Browsing School of Health Sciences by Subject "Africa"

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    • Human papillomavirus types in women with invasive cervical carcinoma by HIV status in Kenya 

      Vuyst, Hugo De; Gichangi, Peter; Estambale, Benson B.; Njuguna, Eliud; Franceschi, Silvia; Temmerman, Marleen (Wiley-Liss, 2007)
      To evaluate the fraction of invasive cervical carcinoma (ICC) that could be prevented in HIV‐infected women by vaccines currently available against human papillomavirus (HPV)16 and 18, we conducted a cross‐sectional study ...

    • Prevalence and correlates of genital warts in Kenyan female sex workers 

      Kavanaugh, Barbara E.; Odem-Davis, Katherine; Jaoko, Walter; Estambale, Benson B.; Kiarie, James N.; Masese, Linnet N.; Deya, Ruth; Manhart, Lisa E.; Graham, Susan M.; McClelland, R. Scott (PMC, 2013)
      Background—Our goal in the present study was to investigate the prevalence and correlates of genital warts in a population of female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya. Because of the high prevalence of HIV-1 in this population, ...

    • Prevalence of human papillomavirus in women with invasive cervical carcinoma by HIV status in Kenya and South Africa 

      Vuyst, Hugo De; Ndirangu, Gathari; Moodley, Manivasan; Tenet, Vanessa; Estambale, Benson B.; Meijer, Chris J.L.M.; Snijders, Peter J.F.; Clifford, Gary; Franceschi, Silvia (Wiley, 2011)
      Data on the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) types in cervical carcinoma in women with HIV are scarce but are essential to elucidate the influence of immunity on the carcinogenicity of different HPV types, and the ...