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List of works by Terry Blake Ball

A Genetic Polymorphism of FREM1 Is Associated with Resistance against HIV Infection in the Pumwani Sex Worker Cohort ⬇️

scientific article published on August 22, 2012

A common CD4 gene variant is associated with an increased risk of HIV-1 infection in Kenyan female commercial sex workers

scientific article published in May 2009

A comparative analysis of gene expression patterns and cell phenotypes between cervical and peripheral blood mononuclear cells

scientific article

A naturally occurring Vif mutant (I107T) attenuates anti-APOBEC3G activity and HIV-1 replication

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

Afri-Can Forum 2 : Johannesburg, South Africa. 16-18 February 2015

Age and menopause affect the expression of specific cytokines/chemokines in plasma and cervical lavage samples from female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Associations of human leukocyte antigen-G with resistance and susceptibility to HIV-1 infection in the Pumwani sex worker cohort ⬇️

scientific article published on January 2, 2013

CD26/dipeptidyl peptidase IV (CD26/DPPIV) is highly expressed in peripheral blood of HIV-1 exposed uninfected female sex workers

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Cellular immune responses to recurring influenza strains have limited boosting ability and limited cross reactivity to other strains

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Cervical HIV-specific IgA in a population of commercial sex workers correlates with repeated exposure but not resistance to HIV.

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Chemokine receptor 5 △32 allele in patients with severe pandemic (H1N1) 2009

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Clade-specific evolution mediated by HLA-B*57/5801 in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 clade A1 p24.

scientific article published on 16 September 2009

Cross-Clade CD8+ T-Cell Responses With a Preference for the Predominant Circulating Clade

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Cytokine and chemokine expression profiles in response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis stimulation are altered in HIV-infected compared to HIV-uninfected subjects with active tuberculosis

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Development and characterisation of neutralising monoclonal antibody to the SARS-coronavirus

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Diversity and Frequencies of HLA Class I and Class II Genes of an East African Population

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Does antiretroviral therapy initiation increase sexual risk taking in Kenyan female sex workers? A retrospective case-control study

scientific article published in April 2012

Enumeration of sex workers in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya

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Epitope cross-reactivity frequently differs between central and effector memory HIV-specific CD8+ T cells

scientific article published in March 2007

Epitope mapping of HIV-specific CD8+ T cell responses by multiple immunological readouts reveals distinct specificities defined by function

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Epitope mapping of HIV-specific CD8+ T cells in a cohort dominated by clade A1 infection

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Evolutionary implications of current HIV epidemic on the population of Kenya, East Africa: study of population genetics by sequence-based DRB typing

For Protection from HIV-1 Infection, More Might Not Be Better: a Systematic Analysis of HIV Gag Epitopes of Two Alleles Associated with Different Outcomes of HIV-1 Infection ⬇️

scientific article published on November 9, 2011

Full-length HIV type 1 proviral sequencing of 10 highly exposed women from Nairobi, Kenya reveals a high proportion of intersubtype recombinants.

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HIV viral set point and host immune control in individuals with HIV-specific CD8+ T-cell responses prior to HIV acquisition

scientific article published in June 2010

HIV-1 clade D is associated with increased rates of CD4 decline in a Kenyan cohort

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HIV-infected sex workers with beneficial HLA-variants are potential hubs for selection of HIV-1 recombinants that may affect disease progression

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

HIV-specific CD8+ T-cell proliferation is prospectively associated with delayed disease progression.

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High prevalence of genetically similar HIV-1 recombinants among infected sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

scientific article published on November 2008

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 proviral hypermutation correlates with CD4 count in HIV-infected women from Kenya

scientific article published on 11 June 2008

Identification and characterization of HLA-A*0301 epitopes in HIV-1 gag proteins using a novel approach

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Identification of four novel KIR2DL2 alleles and two novel KIR2DL3 alleles in an East African population

scientific article published on 25 September 2010

Immune quiescence: a model of protection against HIV infection

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Immunogenicity of sequences around HIV-1 protease cleavage sites: potential targets and population coverage analysis for a HIV vaccine targeting protease cleavage sites

scientific article published on 10 May 2013

Maintenance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific T cell responses in End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and implications for diagnostic efficacy

scientific article published on 12 May 2016

Microarray analysis of HIV resistant female sex workers reveal a gene expression signature pattern reminiscent of a lowered immune activation state

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Molecular definition of vaginal microbiota in East African commercial sex workers

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Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells Are Depleted and Exhibit Altered Chemokine Receptor Expression and Elevated Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony Stimulating Factor Production During End-Stage Renal Disease.

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Mx2 expression is associated with reduced susceptibility to HIV infection in highly exposed HIV seronegative Kenyan sex workers

scientific article published on January 2015

Myristoylation: An Important Protein Modification in the Immune Response

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Negative mucosal synergy between Herpes simplex type 2 and HIV in the female genital tract

scientific article published on March 2007

Novel interferon regulatory factor-1 polymorphisms in a Kenyan population revealed by complete gene sequencing

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Pathway mapping of leukocyte transcriptome in influenza patients reveals distinct pathogenic mechanisms associated with progression to severe infection

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Polymorphisms in IRF-1 associated with resistance to HIV-1 infection in highly exposed uninfected Kenyan sex workers

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Proteomics as a novel HIV immune monitoring tool

scientific article published on March 2013

QUASI analysis of host immune responses to Gag polyproteins of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 by a systematic bioinformatics approach

scientific article published on August 2010

QUASI analysis of the HIV-1 envelope sequences in the Los Alamos National Laboratory HIV sequence database: pattern and distribution of positive selection sites and their frequencies over yearsThis paper is one of a selection of papers in this Specia

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Reduced HIV-1 long terminal repeat transcription in subjects with protective interferon regulatory factor-1 genotype: a potential mechanism mediating resistance to infection by HIV-1.

scientific article published in May 2010

Reduced cellular susceptibility to in vitro HIV infection is associated with CD4+ T cell quiescence

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Reduced rates of HIV acquisition during unprotected sex by Kenyan female sex workers predating population declines in HIV prevalence

scientific article published on January 2008

Reducing IRF-1 to Levels Observed in HESN Subjects Limits HIV Replication, But Not the Extent of Host Immune Activation

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

Salivary basic proline-rich proteins are elevated in HIV-exposed seronegative men who have sex with men ⬇️

scientific article published on September 24, 2012

Selection, phenotyping and identification of acid and hydrogen peroxide producing bacteria from vaginal samples of Canadian and East African women

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Substantial intrapatient differences in the breadth and specificity of HIV-specific CD8+ T-cell interferon-gamma and proliferation responses

scientific article published in October 2008

Systematic analysis of host immunological pressure on the envelope gene of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 by an immunobioinformatics approach

scientific article published on June 2008

The role of G protein gene GNB3 C825T polymorphism in HIV-1 acquisition, progression and immune activation

scientific article published on 3 January 2012

The role of serpin and cystatin antiproteases in mucosal innate immunity and their defense against HIV.

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Toll-Like Receptors Dysregulation after Influenza Virus Infection: Insights into Pathogenesis of Subsequent Bacterial Pneumonia

scholarly article by Yoav Keynan et al published 2011 in ISRN pulmonology

γδ T-cell function is inhibited in end-stage renal disease and impacted by latent tuberculosis infection

scientific article published on 24 June 2017

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