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Epidemiology

• Prevalence of undiagnosed HIV infection in the general population having blood tests within primary care in Madrid, Spain (31 May, 2012)

  Santiago Moreno, María Ordobás, Juan Carlos Sanz, Belén Ramos, Jenaro Astray, Marta Ortiz, Juan García, Julia del Amo
• Characteristics of HIV-positive patients infected by vertical transmission, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil, 1993–2009 (9 June, 2012)

  Vanessa Terezinha Gubert de Matos, Ana Lúcia Lyrio de Oliveira, Albert Schiaveto de Souza, Márcia Maria Ferrairo Janini Dal Fabbro
• Sickle cell disease is associated with decreased HIV but higher HBV and HCV comorbidities in US hospital discharge records: a cross-sectional study (24 May, 2012)

  Mehdi Nouraie, Sergei Nekhai, Victor R Gordeuk
• Does sickle cell disease protect against HIV/AIDS? (20 June, 2012)

  Stephen Obaro
• Inter-rater reliability of self-reported response on foreskin status in questionnaire among Japanese adult men (24 May, 2012)

  Takuya Yamagishi, Hirohisa Imai, Hiroyuki Nakao, Yuichiro Yahata, Norio Iizuka, Yasuhiko Onoye, Udagawa Koichi, Hiroshi Misaki, Ohyama Takaaki
• Prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections and patterns of recent HIV testing among men who have sex with men in Zagreb, Croatia (24 May, 2012)

  Ivana Bozicevic, Snjezana Zidovec Lepej, Oktavija Dakovic Rode, Ivana Grgic, Patricija Jankovic, Zoran Dominkovic, Davorka Lukas, Lisa Grazina Johnston, Josip Begovac
• Intermediate vaginal flora is associated with HIV prevalence as strongly as bacterial vaginosis in a cross-sectional study of participants screened for a randomised controlled trial (24 May, 2012)

  Fernand Aimé Guédou, Lut Van Damme, Florence Mirembe, Suniti Solomon, Marissa Becker, Jennifer Deese, Tania Crucitti, Michel Alary
• Understanding trends in genital Chlamydia trachomatis can benefit from enhanced surveillance: findings from Australia (29 May, 2012)

  Hammad Ali, Rebecca J Guy, Christopher K Fairley, Handan Wand, Marcus Y Chen, Bridget Dickson, Catherine C O'Connor, Lewis Marshall, Andrew E Grulich, John M Kaldor, Margaret E Hellard, Basil Donovan, on behalf of the ACCESS Collaboration