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Men At Risk; A Qualitative Study On Hiv Risk, Gender Identity And Violence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men Who Report High Risk Behavior In Kampala, Uganda., Rachel King, Joseph Barker, Sylvia Nakayiwa, David Katuntu, George Lubwama, Danstan Bagenda, Tim Lane, Alex Opio, Wolfgang Hladik
Men At Risk; A Qualitative Study On Hiv Risk, Gender Identity And Violence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men Who Report High Risk Behavior In Kampala, Uganda., Rachel King, Joseph Barker, Sylvia Nakayiwa, David Katuntu, George Lubwama, Danstan Bagenda, Tim Lane, Alex Opio, Wolfgang Hladik
Journal Articles: Epidemiology
In Uganda, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk for HIV. Between May 2008 and February 2009 in Kampala, Uganda, we used respondent driven sampling (RDS) to recruit 295 MSM≥18 years who reported having had sex with another man in the preceding three months. The parent study conducted HIV and STI testing and collected demographic and HIV-related behavioral data through audio computer-assisted self-administered interviews. We conducted a nested qualitative sub-study with 16 men purposively sampled from among the survey participants based on responses to behavioral variables indicating higher risk for HIV infection. Sub-study participants were interviewed …
Database-Guided Discovery Of Potent Peptides To Combat Hiv-1 Or Superbugs., Guangshun Wang
Database-Guided Discovery Of Potent Peptides To Combat Hiv-1 Or Superbugs., Guangshun Wang
Journal Articles: Pathology and Microbiology
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), small host defense proteins, are indispensable for the protection of multicellular organisms such as plants and animals from infection. The number of AMPs discovered per year increased steadily since the 1980s. Over 2,000 natural AMPs from bacteria, protozoa, fungi, plants, and animals have been registered into the antimicrobial peptide database (APD). The majority of these AMPs (>86%) possess 11-50 amino acids with a net charge from 0 to +7 and hydrophobic percentages between 31-70%. This article summarizes peptide discovery on the basis of the APD. The major methods are the linguistic model, database screening, de novo …
Molecular Epidemiology Of Early And Acute Hiv Type 1 Infections In The United States Navy And Marine Corps, 2005–2010, Richard A. Heipertz, Eric Sanders-Buell, Gustavo Kijak, Shana Howell, Michelle Lazzaro, Linda L. Jagodzinski, John Eggleston, Sheila Peel, Jennifer Malia, Adam Armstrong, Nelson L. Michael, Jerome H. Kim, Robert J. O'Connell, Paul T. Scott, David Brett-Major, Sodsai Tovanabutra
Molecular Epidemiology Of Early And Acute Hiv Type 1 Infections In The United States Navy And Marine Corps, 2005–2010, Richard A. Heipertz, Eric Sanders-Buell, Gustavo Kijak, Shana Howell, Michelle Lazzaro, Linda L. Jagodzinski, John Eggleston, Sheila Peel, Jennifer Malia, Adam Armstrong, Nelson L. Michael, Jerome H. Kim, Robert J. O'Connell, Paul T. Scott, David Brett-Major, Sodsai Tovanabutra
Journal Articles: Epidemiology
The U.S. military represents a unique population within the human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) pandemic. The last comprehensive study of HIV-1 in members of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps (Sea Services) was completed in 2000, before large-scale combat operations were taking place. Here, we present molecular characterization of HIV-1 from 40 Sea Services personnel who were identified during their seroconversion window and initially classified as HIV-1 negative during screening. Protease/reverse transcriptase (pro/rt) and envelope (env) sequences were obtained from each member of the cohort. Phylogenetic analyses were carried out on these regions to determine relatedness within the cohort and …