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Abdel Babiker
Researcher at Medical Research Council
Publications - 138
Citations - 13251
Abdel Babiker is an academic researcher from Medical Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Viral load & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 122 publications receiving 12305 citations. Previous affiliations of Abdel Babiker include University College London & University of Edinburgh.
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CD4+ count-guided interruption of antiretroviral treatment.
Wafaa El-Sadr,Wafaa El-Sadr,Jens D Lundgren,James D. Neaton,Fred M. Gordin,Dominic Abrams,Roberto C. Arduino,Abdel Babiker,William J. Burman,Nathan Clumeck,Calvin J. Cohen,David V. Cohn,David A. Cooper,Janet Darbyshire,Sean Emery,Gerd Fätkenheuer,Brian Gazzard,Birgit Grund,Jennifer F Hoy,Karin L. Klingman,M. H. Losso,Norman Markowitz,Jacquie Neuhaus,Andrew N. Phillips,Claire Rappoport +24 more
TL;DR: Episodic antiretroviral therapy guided by the CD4+ count significantly increased the risk of opportunistic disease or death from any cause, as compared with continuous antireteviral therapy, largely as a consequence of lowering theCD4+ cell count and increasing the viral load.
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Early Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality among HIV-Infected Infants
Avy Violari,Mark F. Cotton,Diana M. Gibb,Abdel Babiker,Jan Steyn,Shabir A. Madhi,Patrick Jean-Philippe,James McIntyre +7 more
TL;DR: Early HIV diagnosis and early antiretroviral therapy reduced early infant mortality by 76% and HIV progression by 75%.
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Mortality after Fluid Bolus in African Children with Severe Infection
Kathryn Maitland,Sarah Kiguli,Robert O. Opoka,Charles Engoru,Peter Olupot-Olupot,Samuel Akech,Richard Nyeko,George Mtove,Hugh Reyburn,Trudie Lang,Bernadette Brent,Jennifer Evans,James K. Tibenderana,Jane Crawley,Elizabeth C. Russell,Michael Levin,Abdel Babiker,Diana M. Gibb +17 more
TL;DR: Fuid boluses significantly increased 48-hour mortality in critically ill children with impaired perfusion in these resource-limited settings in Africa.
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British HIV Association guidelines for the treatment of HIV-1-infected adults with antiretroviral therapy 2008
Brian Gazzard,Jane Anderson,Abdel Babiker,Marta Boffito,Gary Brook,Gary Brough,Duncan Churchill,Ben Cromarty,Satyajit Das,Martin Fisher,Andrew L. Freedman,Anna Maria Geretti,Margaret A. Johnson,Saye Khoo,Clifford Leen,Devaki Nair,Barry Peters,Andrew N. Phillips,Deenan Pillay,Anton Pozniak,John P. Walsh,Ed Wilkins,Ian S. Williams,Matthew Williams,M Youle +24 more
TL;DR: The 2008 BHIVA Guidelines have been updated to incorporate all the new relevant information since the last iteration and all the peer-reviewed publications and important, potentially treatment-changing abstracts from the last 2 years have been reviewed.
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Artesunate combinations for treatment of malaria: meta-analysis
TL;DR: The addition of 3 days of artesunate to standard antimalarial treatments substantially reduce treatment failure, recrudescence, and gametocyte carriage.