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A. Pillay

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A. Pillay — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 24
Works: 51
Citations: 1,728

Most-cited papers

On the Origin of the Treponematoses: A Phylogenetic Approach
K. Harper, P. Ocampo, B. Steiner, R. George +5 more
2008PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases184 citations Open access
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Molecular Subtyping of Treponema pallidum Subspecies pallidum
A. Pillay, Hsi Liu, Cheng Y. Chen, B. Holloway +3 more
1998Sexually Transmitted Diseases177 citations Open access
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Immune Evasion and Recognition of the Syphilis Spirochete in Blood and Skin of Secondary Syphilis Patients: Two Immunologically Distinct Compartments
A. Cruz, L. Ramírez, Ana V. Zuluaga, A. Pillay +9 more
2012PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases124 citations Open access
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Molecular and Direct Detection Tests for Treponema pallidum Subspecies pallidum: A Review of the Literature, 1964–2017
E. Theel, S. Katz, A. Pillay
2020Clinical Infectious Diseases107 citations Open access
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Haemophilus ducreyi Associated with Skin Ulcers among Children, Solomon Islands
M. Marks, K. Chi, V. Vahi, A. Pillay +5 more
2014Emerging Infectious Diseases85 citations Open access
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Molecular subtyping of Treponema pallidum in an Arizona County with increasing syphilis morbidity: use of specimens from ulcers and blood.
Madeline Y. Sutton, Hsi Liu, Bret Steiner, A. Pillay +5 more
2001Journal of Infectious Diseases78 citations Open access
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Secondary Syphilis in Cali, Colombia: New Concepts in Disease Pathogenesis
A. Cruz, A. Pillay, Ana V. Zuluaga, L. Ramírez +10 more
2010PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases76 citations Open access
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A Cross-Sectional Study of ‘Yaws’ in Districts of Ghana Which Have Previously Undertaken Azithromycin Mass Drug Administration for Trachoma Control
Rosanna Ghinai, P. El-Duah, K. Chi, A. Pillay +7 more
2015PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases75 citations Open access
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Molecular epidemiology of syphilis--San Francisco, 2004-2007.
K. Katz, A. Pillay, K. Ahrens, R. Kohn +4 more
2010Sexually Transmitted Diseases69 citations Open access
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Detection of the A2058G and A2059G 23S rRNA Gene Point Mutations Associated with Azithromycin Resistance in Treponema pallidum by Use of a TaqMan Real-Time Multiplex PCR Assay
Cheng Y. Chen, K. Chi, A. Pillay, E. Nachamkin +2 more
2013Journal of Clinical Microbiology65 citations Open access
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Molecular differentiation of Treponema pallidum subspecies in skin ulceration clinically suspected as yaws in Vanuatu using real-time multiplex PCR and serological methods.
K. Chi, Damien C. Danavall, F. Taleo, A. Pillay +8 more
2015American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene60 citations Open access
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Challenges and key research questions for yaws eradication
M. Marks, O. Mitjà, Lasse S. Vestergaard, A. Pillay +14 more
2015Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print)54 citations Open access
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Evaluation of Xenostrip-Tv, a Rapid Diagnostic Test for Trichomonas vaginalis Infection
A. Pillay, J. Lewis, R. Ballard
2004Journal of Clinical Microbiology49 citations Open access
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Impact of Community Mass Treatment with Azithromycin for Trachoma Elimination on the Prevalence of Yaws
M. Marks, V. Vahi, O. Sokana, K. Chi +7 more
2015PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases46 citations Open access
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Community-based mass treatment with azithromycin for the elimination of yaws in Ghana—Results of a pilot study
A. Abdulai, P. Agana-Nsiire, F. Biney, C. Kwakye-Maclean +17 more
2018PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases35 citations Open access
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Haemophilus ducreyi Cutaneous Ulcer Strains Are Nearly Identical to Class I Genital Ulcer Strains
Dharanesh Gangaiah, K. Webb, T. L. Humphreys, K. Fortney +8 more
2015PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases32 citations Open access
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Notes from the Field: Cluster of Lymphogranuloma Venereum Cases Among Men Who Have Sex with Men - Michigan, August 2015-April 2016.
A. de Voux, J. Kent, Kathryn Macomber, K. Krzanowski +12 more
2016MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report31 citations Open access
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Treponema and Brachyspira, Human Host-Associated Spirochetes
Arlene C. Seña, A. Pillay, D. L. Cox, J. Radolf
201130 citations
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Rare Case of Trichomonal Peritonitis
C. Zalonis, A. Pillay, W. Secor, B. Humburg +1 more
2011Emerging Infectious Diseases30 citations Open access
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A descriptive analysis of STD prevalence among urban pregnant African-American teens: data from a pilot study.
R. DiClemente, G. Wingood, R. Crosby, E. Rose +4 more
2004Journal of Adolescent Health30 citations
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Syphilis Summit—Diagnostics and Laboratory Issues
A. Pillay
2018Sexually Transmitted Diseases28 citations
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Prevalence of Active and Latent Yaws in the Solomon Islands 18 Months after Azithromycin Mass Drug Administration for Trachoma
M. Marks, O. Sokana, E. Nachamkin, E. Puiahi +5 more
2016PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases27 citations Open access
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Evaluation of Treponemal Serum Tests Performed on Cerebrospinal Fluid for Diagnosis of Neurosyphilis
J. Guarner, H. Jost, A. Pillay, Yongcheng Sun +3 more
2015American Journal of Clinical Pathology27 citations Open access
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Comparative efficacy of low-dose versus standard-dose azithromycin for patients with yaws: a randomised non-inferiority trial in Ghana and Papua New Guinea
M. Marks, O. Mitjà, C. Bottomley, C. Kwakye +100 more
2018Lancet Global Health25 citations Open access
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Evaluation of Multiplex-Based Antibody Testing for Use in Large-Scale Surveillance for Yaws: a Comparative Study
Gretchen M. Cooley, O. Mitjà, B. Goodhew, A. Pillay +7 more
2016Journal of Clinical Microbiology24 citations Open access
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Selective Whole-Genome Amplification as a Tool to Enrich Specimens with Low Treponema pallidum Genomic DNA Copies for Whole-Genome Sequencing
C. Thurlow, S. Joseph, L. Ganova-Raeva, S. Katz +16 more
2021bioRxiv22 citations Open access
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Laboratory-Confirmed Case of Yaws in a 10-Year-Old Boy from the Republic of the Congo
A. Pillay, Cheng Y. Chen, M. Reynolds, J. Mombouli +4 more
2011Journal of Clinical Microbiology19 citations Open access
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Successful isolation of Treponema pallidum strains from patients’ cryopreserved ulcer exudate using the rabbit model
Lara E. Pereira, S. Katz, Yongcheng Sun, P. Mills +15 more
2020PLoS ONE16 citations Open access
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Laboratory Processes for Confirmation of Lymphogranuloma Venereum Infection during a 2015 Investigation of a Cluster of Cases in the United States
E. Kersh, A. Pillay, A. de Voux, Cheng Y. Chen
2017Sexually Transmitted Diseases11 citations Open access
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Increased Discrimination of Treponema pallidum Strains by Subtyping With a 4-Component System Incorporating a Mononucleotide Tandem Repeat in rpsA
A. Pillay, Min-Kuang Lee, T. Slezak, S. Katz +6 more
2019Sexually Transmitted Diseases10 citations Open access
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Molecular strain typing of the yaws pathogen, Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue
S. Katz, K. Chi, E. Nachamkin, Damien C. Danavall +10 more
2018PLoS ONE10 citations Open access
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Complete Genome Sequences of 11 Haemophilus ducreyi Isolates from Children with Cutaneous Lesions in Vanuatu and Ghana
A. Pillay, S. Katz, A. Abrams, R. Ballard +8 more
2016Genome Announcements10 citations Open access
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Detection of Lymphogranuloma Venereum–Associated Chlamydia trachomatis L2 Serovars in Remnant Rectal Specimens Collected from 7 US Public Health Laboratories
K. Chi, A. de Voux, Monica R. Morris, S. Katz +5 more
2021Sexually Transmitted Diseases9 citations Open access
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A Nonhuman Primate Model for Rectally Transmitted Syphilis
Cassandra Tansey, Chun-Xia Zhao, André O Hopkins, J. Ritter +9 more
2018Journal of Infectious Diseases8 citations Open access
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Failure of PCR to Detect Treponema pallidum ssp. pertenue DNA in Blood in Latent Yaws
M. Marks, S. Katz, K. Chi, V. Vahi +5 more
2015PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases8 citations Open access
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Ribosomal DNA typing of Haemophilus ducreyi strains: proposal for a novel typing scheme
A. Pillay, Anwar A. Hoosen, P. Kiepiela, A. Sturm
1996Journal of Clinical Microbiology8 citations Open access
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On the Origin of Syphilis and Contemporary Views of Disease Dynamics
K. Karem, A. Pillay
20147 citations
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Evaluation of a laboratory developed multiplex real-time PCR assay for diagnosis of syphilis, herpes, and chancroid genital ulcers in four public health laboratories in the United States
M. Koralur, Cheng Y. Chen, A. Pillay, B. White +13 more
2021Sexually Transmitted Infections6 citations Open access
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Acquired macrolide-resistant Treponema pallidum after a human bite.
R. N. Fanfair, Mark Wallingford, Lana L Long, K. Chi +3 more
2014Sexually Transmitted Diseases6 citations Open access
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Evaluation of the WHO/CDC Syphilis Serology Proficiency Programme to support the global elimination of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis: an observational cross-sectional study, 2008–2015
André O Hopkins, T. Trinh, Y. Fakile, A. Pillay +3 more
2020BMJ Open5 citations Open access
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Protocol for the detection of Treponema pallidum in paraffin-embedded specimens.
Cheng Y. Chen, A. Pillay
2012Methods in molecular biology5 citations
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Antibody Responses to Two Recombinant Treponemal Antigens (rp17 and TmpA) before and after Azithromycin Treatment for Yaws in Ghana and Papua New Guinea
Nishanth Parameswaran, O. Mitjà, C. Bottomley, C. Kwakye +13 more
2021Journal of Clinical Microbiology4 citations Open access
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CDC Syphilis Summit - Diagnostics and Laboratory Issues.
A. Pillay
2018Sexually Transmitted Diseases2 citations
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A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging
Katherine Promer, A. Pillay, K. Chi, Noushin Vahdat +3 more
2019Radiology Case Reports1 citations Open access
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S04.2 New diagnostics for syphilis and yaws and detection of haemophilus ducreyi in cutaneous lesions in children
A. Pillay, Ch Chi, C. Kwakye, Damien C. Danavall +7 more
20151 citations Open access
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P3.273 Molecular Typing and Detection of Macrolide Resistance Mutations in T. Pallidum Strains from Cali, Colombia
A. Cruz, A. Pillay, L. Ramírez, H. Chi +4 more
2013Sexually Transmitted Infections1 citations Open access
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Testing performance of PCR for detection of T. pallidum from maternal and neonatal hematologic samples
I. Stafford, Karen Eldin, M. Rac, C. Thurlow +1 more
2022American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology0 citations Open access
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Treponema
Mayur R. Shukla, Lara E. Pereira, A. Pillay
2022Molecular Typing in Bacterial Infections, Volume I0 citations
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Molecular characterization of T. pallidum subsp. pertenue, the etiologic agent of yaws
A. Pillay, S. Katz, K. Chi, J. Kool +7 more
20140 citations Open access
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WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre for Syphilis Serology Proficiency Testing Program at the CDC
A. Pillay
20140 citations
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