PUBLICACIONES CIENTÍFICAS:

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  2. Vera MN, Sanca K, Leon SR. Comment on Sah et al. Monkeypox and Its Possible Sexual Transmission: Where Are We Now with Its Evidence? Pathogens 2022, 11, 924. Pathogens. 2022; 11(12):1417. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11121417

  3. Maria Ester Villacorta de la Cruz, Mery Juana Vilchez Osorio, Leon Sandoval Segundo Ramos, Re: Characteristics associated with serological COVID-19 vaccine response and durability in an older population with significant comorbidity, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 28, Issue 11, 2022, Pages 1516-1517,

  4. Suliman S, Kjer-Nielsen L, Iwany SK, Lopez Tamara K, Loh L, Grzelak L, Kedzierska K, Ocampo TA, Corbett AJ, McCluskey J, Rossjohn J, León SR, Calderon R, Lecca-Garcia L, Murray MB, Moody DB, Van Rhijn I. Dual TCR-α Expression on Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells as a Potential Confounder of TCR Interpretation. J Immunol. 2022 Mar 15;208(6):1389-1395. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100275. Epub 2022 Mar 4. PMID: 35246495; PMCID: PMC9359468.

  5. Cyrus E, Sanchez J, Madhivanan P, Lama JR, Bazo AC, Valencia J, Leon SR, Villaran M, Vagenas P, Sciaudone M, Vu D, Coudray MS, Atice FL. Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence, Substance Use Disorders and Depression among Incarcerated Women in Lima, Perú. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 23;18(21):11134. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111134. PMID: 34769653; PMCID: PMC8583326.

  6. Galea JT, Marhefka S, León SR, Rahill G, Cyrus E, Sánchez H, Zhang Z, Brown B. High levels of mild to moderate depression among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Lima, Peru: implications for integrated depression and HIV care. AIDS Care. 2022 Dec;34(12):1534-1539. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1991877. Epub 2021 Oct 20. PMID: 34668797; PMCID: PMC9018879.

  7. Recommendations and guidance on hepatitis C virus self-testing. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

  8. Iverson KR, Roa L, Shu S, Wong M, Rubenstein S, Zavala P, Caddell L, Graham C, Colina J, Leon SR, Lecca L, Mody GN. Quality Improvement to Address Surgical Burden of Disease at a Large Tertiary Public Hospital in Peru. World J Surg. 2021 Apr 26. doi: 10.1007/s00268-021-06118-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33900420.

  9. León SR. A radiolabeled mAb 3BNC117 with copper-64: First round in favor for studying clearance of HIV reservoirs. EBioMedicine. 2021 Mar 19;66:103282. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103282. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33752124; PMCID: PMC7985269.

  10. Galvez TM, Flores JA, Pérez DG, Gutiérrez C, Huertas M, León SR. Concordancia entre autotoma y colección estándar de muestras endocervicales para identificar infecciones de trasmisión sexual en un área urbano-rural del Perú. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica. 2021;38(1):83-8. doi: https://doi. org/10.17843rpmesp.2021.381.6571

  11. Consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services, 2019. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

  12. Juan A. Flores, Julia Coit, Milagros Mendoza, Segundo R. Leon, Kelika Konda, Leonid Lecca & Molly F. Franke (2021) Is exclusive breastfeeding for six months protective against pediatric tuberculosis?, Global Health Action, 14:1, 1861922, DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2020.1861922

  13. Flores JA, Calderón R, Mesman AW, Soto M, Coit J, Aliaga J, Mendoza M, Leon SR, Konda K, Mestanza FM, Mendoza CJ, Lecca L, Murray MB, Holmberg RC, Pollock NR, Franke MF. Detection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis DNA in Buccal Swab Samples from Children in Lima, Peru. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 Nov;39(11):e376-e380. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002828. PMID: 32675773; PMCID: PMC7578116.

  14. Penn-Nicholson A, Mbandi SK, Thompson E, Mendelsohn SC, Suliman S, Chegou NN, Malherbe ST, Darboe F, Erasmus M, Hanekom WA, Bilek N, Fisher M, Kaufmann SHE, Winter J, Murphy M, Wood R, Morrow C, Van Rhijn I, Moody B, Murray M, Andrade BB, Sterling TR, Sutherland J, Naidoo K, Padayatchi N, Walzl G, Hatherill M, Zak D, Scriba TJ; Adolescent Cohort Study team; GC6-74 Consortium; SATVI Clinical and Laboratory Team; ScreenTB Consortium; AE-TBC Consortium; RePORT Brazil Team; Peruvian Household Contacts Cohort Team; CAPRISA IMPRESS team. RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response. Sci Rep. 2020 May 25;10(1):8629. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65043-8. PMID: 32451443; PMCID: PMC7248089.

  15. Suliman S, Gela A, Mendelsohn SC, Iwany SK, Tamara KL, Mabwe S, Bilek N, Darboe F, Fisher M, Corbett AJ, Kjer-Nielsen L, Eckle SBG, Huang CC, Zhang Z, Lewinsohn DM, McCluskey J, Rossjohn J, Hatherill M, León SR, Calderon RI, Lecca L, Murray M, Scriba TJ, Van Rhijn I, Moody DB; South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) Clinical Immunology Team. Peripheral blood mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells in tuberculosis patients and healthy Mycobacterium tuberculosis-exposed controls. J Infect Dis. 2020 Apr 8:jiaa173. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa173. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32267943.

  16. Kojima N, Siebert JC, Maecker H, Rosenberg-Hasson Y, Leon SR, Vargas SK, Konda KA, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. The application of cytokine expression assays to differentiate active from previously treated syphilis. J Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 19:jiaa127. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa127. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32189000.

  17. Reinink P, Shahine A, Gras S, Cheng TY, Farquhar R, Lopez K, Suliman SA, Reijneveld JF, Le Nours J, Tan LL, León SR, Jimenez J, Calderon R, Lecca L, Murray MB, Rossjohn J, Moody DB, Van Rhijn I. A TCR β-Chain Motif Biases toward Recognition of Human CD1 Proteins. J Immunol. 2019 Dec 15;203(12):3395-3406. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1900872. Epub 2019 Nov 6. PMID: 31694911; PMCID: PMC6904517.

  18. Luo Y, Suliman S, Asgari S, Amariuta T, Baglaenko Y, Martínez-Bonet M, Ishigaki K, Gutierrez-Arcelus M, Calderon R, Lecca L, León SR, Jimenez J, Yataco R, Contreras C, Galea JT, Becerra M, Nejentsev S, Nigrovic PA, Moody DB, Murray MB, Raychaudhuri S. Early progression to active tuberculosis is a highly heritable trait driven by 3q23 in Peruvians. Nat Commun. 2019 Aug 21;10(1):3765. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11664-1. PMID: 31434886; PMCID: PMC6704092.

  19. Kojima N, Siebert JC, Maecker H, Rosenberg-Hasson Y, Leon SR, Vargas SK, Konda KA, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Cytokine expression in Treponema pallidum infection. J Transl Med. 2019 Jun 11;17(1):196. doi: 10.1186/s12967-019-1947-7. PubMed PMID: 31186010; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6558693.

  20. Béjar V, Villanueva F, León SR, Guevara-Granados JM, Uribe A, Vergaray G,Cuadra A, Sabogal I. [Molecular identification of Aspergillus fumigatus isolated from patients with invasive aspergillosis]. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica. 2019 Jan-Mar;36(1):81-86. doi: 10.17843/rpmesp.2019.361.3403. Epub 2019 May 13.Spanish. PubMed PMID: 31116344.

  21. Soria J, Mugruza R, Levine M, León SR, Arévalo J, Ticona E, Beck IA, Frenkel LM. Pretreatment HIV Drug Resistance and Virologic Outcomes to First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in Peru. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2019 Feb;35(2):150-154. doi: 10.1089/AID.2018.0239. Epub 2019 Jan 22. PubMed PMID: 30560685; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6360394.

  22. Tafur KT, Coit J, Leon SR, Pinedo C, Chiang SS, Contreras C, Calderon R, Mendoza MJ, Lecca L, Franke MF. Feasibility of the string test for tuberculosis diagnosis in children between 4 and 14 years old. BMC Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 15;18(1):574. doi: 10.1186/s12879-018-3483-0. PubMed PMID: 30442105.

  23. Bristow CC, Kojima N, Lee SJ, Leon SR, Ramos LB, Konda KA, Brown B, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. HIV and syphilis testing preferences among men who have sex with men and among transgender women in Lima, Peru. PLoS One. 2018 Oct 29;13(10):e0206204. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206204. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 30372465.

  24. Flores JA, Brown B, León SR, Sánchez H, Galea JT. Individual-level characteristics associated with oral HIV test acceptability among Peruvian men who have sex with men and transgender women: a cross-sectional study. Sex Transm Infect. 2018 Mar 24. pii: sextrans-2017-053388. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2017-053388. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29574465.

  25. Wun KS, Reijneveld JF, Cheng TY, Ladell K, Uldrich AP, Le Nours J, Miners KL, McLaren JE, Grant EJ, Haigh OL, Watkins TS, Suliman S, Iwany S, Jimenez J, Calderon R, Tamara KL, Leon SR, Murray MB, Mayfield JA, Altman JD, Purcell AW, Miles JJ, Godfrey DI, Gras S, Price DA, Van Rhijn I, Moody DB, Rossjohn J. T cell autoreactivity directed toward CD1c itself rather than toward carried self lipids. Nat Immunol. 2018 Mar 12. doi: 10.1038/s41590-018-0065-7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29531339.

  26. Galea JT, Wong M, Muñoz M, Valle E, Leon SR, Díaz Perez D, Kolevic L, Franke M. Barriers and facilitators to antiretroviral therapy adherence among Peruvian adolescents living with HIV: A qualitative study. PLoS One. 2018 Feb 15;13(2):e0192791. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192791. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 29447226; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5813958.

  27. Vargas SK, Konda KA, Leon SR, Brown B, Klausner JD, Lindan C, Caceres CF. The Relationship Between Risk Perception and Frequency of HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women, Lima, Peru. AIDS Behav. 2018 Jan 8. doi: 10.1007/s10461-017-2018-9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29313193.

  28. Scuffell J, Boccia D, Garcia Velarde F, Leon SR, Raviola G, Lecca L, Galea JT. Mental disorders and drug/alcohol use in patients commencing extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment. Public Health Action. 2017 Sep 21;7(3):237-239. doi: 10.5588/pha.17.0044. PubMed PMID: 29201659; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5677000.

  29. Allan-Blitz LT, Konda KA, Calvo GM, Vargas SK, Leon SR, Segura ER, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. High incidence of extra-genital gonorrheal and chlamydial infections among high-risk men who have sex with men and transgender women in Peru. Int J STD AIDS. 2017 Jan 1:956462417744098. doi: 10.1177/0956462417744098. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29183269.

  30. Galea JT, León SR, Peinado J, Calvo G, Zamora J, Sánchez H, Brown BJ. HPV knowledge, burden and genital wart location among heterosexually identified versus homosexually identified men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru: cross-sectional results from a cohort study. BMJ Open. 2017 Oct 24;7(10):e017338. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017338. PubMed PMID: 29070638; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5665270.

  31. Herrera MC, Konda KA, Leon SR, Brown B, Calvo GM, Salvatierra HJ, Caceres CF, Klausner JD, Deiss R. Do Subjective Alcohol Screening Tools Correlate with Biomarkers Among High-Risk Transgender Women and Men Who Have Sex with Men in Lima, Peru? AIDS Behav. 2017 Nov;21(Suppl 2):253-261. doi: 10.1007/s10461-017-1933-0. PubMed PMID: 29043467.

  32. Joseph Davey D, Kojima N, Konda KA, Gupta P, Leon SR, Calvo GM, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Transient aortitis documented by positron emission tomography in a case series of men and transgender women infected with syphilis. Sex Transm Infect. 2017 Dec;93(8):551-555. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2017-053140. Epub 2017 Sep 2. PubMed PMID: 28866636.

  33. Kojima N, Park H, Konda KA, Joseph Davey DL, Bristow CC, Brown B, Leon SR, Vargas SK, Calvo GM, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. The PICASSO Cohort: baseline characteristics of a cohort of men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women at high risk for syphilis infection in Lima, Peru. BMC Infect Dis. 2017 Apr 11;17(1):255. doi: 10.1186/s12879-017-2332-x. PubMed PMID:28399798; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5387233.

  34. Galea JT, Kinsler JJ, McLean S, Calvo G, Sánchez H, Leon SR, Brown B. Rectal Douching Prevalence and Practices Among Peruvian Men Who have Sex with Men and Transwomen: Implications for Rectal Microbicides. AIDS Behav. 2016 Nov;20(11):2555-2564. PubMed PMID: 26459331.

  35. Park H, Konda KA, Roberts CP, Maguiña JL, Leon SR, Clark JL, Coates TJ, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Risk Factors Associated with Incident Syphilis in a Cohort of High-Risk Men in Peru. PLoS One. 2016 Sep 7;11(9):e0162156. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162156. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 27602569; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5014407.

  36. Flores JA, Vargas SK, Leon SR, Perez DG, Ramos LB, Chow J, Konda KA, Calvo GM, Salvatierra HJ, Klaussner JD, Caceres CF. Treponema pallidum pallidum Genotypes and Macrolide Resistance Status in Syphilitic Lesions among Patients at 2 Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinics in Lima, Peru. Sex Transm Dis. 2016 Jul;43(7):465-6. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000465. PubMed PMID: 27322050.

  37. Konda KA, Castillo R, Leon SR, Silva-Santisteban A, Salazar X, Klausner JD, Coates TJ, Cáceres CF. HIV Status Communication with Sex Partners and Associated Factors Among High-Risk MSM and Transgender Women in Lima, Peru. AIDS Behav. 2017 Jan;21(1):152-162. doi:10.1007/s10461-016-1444-4. PubMed PMID: 7262875; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5136520.

  38. Brown B, Galea JT, Byraiah G, Poteat T, Leon SR, Calvo G, Sánchez H, Coates T, Klausner JD. Anogenital Human Papillomavirus Infection and HIV Infection Outcomes Among Peruvian Transgender Women: Results from a Cohort Study. Transgend Health. 2016 May 1;1(1):94-98. doi: 10.1089/trgh.2016.0001. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 29159301; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5685267.

  39. Herrera MC, Konda KA, Leon SR, Deiss R, Brown B, Calvo GM, Salvatierra HJ, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Impact of alcohol use on sexual behavior among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Lima, Peru. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Apr 1;161:147-54. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.01.030. Epub 2016 Feb 16. PubMed PMID: 26896169; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4807690.

  40. Allan-Blitz LT, Leon SR, Bristow CC, Konda KA, Vargas SK, Flores JA, Brown BJ, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. High prevalence of extra-genital chlamydial or gonococcal infections among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Lima, Peru. Int J STD AIDS. 2017 Feb;28(2):138-144. doi: 10.1177/0956462416630909. Epub 2016 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 26846151; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4972692.

  41. MJ, Konda KA, Joseph Davey D, León SR, Calvo GM, Salvatierra J, Brown B, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. HIV self-testing in Peru: questionable availability, high acceptability but potential low linkage to care among men who have sex with men and transgender women. Int J STD AIDS. 2017 Feb;28(2):133-137. doi: 10.1177/0956462416630674. Epub 2016 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 26826160.

  42. Leon SR, Segura ER, Konda KA, Flores JA, Silva-Santisteban A, Galea JT, Coates TJ, Klausner JD, Caceres CF. High prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections in anal and pharyngeal sites among a community-based sample of men who have sex with men and transgender women in Lima, Peru. BMJ Open. 2016 Jan 6;6(1):e008245. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008245. PubMed PMID: 26739719; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4716251.

  43. Bristow CC, Leon SR, Huang E, Brown BJ, Ramos LB, Vargas SK, Flores JA, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Field evaluation of a dual rapid diagnostic test for HIV infection and syphilis in Lima, Peru. Sex Transm Infect. 2016 May;92(3):182-5. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2015-052326. Epub 2015 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 26670914; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4875763.

  44. Leon SR, Ramos LB, Vargas SK, Kojima N, Perez DG, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Laboratory Evaluation of a Dual-Path Platform Assay for Rapid Point-of-Care HIV and Syphilis Testing. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 Feb;54(2):492-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.03152-15. Epub 2015 Dec 9. PubMed PMID: 26659215; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4733210.

  45. Bristow CC, Leon SR, Huang E, Ramos LB, Vargas SK, Flores JA, Konda KA, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Field Evaluation of a Dual Rapid Immunodiagnostic Test for HIV and Syphilis Infection in Peru. Sex Transm Dis. 2016 Jan;43(1):57-60. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000387. PubMed PMID: 26650998; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4675040.

  46. Kojima N, Bristow CC, Maecker H, Rosenberg-Hasson Y, Leon SR, Vargas SK, Konda KA, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Similarities in the Markers of Inflammation Between Men With Syphilis and Women With Increased Risk of HIV Acquisition. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Jan 15;62(2):265-6. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ842. Epub 2015 Sep 22. PubMed PMID: 26394671; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4731406.

  47. Castillo R, Konda KA, Leon SR, Silva-Santisteban A, Salazar X, Klausner JD, Coates TJ, Cáceres CF. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) incidence and associated risk factors among high-risk MSM and male-to-female transgender women in Lima, Peru. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 May 6. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25950207.

  48. Galea JT, Kinsler JJ, Galan DB, Calvo G, Sánchez H, Leon SR, Klausner JD, Brown B. Factors associated with visible anogenital warts among hiv-uninfected peruvian men who have sex with men and transwomen: a cross-sectional study. Sex Transm Dis. 2015 Apr;42(4):202-7. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000253. PubMed PMID:25763673.

  49. Bristow CC, Leon SR, Ramos LB, Vargas SK, Flores JA, Konda KA, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Laboratory Evaluation of a Dual Rapid Immunodiagnostic Test for HIV and Syphilis Infection. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Nov 5. pii: JCM.02763-14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25378568.

  50. Brown B, Davtyan M, Leon SR, Sanchez H, Calvo G, Klausner JD, Galea J. A prospective cohort study characterising the role of anogenital warts in HIV acquisition among men who have sex with men: a study protocol. BMJ Open. 2014 Sep 16;4(9):e005687. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005687. PubMed PMID: 25227629; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4166134.

  51. Cabeza J, García PJ, Segura E, García P, Escudero F, La Rosa S, León S, Klausner JD. Feasibility of Chlamydia trachomatis screening and treatment in pregnant women in Lima, Peru: a prospective study in two large urban hospitals. Sex Transm Infect. 2014 Aug 8. pii: sextrans-2014-051531. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2014-051531. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25107711

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  53. Deiss RG, Leon SL, Konda KA, Brown B, Segura ER, Galea JT, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Characterizing the syphilis epidemic among men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru to identify new treatment and control strategies. BMC Infect Dis. 2013 Sep 10;13(1):426

  54. Gonzales-Escalante E, Vicente-Taboada W, Champi-Merino R, Soto-Pastrana J,Flores-Paredes W, Lovera-García M, Chuquiray-Valverde N, Bejarano-Cristobal C, Puray-Chávez M, León-Sandoval S. [Metalo-ß-lactamases in clinical isolates of pseudomonas aeruginosa in Lima, Peru]. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica. 2013 Jun;30(2):241-5.

  55. Karina Flores and Segundo R. Leon. Diagnostic Accuracy Among 4 Point-of-Care Tests for the Screening of HIV Infection. Lab Medicine 2013 44:172-175 Deiss RG, Clark JL, Konda KA, Leon SR, Klausner JD, Caceres CF, Coates TJ. Problem drinking is associated with increased prevalence of sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lima, Peru. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2013 Sep 1;132(1-2):134-9

  56. Maguiña JL, Konda KA, Leon SR, Lescano AG, Clark JL, Hall ER, Klausner JD, Coates TJ, Caceres CF; The NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group. Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption Prior to Sex, Unprotected Sex and Prevalence of STI/HIV Among Socially Marginalized Men in Three Coastal Cities of Peru. AIDS Behav. 2012 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23054035

  57. Silva-Santisteban A, Raymond HF, Salazar X, Villayzan J, Leon S, McFarland W, Caceres CF. Understanding the HIV/AIDS epidemic in transgender women of Lima, Peru: results from a sero-epidemiologic study using respondent driven sampling. AIDS Behav. 2012 May;16(4):872-81.

  58. Clark JL, Segura ER, Montano SM, Leon SR, Kochel T, Salvatierra HJ, Alcantara J, Cáceres CF, Coates TJ, Klausner JD. Routine laboratory screening for acute and recent HIV infection in Lima, Peru. Sex Transm Infect. 2010 Dec;86(7):545-7.

  59. Snowden JM, Konda KA, Leon SR, Giron JM, Escobar G, Coates TJ, Caceres CF, Klausner JD; NIMH HIV/STD Collaborative Intervention Trial. Recent syphilis infection prevalence and risk factors among male low-income populations in coastal Peruvian cities. Sex Transm Dis. 2010 Feb;37(2):75-80.

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  61. Clark JL, Lescano AG, Konda KA, Leon SR, Jones FR, Klausner JD, Coates TJ, Caceres CF; NIMH International Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial. Syndromic management and STI control in urban Peru. PLoS One. 2009 Sep 25;4(9):e7201.

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  64. Cáceres CF, Konda KA, Salazar X, Leon SR, Klausner JD, Lescano AG, Maiorana A, Kegeles S, Jones FR, Coates TJ; The NIMH HIV/STD Collaborative Intervention Trial. New Populations at High Risk of HIV/STIs in Low-income, Urban Coastal Peru. AIDS Behav. 2008 Jul;12(4):544-551

  65. Jesse L Clark, Benjamin Espinosa, Segundo R Leon, Eric R Hall, Hector J Salvatierra, Carlos F Cáceres, Jeffrey D Klausner, and Thomas J Coates. Absence of lymphogranuloma venereum infection among high-risk men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru. Int J STD AIDS, Jun 2008; 19: 427 - 428.

  66. Clark JL, Konda KA, Munayco CV, Pún M, Lescano AG, Leon SR, Pajuelo J, Suarez-Ognio L, Klausner JD, Coates TJ, Cáceres CF. Prevalence of HIV, herpes simplex virus-2, and syphilis in male sex partners of pregnant women in Peru. BMC Public Health. 2008 Feb 19;8:65.

  67. Siedner MJ, Pandori M, Leon SR, Barry PM, Espinosa BJ, Hall ER, Coates TJ, Klausner JD; NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group. Detection of quinolone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in urogenital specimens with the use of real-time polymerase chain reaction. Int J STD AIDS. 2008 Jan;19(1):69-71. doi: 10.1258/ijsa.2007.007206. PMID: 18275657.

  68. Clark JL, Caceres CF, Lescano AG, Konda KA, Leon SR, Jones FR, Kegeles SM, Klausner JD, Coates TJ; NIMH STD/HIV Collaborative Prevention Trial. Prevalence of same-sex sexual behavior and associated characteristics among low-income urban males in Peru. PLoS ONE. 2007 Aug 22;2(1):e778

  69. Mark J Siedner, Mark Pandori, Segundo R Leon, Benjamin J Espinosa, Eric R Hall, Carlos Caceres, Thomas J Coates, Jeffrey D Klausner, and The NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group. Facilitating lymphogranuloma venereum surveillance with the use of real time polymerase chain reaction. Int J STD AIDS, Jul 2007; 18: 506 - 507.

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