Published in Ethiop Med J on June 01, 2003
Persistent immune activation in HIV-1 infection is associated with progression to AIDS. AIDS (2003) 5.85
Effect of household and community interventions on the burden of tuberculosis in southern Africa: the ZAMSTAR community-randomised trial. Lancet (2013) 4.58
Effective therapy has altered the spectrum of cause-specific mortality following HIV seroconversion. AIDS (2006) 3.23
Increase in HCV incidence among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam most likely caused by sexual transmission. J Infect Dis (2007) 2.90
Immune responses to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antigen ESAT-6 signal subclinical infection among contacts of tuberculosis patients. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 2.83
Hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa: cross-sectional surveys in four rural and urban communities. PLoS One (2012) 2.76
Transmission of hepatitis B virus from a surgeon to his patients during high-risk and low-risk surgical procedures during 4 years. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2002) 2.64
Clustered tuberculosis cases: do they represent recent transmission and can they be detected earlier? Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2003) 2.61
Diagnostic accuracy of 2 oral fluid-based tests for HIV surveillance in Namibia. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2008) 2.39
GB virus C coinfection and HIV-1 disease progression: The Amsterdam Cohort Study. J Infect Dis (2005) 2.33
Frequent HCV reinfection and superinfection in a cohort of injecting drug users in Amsterdam. J Hepatol (2009) 2.31
Time from human immunodeficiency virus seroconversion to reaching CD4+ cell count thresholds <200, <350, and <500 Cells/mm³: assessment of need following changes in treatment guidelines. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 2.30
High HIV incidence among MSM prescribed postexposure prophylaxis, 2000-2009: indications for ongoing sexual risk behaviour. AIDS (2012) 2.29
Ongoing HIV-1 transmission among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam: a 25-year prospective cohort study. AIDS (2011) 2.28
Patterns of HIV-1 drug resistance after first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) failure in 6 sub-Saharan African countries: implications for second-line ART strategies. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 2.26
A resurgent HIV-1 epidemic among men who have sex with men in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy. AIDS (2008) 2.25
New lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis variant, Amsterdam. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 2.14
Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat analysis, a more accurate method for identifying epidemiological links between patients with tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 2.08
Response to imported case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, the Netherland. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 2.07
Hepatitis C virus infections among HIV-infected men who have sex with men: an expanding epidemic. AIDS (2009) 2.07
Implementation of an antiretroviral access program for HIV-1-infected individuals in resource-limited settings: clinical results from 4 African countries. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2007) 2.05
The contribution of steady and casual partnerships to the incidence of HIV infection among homosexual men in Amsterdam. AIDS (2003) 1.93
Spread of hepatitis C virus among European injection drug users infected with HIV: a phylogenetic analysis. J Infect Dis (2004) 1.85
Safety and adherence to intermittent pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-1 in African men who have sex with men and female sex workers. PLoS One (2012) 1.84
Real-time polymerase chain reaction to diagnose lymphogranuloma venereum. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.84
Primary HIV infection as source of HIV transmission within steady and casual partnerships among homosexual men. AIDS (2004) 1.82
Effects of CCR5-Delta32 and CCR2-64I alleles on HIV-1 disease progression: the protection varies with duration of infection. AIDS (2003) 1.81
Cohort profile: The PharmAccess African (PASER-M) and the TREAT Asia (TASER-M) monitoring studies to evaluate resistance--HIV drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Int J Epidemiol (2010) 1.76
Prediction of relapse to frequent heroin use and the role of methadone prescription: an analysis of the Amsterdam Cohort Study among drug users. Drug Alcohol Depend (2005) 1.69
Dried fluid spots for HIV type-1 viral load and resistance genotyping: a systematic review. Antivir Ther (2009) 1.66
Dried blood spot technology for CD4+ T-cell counting. Lancet (2004) 1.65
Threshold survey evaluating transmitted HIV drug resistance among public antenatal clinic clients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Antivir Ther (2008) 1.62
Trends in HIV postexposure prophylaxis prescription and compliance after sexual exposure in Amsterdam, 2000-2004. Sex Transm Dis (2007) 1.61
Diagnostic and clinical implications of anorectal lymphogranuloma venereum in men who have sex with men: a retrospective case-control study. Clin Infect Dis (2005) 1.60
A hidden HIV epidemic among women in Vietnam. BMC Public Health (2008) 1.54
Absence of APOL1 risk variants protects against HIV-associated nephropathy in the Ethiopian population. Am J Nephrol (2011) 1.52
Major decline of hepatitis C virus incidence rate over two decades in a cohort of drug users. Eur J Epidemiol (2007) 1.52
Uptake of combination antiretroviral therapy and HIV disease progression according to geographical origin in seroconverters in Europe, Canada, and Australia. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.50
Transmission networks of HIV-1 among men having sex with men in the Netherlands. AIDS (2010) 1.49
Demographic impact of AIDS in a low-fertility urban African setting: projection for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. J Health Popul Nutr (2002) 1.46
HAART for the HIV-infected employees of large companies in Africa. Lancet (2006) 1.46
Affordable in-house antiretroviral drug resistance assay with good performance in non-subtype B HIV-1. J Virol Methods (2009) 1.46
Second-line antiretroviral treatment successfully resuppresses drug-resistant HIV-1 after first-line failure: prospective cohort in Sub-Saharan Africa. J Infect Dis (2012) 1.45
Transmitted antiretroviral drug resistance among newly HIV-1 diagnosed young individuals in Kampala. AIDS (2011) 1.44
Perceived viral load, but not actual HIV-1-RNA load, is associated with sexual risk behaviour among HIV-infected homosexual men. AIDS (2004) 1.43
Slow epidemic of lymphogranuloma venereum L2b strain. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.39
IL-8 increases transmission of HIV type 1 in cervical explant tissue. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses (2005) 1.39
Higher prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies among HIV-positive compared to HIV-negative inhabitants of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. J Med Virol (2002) 1.38
Female sex and IL28B, a synergism for spontaneous viral clearance in hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroconverters from a community-based cohort. PLoS One (2011) 1.38
Mortality impact of AIDS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. AIDS (2003) 1.36
Gender differences in HIV progression to AIDS and death in industrialized countries: slower disease progression following HIV seroconversion in women. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 1.35
HIV prevalence in 72 000 urban and rural male army recruits, Ethiopia. AIDS (2003) 1.35
Annual risk of tuberculous infection using different methods in communities with a high prevalence of TB and HIV in Zambia and South Africa. PLoS One (2009) 1.32
Evaluation of high-resolution typing methods for Chlamydia trachomatis in samples from heterosexual couples. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 1.32
Neurological evaluation of untreated human immunodeficiency virus infected adults in Ethiopia. J Neurovirol (2007) 1.30
Simple markers for initiating antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected Ethiopians. AIDS (2003) 1.29
Diversity and origin of hepatitis C virus infection among unpaid blood donors in the Netherlands. Transfusion (2006) 1.29
Surveillance of risk profiles among new and repeat blood donors with transfusion-transmissible infections from 1995 through 2003 in the Netherlands. Transfusion (2006) 1.29
Significance of senescence for virus-specific memory T cell responses: rapid ageing during chronic stimulation of the immune system. Immunol Lett (2005) 1.28
Lymphogranuloma venereum proctitis in men who have sex with men is associated with anal enema use and high-risk behavior. Sex Transm Dis (2008) 1.26
African AIDS vaccine programme for a coordinated and collaborative vaccine development effort on the continent. PLoS Med (2008) 1.23
Cost-effectiveness of laboratory monitoring for management of HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: a model-based analysis. AIDS (2012) 1.23
Nasopharyngeal carriage of potential bacterial pathogens related to day care attendance, with special reference to the molecular epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.23
Short communication: High prevalence of transmitted antiretroviral drug resistance among newly HIV type 1 diagnosed adults in Mombasa, Kenya. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses (2012) 1.23
The status of HIV-1 resistance to antiretroviral drugs in sub-Saharan Africa. Antivir Ther (2008) 1.23
Characterization of peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets in patients with acute Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax malaria infections at Wonji Sugar Estate, Ethiopia. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2006) 1.22
Restricted randomization of ZAMSTAR: a 2 x 2 factorial cluster randomized trial. Clin Trials (2008) 1.22
The association between household socioeconomic position and prevalent tuberculosis in Zambia: a case-control study. PLoS One (2011) 1.20
Risk of hepatitis-related mortality increased among hepatitis C virus/HIV-coinfected drug users compared with drug users infected only with hepatitis C virus: a 20-year prospective study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2008) 1.20
Evaluation of the Capilia TB assay for culture confirmation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections in Zambia and South Africa. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.20
Molecular identification, cloning and characterization of transmitted/founder HIV-1 subtype A, D and A/D infectious molecular clones. Virology (2012) 1.18
Immunophenotyping of blood lymphocytes at birth, during childhood, and during adulthood in HIV-1-uninfected Ethiopians. Clin Immunol (2003) 1.18
Decline in HIV incidence and injecting, but not in sexual risk behaviour, seen in drug users in Amsterdam: a 19-year prospective cohort study. AIDS (2006) 1.18
Delayed clearance of Plasmodium falciparum in patients with human immunodeficiency virus co-infection treated with artemisinin. Ethiop Med J (2002) 1.16
Seroprevalence and risk factors for Toxoplasmosis in HIV infected and non-infected individuals in Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia. Parasit Vectors (2013) 1.16
HIV-1 drug resistance mutations are present in six percent of persons initiating antiretroviral therapy in Lusaka, Zambia. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2010) 1.16
Risk factors associated with positive QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and tuberculin skin tests results in Zambia and South Africa. PLoS One (2011) 1.15
Changes in risk behavior and dynamics of hepatitis C virus infections among young drug users in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. J Med Virol (2005) 1.14
Naturally HIV-1 seroconverters with lowest viral load have best prognosis, but in time lose control of viraemia. AIDS (2002) 1.13
HIV incidence and HIV testing behavior in men who have sex with men: using three incidence sources, The Netherlands, 1984-2005. AIDS (2007) 1.13
Effect of HCV infection on cause-specific mortality after HIV seroconversion, before and after 1997. Gastroenterology (2012) 1.13
Pre-seroconversion immune status predicts the rate of CD4 T cell decline following HIV infection. AIDS (2004) 1.11
Early warning indicators for population-based monitoring of HIV drug resistance in 6 African countries. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 1.11
Molecular epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, shows distinct heterosexual and homosexual networks. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.11
Evaluation of Determine HIV-1/2 rapid diagnostic test by 4th generation ELISA using blood donors' serum at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, northwest Ethiopia. Ethiop Med J (2008) 1.10
Decline in prevalence of HIV-1 infection and syphilis among young women attending antenatal care clinics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: results from sentinel surveillance, 1995-2001. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2002) 1.10
Evidence of changes in sexual behaviours among male factory workers in Ethiopia. AIDS (2003) 1.09