Publications

making the case for circumcision as a public health strategy: opening the dialogue.	hispanics in the united states have lower rates of male circumcision and higher rates of hiv. although mc has been demonstrated to reduce the risk of acquisition of several sexual transmitted diseases such as hiv, human papilloma virus infection, and herpes simplex virus type 2, mc is only medically reimbursable by insurance for adults or children following recurrent infection, injury, or malformation of the penis. we conducted two studies of attitudes regarding mc among health care providers to ...	2010	20565321
genital herpes simplex virus type 1 in women: detection in cervicovaginal specimens from gynecological practices in the united states.	herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (hsv-1 and -2) are significant human pathogens causing clinically indistinguishable facial and genital lesions. recently, the number of reported genital herpes cases caused by type 1 virus has increased. identifying the hsv type is of clinical importance to determine proper treatment, as there is no licensed vaccine or cure. we assessed, by pcr, the frequency of hsv-1 and hsv-2 present in more than 60,000 clinical cervicovaginal specimens derived from samples o ...	2010	19923487