Associate Director for Laboratory Diagnostics, CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
Infectious Disease
Dr. Bernard M. Branson, MD
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Dr. Bernard M. Branson is an expert in the field of Infectious Disease. He studied medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is ranked 19/29 in Research/PrimaryCare. Bernard Branson has written publications. He has 71 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'New tests for detecting HIV infection.'
Publications
- HIV and HCV infection in the United States: Whom and How to Test.
- Costs and outcomes of laboratory diagnostic algorithms for the detection of HIV.
- Relative accuracy of serum, whole blood, and oral fluid HIV tests among Seattle men who have sex with men.
- Expanding HIV testing: back to the future.
- HIV Screening Practices and Hospital Characteristics in the U.S., 2009-2010.
- 2012 HIV Diagnostics Conference: the molecular diagnostics perspective.
- Performance of a fourth-generation HIV screening assay and an alternative HIV diagnostic testing algorithm.
- RE: "DERIVATION AND VALIDATION OF THE DENVER HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) RISK SCORE FOR TARGETED HIV SCREENING"
- Detection of Acute HIV Infection: We Can't Close the Window.
- Performance of an alternative laboratory-based algorithm for HIV diagnosis in a high-risk population.
- Performance of an alternative laboratory-based algorithm for diagnosis of HIV infection utilizing a third generation immunoassay, a rapid HIV-1/HIV-2 differentiation t...
- Comparison of alternative interpretive criteria for the HIV-1 Western blot and results of the Multispot HIV-1/HIV-2 Rapid Test for classifying HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections.
- Establishing the diagnosis of HIV infection: New tests and a new algorithm for the United States.
- Evaluation of three rapid screening assays for detection of antibodies to hepatitis C virus.
- Emergency Department HIV Screening with Rapid Tests: A Cost Comparison of Alternative Models.
- Evaluation of the performance characteristics of 6 rapid HIV antibody tests.
- The future of HIV testing.
- Cost-effectiveness of pooled nucleic acid amplification testing for acute HIV infection after third-generation HIV antibody screening and rapid testing in the United S...
- Results of a rapid HIV screening and diagnostic testing program in an urban emergency department.
- Comparing the costs of HIV screening strategies and technologies in health-care settings.
- Advancing HIV prevention demonstration projects: new strategies for a changing epidemic.
- Opt-out testing for human immunodeficiency virus in the United States: progress and challenges.
- State of the art for diagnosis of HIV infection.
- Detecting unsuspected HIV infection with a rapid whole-blood HIV test in an urban emergency department.
- To screen or not to screen: is that really the question?
- Rapid HIV antibody testing in the New York State Anonymous HIV Counseling and Testing Program: experience from the field.
- Comparison of HIV type 1 incidence observed during longitudinal follow-up with incidence estimated by cross-sectional analysis using the BED capture enzyme immunoassay.
- Choosing HIV Counseling and Testing Strategies for Outreach Settings: A Randomized Trial.
- Rapid HIV testing. Wait time reduced from days to minutes.
- Outcomes of offering rapid point-of-care HIV testing in a sexually transmitted disease clinic.
- FDA approves OraQuick for use in saliva. On March 25, the FDA approved the first rapid test for HIV in oral fluids.
- Performance of the OraQuick rapid antibody test for diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in patients with various levels of exposure to highly ac...
- Overcoming barriers to HIV testing: preferences for new strategies among clients of a needle exchange, a sexually transmitted disease clinic, and sex venues for men wh...
- Designing an HIV counseling and testing program for bathhouses: the Seattle experience with strategies to improve acceptability.
- Reducing the risk of sexual HIV transmission: quantifying the per-act risk for HIV on the basis of choice of partner, sex act, and condom use.
- Routine Screening for HIV Infection in Medical Care Settings: A Decade of Progress and Next Opportunities.
- A rapid review of rapid HIV antibody tests.
- New tests for detecting HIV infection.
- Nomenclature and definitions for emergency department human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing: report from the 2007 conference of the National Emergency Department ...
- Rapid fingerstick testing: a new era in HIV diagnostics.
- Current HIV epidemiology and revised recommendations for HIV testing in health-care settings.
- Sexual transmission of an HIV-1 variant resistant to multiple reverse-transcriptase and protease inhibitors.
- Risk assessment to improve targeting of HIV counseling and testing services for STD clinic patients.
- Standardization and monitoring of laboratory performance and quality assurance by use of the less-sensitive HIV incidence assay: seven years of results.
- Evaluation of an ultrasensitive p24 antigen assay as a potential alternative to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA viral load assay in resource-limited settings.
- Using point-of-care testing to make rapid HIV-1 tests in labor really rapid.
- Determination of mean recency period for estimation of HIV type 1 Incidence with the BED-capture EIA in persons infected with diverse subtypes.
- Evaluation of oral fluid enzyme immunoassay for confirmation of a positive rapid human immunodeficiency virus test result.
- Rates of receiving HIV test results: data from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey for 1994 and 1995.
- Home collection kits for HIV testing: evaluation of three strategies for dealing with insufficient dried blood specimens.
- HIV sexual risk-reduction interventions for African-American women.
- Early intervention for persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
- An ultra-sensitive 123 I thyroid uptake system utilizing peak: scatter organ depth correction.
- Sexually transmitted diseases and the gay male.
- Standard field methods for determining 137Cs and 131I in vivo.
- Personnel exposure from an unshielded pulmonary ventilation system.
- Group counseling to prevent sexually transmitted disease and HIV: a randomized controlled trial.
- Home sample collection tests for HIV infection.
- Cost comparison of three HIV counseling and testing technologies.
- Do physicians provide counseling with HIV and STD testing at physician offices or hospital outpatient departments?
- Incidence immunoassay for distinguishing recent from established HIV-1 infection in therapy-naive populations.
- Rapid HIV-1 testing during labor: a multicenter study.
- Surveillance for HIV-1 incidence using tests for recent infection in resource-constrained countries.
- Performance of an oral fluid rapid HIV-1/2 test: experience from four CDC studies.
- A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of alternative HIV counseling and testing methods to increase knowledge of HIV status.
- Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care settings.
- Investigation of false positive results with an oral fluid rapid HIV-1/2 antibody test.
- 2010 HIV Diagnostics Conference.
- Virological evaluation of the ''Ottawa case'' indicates no evidence for HIV-1 superinfection.
- Assessment of BED HIV-1 incidence assay in seroconverter cohorts: effect of individuals with long-term infection and importance of stable incidence.
Schools
Northwestern Center Feinberg School of Medicine
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatrics
- Infectious Disease
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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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