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Karin Nielsen-Saines
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 179
Citations - 13260
Karin Nielsen-Saines is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 137 publications receiving 11361 citations.
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Prolonged leptospira urinary shedding in a 10-year-old girl.
TL;DR: A case of leptospirosis is presented in a previously healthy girl following a trip to Costa Rica and she had spirochetes cultured from her urine six weeks following her trip.
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HIV-1 heterosexual transmission and association with sexually transmitted infections in the era of treatment as prevention.
Marineide Gonçalves de Melo,Eduardo Sprinz,Pamina M. Gorbach,Breno Santos,Tauí de Melo Rocha,Mariana Simon,Marcelo P. Almeida,Rita Lira,Maria Cristina Chaves,Tara Kerin,Ivana Varella,Karin Nielsen-Saines +11 more
TL;DR: Undetectable viremia was the main factor associated with non-transmissibility of HIV in this setting and the duration of undetectable HIV vire Mia and presence of STIs were associated with HIV transmission.
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Zika virus infection in pregnancy and infant growth, body composition in the first three months of life: a cohort study
Fernanda Valente Mendes Soares,Andrea Dunshee de Abranches,Letícia Duarte Villela,Sarah Lara,Daniele Marano Rocha Araujo,Sylvia Nehab,Leila Botelho Rodrigues da Silva,Yasmin Notarbartolo di Villarosa do Amaral,Saint Clair Gomes Junior,Sheila Moura Pone,Ludmila Lobkowicz,Nuria Sanchez Clemente,Nuria Sanchez Clemente,Patrícia Brasil,Karin Nielsen-Saines,Marcos Vinicius da Silva Pone,Elizabeth B. Brickley,Maria Elisabeth Lopes Moreira +17 more
TL;DR: This investigation provides new evidence that ZIKV exposure in pregnancy may be associated with differences in body composition, and an analytical cohort of 115 infants born without microcephaly is selected.
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SARS-CoV-2 Infection Dynamics in Children and Household Contacts in a Slum in Rio de Janeiro.
Pâmella Lugon,Trevon Fuller,Trevon Fuller,Luana Damasceno,Guilherme Amaral Calvet,Paola Cristina Resende,Aline R. Matos,Tulio Machado Fumian,Fábio Correia Malta,Aline Dessimoni Salgado,Fernanda Christina Morone Fernandes,Liege Maria Abreu de Carvalho,Lusiele Guaraldo,Leonardo Soares Bastos,Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz,James A. G. Whitworth,Chris Smith,Karin Nielsen-Saines,Marilda M. Siqueira,Marilia Sá Carvalho,Patrícia Brasil +20 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the dynamics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in a vulnerable population of children and their household contacts.
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Early Clinical Infancy Outcomes for Microcephaly and/or Small for Gestational Age Zika-Exposed Infants.
Kristina Adachi,Tahmineh Romero,Karin Nielsen-Saines,Sheila Moura Pone,Mitsue Senra Aibe,Elisa Barroso de Aguiar,Myung Sim,Patrícia Brasil,Andrea Zin,Irena Tsui,Stephanie L. Gaw,Umme-Aiman Halai,Zilton Vasconcelos,Jose Paulo Pereira,Tania Regina Dias Saad Salles,Claudia Neves Barbosa,Elyzabeth Avvad Portari,James D. Cherry,Marcos Vinicius da Silva Pone,Maria Elisabeth Lopes Moreira +19 more
TL;DR: ZIKV-exposed infants with microcephaly (PM and DM) had similarly high rates of adverse outcomes and, for microcephalic infants, growth measurements by Z-score may show improvement beyond four months of life.