Adrian Puren to Female
                            
                            
                                This is a "connection" page, showing publications Adrian Puren has written about Female.
                            
                            
                            
                                
                                    
                                            
    
        
        
        
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            Syphilis screening coverage and positivity by HIV treatment status among South African pregnant women enrolled in the 2019 antenatal HIV sentinel survey. Sci Rep. 2023 04 01; 13(1):5322.
            
            
                Score: 0,080
            
         
        
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            Progress towards the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets among pregnant women in South Africa: Results from the 2017 and 2019 national Antenatal HIV Sentinel Surveys. PLoS One. 2022; 17(7):e0271564.
            
            
                Score: 0,077
            
         
        
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            Association of HIV Intervention Uptake With HIV Prevalence in Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Apr 01; 5(4):e228640.
            
            
                Score: 0,075
            
         
        
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            Association between viral suppression during the third trimester of pregnancy and unintended pregnancy among women on antiretroviral therapy: Results from the 2019 antenatal HIV Sentinel Survey, South Africa. PLoS One. 2022; 17(3):e0265124.
            
            
                Score: 0,075
            
         
        
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            Recency of HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy use and viral loads among symptomatic sexually transmitted infection service attendees in South Africa. S Afr Med J. 2022 Feb 01; 112(2):13502.
            
            
                Score: 0,074
            
         
        
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            The prevalence of unintended pregnancy and its association with HIV status among pregnant women in South Africa, a national antenatal survey, 2019. Sci Rep. 2021 12 09; 11(1):23740.
            
            
                Score: 0,073
            
         
        
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            Coverage of maternal viral load monitoring during pregnancy in South Africa: Results from the 2019 national Antenatal HIV Sentinel Survey. HIV Med. 2021 10; 22(9):805-815.
            
            
                Score: 0,071
            
         
        
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            Recent HIV infection among pregnant women in the 2017 antenatal sentinel cross-sectional survey, South Africa: Assay-based incidence measurement. PLoS One. 2021; 16(4):e0249953.
            
            
                Score: 0,070
            
         
        
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            Viral suppression and factors associated with failure to achieve viral suppression among pregnant women in South Africa. AIDS. 2020 03 15; 34(4):589-597.
            
            
                Score: 0,065
            
         
        
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            Awareness of HIV-positive status and linkage to treatment prior to pregnancy in the "test and treat" era: A national antenatal sentinel survey, 2017, South Africa. PLoS One. 2020; 15(3):e0229874.
            
            
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            Assessment of readiness to transition from antenatal HIV surveillance surveys to PMTCT programme data-based HIV surveillance in South Africa: The 2017 Antenatal Sentinel HIV Survey. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Feb; 91:50-56.
            
            
                Score: 0,063
            
         
        
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            Misdiagnosis of HIV infection during a South African community-based survey: implications for rapid HIV testing. J Int AIDS Soc. 2017 08 29; 20(Suppl 6):21753.
            
            
                Score: 0,055
            
         
        
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            The continuum of HIV care in South Africa: implications for achieving the second and third UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. AIDS. 2017 02 20; 31(4):545-552.
            
            
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            Hepatitis C genotype distribution in patient and blood donor samples in South Africa for the period 2008-2012. J Viral Hepat. 2016 11; 23(11):881-888.
            
            
                Score: 0,051
            
         
        
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            Associations between childhood adversity and depression, substance abuse and HIV and HSV2 incident infections in rural South African youth. Child Abuse Negl. 2010 Nov; 34(11):833-41.
            
            
                Score: 0,034
            
         
        
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            Investigation of HIV in amniotic fluid from HIV-infected pregnant women at full term. J Infect Dis. 2005 Aug 01; 192(3):488-91.
            
            
                Score: 0,023
            
         
        
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            Population shift in antibody immunity following the emergence of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern. Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 14; 15(1):5549.
            
            
                Score: 0,023
            
         
        
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            HIV incidence estimation among female sex workers in South Africa: a multiple methods analysis of cross-sectional survey data. Lancet HIV. 2022 11; 9(11):e781-e790.
            
            
                Score: 0,019
            
         
        
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            Investigating the quality of HIV rapid testing practices in public antenatal health care facilities, South Africa. PLoS One. 2022; 17(8):e0268687.
            
            
                Score: 0,019
            
         
        
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            HIV viral load non-suppression and associated factors among pregnant and postpartum women in rural northeastern South Africa: a cross-sectional survey. BMJ Open. 2022 03 10; 12(3):e058347.
            
            
                Score: 0,019
            
         
        
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            The HIV-1 epidemic in South Africa. Oral Dis. 2002; 8 Suppl 2:27-31.
            
            
                Score: 0,018
            
         
        
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            HIV care coverage among HIV-positive adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: Results from the HERStory Study. S Afr Med J. 2021 Apr 30; 111(5):460-468.
            
            
                Score: 0,018
            
         
        
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            Interleukin-8 genetic diversity, haplotype structure and production differ in two ethnically distinct South African populations. Cytokine. 2021 07; 143:155489.
            
            
                Score: 0,017
            
         
        
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            Vaccine Efficacy of ALVAC-HIV and Bivalent Subtype C gp120-MF59 in Adults. N Engl J Med. 2021 03 25; 384(12):1089-1100.
            
            
                Score: 0,017
            
         
        
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            Trends in RPR Seropositivity among Children Younger than 2 Years in South Africa, 2010-2019. J Trop Pediatr. 2021 01 29; 67(1).
            
            
                Score: 0,017
            
         
        
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            Estimating the contribution of key populations towards HIV transmission in South Africa. J Int AIDS Soc. 2021 01; 24(1):e25650.
            
            
                Score: 0,017
            
         
        
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            Community-led cross-sectional study of social and employment circumstances, HIV and associated factors amongst female sex workers in South Africa: study protocol. Glob Health Action. 2021 01 01; 14(1):1953243.
            
            
                Score: 0,017
            
         
        
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            Impact of breastfeeding, maternal antiretroviral treatment and health service factors on 18-month vertical transmission of HIV and HIV-free survival: results from a nationally representative HIV-exposed infant cohort, South Africa. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2020 12; 74(12):1069-1077.
            
            
                Score: 0,017
            
         
        
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            Hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV prevalence and related sexual and substance use risk practices among key populations who access HIV prevention, treatment and related services in South Africa: findings from a seven-city cross-sectional survey (2017). BMC Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 07; 20(1):655.
            
            
                Score: 0,017
            
         
        
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            Successes and gaps in the HIV cascade of care of a high HIV prevalence setting in Zimbabwe: a population-based survey. J Int AIDS Soc. 2020 09; 23(9):e25613.
            
            
                Score: 0,017
            
         
        
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            The role of drug resistance in poor viral suppression in rural South Africa: findings from a population-based study. BMC Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 26; 20(1):248.
            
            
                Score: 0,016
            
         
        
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            Evaluating DREAMS HIV prevention interventions targeting adolescent girls and young women in high HIV prevalence districts in South Africa: protocol for a cross-sectional study. BMC Womens Health. 2020 01 16; 20(1):7.
            
            
                Score: 0,016
            
         
        
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            Human leukocyte antigen class I (A, B, C) and class II (DPB1, DQB1, DRB1) allele and haplotype variation in Black South African individuals. Hum Immunol. 2020 Jan; 81(1):6-7.
            
            
                Score: 0,016
            
         
        
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            Trends in HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Incidence in a Hyperendemic Area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 11 01; 2(11):e1914378.
            
            
                Score: 0,016
            
         
        
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            Prevalence of HIV-1 drug resistance amongst newly diagnosed HIV-infected infants age 4-8 weeks, enrolled in three nationally representative PMTCT effectiveness surveys, South Africa: 2010, 2011-12 and 2012-13. BMC Infect Dis. 2019 Sep 16; 19(Suppl 1):787.
            
            
                Score: 0,016
            
         
        
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            Feasibility of community-based HIV self-screening in South Africa: a demonstration project. BMC Public Health. 2019 Jul 08; 19(1):898.
            
            
                Score: 0,016
            
         
        
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            Daily Vaginal Swabs and Mobile Phone Sex Report for Assessing HIV Virion Exposure Prospectively Among a Cohort of Young Sexually Active Women in South Africa (HVTN 915). J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2019 06 01; 81(2):e39-e48.
            
            
                Score: 0,015
            
         
        
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            Improvements in the South African HIV care cascade: findings on 90-90-90 targets from successive population-representative surveys in North West Province. J Int AIDS Soc. 2019 06; 22(6):e25295.
            
            
                Score: 0,015
            
         
        
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            CD4 count recovery and associated factors among individuals enrolled in the South African antiretroviral therapy programme: An analysis of national laboratory based data. PLoS One. 2019; 14(5):e0217742.
            
            
                Score: 0,015
            
         
        
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            Understanding hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV among people who inject drugs in South Africa: findings from a three-city cross-sectional survey. Harm Reduct J. 2019 04 11; 16(1):28.
            
            
                Score: 0,015
            
         
        
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            Provincial and national prevalence estimates of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance in South Africa measured using two WHO-recommended methods. Antivir Ther. 2019; 24(3):203-210.
            
            
                Score: 0,015
            
         
        
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            Interleukin-18 enhances lipopolysaccharide-induced interferon-gamma production in human whole blood cultures. J Infect Dis. 1998 Dec; 178(6):1830-4.
            
            
                Score: 0,015
            
         
        
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            Population-level HIV incidence estimates using a combination of synthetic cohort and recency biomarker approaches in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PLoS One. 2018; 13(9):e0203638.
            
            
                Score: 0,015
            
         
        
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            Knowledge of HIV status and antiretroviral therapy use among sexually transmitted infections service attendees and the case for improving the integration of services in South Africa: A cross sectional study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Sep; 97(39):e12575.
            
            
                Score: 0,015
            
         
        
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            Community-based HIV prevalence in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: results of a cross-sectional household survey. Lancet HIV. 2018 08; 5(8):e427-e437.
            
            
                Score: 0,014
            
         
        
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            Beyond Social Desirability Bias: Investigating Inconsistencies in Self-Reported HIV Testing and Treatment Behaviors Among HIV-Positive Adults in North West Province, South Africa. AIDS Behav. 2018 Jul; 22(7):2368-2379.
            
            
                Score: 0,014
            
         
        
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            Progress towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals by age and gender in a rural area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a household-based community cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health. 2018 03 02; 18(1):303.
            
            
                Score: 0,014
            
         
        
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            Adolescent Access to Care and Risk of Early Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission. J Adolesc Health. 2018 04; 62(4):434-443.
            
            
                Score: 0,014
            
         
        
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            Progress of UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets in a district in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with high HIV burden, in the HIPSS study: a household-based complex multilevel community survey. Lancet HIV. 2017 11; 4(11):e505-e513.
            
            
                Score: 0,014
            
         
        
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            Toward elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa: how best to monitor early infant infections within the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Program. J Glob Health. 2017 Jun; 7(1):010701.
            
            
                Score: 0,013
            
         
        
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            Women's knowledge and perception of male circumcision before and after its roll-out in the South African township of Orange Farm from community-based cross-sectional surveys. PLoS One. 2017; 12(3):e0173595.
            
            
                Score: 0,013
            
         
        
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            An association between decreasing incidence of invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis and increased use of antiretroviral therapy, Gauteng Province, South Africa, 2003-2013. PLoS One. 2017; 12(3):e0173091.
            
            
                Score: 0,013
            
         
        
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            Population-level effectiveness of PMTCT Option A on early mother-to-child (MTCT) transmission of HIV in South Africa: implications for eliminating MTCT. J Glob Health. 2016 Dec; 6(2):020405.
            
            
                Score: 0,013
            
         
        
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            Transmission networks and risk of HIV infection in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a community-wide phylogenetic study. Lancet HIV. 2017 01; 4(1):e41-e50.
            
            
                Score: 0,013
            
         
        
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            Attrition and Opportunities Along the HIV Care Continuum: Findings From a Population-Based Sample, North West Province, South Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2016 09 01; 73(1):91-9.
            
            
                Score: 0,013
            
         
        
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            Level of viral suppression and the cascade of HIV care in a South African semi-urban setting in 2012. AIDS. 2016 08 24; 30(13):2107-16.
            
            
                Score: 0,013
            
         
        
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            Naturally occurring resistance mutations within the core and NS5B regions in hepatitis C genotypes, particularly genotype 5a, in South Africa. Antiviral Res. 2016 Mar; 127:90-8.
            
            
                Score: 0,012
            
         
        
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            Strengthening HIV surveillance in the antiretroviral therapy era: rationale and design of a longitudinal study to monitor HIV prevalence and incidence in the uMgungundlovu District, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC Public Health. 2015 Nov 20; 15:1149.
            
            
                Score: 0,012
            
         
        
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            A Comparison of South African National HIV Incidence Estimates: A Critical Appraisal of Different Methods. PLoS One. 2015; 10(7):e0133255.
            
            
                Score: 0,012
            
         
        
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            Missed Opportunities along the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Services Cascade in South Africa: Uptake, Determinants, and Attributable Risk (the SAPMTCTE). PLoS One. 2015; 10(7):e0132425.
            
            
                Score: 0,012
            
         
        
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            Young age at start of antiretroviral therapy and negative HIV antibody results in HIV-infected children when suppressed. AIDS. 2015 Jun 01; 29(9):1053-60.
            
            
                Score: 0,012
            
         
        
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            Patterns of cytokine expression in community-acquired pneumonia. Chest. 1995 May; 107(5):1342-9.
            
            
                Score: 0,012
            
         
        
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            Exploring HIV infection and susceptibility to measles among older children and adults in Malawi: a facility-based study. Int J Infect Dis. 2015 Feb; 31:61-7.
            
            
                Score: 0,011
            
         
        
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            First population-level effectiveness evaluation of a national programme to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child, South Africa. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2015 Mar; 69(3):240-8.
            
            
                Score: 0,011
            
         
        
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            Frequencies of immune hypersensitivity reaction-associated HLA class I alleles in healthy South African Indian and mixed ancestry populations determined by a novel real-time PCR assay. Tissue Antigens. 2014 Oct; 84(4):389-97.
            
            
                Score: 0,011
            
         
        
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            Measles outbreak in South Africa: epidemiology of laboratory-confirmed measles cases and assessment of intervention, 2009-2011. PLoS One. 2013; 8(2):e55682.
            
            
                Score: 0,010
            
         
        
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            Implications of spatially heterogeneous vaccination coverage for the risk of congenital rubella syndrome in South Africa. J R Soc Interface. 2013 Jan 06; 10(78):20120756.
            
            
                Score: 0,010
            
         
        
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            Respiratory viral coinfections identified by a 10-plex real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction assay in patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory illness--South Africa, 2009-2010. J Infect Dis. 2012 Dec 15; 206 Suppl 1:S159-65.
            
            
                Score: 0,010
            
         
        
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            Surveillance of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces, South Africa, 2005-2009. Clin Infect Dis. 2012 May; 54 Suppl 4:S334-8.
            
            
                Score: 0,009
            
         
        
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            Evaluating the BED capture enzyme immunoassay to estimate HIV incidence among adults in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2010 Oct; 26(10):1051-61.
            
            
                Score: 0,008
            
         
        
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            Results of a safety and feasibility study of the diaphragm used with ACIDFORM Gel or K-Y Jelly. Contraception. 2010 Mar; 81(3):232-9.
            
            
                Score: 0,008
            
         
        
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            Interim report on pandemic H1N1 influenza virus infections in South Africa, April to October 2009: epidemiology and factors associated with fatal cases. Euro Surveill. 2009 Oct 22; 14(42).
            
            
                Score: 0,008
            
         
        
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            Poor sensitivity of field rapid HIV testing: implications for mother-to-child transmission programme. BJOG. 2009 Dec; 116(13):1805-8.
            
            
                Score: 0,008
            
         
        
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            Women exposed to single-dose nevirapine in successive pregnancies: effectiveness and nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance. AIDS. 2009 Apr 27; 23(7):809-16.
            
            
                Score: 0,008
            
         
        
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            Transmission probabilities of HIV and herpes simplex virus type 2, effect of male circumcision and interaction: a longitudinal study in a township of South Africa. AIDS. 2009 Jan 28; 23(3):377-383.
            
            
                Score: 0,008
            
         
        
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            Development of phenotypic HIV-1 drug resistance after exposure to single-dose nevirapine. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2008 Dec 15; 49(5):538-43.
            
            
                Score: 0,007
            
         
        
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            HIV incidence in rural South Africa: comparison of estimates from longitudinal surveillance and cross-sectional cBED assay testing. PLoS One. 2008; 3(11):e3640.
            
            
                Score: 0,007
            
         
        
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            Hepatitis C virus genotypes in two different patient cohorts in Johannesburg, South Africa. Arch Virol. 2008; 153(11):2049-58.
            
            
                Score: 0,007
            
         
        
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            Impact of stepping stones on incidence of HIV and HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2008 Aug 07; 337:a506.
            
            
                Score: 0,007
            
         
        
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            Antiretroviral drug resistance surveillance among drug-naive HIV-1-infected individuals in Gauteng Province, South Africa in 2002 and 2004. Antivir Ther. 2008; 13 Suppl 2:101-7.
            
            
                Score: 0,007
            
         
        
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            Human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection correlates strongly with herpes simplex virus-2 (genital herpes) seropositivity in South African and United States blood donations. Transfusion. 2008 Feb; 48(2):295-303.
            
            
                Score: 0,007
            
         
        
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            National HIV incidence measures--new insights into the South African epidemic. S Afr Med J. 2007 Mar; 97(3):194-9.
            
            
                Score: 0,007
            
         
        
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            Selection and persistence of viral resistance in HIV-infected children after exposure to single-dose nevirapine. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2007 Feb 01; 44(2):148-53.
            
            
                Score: 0,007
            
         
        
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            Factors associated with HIV sero-status in young rural South African women: connections between intimate partner violence and HIV. Int J Epidemiol. 2006 Dec; 35(6):1461-8.
            
            
                Score: 0,006
            
         
        
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            A cluster randomized-controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of Stepping Stones in preventing HIV infections and promoting safer sexual behaviour amongst youth in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa: trial design, methods and baseline findings. Trop Med Int Health. 2006 Jan; 11(1):3-16.
            
            
                Score: 0,006
            
         
        
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            Polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection in infancy in low resource settings. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2005 Nov; 24(11):993-7.
            
            
                Score: 0,006
            
         
        
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            Viral dynamics and CD4+ T cell counts in subtype C human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected individuals from southern Africa. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2005 Apr; 21(4):285-91.
            
            
                Score: 0,006
            
         
        
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            Can highly active antiretroviral therapy reduce the spread of HIV?: A study in a township of South Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004 May 01; 36(1):613-21.
            
            
                Score: 0,005
            
         
        
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            Acceptability of male circumcision as a tool for preventing HIV infection in a highly infected community in South Africa. AIDS. 2003 Jan 03; 17(1):89-95.
            
            
                Score: 0,005
            
         
        
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            Peripartum cardiomyopathy: analysis of clinical outcome, left ventricular function, plasma levels of cytokines and Fas/APO-1. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000 Mar 01; 35(3):701-5.
            
            
                Score: 0,004
            
         
        
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            Spontaneous and inducible cytokine responses in healthy humans receiving a single dose of IFN-alpha2b: increased production of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist and suppression of IL-1-induced IL-8. J Interferon Cytokine Res. 1998 Oct; 18(10):897-903.
            
            
                Score: 0,004
            
         
        
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            Interleukin-18 regulation of interferon gamma production and cell proliferation as shown in interleukin-1beta-converting enzyme (caspase-1)-deficient mice. Blood. 1998 Mar 15; 91(6):2118-25.
            
            
                Score: 0,004