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Steffanie A Strathdee

University of California San Diego
Verified email at ucsd.edu
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Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs: a systematic review

BM Mathers, L Degenhardt, B Phillips, L Wiessing… - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Background Injecting drug use is an increasingly important cause of HIV transmission in
most countries worldwide. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of injecting drug use …

Global epidemiology of HIV among female sex workers: influence of structural determinants

K Shannon, SA Strathdee, SM Goldenberg, P Duff… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Female sex workers (FSWs) bear a disproportionately large burden of HIV infection
worldwide. Despite decades of research and programme activity, the epidemiology of HIV …

HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for people who inject drugs: a systematic review of global, regional, and national coverage

BM Mathers, L Degenhardt, H Ali, L Wiessing… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Background Previous reviews have examined the existence of HIV prevention, treatment,
and care services for injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide, but they did not quantify the …

The natural history of hepatitis C virus infection: host, viral, and environmental factors

DL Thomas, J Astemborski, RM Rai, FA Anania… - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
ContextHepatitis C virus (HCV) infection may resolve (viral clearance), persist without
complications, or cause end-stage liver disease (ESLD). The frequency and determinants of …

The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users

T Rhodes, M Singer, P Bourgois, SR Friedman… - Social science & …, 2005 - Elsevier
There is increasing appreciation of the need to understand how social and structural factors
shape HIV risk. Drawing on a review of recently published literature, we seek to describe the …

Development and use of personalized bacteriophage-based therapeutic cocktails to treat a patient with a disseminated resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection

RT Schooley, B Biswas, JJ Gill… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Widespread antibiotic use in clinical medicine and the livestock industry has contributed to
the global spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens, including Acinetobacter …

Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus among persons with hepatitis C virus infection in the United States

SH Mehta, FL Brancati, MS Sulkowski… - Annals of internal …, 2000 - acpjournals.org
Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection may contribute to the development of diabetes
mellitus. This relationship has not been investigated at the population level, and its …

Needle exchange is not enough: lessons from the Vancouver injecting drug use study

SA Strathdee, DM Patrick, SL Currie, PGA Cornelisse… - Aids, 1997 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To describe prevalence and incidence of HIV-1, hepatitis C virus (HCV) and risk
behaviours in a prospective cohort of injecting drug users (IDU). Setting: Vancouver, which …

[PDF][PDF] Phage therapy: From biological mechanisms to future directions

SA Strathdee, GF Hatfull, VK Mutalik, RT Schooley - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Increasing antimicrobial resistance rates have revitalized bacteriophage (phage) research,
the natural predators of bacteria discovered over 100 years ago. In order to use phages …

HIV and risk environment for injecting drug users: the past, present, and future

SA Strathdee, TB Hallett, N Bobrova, T Rhodes… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
We systematically reviewed reports about determinants of HIV infection in injecting drug
users from 2000 to 2009, classifying findings by type of environmental influence. We then …