Topic · Infectious Diseases · Medicine
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6 papers
Tusekile Sarah Kangwa, Catherine J. Wedderburn, Jenna F. Annandale…·Petrus J.W. Naudé
This study examines cytokine profiles in HIV-exposed and unexposed children and their mothers, finding persistent immune alterations in HEU children linked to maternal HIV.
Steven Weaver, Vanessa Dávila‐Conn, Daniel Ji…·Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
The paper introduces a heuristic method to adaptively select a genetic distance threshold for HIV transmission network inference, demonstrating its utility in identifying clusters with different risk factors.
H. Y. Kim, Lanxin Zhang, Craig W. Hendrix…·Max von Kleist
This paper models the efficacy and toxicity of islatravir as oral and subdermal PrEP, finding implants offer safer efficacy while oral dosing has toxicity risks.
Kimberly Almaraz, Tyler Jang, McKenna Lewis…·Niema Moshiri
SEPIA evaluates prioritization algorithms for HIV transmission risk using simulations, finding ProACT slightly outperforms a distance-based method but both are only marginally better than random.
Niema Moshiri, Davey Mitchell Smith, Siavash Mirarab
This paper introduces ProACT, a phylogenetic method for prioritizing HIV-positive individuals based on viral sequence branch lengths to improve public health resource allocation.
Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña, Marta Pingarilho, Guangdi Li…·on behalf of the Portuguese HIV-1 Resistance Study Group
The paper analyzes HIV-1 subtypes B and G in Portugal, finding subtype B associated with young males and active transmission clusters, while subtype G prevalence is decreasing.