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List of works by Desta Kassa

Africa-wide evaluation of host biomarkers in QuantiFERON supernatants for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Analysis of host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in a multi-site study of subjects with different TB and HIV infection states in sub-Saharan Africa

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Analysis of immune responses against a wide range of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published on 26 September 2012

Assessment of national tuberculosis and HIV collaborative program implementation status in health care settings of Ethiopia

scientific article published on 01 January 2017

Assessment of the implementation of HIV-rapid test kits at different levels of health institutions in Ethiopia

scientific article published in July 2007

Associations of gender and serum total cholesterol with CD4+ T cell count and HIV RNA load in antiretroviral-naïve individuals in Addis Ababa

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Characterization of peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets in patients with acute Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax malaria infections at Wonji Sugar Estate, Ethiopia

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Discriminative expression of whole blood genes in HIV patients with latent and active TB in Ethiopia

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Evaluation of cytokine responses against novel Mtb antigens as diagnostic markers for TB disease

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Factors Associated with Mortality of TB/HIV Co-infected Patients in Ethiopia

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Gene expression profiles classifying clinical stages of tuberculosis and monitoring treatment responses in Ethiopian HIV-negative and HIV-positive cohorts

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

HIV drug resistance early warning indicators in Ethiopia: Variability at regional and health facility levels and trend over time

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

HIV-associated anaemia before and after initiation of antiretroviral therapy at Art Centre of Minilik II Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

scientific article published on January 2012

HIV-genetic diversity and drug resistance transmission clusters in Gondar, Northern Ethiopia, 2003-2013

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Host Gene Expression Kinetics During Treatment of Tuberculosis in HIV-Coinfected Individuals Is Independent of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

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Human herpesvirus 8 infection in HIV-1-infected and uninfected pregnant women in Ethiopia.

scientific article published in July 2009

Lipid Profile in Tuberculosis Patients with and without Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

scientific article published in November 2017

Malnutrition and lipid abnormalities in antiretroviral naïve HIV-infected adults in Addis Ababa: A cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Multi-center evaluation of a user-friendly lateral flow assay to determine IP-10 and CCL4 levels in blood of TB and non-TB cases in Africa

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Optimal therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Prevalence of HIV and other infections and injection behaviours among people who inject drugs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (HIV, hepatitis B virus, herpes simplex virus type 2, and syphilis) in pregnant women in Ethiopia: Trends over 10 years (2005-2014)

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Psychological and Educational Intervention to Improve Tuberculosis Treatment Adherence in Ethiopia Based on Health Belief Model: A Cluster Randomized Control Trial

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Psychological distress and its effect on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Ethiopia

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QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-tube test for the diagnosis of active and latent tuberculosis in selected health facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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The Effect of Psychosocial Factors and Patients' Perception of Tuberculosis Treatment Non-Adherence in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

scientific article published in September 2017

The effect of HIV coinfection, HAART and TB treatment on cytokine/chemokine responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) antigens in active TB patients and latently Mtb infected individuals.

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The performance of BD FACSPresto™ for CD4 T-cell count, CD4% and hemoglobin concentration test in Ethiopia.

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The serum concentration of vitamin B12 as a biomarker of therapeutic response in tuberculosis patients with and without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Validation and Optimization of Host Immunological Bio-Signatures for a Point-of-Care Test for TB Disease

scientific article published on 26 February 2021

Virologic and immunologic outcome of HAART in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-1 infected patients with and without tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

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