A5047380557- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Fungal Infections and Studies
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Sex work and related issues
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Nail Diseases and Treatments
- Actinomycetales infections and treatment
- Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms
- Occupational and environmental lung diseases
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- Biochemical and Molecular Research
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Amoebic Infections and Treatments
Franciscan Health
2014-2025
University of California, San Francisco
2000-2003
San Francisco VA Medical Center
2001
An estimated 2.1 million U.S. adults are housed within approximately 5,000 correctional and detention facilities† on any given day (1). Many facilities face significant challenges in controlling the spread of highly infectious pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Such include crowded dormitories, shared lavatories, limited medical isolation resources, daily entry exit staff members visitors, continual introduction newly incarcerated or detained...
Preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in correctional and detention facilities* can be challenging because of population-dense housing, varied access to hygiene facilities supplies, limited space for isolation quarantine (1). Incarcerated detained populations have a high prevalence chronic diseases, increasing their risk severe COVID-19-associated illness making early detection critical (2,3). Correctional are not closed systems; SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,...
Abstract Background Incarcerated people are disproportionately burdened with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and experience elevated risk of re-infection following treatment. Medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) has been shown to reduce, but not eliminate, re-infection. Research is lacking on patient-level factors associated HCV in incarcerated populations the United States receiving MOUD. Methods We conducted a case-control study from secondary data analysis health records among...
Asparaginyl endopeptidases, or legumains, are a recently identified family of cysteine‐class endopeptidases. A single gene encoding Schistosoma mansoni asparaginyl endopeptidase (a.k.a. Sm32 schistosome legumain) has been reported, but by sequence homology it would be expected to yield an inactive product as the active site C197 had replaced N. We now describe new S. in which is present. Both products were expressed Pichia pastoris . Autocatalytic processing fully occurred at acid pH. In...
In California, coccidioidomycosis is a disease acquired by inhaling spores of Coccidioides immitis, fungus found in certain arid regions, including the San Joaquin Valley, USA, where 8 state prisons are located. During 2011, we reviewed rates at 2 that consistently report >80% California's inmate cases and determined risk factors for primary, severe (defined as pulmonary requiring >10 hospital days), disseminated discharge International Classification Disease, Ninth Revision code). Inmates...
Early diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and initiation antiretroviral treatment (ART) improves health outcomes prevents HIV transmission. Before 2010, testing was available to inmates in the California state prison system upon request. In Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) integrated opt-out screening into assessment for entering prisons. Under this system, a medical care provider informs inmate that an test is routinely done, along with sexually transmitted,...
Two California state prisons (A and B) have very high rates of coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever). The prison health care service sought to improve their prevention strategy by risk stratification with a newly available spherulin-based Coccidioides delayed-type hypersensitivity test. Of the 36,789 voluntarily screened inmates, 4.7% experienced adverse reactions. A positive test (8.6% those tested) was independently associated (1) incarceration at B, (2) admission from Coccidioides-endemic...
This study evaluated the safety and security impact, feasibility, cost of a program to provide condoms inmates. A 1-year pilot wall-mounted condom dispensing machines in one California state prison compared pre- post-intervention rates penal code violations related sexual misconduct, contraband, controlled substances, violence. The were unchanged or decreased pre-pilot year. Discreetly located dispensers vandalized less frequently than those plain view (p < .05). Distributing using model...
Background The Eliminate Hepatitis C San Diego County Initiative was established to provide a roadmap reduce new HCV infections by 80% and HCV-related deaths 65% 2030. An estimate of the burden in is necessary inform planning evaluation efforts. Our analysis designed 2018. Methods We synthesized data from American Community Survey, Centers for Disease Control Prevention, California Department Public Health, Health Branch Correctional Care Services, Blood Bank, published literature. Burden...
A large outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurred at a California state prison in August 2015. We conducted environmental and epidemiological investigations to identify the most likely source exposure characterise morbidity. Sixty-four inmates had probable disease; 14 laboratory-confirmed legionellosis. Thirteen (17%) were hospitalised; there no deaths. Ill more be ⩾65 years old (P < 0.01), have chronic obstructive pulmonary diabetes mellitus = 0.02), hepatitis C infection or end-stage...
In 2014, California passed Assembly Bill 966, which required condom access for persons incarcerated in all 35 state prisons (33 men’s and 2 women’s prisons). The Correctional Health Care Services the Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Branch Office of AIDS Department Public collaborated a prison administration–led multidisciplinary implementation workgroup. Our workgroup, representing public health, correctional legal legislative affairs, labor relations, staff members, participated 4...
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