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Friedman SR, Rossi D, Perlman DC. Historical and theoretical roots of the big events framework. Int J Drug Policy. 2024 Nov;133:104606. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104606. Epub 2024 Oct 7. PubMed PMID: 39378779; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11540725.
Kalangi H, Boadla LR, Perlman DC, Yancovitz SR, George V, Salomon N. A true challenge: Disseminated tuberculosis with tuberculous meningitis in a patient with underlying chronic liver disease. IDCases. 2024;37:e02065. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2024.e02065. eCollection 2024. PubMed PMID: 39263667; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11387800.
Kapadia SN, Jordan AE, Eckhardt BJ, Perlman DC. The Urgent Need to Implement Point-of-Care RNA Testing for Hepatitis C Virus to Support Elimination. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 May 15;78(5):1235-1239. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad503. Review. PubMed PMID: 37633653; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11093654.
Friedman SR, Perlman DC, Paraskevis D, Feldman J. Sociopolitical Diagnostic Tools to Understand National and Local Response Capabilities and Vulnerabilities to Epidemics and Guide Research into How to Improve the Global Response to Pathogens. Pathogens. 2023 Aug 8;12(8). doi: 10.3390/pathogens12081023. PubMed PMID: 37623983; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10457759.
Mitaka H, Fujitani S, Kuno T, Perlman DC. Association between follow-up blood cultures for gram-negative bacilli bacteremia and length of hospital stay and duration of antibiotic treatment: A propensity score-matched cohort study. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Mar;44(3):474-479. doi: 10.1017/ice.2022.110. Epub 2022 Apr 29. PubMed PMID: 35485720.
Corcorran MA, Austin EJ, Behrends CN, Briggs ES, Frost MC, Juarez AM, Frank ND, Healy E, Prohaska SM, LaKosky PA, Kapadia SN, Perlman DC, Schackman BR, Des Jarlais DC, Williams EC, Glick SN. Syringe Service Program Perspectives on Barriers, Readiness, and Programmatic Needs to Support Rollout of the COVID-19 Vaccine. J Addict Med. 2023 Jan-Feb 01;17(1):e36-e41. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000001036. Epub 2022 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 35916422; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9892351.
Mitaka H, Perlman DC. Papules ombiliquées dans un cas de cryptococcose disséminée. CMAJ. 2022 Nov 28;194(46):E1591-E1592. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220354-f. PubMed PMID: 36442876; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9828964.
Des Jarlais DC, Behrends CN, Corcorran MA, Glick SN, Perlman DC, Kapadia SN, Lu X, Feelemyer J, LaKosky P, Prohaska SM, Schackman BR. Availability of and Obstacles to Providing COVID-19 Vaccinations at Syringe Services Programs in the United States, 2021. Public Health Rep. 2022 Nov-Dec;137(6):1066-1069. doi: 10.1177/00333549221120241. Epub 2022 Sep 16. PubMed PMID: 36113105; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9574299.
Austin EJ, Corcorran MA, Briggs ES, Frost MC, Behrends CN, Juarez AM, Frank ND, Healy E, Prohaska SM, LaKosky PA, Kapadia SN, Perlman DC, Schackman BR, Jarlais DCD, Williams EC, Glick SN. Barriers to engaging people who use drugs in harm reduction services during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods study of syringe services program perspectives. Int J Drug Policy. 2022 Nov;109:103825. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103825. Epub 2022 Aug 10. PubMed PMID: 35977459; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9364718.
Friedman SR, Perlman DC, DiClemente RJ. Editorial: The outbreak and sequelae of the increase in opioid use in the United States, Canada, and beyond. Front Sociol. 2022;7:1023531. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.1023531. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 36134361; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9483207.
Mitaka H, Perlman DC. Umbilicated papules in disseminated cryptococcosis. CMAJ. 2022 Aug 15;194(31):E1090. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220354. PubMed PMID: 35970552; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9377556.
Frost MC, Austin EJ, Corcorran MA, Briggs ES, Behrends CN, Juarez AM, Frank ND, Healy E, Prohaska SM, LaKosky PA, Kapadia SN, Perlman DC, Schackman BR, Des Jarlais DC, Williams EC, Glick SN. Responding to a surge in overdose deaths: perspectives from US syringe services programs. Harm Reduct J. 2022 Jul 19;19(1):79. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00664-y. PubMed PMID: 35854351; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9295104.
Friedman SR, Williams LD, Jordan AE, Walters S, Perlman DC, Mateu-Gelabert P, Nikolopoulos GK, Khan MR, Peprah E, Ezell J. Toward a Theory of the Underpinnings and Vulnerabilities of Structural Racism: Looking Upstream from Disease Inequities among People Who Use Drugs. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 17;19(12). doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127453. Review. PubMed PMID: 35742699; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9224240.
Walters SM, Perlman DC, Guarino H, Mateu-Gelabert P, Frank D. Lessons from the First Wave of COVID-19 for Improved Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Treatment: Benefits of Easier Access, Extended Take Homes, and New Delivery Modalities. Subst Use Misuse. 2022;57(7):1144-1153. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2022.2064509. Epub 2022 Apr 21. PubMed PMID: 35443862; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9709780.
Behrends CN, Lu X, Corry GJ, LaKosky P, Prohaska SM, Glick SN, Kapadia SN, Perlman DC, Schackman BR, Des Jarlais DC. Harm reduction and health services provided by syringe services programs in 2019 and subsequent impact of COVID-19 on services in 2020. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Mar 1;232:109323. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109323. Epub 2022 Jan 20. PubMed PMID: 35124386; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8772135.
Gutkind S, Starbird LE, Murphy SM, Teixeira PA, Gooden LK, Matheson T, Feaster DJ, Jain MK, Masson CL, Perlman DC, Del Rio C, Metsch LR, Schackman BR. Cost of Hepatitis C care facilitation for HIV/Hepatitis C Co-infected people who use drugs. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Mar 1;232:109265. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109265. Epub 2022 Jan 10. PubMed PMID: 35042101; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9238179.
Friedman SR, Jordan AE, Perlman DC, Nikolopoulos GK, Mateu-Gelabert P. Emerging Zoonotic Infections, Social Processes and Their Measurement and Enhanced Surveillance to Improve Zoonotic Epidemic Responses: A "Big Events" Perspective. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 17;19(2). doi: 10.3390/ijerph19020995. PubMed PMID: 35055817; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8776232.
Frank D, Mateu-Gelabert P, Perlman DC, Walters SM, Curran L, Guarino H. "It's like 'liquid handcuffs": The effects of take-home dosing policies on Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) patients' lives. Harm Reduct J. 2021 Aug 14;18(1):88. doi: 10.1186/s12954-021-00535-y. PubMed PMID: 34391436; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8364307.
Friedman SR, Mateu-Gelabert P, Nikolopoulos GK, Cerdá M, Rossi D, Jordan AE, Townsend T, Khan MR, Perlman DC. Big Events theory and measures may help explain emerging long-term effects of current crises. Glob Public Health. 2021 Aug-Sep;16(8-9):1167-1186. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1903528. Epub 2021 Apr 11. PubMed PMID: 33843462; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8338763.
Metsch LR, Feaster DJ, Gooden LK, Masson C, Perlman DC, Jain MK, Matheson T, Nelson CM, Jacobs P, Tross S, Haynes L, Lucas GM, Colasanti JA, Rodriguez A, Drainoni ML, Osorio G, Nijhawan AE, Jacobson JM, Sullivan M, Metzger D, Vergara-Rodriguez P, Lubelchek R, Duan R, Batycki JN, Matthews AG, Munoz F, Jelstrom E, Mandler R, Del Rio C. Care Facilitation Advances Movement Along the Hepatitis C Care Continuum for Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Hepatitis C, and Substance Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial (CTN-0064). Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;8(8):ofab334. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab334. eCollection 2021 Aug. PubMed PMID: 34377726; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8339611.
Guilamo-Ramos V, Benzekri A, Thimm-Kaiser M, Hidalgo A, Perlman DC. Reconsidering Assumptions of Adolescent and Young Adult Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Transmission Dynamics. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jul 30;73(Suppl 2):S146-S163. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1348. PubMed PMID: 32894747; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7499536.
Ventuneac A, Hecht G, Forcht E, Duah BA, Tarar S, Langenbach B, Gates J, Cain D, Rendina HJ, Aberg JA, Perlman DC. Chronic High Risk Prescription Opioid Use Among Persons With HIV. Front Sociol. 2021;6:645992. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.645992. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34095287; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8176351.
Muncan B, Jordan AE, Perlman DC, Frank D, Ompad DC, Walters SM. Acceptability and Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Care at Syringe Service Programs for People Who Inject Drugs in New York City. Subst Use Misuse. 2021;56(5):728-737. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2021.1892142. Epub 2021 Mar 7. PubMed PMID: 33682610; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8514132.
Mitaka H, Perlman DC, Javaid W, Salomon N. Putative invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill patients with COVID-19: An observational study from New York City. Mycoses. 2020 Dec;63(12):1368-1372. doi: 10.1111/myc.13185. Epub 2020 Oct 1. PubMed PMID: 32965042; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7646269.
Friedman SR, Krawczyk N, Perlman DC, Mateu-Gelabert P, Ompad DC, Hamilton L, Nikolopoulos G, Guarino H, Cerdá M. The Opioid/Overdose Crisis as a Dialectics of Pain, Despair, and One-Sided Struggle. Front Public Health. 2020;8:540423. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.540423. eCollection 2020. Review. PubMed PMID: 33251171; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7676222.
Jaiswal J, LoSchiavo C, Perlman DC. Disinformation, Misinformation and Inequality-Driven Mistrust in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons Unlearned from AIDS Denialism. AIDS Behav. 2020 Oct;24(10):2776-2780. doi: 10.1007/s10461-020-02925-y. PubMed PMID: 32440972; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7241063.
Jordan AE, Cleland CM, Wyka K, Schackman BR, Perlman DC, Nash D. Hepatitis C Virus Incidence in a Cohort in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in New York City. J Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 2;222(Suppl 5):S322-S334. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz659. PubMed PMID: 32877567; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7566606.
Jordan AE, Cleland CM, Schackman BR, Wyka K, Perlman DC, Nash D. Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Care Continuum Outcomes and HCV Community Viral Loads Among Patients in an Opioid Treatment Program. J Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 2;222(Suppl 5):S335-S345. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz686. PubMed PMID: 32877560; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7566623.
Mitaka H, Jammal R, Saabiye J, Yancovitz S, Perlman DC. Giant cellulitis-like Sweet syndrome: An underrecognized clinical variant mimicking skin and soft tissue infection. IDCases. 2020;21:e00874. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00874. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32596132; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7306609.
Frimpong JA, Shiu-Yee K, Tross S, D'Aunno T, Perlman DC, Strauss SM, Schackman BR, Feaster DJ, Metsch LR. Bundling Rapid Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus Testing to Increase Receipt of Test Results: A Randomized Trial. Med Care. 2020 May;58(5):445-452. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001311. PubMed PMID: 32040038; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8570362.
Mitaka H, Gomez T, Lee YI, Perlman DC. Risk Factors for Positive Follow-Up Blood Cultures in Gram-Negative Bacilli Bacteremia: Implications for Selecting Who Needs Follow-Up Blood Cultures. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Apr;7(4):ofaa110. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa110. eCollection 2020 Apr. PubMed PMID: 32328509; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7166118.
Jordan AE, Perlman DC, Cleland CM, Wyka K, Schackman BR, Nash D. Community viral load and hepatitis C virus infection: Community viral load measures to aid public health treatment efforts and program evaluation. J Clin Virol. 2020 Mar;124:104285. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104285. Epub 2020 Jan 27. PubMed PMID: 32007842; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7195813.
Mitaka H, Gomez T, Perlman DC. Scleritis and Endophthalmitis Due to Streptococcus pyogenes Infective Endocarditis. Am J Med. 2020 Jan;133(1):e15-e16. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.07.015. Epub 2019 Jul 26. PubMed PMID: 31351838.
Vidaurrazaga MM, Perlman DC. A case of purulent gonococcal arthritis. IDCases. 2020;19:e00662. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00662. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 31768312; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6872861.
Des Jarlais DC, Arasteh K, McKnight C, Feelemyer J, Perlman DC, Tross S. Prescription opiate analgesics, heroin, HIV and HCV among persons who inject drugs in New York City, 2016-2018. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Nov 1;204:107459. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.04.030. Epub 2019 Aug 30. PubMed PMID: 31521951; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6878143.
Des Jarlais DC, Arasteh K, Feelemyer J, McKnight C, Barnes DM, Perlman DC, Uuskula A, Cooper HLF, Tross S. Hepatitis C virus prevalence and estimated incidence among new injectors during the opioid epidemic in New York City, 2000-2017: Protective effects of non-injecting drug use. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2018 Nov 1;192:74-79. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.07.034. Epub 2018 Sep 12. PubMed PMID: 30243142; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6206865.
Behrends CN, Nugent AV, Des Jarlais DC, Frimpong JA, Perlman DC, Schackman BR. Availability of HIV and HCV On-Site Testing and Treatment at Syringe Service Programs in the United States. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2018 Oct 1;79(2):e76-e78. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001792. PubMed PMID: 29985266; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6347107.
Schackman BR, Gutkind S, Morgan JR, Leff JA, Behrends CN, Delucchi KL, McKnight C, Perlman DC, Masson CL, Linas BP. Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C screening and treatment linkage intervention in US methadone maintenance treatment programs. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2018 Apr 1;185:411-420. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.11.031. Epub 2018 Feb 21. PubMed PMID: 29477574; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5889754.
Des Jarlais DC, McKnight C, Feelemyer J, Arasteh K, Tross S, Campbell ANC, Cooper HLF, Perlman DC. Heterosexual male and female disparities in HIV infection at the end of an epidemic: HIV infection among persons who inject drugs in New York City, 2001-2005 and 2011-2015. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2018 Apr 1;185:391-397. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.12.039. Epub 2018 Feb 23. PubMed PMID: 29549851; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6584620.
Perlman DC, Jordan AE. The Syndemic of Opioid Misuse, Overdose, HCV, and HIV: Structural-Level Causes and Interventions. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2018 Apr;15(2):96-112. doi: 10.1007/s11904-018-0390-3. Review. PubMed PMID: 29460225; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5884743.
Jordan AE, Perlman DC, Smith DJ, Reed JR, Hagan H. Use of the PRECIS-II instrument to categorize reports along the efficacy-effectiveness spectrum in an hepatitis C virus care continuum systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin Epidemiol. 2018 Jan;93:66-75. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.10.015. Epub 2017 Nov 2. PubMed PMID: 29102682; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5767157.
Guilamo-Ramos V, Reading M, Bowman AS, Perlman DC, Barrett S. Multipurpose Prevention Technologies: A Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Priority. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2018 Jan-Feb;29(1):6-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jana.2017.06.003. Epub 2017 Jul 28. PubMed PMID: 28760598.
Jordan AE, Perlman DC, Reed J, Smith DJ, Hagan H. Patterns and Gaps Identified in a Systematic Review of the Hepatitis C Virus Care Continuum in Studies among People Who Use Drugs. Front Public Health. 2017;5:348. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00348. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 29326922; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5741609.
McKnight C, Shumway M, Masson CL, Pouget ER, Jordan AE, Des Jarlais DC, Sorensen JL, Perlman DC. Perceived discrimination among racial and ethnic minority drug users and the association with health care utilization. J Ethn Subst Abuse. 2017 Oct-Dec;16(4):404-419. doi: 10.1080/15332640.2017.1292418. Epub 2017 Mar 17. PubMed PMID: 28306386; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6155481.
Perlman DC, Jordan AE. Considerations for the Development of a Substance-Related Care and Prevention Continuum Model. Front Public Health. 2017;5:180. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00180. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28770195; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5513894.
Des Jarlais DC, Arasteh K, McKnight C, Feelemyer J, Tross S, Perlman D, Friedman S, Campbell A. Racial/Ethnic Disparities at the End of an HIV Epidemic: Persons Who Inject Drugs in New York City, 2011-2015. Am J Public Health. 2017 Jul;107(7):1157-1163. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303787. Epub 2017 May 18. PubMed PMID: 28520494; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5463217.
Gwadz MV, Collins LM, Cleland CM, Leonard NR, Wilton L, Gandhi M, Scott Braithwaite R, Perlman DC, Kutnick A, Ritchie AS. Using the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) to optimize an HIV care continuum intervention for vulnerable populations: a study protocol. BMC Public Health. 2017 May 4;17(1):383. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4279-7. PubMed PMID: 28472928; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5418718.
Gwadz M, Cleland CM, Perlman DC, Hagan H, Jenness SM, Leonard NR, Ritchie AS, Kutnick A. Public Health Benefit of Peer-Referral Strategies for Detecting Undiagnosed HIV Infection Among High-Risk Heterosexuals in New York City. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2017 Apr 15;74(5):499-507. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001257. PubMed PMID: 28267698; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5341134.
Jordan AE, Perlman DC. The Shift in Emphasis From Risk-Based to Age-Based Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Testing in the US Tends to Remove Injection Drug Use From Discourse on HCV. Subst Use Misuse. 2017 Feb 23;52(3):340-350. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2016.1225767. Epub 2016 Oct 21. PubMed PMID: 27768548.
Des Jarlais DC, Arasteh K, Feelemyer J, McKnight C, Tross S, Perlman DC, Campbell AN, Hagan H, Cooper HL. Decline in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Among Non-Injecting Heroin and Cocaine Users in New York City, 2005 to 2014: Prospects for Avoiding a Resurgence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Sex Transm Dis. 2017 Feb;44(2):85-90. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000549. PubMed PMID: 27898577; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5233587.
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