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A study to determine the incidence and prevalence of newly discovered human immunodeficiency virus infection during the prenatal care period.
OBJECTIVES: This study asked the following questions: 1) Does HIV testing in pregnancy identify women who previously were not known to be HIV positive? 2) When in pregnancy are women identified as HIV infected? 3) Does HIV seroconversion occur during the prenatal care period? METHODS: Medical records of 97 women from two primarily indigent care hospitals in Houston, TX who were found to be HIV positive at delivery were reviewed to determine if they had tested positive during the prenatal care period. Demographics and time of gestation of the prenatal testing also were recorded. The outcome measures were: 1) number of women found positive during prenatal care; 2) week of gestation at discovery of HIV positivity; and 3) number of women seroconverting between the initiation of prenatal care and delivery. RESULTS: Thirty women were known to be HIV positive prior to pregnancy. Fifty-six women were found to be positive during prenatal care and the seropositivity of 44 was discovered before the 34th week of pregnancy. Ten women were found to be positive at their first prenatal visit, which occurred after the 34th week. Date of testing was unknown for two women. Eleven women who received no prenatal care were found to be HIV positive at delivery. There were no seroconversions while women were under prenatal care. CONCLUSIONS: HIV testing at delivery did not find any HIV-positive women who had tested negative during prenatal care. Testing is very important for women who do not receive prenatal care. Making certain that high-risk women get into prenatal care also is very important
Daily oral grepafloxacin vs. twice daily oral doxycycline in the treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis endocervical infection.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy and safety of a 7-day course of treatment with oral grepafloxacin, 400 mg once daily, and oral doxycycline, 100 mg twice daily, in patients with chlamydial cervicitis. METHODS: Women aged 18 years or older attending 17 sexually transmitted disease clinics in the United States who had clinical signs of mucopurulent cervicitis or who had a recent positive culture or nonculture test for Chlamydia trachomatis or who had contact with a male partner with a positive culture for C. trachomatis were enrolled into this randomized, double-blind, active-controlled clinical study. The diagnosis of chlamydial cervicitis was based on culture for C. trachomatis. Patients were randomized to receive a 7-day course of treatment with either oral grepafloxacin, 400 mg once daily, or oral doxycycline, 100 mg twice daily. Response to therapy was assessed 3-8 days and 21-28 days after completion of treatment. The primary measure of efficacy was eradication of C. trachomatis at the 21-28 day follow-up visit. Clinical success, defined as improvement or complete resolution of the signs and symptoms of cervicitis, was a secondary measure of efficacy. RESULTS: Of the 451 female patients enrolled, 228 received grepafloxacin and 223 received doxycycline. In all, 154/451 (35%) patients were evaluable at the 21-28 day follow-up (81 who received grepafloxacin and 73 who received doxycycline). Microbiologic and clinical success rates demonstrated the equivalence of the two treatments. The C. trachomatis eradication rates were 96.3% (78/81) and 98.6% (72/73) for patients receiving grepafloxacin or doxycycline, respectively. The two study drugs were also equivalent in resolving clinical signs and symptoms, with clinical success rates of 88.9% (64/72) and 89.5% (51/57) for patients treated with grepafloxacin and doxycycline, respectively. Both drugs were well tolerated, with 47% of patients receiving grepafloxacin and 46% of patients receiving doxycycline experiencing drug-related adverse events, none of which was serious. CONCLUSIONS: Seven days of treatment with oral grepafloxacin, 400 mg once daily, was as effective as 7 days of treatment with oral doxycycline, 100 mg twice daily, in patients with cervicitis caused by C. trachomatis. Both agents were well tolerated and had comparable safety profiles. Grepafloxacin's once-daily dosing regimen may offer advantages in terms of patient compliance
On the Gannon-Lee Singularity Theorem in Higher Dimensions
The Gannon-Lee singularity theorems give well-known restrictions on the
spatial topology of singularity-free (i.e., nonspacelike geodesically
complete), globally hyperbolic spacetimes. In this paper, we revisit these
classic results in the light of recent developments, especially the failure in
higher dimensions of a celebrated theorem by Hawking on the topology of black
hole horizons. The global hyperbolicity requirement is weakened, and we expand
the scope of the main results to allow for the richer variety of spatial
topologies which are likely to occur in higher-dimensional spacetimes.Comment: 13 pages, no figures, to appear in Class. Quantum Gra
Twisted Open Strings from Closed Strings: The WZW Orientation Orbifolds
Including {\it world-sheet orientation-reversing automorphisms}
in the orbifold program, we construct the operator
algebras and twisted KZ systems of the general WZW {\it orientation orbifold}
. We find that the orientation-orbifold sectors corresponding
to each are {\it twisted open} WZW strings, whose
properties are quite distinct from conventional open-string orientifold
sectors. As simple illustrations, we also discuss the classical (high-level)
limit of our construction and free-boson examples on abelian .Comment: 65 pages, typos correcte
New Horizons for Black Holes and Branes
We initiate a systematic scan of the landscape of black holes in any
spacetime dimension using the recently proposed blackfold effective worldvolume
theory. We focus primarily on asymptotically flat stationary vacuum solutions,
where we uncover large classes of new black holes. These include helical black
strings and black rings, black odd-spheres, for which the horizon is a product
of a large and a small sphere, and non-uniform black cylinders. More exotic
possibilities are also outlined. The blackfold description recovers correctly
the ultraspinning Myers-Perry black holes as ellipsoidal even-ball
configurations where the velocity field approaches the speed of light at the
boundary of the ball. Helical black ring solutions provide the first instance
of asymptotically flat black holes in more than four dimensions with a single
spatial U(1) isometry. They also imply infinite rational non-uniqueness in
ultraspinning regimes, where they maximize the entropy among all stationary
single-horizon solutions. Moreover, static blackfolds are possible with the
geometry of minimal surfaces. The absence of compact embedded minimal surfaces
in Euclidean space is consistent with the uniqueness theorem of static black
holes.Comment: 54 pages, 7 figures; v2 added references, added comments in the
subsection discussing the physical properties of helical black rings; v3
added references, fixed minor typo
A Reformulation of the Hoop Conjecture
A reformulation of the Hoop Conjecture based on the concept of trapped circle
is presented. The problems of severe compactness in every spatial direction,
and of how to superpose the hoops with the surface of the black hole, are
resolved. A new conjecture concerning "peeling" properties of
dynamical/trapping horizons is propounded. A novel geometric Hoop inequality is
put forward. The possibility of carrying over the results to arbitrary
dimension is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, no figures. New references included, typos corrected,
explanatory comments added. Much shorter version, in order to match EPL
length restrictions. To be published in EP
Supersymmetric Black Rings on Eguchi-Hanson Space
We construct new supersymmetric black ring solutions on the Eguchi-Hanson
base space as solutions of five-dimensional minimal supergravity. The solutions
have the same two angular momentum components and the asymptotic structure on
timeslices is asymptotically locally Euclidean. The S^1-direction of the black
ring is along the equator on a S^2-bolt on the Eguchi-Hanson space. We also
investigate the limit to a black hole, which describes the BMPV black hole with
the topology of the lens space L(2;1)=S^3/Z_2.Comment: 21 page
Small doubling in groups
Let A be a subset of a group G = (G,.). We will survey the theory of sets A
with the property that |A.A| <= K|A|, where A.A = {a_1 a_2 : a_1, a_2 in A}.
The case G = (Z,+) is the famous Freiman--Ruzsa theorem.Comment: 23 pages, survey article submitted to Proceedings of the Erdos
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The relationship between disease activity, sleep, psychiatric distress and pain sensitivity in rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study
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