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Traci C Green; Sarah E Bowman; Patricia Case; Madeline Ray; Nickolas Zaller; Robert Heimer
Barriers to medical provider support for prescription naloxone as overdose antidote for lay responders.
Ekaterina V Fedorova; Lauretta E Grau; Robert Heimer; Andrey P Kozlov; Leo Beletsky; Patricia Case; Roman V Skochilov; Alla V Shaboltas
Access to syringes for HIV prevention for injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia: syringe purchase test study.
Nadia Abdala; Nathan B Hansen; Andrei P Kozlov; Tatiana V Krasnoselskikh; Olga V Toussova; Robert Heimer
Age at first alcoholic drink as predictor of current HIV sexual risk behaviors among a sample of injection drug users (IDUs) and non-IDUs who are sexual partners of IDUs, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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2013: Traci C Green; Sarah E Bowman; Patricia Case; Madeline Ray; Nickolas Zaller; Robert Heimer
Barriers to medical provider support for prescription naloxone as overdose antidote for lay responders.
Substance use & misuse 2013;48(7):558-67.
2013: Ekaterina V Fedorova; Lauretta E Grau; Robert Heimer; Andrey P Kozlov; Leo Beletsky; Patricia Case; Roman V Skochilov; Alla V Shaboltas
Access to syringes for HIV prevention for injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia: syringe purchase test study.
BMC public health 2013;13():183.
2012: Nadia Abdala; Nathan B Hansen; Andrei P Kozlov; Tatiana V Krasnoselskikh; Olga V Toussova; Robert Heimer
Age at first alcoholic drink as predictor of current HIV sexual risk behaviors among a sample of injection drug users (IDUs) and non-IDUs who are sexual partners of IDUs, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
AIDS and behavior 2012;16(6):1597-604.
2011: Leo Beletsky; S Bowman; Lauretta E Grau; E White; Robert Heimer
Prevalence, characteristics, and predictors of police training initiatives by US SEPs: building an evidence base for structural interventions.
Drug and alcohol dependence 2011;119(1-2):145-9.
2011: Linda M Niccolai; Olga V Toussova; Sergei V Verevochkin; Edward White; Russell Barbour; Andrei P Kozlov; Robert Heimer
Estimates of HIV incidence among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia: continued growth of a rapidly expanding epidemic.
European journal of public health 2011;21(5):613-9.
2011: Javier A Cepeda; Lauretta E Grau; Robert Heimer; Olga S Levina; Alexandra Lyubimova; Veronika A Odinokova; Liliya Safiullina; Linda M Niccolai
Drug network characteristics and HIV risk among injection drug users in Russia: the roles of trust, size, and stability.
AIDS and behavior 2011;15(5):1003-10.
2011: Traci C Green; Lauretta E Grau; H Wayne Carver; Mark Kinzly; Robert Heimer
Epidemiologic trends and geographic patterns of fatal opioid intoxications in Connecticut, USA: 1997-2007.
Drug and alcohol dependence 2011;115(3):221-8.
2011: Leo Beletsky; Lauretta E Grau; Edward White; Sarah Bowman; Robert Heimer
The roles of law, client race and program visibility in shaping police interference with the operation of US syringe exchange programs.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2011;106(2):357-65.
2011: Lauretta E Grau; Edward White; Linda M Niccolai; Olga V Toussova; Sergei V Verevochkin; Andrei P Kozlov; Robert Heimer
HIV disclosure, condom use, and awareness of HIV infection among HIV-positive, heterosexual drug injectors in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
AIDS and behavior 2011;15(1):45-57.
2010: Elijah Paintsil; Huijie He; Christopher Peters; Brett D Lindenbach; Robert Heimer
Survival of hepatitis C virus in syringes: implication for transmission among injection drug users.
The Journal of infectious diseases 2010;202(7):984-90.
2010: Traci C Green; Ricky N Bluthenthal; Merrill Singer; Leo Beletsky; Lauretta E Grau; Patricia Marshall; Robert Heimer
Prevalence and predictors of transitions to and away from syringe exchange use over time in 3 US cities with varied syringe dispensing policies.
Drug and alcohol dependence 2010;111(1-2):74-81.
2010: Linda M Niccolai; Olga V Toussova; Sergei V Verevochkin; Russell Barbour; Robert Heimer; Andrei P Kozlov
High HIV prevalence, suboptimal HIV testing, and low knowledge of HIV-positive serostatus among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.
AIDS and behavior 2010;14(4):932-41.
2010: Daniel Zelterman; Alexander Tulupyev; Robert Heimer; Nadia Abdala
Statistical design for a small serial dilution series.
Statistics in medicine 2010;29(3):411-20.
2010: Nadia Abdala; Edward White; Olga V Toussova; Tatiana V Krasnoselskikh; Sergei V Verevochkin; Andrei P Kozlov; Robert Heimer
Comparing sexual risks and patterns of alcohol and drug use between injection drug users (IDUs) and non-IDUs who report sexual partnerships with IDUs in St. Petersburg, Russia.
BMC public health 2010;10():676.
2009: Elijah Paintsil; Sergei V Verevochkin; Elena Dukhovlinova; Linda M Niccolai; Russell Barbour; Edward White; Olga V Toussova; Louis Alexander; Andrei P Kozlov; Robert Heimer
Hepatitis C virus infection among drug injectors in St Petersburg, Russia: social and molecular epidemiology of an endemic infection.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2009;104(11):1881-90.
2009: Linda M Niccolai; Irina S Shcherbakova; Olga V Toussova; Andrei P Kozlov; Robert Heimer
The potential for bridging of HIV transmission in the Russian Federation: sex risk behaviors and HIV prevalence among drug users (DUs) and their non-DU sex partners.
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2009;86 Suppl 1():131-43.
2009: Traci C Green; Lauretta E Grau; Ksenia N Blinnikova; Mikhail Torban; Evgeny Krupitsky; Ruslan Ilyuk; Andrei Kozlov; Robert Heimer
Social and structural aspects of the overdose risk environment in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The International journal on drug policy 2009;20(3):270-6.
2009: Lauretta E Grau; Traci C Green; Merrill Singer; Ricky N Bluthenthal; Patricia A Marshall; Robert Heimer
Getting the message straight: effects of a brief hepatitis prevention intervention among injection drug users.
Harm reduction journal 2009;6():36.
2009: Gina Rae Kruse; Russell Barbour; Robert Heimer; Alla V Shaboltas; Olga V Toussova; Irving F Hoffman; Andrei P Kozlov
Drug choice, spatial distribution, HIV risk, and HIV prevalence among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Harm reduction journal 2009;6():22.
2009: Lauretta E Grau; Traci C Green; Mikhail Torban; Ksenia Blinnikova; Evgeny Krupitsky; Ruslan Ilyuk; Andrei P Kozlov; Robert Heimer
Psychosocial and contextual correlates of opioid overdose risk among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Harm reduction journal 2009;6():17.
2008: Yiqing Hu; Lauretta E Grau; Greg Scott; Karen Seal; Patricia A Marshall; Merrill Singer; Robert Heimer
Economic evaluation of delivering hepatitis B vaccine to injection drug users.
American journal of preventive medicine 2008;35(1):25-32.
2008: Traci C Green; Robert Heimer; Lauretta E Grau
Distinguishing signs of opioid overdose and indication for naloxone: an evaluation of six overdose training and naloxone distribution programs in the United States.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2008;103(6):979-89.
2008: Robert Heimer
Community coverage and HIV prevention: assessing metrics for estimating HIV incidence through syringe exchange.
The International journal on drug policy 2008;19 Suppl 1():S65-73.
2008: Robert Heimer; Russell Barbour; Alla V Shaboltas; Irving F Hoffman; Andrei P Kozlov
Spatial distribution of HIV prevalence and incidence among injection drugs users in St Petersburg: implications for HIV transmission.
AIDS (London, England) 2008;22(1):123-30.
2008: Susan G Sherman; Donald S Gann; Gregory Scott; Suzanne Carlberg; Dan Bigg; Robert Heimer
A qualitative study of overdose responses among Chicago IDUs.
Harm reduction journal 2008;5():2.
2007: CHRISTOPHER BEYRER; Stefan David Baral; Alla Shaboltas; Elena Dukhovlinova; Alexey Masharsky; Sergey Verevochkin; Carl A Latkin; Robert Heimer; Irving F Hoffman; Andrei Kozlov
The feasibility of HIV vaccine efficacy trials among Russian injection drug users.
Vaccine 2007;25(41):7014-6.
2007: Robert Heimer; Mark L Kinzly; Helen He; Nadia Abdala
The effect of acids on the survival of HIV during drug injection.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2007;45(2):144-50.
2007: Lauretta E Grau; Nabarun Dasgupta; Alison Phinney Harvey; Kevin Irwin; Anthony Givens; Mark L Kinzly; Robert Heimer
Illicit use of opioids: is OxyContin a "gateway drug"?
The American journal on addictions / American Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism and Addictions 2007;16(3):166-73.
2007: Larissa Badrieva; Eugeny Karchevsky; Kevin S Irwin; Robert Heimer
Lower injection-related HIV-1 risk associated with participation in a harm reduction program in Kazan, Russia.
AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2007;19(1):13-23.
2007: Alexey A Nabatov; Alexey Masharsky; Sergei V Verevochkin; Alexander Emelyanov; Vladimir V Lukashov; Robert Heimer; Robert W Ryder; Jaap Goudsmit; Andrei P Kozlov
The rate of epidemiological and virological changes during the transition from nascent to concentrated HIV epidemic stage in the former Soviet Union countries.
AIDS research and human retroviruses 2007;23(2):183-92.
2007: Robert Heimer; Lauretta E Grau; Erin Curtin; Kaveh Khoshnood; Merrill Singer
Assessment of HIV testing of urban injection drug users: implications for expansion of HIV testing and prevention efforts.
American journal of public health 2007;97(1):110-6.
2006: Robert Heimer; Holly Catania; Robert Newman; John Zambrano; Arlyn Brunet; Arturo Marti Ortiz
Methadone maintenance in prison: evaluation of a pilot program in Puerto Rico.
Drug and alcohol dependence 2006;83(2):122-9.
2006: Nadia Abdala; Jean-Paul C Grund; Yanis Tolstov; Andrei P Kozlov; Robert Heimer
Can home-made injectable opiates contribute to the HIV epidemic among injection drug users in the countries of the former Soviet Union?
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2006;101(5):731-7.
2006: Alla V Shaboltas; Olga V Toussova; Irving F Hoffman; Robert Heimer; Sergei V Verevochkin; Robert W Ryder; Kaveh Khoshnood; Tom Perdue; Benoit R Masse; Andrei P Kozlov
HIV prevalence, sociodemographic, and behavioral correlates and recruitment methods among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2006;41(5):657-63.
2006: Andrei P Kozlov; Alla V Shaboltas; Olga V Toussova; Sergei V Verevochkin; Benoit R Masse; Tom Perdue; Geetha Beauchamp; Wayne Sheldon; William C Miller; Robert Heimer; Robert W Ryder; Irving F Hoffman
HIV incidence and factors associated with HIV acquisition among injection drug users in St Petersburg, Russia.
AIDS (London, England) 2006;20(6):901-6.
2006: Kevin Irwin; Evgeni Karchevsky; Robert Heimer; Larissa Badrieva
Secondary syringe exchange as a model for HIV prevention programs in the Russian Federation.
Substance use & misuse 2006;41(6-7):979-99.
2005: Robert Heimer
Critical issues and further questions about respondent-driven sampling: comment on Ramirez-Valles, et al. (2005).
AIDS and behavior 2005;9(4):403-8; discussion 409-13.
2005: Lauretta E Grau; Ricky N Bluthenthal; Patricia Marshall; Merrill Singer; Robert Heimer
Psychosocial and behavioral differences among drug injectors who use and do not use syringe exchange programs.
AIDS and behavior 2005;9(4):495-504.
2004: Ricky N Bluthenthal; Mohammed Rehan Malik; Lauretta E Grau; Merrill Singer; Patricia Marshall; Robert Heimer
Sterile syringe access conditions and variations in HIV risk among drug injectors in three cities.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2004;99(9):1136-46.
2004: Nadia Abdala; Michelle Crowe; Yanis Tolstov; Robert Heimer
Survival of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 after rinsing injection syringes with different cleaning solutions.
Substance use & misuse 2004;39(4):581-600.
2003: Nadia Abdala; John M Carney; Amanda J Durante; Nikolai Klimov; Dmitri Ostrovski; Anton M Somlai; Andrei Kozlov; Robert Heimer
Estimating the prevalence of syringe-borne and sexually transmitted diseases among injection drug users in St Petersburg, Russia.
International journal of STD & AIDS 2003;14(10):697-703.
2003: Stephen K Koester; Robert Heimer; Anna E Barón; Jason Glanz; Wei Teng
Re: "Risk of hepatitis C virus among young adult injection drug users who share injection equipment".
American journal of epidemiology 2003;157(4):376; author reply 376-8.
2002: Robert Heimer; Scott Clair; Wei Teng; Lauretta E Grau; Kaveh Khoshnood; Merrill Singer
Effects of increasing syringe availability on syringe-exchange use and HIV risk: Connecticut, 1990-2001.
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2002;79(4):556-70.
2002: Lauretta E Grau; Silvia Arevalo; Christopher Catchpool; Robert Heimer
Expanding harm reduction services through a wound and abscess clinic.
American journal of public health 2002;92(12):1915-7.
2002: Robert Heimer; Scott Clair; Lauretta E Grau; Ricky N Bluthenthal; Patricia A Marshall; Merrill Singer
Hepatitis-associated knowledge is low and risks are high among HIV-aware injection drug users in three US cities.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2002;97(10):1277-87.
2002: Emma K Chaput; James Meek; Robert Heimer
Spatial analysis of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis near Lyme, Connecticut.
Emerging infectious diseases 2002;8(9):943-8.
2001: Nadia Abdala; A A Gleghorn; John M Carney; Robert Heimer
Can HIV-1-contaminated syringes be disinfected? Implications for transmission among injection drug users.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2001;28(5):487-94.
2001: T C Kyriakides; Robert Heimer
Development and application of a genotypic AZT resistance assay: quantitative assessment of the resistance profile of clinical samples and the relative predictive ability of a resistance index.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2001;28(3):211-20.
2001: Nadia Abdala; A Gleghorn; John M Carney; Robert Heimer
Use of bleach to disinfect HIV-1 contaminated syringes.
American clinical laboratory 2001;20(6):26-8.
2000: Nadia Abdala; R Reyes; John M Carney; Robert Heimer
Survival of HIV-1 in syringes: effects of temperature during storage.
Substance use & misuse 2000;35(10):1369-83.
2000: Robert Heimer; Nadia Abdala
Viability of HIV-1 in syringes: implications for interventions among injection drug users.
The AIDS reader 2000;10(7):410-7.
2000: Merrill Singer; Thomas J Stopka; C Siano; K Springer; G Barton; Kaveh Khoshnood; A Gorry de Puga; Robert Heimer
The social geography of AIDS and hepatitis risk: qualitative approaches for assessing local differences in sterile-syringe access among injection drug users.
American journal of public health 2000;90(7):1049-56.
1999: Michael C Clatts; Robert Heimer; Nadia Abdala; Lloyd A Goldsamt; JL Sotheran; K T Anderson; T M Gallo; L D Hoffer; P A Luciano; T Kyriakides
HIV-1 transmission in injection paraphernalia: heating drug solutions may inactivate HIV-1.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 1999;22(2):194-9.
1999: Louis A Magnarelli; AE Van Andel; Jacob W Ijdo; Robert Heimer; Erol Fikrig
Serologic testing of horses for granulocytic ehrlichiosis, using indirect fluorescent antibody staining and immunoblot analysis.
American journal of veterinary research 1999;60(5):631-5.
1999: Nadia Abdala; P C Stephens; B P Griffith; Robert Heimer
Survival of HIV-1 in syringes.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology : official publication of the International Retrovirology Association 1999;20(1):73-80.
1998: Josiah D Rich; Brian Dickinson; John M Carney; A Fisher; Robert Heimer
Detection of HIV-1 nucleic acid and HIV-1 antibodies in needles and syringes used for non-intravenous injection.
AIDS (London, England) 1998;12(17):2345-50.
1998: Louis A Magnarelli; Jacob W Ijdo; John Dumler; Robert Heimer; Erol Fikrig
Reactivity of human sera to different strains of granulocytic ehrlichiae in immunodiagnostic assays.
The Journal of infectious diseases 1998;178(6):1835-8.
1998: M I Buitrago; Jacob W Ijdo; P Rinaudo; H Simon; J Copel; J Gadbaw; Robert Heimer; E Fikrig; F J Bia
Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis during pregnancy treated successfully with rifampin.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 1998;27(1):213-5.
1998: AE Van Andel; Louis A Magnarelli; Robert Heimer; Mark Wilson
Development and duration of antibody response against Ehrlichia equi in horses.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1998;212(12):1910-4.
1998: Robert Heimer
Syringe exchange programs: lowering the transmission of syringe-borne diseases and beyond.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 1998;113 Suppl 1():67-74.
1998: Robert Heimer; D Tisdale; J E Dawson
A single tissue culture system for the propagation of the agents of the human ehrlichioses.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1998;58(6):812-5.
1998: Robert Heimer
Can syringe exchange serve as a conduit to substance abuse treatment?
Journal of substance abuse treatment 1998;15(3):183-91.
1998: Robert Heimer; Kaveh Khoshnood; D Bigg; J Guydish; B Junge
Syringe use and reuse: effects of syringe exchange programs in four cities.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology : official publication of the International Retrovirology Association 1998;18 Suppl 1():S37-44.
1997: Robert Heimer; AE Van Andel; G P Wormser; Mark Wilson
Propagation of granulocytic Ehrlichia spp. from human and equine sources in HL-60 cells induced to differentiate into functional granulocytes.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1997;35(4):923-7.
1996: Robert Heimer; Kaveh Khoshnood; B Jariwala-Freeman; B Duncan; Y Harima
Hepatitis in used syringes: the limits of sensitivity of techniques to detect hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA, hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA, and antibodies to HBV core and HCV antigens.
The Journal of infectious diseases 1996;173(4):997-1000.
1996: Robert Heimer; Ricky N Bluthenthal; M Singer; Kaveh Khoshnood
Structural impediments to operational syringe-exchange programs.
AIDS & public policy journal 1996;11(4):169-84.
1995: E H Kaplan; Robert Heimer
HIV incidence among New Haven needle exchange participants: updated estimates from syringe tracking and testing data.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology : official publication of the International Retrovirology Association 1995;10(2):175-6.
1995: Kaveh Khoshnood; E H Kaplan; Robert Heimer
'Dropouts' or 'drop-ins'? Client retention and participation in New Haven's needle exchange program.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 1995;110(4):462-6.
1994: E H Kaplan; Kaveh Khoshnood; Robert Heimer
A decline in HIV-infected needles returned to New Haven's needle exchange program: client shift or needle exchange?
American journal of public health 1994;84(12):1991-4.
1994: E H Kaplan; Robert Heimer
A circulation theory of needle exchange.
AIDS (London, England) 1994;8(5):567-74.
1994: E H Kaplan; Robert Heimer
HIV incidence among needle exchange participants: estimates from syringe tracking and testing data.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes 1994;7(2):182-9.
1993: Robert Heimer; E H Kaplan; Kaveh Khoshnood; B Jariwala; EC Cadman
Needle exchange decreases the prevalence of HIV-1 proviral DNA in returned syringes in New Haven, Connecticut.
The American journal of medicine 1993;95(2):214-20.
1993: S S Myers; Robert Heimer; D Liu; D Henrard
HIV DNA and antibodies in syringes from injecting drug users: a comparison of detection techniques.
AIDS (London, England) 1993;7(7):925-31.
1992: Robert Heimer; E H Kaplan; EC Cadman
Prevalence of HIV-infected syringes during a syringe-exchange program.
The New England journal of medicine 1992;327(26):1883-4.
1992: Robert Heimer; S S Myers; EC Cadman; E H Kaplan
Detection by polymerase chain reaction of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proviral DNA sequences in needles of injecting drug users.
The Journal of infectious diseases 1992;165(4):781-2.
1992: E H Kaplan; Robert Heimer
HIV prevalence among intravenous drug users: model-based estimates from New Haven's legal needle exchange.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes 1992;5(2):163-9.
1992: E H Kaplan; Robert Heimer
A model-based estimate of HIV infectivity via needle sharing.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes 1992;5(11):1116-8.