with candidal vaginal colonization, a precursor of vaginitis, in a cohort of HIV-infected women in Italy. All consecutive women attending a single, tertiary care clinical site were offered free screening for sexually transmitted infections and genital disord...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Beltrame A,Matteelli A,Carvalho AC,Saleri N,Casalini C,Capone S,Patroni A,Manfrin M,Carosi G

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genitourinary (GU) medicine services are under increasing pressure due to increased workload. The Department of Health responded to this crisis by allocating pump-priming funding of ?5 million direct to GU medicine clinics in 2002-03. A survey was performed of all clinics in England to determine if funding was receive...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Rogstad KE,Copas AJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case series of HIV/HCV co-infected patients who underwent preemptive antiretroviral therapy modifications to manage clinically significant drug interactions with HCV therapy. Among the 15 patients reviewed, all changed to a raltegravir-based regimen and none experienced a loss of virologic suppression or i...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Stambough M,Roman M,Blair DC,Sidman EF,Miller CD

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is much more frequent in patients acquiring HIV infection via the sexual route. Epidemiological studies have confirmed the likely involvement of a sexually acquired cofactor in the pathogenesis of this form of KS. We have formulated a set of postulates, epidemiological and experim...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Peters BS,Thomas BJ,Yi C,Beck EJ,Weber J,Pinching AJ,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium infections are very rare in HIV-infected patients, even in patients in advanced stages of immunosuppression. All the reported cases in the literature are of disseminated infection, and with poor outcomes despite prompt and appropriate treatment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a loca...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Medaglia AA,Marco-Hernández J,de Ossó Acuña JT,Hermida Lama E,Martínez-Rebollar M,Caballero M,Rodríguez-Carunchio L,García F

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Senegal pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) Demonstration Project was an open-label cohort study assessing the delivery of daily oral PrEP to HIV-negative female sex workers (FSWs) in four Ministry of Health (MoH)-run clinics in Dakar, Senegal. We assessed uptake, retention in care, and adherence over up to 12 months ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Sarr M,Gueye D,Mboup A,Diouf O,Bao MDB,Ndiaye AJ,Ndiaye BP,Hawes SE,Tousset E,Diallo A,Jones F,Kane CT,Thiam S,Ndour CT,Gottlieb GS,Mboup S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) has not previously been described in North or East Africa. We examined over 1200 sera of high-risk individuals from three North/East African countries for antibodies to HIV-2. Results indicated that 17 were repeatedly reactive by ELISA; 4 were confirmed by Weste...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Constantine NT,Sheba MF,Fox E,Woody JN,Abbatte EA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Squamous cell carcinoma of the penis is an uncommon cancer, though in one study it accounted for 90% of all penile cancers. Its association with balanitis xerotica obliterans (BXO) is a rare though recognized occurrence. We describe a case of a 46-year-old Caucasian male who first presented to our open-access clinic w...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Goolamali SI,Pakianathan M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous Candida infections may occur in patients with HIV/AIDS, cancer, receiving chemotherapy and solid organ transplantation. A 32-year-old woman was admitted to the department suffering from pruritic and erythematous plaque on left side of her face for the past two months. The patient was HIV positive, diagnosed ...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Demiraslan H,Alabay S,Kilic AU,Borlu M,Doganay M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of human herpes virus-8-associated multicentric Castleman's disease in an HIV-positive patient with hyponatraemia. A 65-year-old man was admitted with relapsing and remitting fever, scattered skin eruptions and hepatosplenomegaly following combination antiretroviral therapy for his HIV infection. Base...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Sasaki H,Maeda T,Hara Y,Osa M,Imai K,Moriguchi K,Mikita K,Fujikura Y,Kaida K,Kawana A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a commonly expressed expert view that stress is associated with frequent recurrences of genital herpes (GH) but the evidence for this is poor and it is often asserted that stress is the result of GH rather than any other cause. We have reviewed the recent literature on this topic, restricting evidence to only pr...

journal_title：International journal of STD & AIDS

authors： Goldmeier D,Garvey L,Barton S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00