. Formal analysis: Sultana Shajahan, Janaki Amin. Methodology: Sultana Shajahan, Janaki Amin. Project administration: Cara M. Hildreth. Supervision: Janaki Amin, Cara M. Hildreth. Validation: Janaki Amin ... , Jacqueline K. Phillips, Cara M. Hildreth. Writing – original draft: Sultana Shajahan. Writing – review & editing: Janaki Amin, Jacqueline K. Phillips, Cara M. Hildreth. 20 / 24 Meisinger C, Doring A, Lowel H
Hearing Services, the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and Brad Hutchison Hearing. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Diana Tang, Yvonne Tran, Catherine McMahon, Janaki Amin, Kompal Sinha ... , Catherine McMahon, Janaki Amin, Kompal Sinha, Viviana Wuthrich, Kerry A. Sherman, Patrick Garcia, Rebecca Mitchell, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Greg Leigh, Frances Rapport, Melanie Ferguson, Bamini Gopinath
This study evaluated cause-specific mortality trends including liver-related mortality among people with a hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) notification in New South Wales, Australia. Notifications 1993-2012 were linked to cause-specific mortality records 1993-2013. Among 57,929 and 92,474 people with a HBV and HCV notification, 4.8% and 10.0% died since 1997...
Background A comprehensive assessment of initial HIV-1 treatment success may inform study design and treatment guidelines. Methods Group-based, systematic review and meta-analysis of initial antiretroviral therapy studies, in adults, of ≥48 weeks duration, reported through December 31, 2012. Size-weighted, intention-to-treat efficacy was calculated. Parameters of study design...
Background While the importance of record linkage is widely recognised, few studies have attempted to quantify how linkage errors may have impacted on their own findings and outcomes. Even where authors of linkage studies have attempted to estimate sensitivity and specificity based on subjects with known status, the effects of false negatives and positives on event rates and...
After publication of the article [1], it has been brought to our attention that one of the members of the EPIC-NSW study group has had their name spelt incorrectly in the acknowledgements. The article mentions “Muhammad Hammoud” when in fact the correct spelling is “Mohamed Hammoud”.
, NSW, Australia Email: Rebecca Guy, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia Email: Janaki Amin, Mcquarie University and The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia Email: Fengyi Jin
Background This study assessed the association of alanine-aminotransferase (ALT) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA levels with pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrogenic cytokines and chemokines during acute HCV infection to provide further insight into the potential HCV immunopathogenesis. Methods Participants in the ATAHC study, a prospective study of recent HCV infection, with...
Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection leads to more rapid progression of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver fibrosis, which could be linked to differences in the severity of liver inflammation among HIV/HCV co-infected individuals compared to HCV mono-infected individuals. This study assessed the association of HIV co-infection with pro-inflammatory and pro...
Background Rectal infection with Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most common bacterial sexually transmissible infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) with diagnosis rates continuing to rise. Current treatment guidelines recommend either azithromycin 1 g single dose or doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for 7 days. However, there are increasing concerns about treatment...
Amin 0 Matthew G Law 0 0 National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia Background: Previous studies have reported an excess burden of
Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaHeather F Gidding, Gregory J Dore, Janaki Amin & Matthew G Law AuthorsSearch for Heather F Gidding in:PubMed • Google ... Scholar Search for Gregory J Dore in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Janaki Amin in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Matthew G Law in:PubMed • Google Scholar Corresponding author Correspondence to
Background Historically, counting influenza recorded in administrative health outcome databases has been considered insufficient to estimate influenza attributable morbidity and mortality in populations. We used database record linkage to evaluate whether modern databases have similar limitations. Methods Person-level records were linked across databases of laboratory notified...
Rectal infection with Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most common bacterial sexually transmissible infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) with diagnosis rates continuing to rise. Current treatment guidelines recommend either azithromycin 1 g single dose or doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for 7 days. However, there are increasing concerns about treatment failure with...
This study assessed the association of alanine-aminotransferase (ALT) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA levels with pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrogenic cytokines and chemokines during acute HCV infection to provide further insight into the potential HCV immunopathogenesis. Participants in the ATAHC study, a prospective study of recent HCV infection, with detectable HCV RNA at the...
Current research on antigen specific CD4+ T cells indicates that there is functional and phenotypic heterogeneity within these populations, but the extent of this heterogeneity is poorly described. The CD134/CD25 assay allows live isolation of antigen specific cells in vitro for down-stream molecular analysis. Antigen specific CD4+ T cells were examined at the molecular level by...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection leads to more rapid progression of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver fibrosis, which could be linked to differences in the severity of liver inflammation among HIV/HCV co-infected individuals compared to HCV mono-infected individuals. This study assessed the association of HIV co-infection with pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrogenic...
, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: Allison Martin has received some research funding from Gilead Sciences. Janaki Amin declares no conflict of interest. David Cooper received
and Janaki Amin declare no conflict of interest. Anthony Kelleher has received travel grant support from Merck Research Laboratories on two occasions since 2010 and from ViiV for consultancy work. David
