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All other potentially adverse events or serious problems are reported within 48 h on a standard form to the study IRB. Monitoring of potential adverse events or serious problems is given high priority by project staff and researchers. The incident report requires a detailed account of the problem...
The 2010–2011 Namibian mobility data in the form of a geographic origin-destination adjacency matrix are freely available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004846.s00234. The 2013 Namibian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) data (Individual recode and HIV test results recode) are av...
It may be that the protein is even more functionally versatile than its current known physiological roles, because of its capacity to transition from soluble to membrane-bound form. Several other unconventional transmembrane proteins from eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms are known to exist and ...
Data were extracted electronically using a pre-defined data extraction form. The following information was extracted: study details (first author and year of publication, study design and data source, study population, study sites/locations, study period and study objective); VL testing model; extern...
The birth-death model is sufficiently simple that the death rate can be expressed in simple form asd=rPext1/v01−Pext1/v0,where r is the initial growth rate from the data. Supposing Pext ≃ 1, this expression is well approximated by rv0/(1 − Pext), and thus increases sharply...
Restricted cubic spline analysis of the functional form of the association between age (years) and number of male partners in the last 12 months and the unprotected anal intercourse in the final model, IPEC/Fiocruz, 2010–2012. Full size imageDiscussion...
3). Detailed investigation of such instances of HIV-1 sequence-driven amplitude modulations led us to identify another source of potential error, in the form of optical bleed-through, a challenge in multiplexed digital PCR assays16. This occurs when fluorescence from the Ψ channel, which ...
The majority of subtypes were circulating recombinant form (CRF) 07_BC (34.6%) and CRF01_AE (32.4%); many unique recombinant forms (URFs) (39, 21.8%) and other rare CRFs were observed in the study. Notably, CRF02_AG and CRF06_cpx strains typically found in Africa were firstly ...