background human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) testing strategy for tuberculosis (tb) patients in some high hiv incidence countries has been recommended based on interaction between hiv and tb. objectives the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of hiv infection among newly detected pulmonary tb patients. patients and methods in a cross sectional study,104 cases including 95 non injec...

OBJECTIVE Drug use and receipt of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) were assessed in HIV-infected persons from the Comprehensive Care Center (CCC; Nashville, TN) and Johns Hopkins University HIV Clinic (JHU; Baltimore, MD) between 1999 and 2005. METHODS Participants with and without injection drug use (IDU) history in the CCC and JHU cohorts were evaluated. Additional analysis of p...

An outbreak of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection occurred among injecting drug users (IDU) in Taiwan between 2003 and 2006, when an extremely high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was also detected. To determine whether clusters of hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection occurred in this outbreak, 4 groups of subjects were studied: group 1, HIV-infected IDU (n = 904); group ...

Background: It remains unclear whether the natural course of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) differs in subjects infected through injecting drug use (IDU) and no data have been published from lowor middle-income countries. We addressed this question in an urban cohort in Indonesia, which is experiencing a rapidly growing HIV epidemic strongly driven by IDU. Methods: All antiretroviral treatm...

BACKGROUND It remains unclear whether the natural course of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) differs in subjects infected through injecting drug use (IDU) and no data have been published from low- or middle-income countries. We addressed this question in an urban cohort in Indonesia, which is experiencing a rapidly growing HIV epidemic strongly driven by IDU. METHODS All antiretroviral trea...

IDU which stands at room temperature, although decomposing extremely slowly, loses antiviral activity fairly rapidly as measured by tissue culture assay. Similarly, miniscule amounts of Us major degradation product, iodouracil, inhibit the antiviral activity of IDU, and, iodouracil appears toxic to the human cornea. This loss of effectiveness of IDU with age, although documented in tissue cultu...

This study examines nonmedical injecting drug use (IDU) among Latinas aged 12 years and older in a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. Data from the 1990-1995 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse disclosed 154 Latinas with self-reported histories of IDU out of 18,335 Latinas who responded. Hypotheses about correlates of IDU were tested by using the conditional form of multi...

INTRODUCTION Injecting drug use (IDU) is associated with tuberculosis but few data are available from low-income settings. We examined IDU in relation to active and latent tuberculosis (LTBI) among HIV-positive individuals in Indonesia, which has a high burden of tuberculosis and a rapidly growing HIV epidemic strongly driven by IDU. METHODS Active tuberculosis was measured prospectively amon...

Designing services with the capacity and expertise to meet the needs of the chronic hepatitis C (CHC) population in the era of direct acting antivirals (DAAs), and widening access to such treatments, requires detailed understanding of the characteristics and healthcare needs of the existing patient population. In this retrospective analysis of data from the National HCV Research UK Biobank betw...

The suitability of measuring the S-phase fraction in human breast cancer by labelling tumour cells from fine needle aspirates (FNAs) in vitro with iododeoxyuridine (IdU) was studied in 11 patients. The S-phase fraction was measured both in preoperative FNAs labelled in vitro with IdU, and in FNAs taken from the same tumour when surgically removed after intravenous administration of IdU. Frozen ...