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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Navkiranjit Gill, Jim E Banta, Leonard Gashugi, Sean D Young
HIV-related stigma is a primary barrier to seeking HIV care. Online social media interventions utilizing peer-led approaches provide an opportunity to revolutionize HIV health behavior change. Secondary analysis of the UCLA HOPE Study (6 waves) was done to examine the effectiveness of an online peer-led intervention in reducing HIV-related internalized stigma (IS), association between IS and sexual risk behaviors (SRB), and associated costs for changing the likelihood of HIV testing. Among 897 participants, an inverse relationship between IS (Discomfort with people with HIV, Stereotypes, Moral Judgment) and SRB (Number of Sexual Partners, Sexual Encounters) factors was identified over time ( p < ...
April 2024: AIDS Education and Prevention: Official Publication of the International Society for AIDS Education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Songli Xu, Guoshen Wang, Weston Williams, Mariette Marano Lee, Carolyn Wright, Gary Uhl
The purpose of this analysis is to describe HIV tests and associated outcomes for Asian people reached by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV testing program. We analyzed CDC-funded HIV tests among Asian individuals in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (2014-2020). Of the 415,560 tests, the positivity of new diagnoses was higher among males (0.49%, aPR = 7.64) than females (0.06%), and in the West (0.42%, aPR = 1.15) than in the South (0.25%). In non-health care settings, positivity was highest among men who have sex with men (MSM; 0...
April 2024: AIDS Education and Prevention: Official Publication of the International Society for AIDS Education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brandon Ranuschio, Sherry Bell, Jason Flatt, Lianne Barnes, Trinity Puno, Andrea Navarro, Alexander Ribeiro, Nadia Sheik-Yosef, Esmeralda Villalobos, Janelle Wackens, Renato M Liboro
Although a significant amount of biomedical research has been conducted to study HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND), there has been scant research done to assess the awareness and knowledge of this public health concern among middle-aged and older people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH). Our qualitative community-based participatory research study sought to address this research gap by examining the awareness and knowledge of HAND among relevant stakeholders in southern Nevada, USA. We conducted 15 semistructured interviews with middle-aged and older PLWH to examine their awareness and knowledge of HAND and access to pertinent resources...
April 2024: AIDS Education and Prevention: Official Publication of the International Society for AIDS Education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Caitlin E Kennedy, Ping Teresa Yeh, Virginia A Fonner, Kevin A Armstrong, Julie A Denison, Kevin R O'Reilly, Michael D Sweat
The Evidence Project conducts systematic reviews and meta-analyses of HIV behavioral interventions, behavioral aspects of biomedical interventions, combination prevention strategies, modes of service delivery, and integrated programs in low- and middle-income countries. Here, we present the overall protocol for our reviews. For each topic, we conduct a comprehensive search of five online databases, complemented by secondary reference searching. Articles are included if they are published in peer-reviewed journals and present pre/post or multi-arm data on outcomes of interest...
April 2024: AIDS Education and Prevention: Official Publication of the International Society for AIDS Education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mary A Hatch, Tanja C Laschober, Melissa M Ertl, Margaret M Paschen-Wolff, Gaia Norman, Lynette Wright, Susan Tross
The COVID-19 pandemic strained the U.S. health care system, posing logistical challenges for community-based programs. This study surveyed 11 program directors in sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics and syringe services programs (SSPs) that served people who use substances and are at risk for HIV in five southeastern U.S. states. Brief survey questions asked about programs' use of in-person and telehealth services. Results indicated widespread reduction of in-person services and concomitant adoption of telehealth services...
April 2024: AIDS Education and Prevention: Official Publication of the International Society for AIDS Education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Şule Haskoloğlu, Gökcan Öztürk, Nazlı Deveci Demirbaş, Can Akal, Candan İslamoğlu, Kübra Baskın, Aylin Heper, Ömer Erdeve, Serdar Ceylaner, Figen Doğu, Aydan İkincioğulları
Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) is a rare, incurable, devastating, and mostly fatal congenital genetic disorder characterized by painful blistering of the skin and mucous membranes in response to minor trauma or pressure. JEB is classified roughly into 2 subtypes: JEB-Herlitz is caused by mutations on genes encoding laminin-332. The authors present a patient consulted with a suspicion of primary immunodeficiency due to skin sores that started at the age of 1 month and a history of 3 siblings who died with similar sores, who was diagnosed with JEB-Herlitz after detecting a homozygous LAMC2 gene mutation in WES analysis...
April 23, 2024: American Journal of Dermatopathology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tori Brown, Alice Defarges, Gabrielle Monteith, Ryan Appleby, Dorothee Bienzle
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to establish a reference interval (RI) for urine kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) in healthy cats. METHODS: History, physical examination, blood pressure, and feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia virus serology status were determined. A complete blood cell count, serum biochemical profile, urinalysis and kidney ultrasound were performed, and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide, total thyroxine (TT4) and urine KIM-1 were measured...
April 2024: Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel Thoresen, Kenta Matsuda, Akane Urakami, Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Takushi Nomura, Meng Ling Moi, Yuri Watanabe, Momoko Ishikawa, Trang Thi Thu Hau, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yuriko Suzaki, Yasushi Ami, Jonathan F Smith, Tetsuro Matano, Kouichi Morita, Wataru Akahata
Dengue virus (DENV) represents a significant global health burden, with 50% of the world's population at risk of infection, and there is an urgent need for next-generation vaccines. Virus-like particle (VLP)-based vaccines, which mimic the antigenic structure of the virus but lack the viral genome, are an attractive approach. Here, we describe a dengue VLP (DENVLP) vaccine which generates a neutralizing antibody response against all four DENV serotypes in 100% of immunized non-human primates for up to 1 year...
April 22, 2024: Journal of Virology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Merve Baysal, Abdullah Burak Karaduman, Büşra Korkut Çelikateş, Özlem Atlı-Eklioğlu, Sinem Ilgın
The human immunodeficiency virus continues to pose a significant global public health challenge, affecting millions of individuals. The current treatment strategy has incorporated the utilization of combinations of antiretroviral drugs. The administration of these drugs is associated with many deleterious consequences on several physiological systems, notably the reproductive system. This study aimed to assess the toxic effects of abacavir sulfate, ritonavir, nevirapine, and zidovudine, as well as their combinations, on TM3 Leydig and TM4 Sertoli cells...
April 22, 2024: Drug and Chemical Toxicology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuhui Li, Xinhui Zhang, Yang Huang, Lei Gao, Zhan Gao, Miao He
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection through transfusion has been an imperative challenge for blood safety. Despite the implementation of screening strategies, there was still the residual risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV. Considering that the prevalence of HIV infection in blood donors is significant for evaluating blood safety and potential risks to the population, meta-analysis was applied to investigate the HIV prevalence among voluntary blood donors during the past 27 years to characterize the epidemiology and related risk factors of HIV in blood donors...
April 2024: Journal of Medical Virology
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Kittu Malhi, Akash Mustari, Sukhdeep Singh, Anoop Kumar, Pandiarajan Vignesh, Dipankar De, Sanjeev Handa, Rahul Mahajan
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 22, 2024: Australasian Journal of Dermatology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mieko Tokano, Norihito Tarumoto, Kazuo Imai, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Masaaki Takeji, Fumito Inayoshi, Keita Okamoto, Nobuhito Okumura, Shigefumi Maesaki
Malignant syphilis (MS) is a rare variant of secondary syphilis. Also known as rupioid syphilis, MS is characterized by the presence of multiple papules, papulopustules, black lamellate crust that may resemble an oyster shell, or nodules with ulceration lacking central clearing. MS is often associated with immunodeficiency and frequently co-occurs with HIV infection. We here report a case of MS in a patient with HIV infection. HIV infection can cause atypical clinical symptoms of syphilis. In this case, unlike previous cases, cutaneous lesions of MS were limited to the face, making the diagnosis challenging based on clinical findings alone...
2024: IDCases
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REVIEW
Catalina Argandona Lopez, Amanda M Brown
HIV-infection of microglia and macrophages (MMs) induces neuronal injury and chronic release of inflammatory stimuli through direct and indirect molecular pathways. A large percentage of people with HIV-associated neurologic and psychiatric co-morbidities have high levels of circulating inflammatory molecules. Microglia, given their susceptibility to HIV infection and long-lived nature, are reservoirs for persistent infection. MMs and neurons possess the molecular machinery to detect pathogen nucleic acids and proteins to activate innate immune signals...
2024: Frontiers in Immunology
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Kazuto Togitani, Yoshiki Uemura, Hiroshi Sakaeda
A 75-year-old woman on tumor necrosis factor inhibitors for rheumatoid arthritis presented with hematemesis and a gastric biopsy revealed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with possible bulky left liver tumor involvement. On the second day of treatment with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone, the patient experienced abdominal pain followed by shock vitals. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan revealed a ruptured liver. Transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) was performed to stop the bleeding...
March 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gerald Pierone, Laurence Brunet, Jennifer S Fusco, Cassidy E Henegar, Supriya Sarkar, Jean Van Wyk, Vani Vannappagari, Michael B Wohlfeiler, Gregory P Fusco
PURPOSE: Two-drug regimens (2DR) may address drug-drug interactions and toxicity concerns. Dolutegravir/lamivudine (DTG/3TC) 2DR was approved in the US for both treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced individuals with a viral load <50 copies/mL. This study describes real-world DTG/3TC 2DR treatment outcomes among treatment-experienced individuals, stratified by age, sex, and race. METHODS: From the OPERA® cohort, people with HIV with a viral load <50 copies/mL who switched from a commonly used three-drug regimen to DTG/3TC 2DR as per the label between April 8, 2019 and April 30, 2021 were included...
2024: HIV/AIDS: Research and Palliative Care
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Anna Kopp, Shujun Dong, Hyeyoung Kwon, Tiexin Wang, Alec A Desai, Jennifer J Linderman, Peter Tessier, Greg M Thurber
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have experienced a surge in clinical approvals in the past five years. Despite this success, a major limitation to ADC efficacy in solid tumors is poor tumor penetration, which leaves many cancer cells untargeted. Increasing antibody doses or co-administering ADC with an unconjugated antibody can improve tumor penetration and increase efficacy when target receptor expression is high. However, it can also reduce efficacy in low-expression tumors where ADC delivery is limited by cellular uptake...
April 10, 2024: bioRxiv
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Christine M Wardell, Vivian C W Fung, Eleanor Chen, Manjurul Haque, Jana Gillies, Justin A Spanier, Majid Mojibian, Brian T Fife, Megan K Levings
UNLABELLED: Regulatory T cells (Tregs) have potential as a cell-based therapy to prevent or treat transplant rejection and autoimmunity. Using an HLA-A2-specific chimeric antigen receptor (A2-CAR), we previously showed that adoptive transfer of A2-CAR Tregs limited anti-HLA-A2 alloimmunity. However, it was unknown if A2-CAR Tregs could also limit immunity to autoantigens. Using a model of HLA-A2 + islet transplantation into immunodeficient non-obese diabetic mice, we investigated if A2-CAR Tregs could control diabetes induced by islet-autoreactive (BDC2...
April 10, 2024: bioRxiv
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Zachary Ingram, Christopher Kline, Alexandra K Hughson, Parmit K Singh, Hannah L Fischer, Gregory A Sowd, Simon C Watkins, Melissa Kane, Alan N Engelman, Zandrea Ambrose
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) capsid, which is the target of the antiviral lenacapavir, protects the viral genome and binds multiple host proteins to influence intracellular trafficking, nuclear import, and integration. Previously, we showed that capsid binding to cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor 6 (CPSF6) in the cytoplasm is competitively inhibited by cyclophilin A (CypA) binding and regulates capsid trafficking, nuclear import, and infection. Here we determined that a capsid mutant with increased CypA binding affinity had significantly reduced nuclear entry and mislocalized integration...
April 9, 2024: bioRxiv
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Fabio Vescini, Giorgio Borretta, Iacopo Chiodini, Marco Boniardi, Marina Carotti, Elena Castellano, Cristiana Cipriani, Cristina Eller-Vainicher, Sandro Giannini, Maurizio Iacobone, Antonio Stefano Salcuni, Federica Saponaro, Stefano Spiezia, Annibale Versari, Guido Zavatta, Zuzana Mitrova, Rosella Saulle, Simona Vecchi, Debora Antonini, Michele Basile, Alexia Giovanazzi, Agostino Paoletta, Enrico Papini, Agnese Persichetti, Irene Samperi, Alessandro Scoppola, Roberto Novizio, Pietro Giorgio Calò, Filomena Cetani, Luisella Cianferotti, Sabrina Corbetta, Maria Luisa De Rimini, Alberto Falchetti, Giovanni Iannetti, Stefano Laureti, Celestino Pio Lombardi, Bruno Madeo, Claudio Marcocci, Sandro Mazzaferro, Vittorio Miele, Salvatore Minisola, Andrea Palermo, Jessica Pepe, Alfredo Scillitani, Laura Tonzar, Franco Grimaldi, Renato Cozzi, Roberto Attanasio
AIM: This guideline (GL) is aimed at providing a clinical practice reference for the management of sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) in adults. PHPT management in pregnancy was not considered. METHODS: This GL has been developed following the methods described in the Manual of the Italian National Guideline System. For each question, the panel appointed by Associazione Medici Endocrinology (AME) and Società Italiana dell'Osteoporosi, del Metabolismo Minerale e delle Malattie dello Scheletro (SIOMMMS) identified potentially relevant outcomes, which were then rated for their impact on therapeutic choices...
December 23, 2023: Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders Drug Targets
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
M John, L Williams, G Nolan, M Bonnett, A Castley, D Nolan
OBJECTIVES: The inJectable Antiretroviral feasiBility Study (JABS) aimed to evaluate the implementation of long-acting regimens in a 'real world' Australian setting, with inclusion of participants with complex medical needs, social vulnerability and/or historical non-adherence. METHODS: JABS was a 12-month, single-centre, single-arm, open-label phase IV study of long-acting cabotegravir 600 mg plus rilpivirine 900 mg administered intramuscularly every 2 months to adults with treated HIV-1 infection...
April 21, 2024: HIV Medicine
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