CDC, Emory University
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Dr. Athena P. Kourtis, MD
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Athena Kourtis works in the field of Pediatric Infectious Disease. She received 1 awards: "Fellow". Athena Kourtis has written publications. She has 101 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Thymic dysfunction and time of infection predict mortality in human immunodeficiency virus-infected infants. CDC Perinatal AIDS Collaborative Transmission Study Group.'
Publications
- Association of Progestin Contraceptive Implant and Weight Gain.
- Recent Biomarker-Confirmed Unprotected Vaginal Sex, But Not Self-reported Unprotected Sex, Is Associated With Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis.
- Factors associated with contraceptive use differ between younger and older African-American female adolescents.
- Association of HIV-1 Envelope-Specific Breast Milk IgA Responses with Reduced Risk of Postnatal Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1.
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV type 1: the role of neonatal and infant prophylaxis.
- Antiretroviral treatment is associated with iron deficiency in HIV-infected Malawian women that is mitigated with supplementation, but is not associated with infant ir...
- Reducing lost to follow-up in a large clinical trial of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: The Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals and Nutrition study exper...
- Complications of cesarean deliveries among HIV-infected women in the United States.
- Adherence to extended postpartum antiretrovirals is associated with decreased breast milk HIV-1 transmission.
- The use of biomarkers of semen exposure in sexual and reproductive health studies.
- Contraceptive Methods and Risk of HIV Acquisition or Female-to-Male Transmission.
- Does tenofovir gel or do other microbicide products affect detection of biomarkers of semen exposure in vitro?
- Hepatitis B virus infection among HIV-infected pregnant women in Malawi and transmission to infants.
- Effect of lubricants and a vaginal spermicide gel on the detection of prostate specific antigen, a biomarker of semen exposure, using a quantitative (Abbott ARCHITECT)...
- Plasma and breast-milk selenium in HIV-infected Malawian mothers are positively associated with infant selenium status but are not associated with maternal supplementa...
- Antiretroviral pharmacokinetics in mothers and breastfeeding infants from 6 to 24 weeks post partum: results of the BAN Study.
- The Reproductive Health Behaviors of HIV-Infected Young Women in the United States: A Literature Review.
- Changes in Soluble Transferrin Receptor and Hemoglobin Concentrations in Malawian Mothers Are Associated with Those Values in their Exclusively Breastfed, HIV-Exposed ...
- Evaluation of a volunteer community-based health worker program for providing contraceptive services in Madagascar.
- Maternal Weight Loss during Exclusive Breastfeeding Is Associated with Reduced Weight and Length Gain in Daughters of HIV-Infected Malawian Women.
- Role of intestinal mucosal integrity in HIV transmission to infants through breastfeeding: the BAN Study.
- Health outcomes of HIV-exposed uninfected African infants.
- Contraceptive Availability during an Emergency Response in the United States.
- Pooled individual data analysis of 5 randomized trials of infant nevirapine prophylaxis to prevent breast-milk HIV-1 transmission.
- Effect of topical vaginal products on the detection of prostate-specific antigen, a biomarker of semen exposure, using ABAcards.
- The Role of Co-Infections in Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV.
- Optimal methods for collecting and storing vaginal specimens for prostate-specific antigen testing in research studies.
- Maternal and infant antiretroviral regimens to prevent postnatal HIV-1 transmission: 48-week follow-up of the BAN randomised controlled trial.
- Complications of Common Gynecologic Surgeries among HIV-Infected Women in the United States.
- Antiretroviral use during pregnancy and risk of preterm delivery: more questions than answers.
- Various viral compartments in HIV-1-infected mothers contribute to in utero transmission of HIV-1.
- Poisoning hospitalisations among reproductive-aged women in the USA, 1998-2006.
- Preface. Perinatal HIV infection.
- Mother-to-child transmission of HIV: pathogenesis, mechanisms and pathways.
- HIV-1 and breastfeeding: biology of transmission and advances in prevention.
- Hospitalizations for invasive pneumococcal disease among HIV-1-infected adolescents and adults in the United States in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy ...
- Hospitalizations for invasive pneumococcal disease among human immunodeficiency virus-1 infected children, adolescents and young adults in the United States in the era...
- Diabetes trends among delivery hospitalizations in the U.S., 1994-2004.
- Route of delivery and neonatal birth trauma.
- Antiretroviral drug use during pregnancy and risk of premature delivery: is there a connection?
- Limited evolution of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in the thymus of a perinatally infected child.
- Maternal and fetal outcomes among women with depression.
- Eating disorders among delivery hospitalizations: prevalence and outcomes.
- Hospitalizations with amphetamine abuse among pregnant women.
- Trends in pregnancy-related and delivery hospitalizations among HIV-infected adolescents, 1994 to 2004.
- Prevention of human immunodeficiency virus-1 transmission to the infant through breastfeeding: new developments.
- The missing link: documentation of recognized maternal human immunodeficiency virus infection in exposed infant birth records, 24 United States jurisdictions, 1999-2003.
- Recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus screening, prophylaxis, and treatment for pregnant women in the United States.
- Reducing the risk of mother-to-child human immunodeficiency virus transmission: past successes, current progress and challenges, and future directions.
- Use of single-dose nevirapine for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1: does development of resistance matter?
- Cesarean delivery for HIV-infected women: recommendations and controversies.
- Trends in hospitalizations of HIV-infected children and adolescents in the United States: analysis of data from the 1994-2003 Nationwide Inpatient Sample.
- Children with sickle cell disease and human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection: use of inpatient care services in the United States.
- Breast milk CD4+ T cells express high levels of C chemokine receptor 5 and CXC chemokine receptor 4 and are preserved in HIV-infected mothers receiving highly active a...
- T-lymphocyte profile and total and virus-specific immunoglobulin concentrations in the cervix of HIV-1-infected women.
- Hospitalizations of pregnant HIV-infected women in the United States in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
- Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1: timing and implications for prevention.
- Influenza and pregnant women: hospitalization burden, United States, 1998-2002.
- National estimates of hospital use by children with HIV infection in the United States: analysis of data from the 2000 KIDS Inpatient Database.
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus: an emerging obstetric pathogen?
- Hospitalizations with respiratory illness among pregnant women during influenza season.
- Low absolute neutrophil counts in african infants.
- Expression of killer cell lectin-like receptor G1 on antigen-specific human CD8+ T lymphocytes during active, latent, and resolved infection and its relation with CD57.
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 through breast-feeding: past, present, and future.
- Anaerobic central nervous system infections after trauma.
- Breast milk and HIV-1: vector of transmission or vehicle of protection?
- Reconstitution of thymic function in HIV-1 patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- The effects of different HIV type 1 strains on human thymic function.
- SHIV-KB9 infection of rhesus monkeys does not always cause disease-contribution of host immune factors and thymic output.
- Sweet syndrome in infants.
- Peripheral thromboembolism associated with Malassezia furfur sepsis.
- Relationship between social cognitive theory constructs and self-reported condom use: assessment of behaviour in a subgroup of the Safe in the City trial.
- The Effect of Cotrimoxazole Prophylactic Treatment on Malaria, Birth Outcomes, and Postpartum CD4 Count in HIV-Infected Women.
- Pregnancy and susceptibility to infectious diseases.
- The empty follicle syndrome.
- Hormone replacement therapy at the threshold of 21st century.
- Tale of a toothpick: Eikenella corrodens osteomyelitis.
- Vascular graft infection due to Pasteurella multocida.
- Serum leptin levels in normal-weight and overweight women with polycystic ovary syndrome.
- Images in clinical medicine. Liver abscess due to Eikenella corrodens from a fishbone.
- Treatment of meningitis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with linezolid.
- The great balancing acts. The pregnant woman, placenta, fetus, and infectious agents.
- Persistent candidemia in a premature infant treated with fluconazole.
- Clostridium tertium meningitis as the presenting sign of a meningocele in a twelve-year-old child.
- Recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis due to Mycobacterium avium complex.
- Decreases in CD5+ B lymphocytes in children with the DiGeorge anomaly.
- A man with progressive swelling of the face and neck.
- Practice guidelines for the management of febrile infants less than 90 days of age at the ambulatory network of a large pediatric health care system in the United Stat...
- Soluble L-selectin, a marker of immune activation, in neonatal infection.
- Effects of different HIV strains on thymic epithelial cultures.
- Use of human CD3 monoclonal antibody for accurate CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocyte determinations in macaques: phenotypic characterization of the CD3- CD8+ cell subset.
- Understanding the timing of HIV transmission from mother to infant.
- Enlargement of the thymus in a child with chronic granulomatous disease receiving interferon gamma therapy.
- Early progression of disease in HIV-infected infants with thymus dysfunction.
- Thymic dysfunction and time of infection predict mortality in human immunodeficiency virus-infected infants. CDC Perinatal AIDS Collaborative Transmission Study Group.
- Correlation of virus load and soluble L-selectin, a marker of immune activation, in pediatric HIV-1 infection.
- Evaluating nurses'' implementation of an infant-feeding counseling protocol for HIV-infected mothers: The Ban Study in Lilongwe, Malawi.
- Modifications of a large HIV prevention clinical trial to fit changing realities: a case study of the Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral, and Nutrition (BAN) protocol in Li...
- Prevention of perinatal HIV transmission: current status and future developments in anti-retroviral therapy.
- Prevention of perinatal HIV transmission: a review of novel strategies.
Schools
National and Kapodistrian University Of Athens
Monmouth Med Center
Johns Hopkins University
Emory University School Of Med
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow
Education
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Emory University -
Johns Hopkins University -
Monmouth Medical Center -
University of Athens
Hospital
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Grady Memorial Hospital -
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
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