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Mortality in a Long-term Open Cohort of Prostitute Women by Potterat, John J., Brewer, Devon D., Muth, Stephen Q., Rothenberg, Richard B., Woodhouse, Donald E., Muth, John B., Stites, Heather K., Brody, Stuart

“…In this study, the authors estimated overall and cause-specific mortality among prostitute women. They recorded information on prostitute women identified by…”
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Risk network structure in the early epidemic phase of HIV transmission in Colorado Springs by Potterat, J J, Phillips-Plummer, L, Muth, S Q, Rothenberg, R B, Woodhouse, D E, Maldonado-Long, T S, Zimmerman, H P, Muth, J B

“…This study describes the risk network structure of persons with HIV infection during its early epidemic phase in Colorado Springs, USA, using analysis of…”
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Using Gay Men's Sexual Networks to Reduce Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)/Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Transmission by WOHLFEILER, DAN, POTTERAT, JOHN J.

“…An individual's risk of acquiring or transmitting a sexually transmitted disease or HIV is affected both by individual risk factors and by one's location…”
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2010 European guideline for Chlamydia trachomatis infections: recommending partner notification look-back periods by Potterat, J J

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Assessing mental health and personality disorder in prostitute women by Brody, S., Potterat, J. J.

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Let it be sexual: how health care transmission of AIDS in Africa was ignored by Gisselquist, David, Potterat, John J, Brody, Stuart, Vachon, Francois

“…The consensus among influential AIDS experts that heterosexual transmission accounts for 90% of HIV infections in African adults emerged no later than 1988. We…”
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AIDS epidemiology in Africa: a changing of the guard by Potterat, J J

“…With recent implementation of studies specifically designed to empirically assess the contribution of both sexual and blood-borne exposures to local HIV…”
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Network structural dynamics and infectious disease propagation by Potterat, J J, Rothenberg, R B, Muth, S Q

“…We aimed to relate dynamic changes in risk-network (sex and/or injecting drug) structure to observe STD/HIV transmission. We analysed macro- and…”
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Assessing the role of anal intercourse in the epidemiology of AIDS in Africa by Brody, Stuart, Potterat, John J

“…Public health authorities have long believed that the preponderance of AIDS cases in Africa are attributable to 'heterosexual transmission'; most people…”
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Horizontally-acquired HIV infection in Kenyan and Swazi children by Okinyi, M, Brewer, D D, Potterat, J J

“…Despite many reports of HIV-infected African children who have HIV-uninfected mothers, little is known about the extent and modes of horizontal HIV…”
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Social and Geographic Distance in HIV Risk by ROTHENBERG, RICHARD, MUTH, STEPHEN Q., MALONE, SHAUNA, POTTERAT, JOHN J., WOODHOUSE, DONALD E.

“…Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between social distance (measured as the geodesic, or shortest distance, between 2…”
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Efficiency of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission Through Injections and Other Medical Procedures: Evidence, Estimates, and Unfinished Business by Gisselquist, David, Upham, Garance, Potterat, John J.

“…To estimate the transmission efficiency of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through medical injections and other invasive procedures. We searched our own…”
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Chlamydia transmission : Concurrency, reproduction number, and the epidemic trajectory by POTTERAT, J. J, ZIMMERMAN-ROGERS, H, MUTH, S. Q, ROTHENBERG, R. B, GREEN, D. L, TAYLOR, J. E, BONNEY, M. S, WHITE, H. A

“…To identify factors that influence individual and group transmission of Chlamydia, the authors conducted community-wide contact tracing of chlamydia cases in…”
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Male and Female Circumcision Associated With Prevalent HIV Infection in Virgins and Adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania by Brewer, Devon D., PhD, Potterat, John J., BA, Roberts, John M., PhD, Brody, Stuart, PhD

“…Purpose Remarkable proportions of self-reported virgins and adolescents in eastern and southern Africa are infected with HIV, yet non-sexual routes of…”
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Social network dynamics and HIV transmission by ROTHENBERG, R. B, POTTERAT, J. J, WOODHOUSE, D. E, MUTH, S. Q, DARROW, W. W, KLOVDAHL, A. S

“…To prospectively study changes in the social networks of persons at presumably high risk for HIV in a community with low prevalence and little endogenous…”
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Heterosexual transmission of HIV in Africa: an empiric estimate by Gisselquist, David, Potterat, John J

“…For more than a decade, most experts have assumed that more than 90% of HIV in African adults results from heterosexual transmission. In this exercise, we show…”
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Using Social Network and Ethnographic Tools to Evaluate Syphilis Transmission by ROTHENBERG, RICHARD B., STERK, CLAIRE, TOOMEY, KATHLEEN E., POTTERAT, JOHN J., JOHNSON, DAVID, SCHRADER, MARK, HATCH, STEFANI

“…Background and Objectives: Partner notification has been the cornerstone for the prevention and control of syphilis in the United States. This technique may…”
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HIV Partner Notification in the United States: A National Survey of Program Coverage and Outcomes by GOLDEN, MATTHEW R., HOGBEN, MATTHEW, POTTERAT, JOHN J., HANDSFIELD, H. HUNTER

“…Objective: The objective of this study was to define the scope and case-finding success of HIV partner notification (PN) in the United States. Study: The…”
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Partner Notification for HIV and STD in the United States: Low Coverage for Gonorrhea, Chlamydial Infection, and HIV by GOLDEN, MATTHEW R., HOGBEN, MATTHEW, HANDSFIELD, H. HUNTER, ST. LAWRENCE, JANET S., POTTERAT, JOHN J., HOLMES, KING K.

“…Background: Little is known about the scope of current public health partner-notification (PN) activities in the United States. Goal: The goal of the study was…”
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HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa not explained by sexual or vertical transmission by Gisselquist, David, Rothenberg, Richard, Potterat, John, Drucker, Ernest

“…An expanding body of evidence challenges the conventional hypothesis that sexual transmission is responsible for more than 90% of adult HIV infections in…”
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