Publications
Peer‐reviewed journal articles #
[1]
Avelino-Silva VI, Stone M,
Di Germanio C, Lanteri MC, Bakkour S, Grebe E, Custer B, Deng X, Pillai
S, Buccheri R, Kleinman SH, Vasan S, Rolland M, Phanuphak N, Sacdalan C,
Akapirat S, de Souza M, Kallas EG, Mateos S de OG, Sabino EC, Busch MP,
Norris PJ. HIV serologic reactivity varies with time
of ART initiation in persons on long-term ART.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2026; 64(1): e0127325. doi:10.1128/jcm.01273-25.
[2]
Akinseye A, Wright DJ, Grebe E, Stone M,
Hathaway CA, Fink RV, Spencer BR, Saa P, Lanteri MC, Busch MP, Jones JM.
Proportions of US Blood Donors With Serological Evidence of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
Infections Who Reported Survey-Based Diagnosed Infections During
July 2020–December 2022. Open Forum Infectious
Diseases. Epub ahead of print 2025. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaf210.
[3]
Avelino-Silva VI, Stone M,
Montalvo L, Di Germanio C, Bakkour S, Lanteri MC, Grebe E, Custer B,
Deng X, Buccheri R, Harrington K, Kleinman SH, Vasan S, Phanuphak N,
Sacdalan C, Akapirat S, De Souza M, Kallás EG, De Oliveira Garcia Mateos
S, Sabino EC, Norris PJ, Busch MP, for the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology
and Donor Evaluation Study-IV-Pediatric (REDS-IV-P). Improved
HIV-1 RNA detection using whole blood versus plasma in
antiretroviral-treated individuals. Journal of Clinical
Microbiology; 63(7). Epub ahead of print July 2025. doi:10.1128/jcm.01904-24.
[4]
Avelino-Silva VI, Kaidarova Z, Grebe E, Hindes
D, Bruhn RL, Notari E, Burke D, Kessler DA, Delvalle C, Reik R, Ortiz V,
Fallon S, Lanteri MC, Stramer SL, Hailu B, Yang H, Whitaker B, Custer B.
Factors associated with HIV infection in
U.S. Blood donors across evolving deferral
policies. Transfusion 2025; 65(11): 2113–2127. doi:10.1111/trf.18411.
[5]
Braga NA, de Oliveira
Garcia Mateos S, Buccheri R, Avelino-Silva VI, Warden DE, de
Almeida-Neto C, Ribeiro M, Amorim L, Loureiro P, Fraiji N, Oikawa MK,
Grebe E, Stone M, Sabino EC, Custer B. Syphilis reactivity among
blood donors in Brazil: Associated factors and implications
for public health monitoring. BMC Public Health 2025; 25(1):
60. doi:10.1186/s12889-024-21114-3.
[6]
Buccheri R, Warden DE, Oikawa M, Grebe E,
Miranda C, Amorim L, Loureiro P, Ribeiro M, Fraji N, De Almeida-Neto C,
Sabino E, Custer B. Assessing HIV trends among blood donors
in five Brazilian blood centers: The impact of
individual donor assessment. Transfusion 2025; 65(4): 685–695.
doi:10.1111/trf.18168.
[7]
Grebe E, Di Germanio C,
Notari EP, Stone M, Bhaskar JR, Dayana V, Lanteri MC, Gorlin J, Reik R,
Stramer SL, Busch MP, Hailu B, Belov AA, Yang H, Whitaker B, Custer B,
the US Transfusion-Transmissible Infections Monitoring System
(TTIMS). HIV incidence in US first-time
blood donors during 12 and 3 month deferral policy periods between 2015
and 2023 before implementation of individual donor assessment.
Transfusion 2025; 65(5): 834–840. doi:10.1111/trf.18195.
[8]
Grebe E, Buccheri R, Montalvo L, Kashima S,
Miranda C, Milani P, Stone M, Livezey K, Capuani L, Alencar CS, Amorim
L, Loureiro P, Ribeiro M, Da Costa AG, Mendrone A, Busch MP, Sabino EC,
Custer B, Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-IV-Pediatric
(REDS-IV-P) Brazil. Dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus
surveillance in blood donors in Brazil, 2019–2021. Vox
Sanguinis. Epub ahead of print December 2025. doi:10.1111/vox.70150.
[9]
Grebe E, Chacreton D, Stone M, Spencer BR,
Haynes J, Akinseye A, Lanteri MC, Green V, Sulaeman H, Bruhn R,
Avelino-Silva VI, Contestable P, Biggerstaff BJ, Coughlin MM, Custer B,
Jones JM, Wright D, Busch MP. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections
Using Nucleocapsid Antibody Boosting. Emerging Infectious
Diseases; 31(5). Epub ahead of print May 2025. doi:10.3201/eid3105.250021.
[10]
Jones J, Grebe E, Lartey I, Stone M, Spencer B,
Akinseye A, Molina Manrique I, Fink R, Green V, Saa P, Biggerstaff B,
Coughlin M, Briggs-Hagen M, Lanteri M, Opsomer J, Wright D, Busch M.
Estimated US trends in SARS-CoV-2 spike
antibody concentrations and correlation to risk of first-time infections
based on blood donations, 2022. The Journal of Infectious
Diseases. Epub ahead of print 2025. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiaf329.
[11]
Jones JM, Coughlin MM, Grebe E, Busch MP,
Clarke KEN. Reply to ‘Vaccination caused
underestimation of cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2
infection’. Microbiology Spectrum; 13(2). Epub ahead of
print February 2025. doi:10.1128/spectrum.01979-24.
[12]
Rossenkhan R, Giorgi EE,
Shao D, Ludwig J, Labuschagne P, Magaret CA, Ndung’u T, Muema D, Gounder
K, Dong KL, Walker BD, Rolland M, Robb ML, Eller LA, Sawe F, Nitayaphan
S, Grebe E, Busch MP, Delaney KP, Facente S, Carpp LN, deCamp AC, Huang
Y, Korber B, Juraska M, Rudnicki E, Kosmider E, Reeves DB, Mayer BT,
Hural J, Deng W, Westfall DH, Yssel A, Matten D, Bhattacharya T, Corey
L, Gilbert PB, Williamson C, Mullins JI, Edlefsen PT. Bayesian
estimation of HIV acquisition dates for prevention trials.
mBio 2025; 16(10): e0188125. doi:10.1128/mbio.01881-25.
[13]
Spencer BR, Akinseye A, Grebe E, Stone M,
Zurita KG, Wright DJ, Haynes JM, Stramer SL, Busch MP.
Self-Reported SARS-CoV-2 Infections among National
Blood Donor Cohort, United States, 2020–2022.
Emerging Infectious Diseases; 31(5). Epub ahead of print May
2025. doi:10.3201/eid3105.241953.
[14]
Avelino-Silva VI, Bruhn R, Zurita KG, Grebe E,
Stone M, Busch MP, Custer B. Adherence to COVID-19
vaccination recommendations and vaccine hesitancy in US
blood donors. Transfusion 2024; 64(12): 2314–2324. doi:10.1111/trf.18051.
[15]
Avelino-Silva VI, Bruhn R, Zurita KG, Deng X,
Yu EA, Grebe E, Stone M, Lanteri MC, Spencer BR, Busch MP, Custer B.
SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels and long
COVID occurrence in blood donors. Transfusion
2024; 64(9): 1719–1731. doi:10.1111/trf.17952.
[16]
Avelino-Silva VI, Stone M, Bakkour S, Di
Germanio C, Schmidt M, Conway AL, Wright D, Grebe E, Custer B, Kleinman
SH, Deng X, Lingappa JR, Defechereux P, Mehrotra M, Grant RM, Vasan S,
Facente S, Phanuphak N, Sacdalan C, Akapirat S, De Souza M, Busch MP,
Norris PJ. Suppressed HIV antibody responses following
exposure to antiretrovirals—evidence from PrEP randomized
trials and early antiretroviral treatment initiation studies.
International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2024; 148: 107222.
doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107222.
[17]
Custer B, Altan E,
Montalvo L, Coyne A, Grebe E, Deng X, Stone M, Delwart E, Bakkour S,
Hailu B, Reik R, Kessler D, Stramer SL, Busch MP, for the Transfusion
Transmissible Infections Monitoring System (TTIMS) Program, Notari E,
Stramer S, Dodd R, Conti G, Fayed R, Nelson D, Townsend R, Foster G,
Haynes J, Crawford E, Huseynova E, Krysztof D, Burke D, Lanteri M, Green
V, Cyrus S, Williamson P, Kessler D, Gorlin J, Milan-Benson L, DelValle
C, Chien P, Brown T, Reik R, Shea C, Lopez M, Richards K, Foster T,
Brodsky J, Barr M, Rains T, Custer B, Bruhn R, Grebe E, Busch M, Stone
M, Di Germanio C, Hindes D, Kaidarova Z, Zurita K, Tadena A, Montalvo L,
Dayana A, Hughes S, Townsend M, Bravo M, Vannoy J, Fallon S, Anderson S,
Whitaker B, Yang H, Belov A, Eder A, Hailu B, Zou S, Berger J, Custer B,
Stramer S, Kessler D, Reik R, Williamson P, Anderson SA, Hailu B.
HIV Subtypes and Drug-resistance-associated Mutations in US
Blood Donors, 2015–2020. Open Forum Infectious Diseases
2024; 11(7): ofae343. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae343.
[18]
Di
Germanio C, Deng X, Balasko BG, Simmons G, Martinelli R, Grebe E, Stone
M, Spencer BR, Saa P, Yu EA, Lanteri MC, Green V, Wright D, Lartey I,
Kleinman S, Jones J, Biggerstaff BJ, Contestable P, Busch MP. Spike and
nucleocapsid antibody dynamics following
SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination:
Implications for sourcing COVID-19
convalescent plasma from routinely collected blood donations.
Transfusion 2024; 64(11): 2063–2074. doi:10.1111/trf.18017.
[19]
Di
Germanio C, Deng X, Grebe E, Johnson JA, Masciotra S, Busch MP, Norris
PJ. Performance of a rapid recency assay for detection of early
HIV infection. Journal of Clinical Virology: The
Official Publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical
Virology 2024; 174: 105708. doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2024.105708.
[20]
Emperador DM, Stone M, Grebe E, Escadafal C,
Dave H, Lackritz E, Kelly-Cirino C, Rabe I, Rojas DP, Busch MP, Simmons
G. Comparative Evaluation of Select Serological
Assays for Zika Virus Using Blinded Reference
Panels. Viruses 2024; 16(7): 1075. doi:10.3390/v16071075.
[21]
Grebe E, Stone M, Spencer BR, Akinseye A,
Wright DJ, Di Germanio C, Bruhn R, Zurita KG, Contestable P, Green V,
Lanteri MC, Saa P, Biggerstaff BJ, Coughlin MM, Kleinman S, Custer B,
Jones JM, Busch MP. Detection of Nucleocapsid Antibodies
Associated with Primary SARS-CoV-2 Infection in
Unvaccinated and Vaccinated Blood Donors.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2024; 30(8): 1621–1630. doi:10.3201/eid3008.240659.
[22]
Van den Berg K, Murphy EL, Maartens G, Louw VJ,
Grebe E. The impact of non-disclosure of HIV status and
antiretroviral therapy on HIV recency testing and incidence
algorithms. Vox Sanguinis 2024; 119(6): 581–589. doi:10.1111/vox.13627.
[23]
Vermeulen M, Mhlanga L,
Sykes W, Cable R, Coleman C, Pietersen N, Swanevelder R, Glatt TN,
Bingham J, van den Berg K, Grebe E, Welte A. The evolution and
interpretation of seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies
among South African blood donors from the Beta
to Omicron variant-driven waves. Vox Sanguinis
2024; 119(3): 242–251. doi:10.1111/vox.13571.
[24]
Yu
EA, Stone M, Bravo MD, Grebe E, Bruhn RL, Lanteri MC, Townsend M, Kamel
H, Jones JM, Busch MP, Custer B. Associations of Temporal
Cardiometabolic Patterns and Incident SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Among U.S. Blood Donors With Serologic
Evidence of Vaccination. AJPM Focus 2024;
3(2): 100186. doi:10.1016/j.focus.2024.100186.
[25]
Custer B, Grebe E,
Buccheri R, Bakkour S, Stone M, Capuani L, Alencar C, Amorim L, Loureiro
P, Carneiro-Proietti AB, Mendrone-Junior A, Gonçalez T, Gao K, Livezey
KW, Linnen JM, Brambilla D, McClure C, Busch MP, Sabino EC, for the
Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study (REDS-III)
International Component Brazil. Surveillance for
Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue Virus
Incidence and RNAemia in Blood Donors
at 4 Brazilian Blood Centers During 2016–2019. The
Journal of Infectious Diseases 2023; 227(5): 696–707. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiac173.
[26]
Greenwald MA, Grebe E, Green V, Jones AL,
Linnen JM, Williamson P, Busch MP, Kuehnert MJ. Low rate of detection of
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in deceased tissue donors. Cell and
Tissue Banking 2023; 24(3): 585–596. doi:10.1007/s10561-022-10054-0.
[27]
Jones JM, Manrique IM, Stone MS, Grebe E, Saa
P, Germanio CD, Spencer BR, Notari E, Bravo M, Lanteri MC, Green V,
Briggs-Hagen M, Coughlin MM, Stramer SL, Opsomer J, Busch MP. Estimates
of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Incidence of
Primary SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Blood Donors, by
COVID-19 Vaccination Status — United States,
April 2021–September 2022. MMWR Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report 2023; 72(22): 601–605. doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm7222a3.
[28]
Mhlanga L, Welte A, Grebe E, Ohler L, Van
Cutsem G, Huerga H, Conan N. Evidence of HIV incidence
reduction in young women, but not in adolescent girls, in
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. IJID
Regions 2023; 8: 111–117. doi:10.1016/j.ijregi.2023.07.004.
[29]
Parkin N, Gao F, Grebe E,
Cutrell A, Das M, Donnell D, Duerr A, Glidden DV, Hughes JP, Murray J,
Robertson MN, Zinserling J, Lau J, Miller V, for the Forum for
Collaborative Research Recency Assay Working Group. Facilitating
Next-Generation Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Clinical Trials Using HIV Recent Infection Assays: A
Consensus Statement from the Forum HIV Prevention Trial
Design Project. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
2023; 114(1): 29–40. doi:10.1002/cpt.2830.
[30]
Stone M, Bakkour S, Grebe E, Emperador DM,
Escadafal C, Deng X, Dave H, Kelly-Cirino C, Lackritz E, Rojas DP,
Simmons G, Rabe IB, Busch MP. Standardized evaluation of
Zika nucleic acid tests used in clinical settings and blood
screening. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2023; 17(3):
e0011157. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011157.
[31]
Sulaeman H, Grebe E, Dave H, McCann L, Di
Germanio C, Sanghavi A, Sclar V, Bougie DW, Chatelain G, Biggerstaff BJ,
Jones JM, Thornburg NJ, Kleinman S, Stone M, Busch MP. Evaluation of
Ortho VITROS and Roche Elecsys S and NC
Immunoassays for SARS-CoV-2 Serosurveillance
Applications. Microbiology Spectrum 2023; 11(4):
e03234–22. doi:10.1128/spectrum.03234-22.
[32]
Busch MP, Stramer SL, Stone M, Yu EA, Grebe E,
Notari E, Saa P, Ferg R, Manrique IM, Weil N, Fink RV, Levy ME, Green V,
Cyrus S, Williamson PC, Haynes J, Groves J, Krysztof D, Custer B,
Kleinman S, Biggerstaff BJ, Opsomer JD, Jones JM.
Population-Weighted Seroprevalence From Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Infection, Vaccination, and Hybrid
Immunity Among US Blood Donations From January to
December 2021. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022;
75(Supplement_2): S254–S263. doi:10.1093/cid/ciac470.
[33]
Facente SN, Grinstein R, Bruhn R, Kaidarova Z,
Wilson E, Hecht J, Burk K, Grebe E, Morris MD. Hepatitis C
prevalence and key population size estimate updates in San
Francisco: 2015 to 2019. PLOS ONE 2022; 17(5): e0267902.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0267902.
[34]
Facente SN, Grebe E, Maher AD, Fox D, Scheer S,
Mahy M, Dalal S, Lowrance D, Marsh K. Use of HIV Recency
Assays for HIV Incidence Estimation and Other
Surveillance Use Cases: Systematic Review. JMIR
Public Health and Surveillance 2022; 8(3): e34410. doi:10.2196/34410.
[35]
Fink RV, Fisher L, Sulaeman H, Dave H, Levy ME,
McCann L, Di Germanio C, Notari EP, Green V, Cyrus S, Williamson P, Saa
P, Haynes JM, Groves J, Mathew S, Kaidarova Z, Bruhn R, Grebe E, Opsomer
J, Jones JM, Miller MJ, Busch MP, Stone M. How do we…form and coordinate
a national serosurvey of SARS-CoV-2 within the
blood collection industry? Transfusion 2022; 62(7): 1321–1333.
doi:10.1111/trf.16943.
[36]
Grebe E, Yu EA, Bravo MD, Welte A, Bruhn RL,
Stone M, Green V, Williamson PC, Feldstein LR, Jones JM, Busch MP,
Custer B. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine
Effectiveness Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus 2 Infection in the United States
Before the Delta- and Omicron-Associated
Surges: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Repeat
Blood Donors. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2022;
226(9): 1556–1561. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiac318.
[37]
Prete CA, Buss LF, Buccheri R, Abrahim CMM,
Salomon T, Crispim MAE, Oikawa MK, Grebe E, Da Costa AG, Fraiji NA, Do
P. S. S. Carvalho M, Whittaker C, Alexander N, Faria NR, Dye C,
Nascimento VH, Busch MP, Sabino EC. Reinfection by the SARS-CoV-2
Gamma variant in blood donors in Manaus,
Brazil. BMC Infectious Diseases 2022; 22(1): 127.
doi:10.1186/s12879-022-07094-y.
[38]
Sempa JB, Grebe E, Welte A. Quantitative
interpretation of Sedia LAg Assay test results after
HIV diagnosis. PLoS ONE 2022; 17(7): e0271763.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0271763.
[39]
Stone M, Grebe E, Sulaeman H, Di Germanio C,
Dave H, Kelly K, Biggerstaff BJ, Crews BO, Tran N, Jerome KR, Denny TN,
Hogema B, Destree M, Jones JM, Thornburg N, Simmons G, Krajden M,
Kleinman S, Dumont LJ, Busch MP. Evaluation of Commercially
Available High-Throughput SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Assays for
Serosurveillance and Related Applications.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2022; 28(3): 672–683. doi:10.3201/eid2803.211885.
[40]
Stone M, Grebe E, Busch MP. Clinical
Protection During the First Omicron Wave in
Unvaccinated, Convalescent US Adults.
JAMA 2022; 328(2): 212. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.10332.
[41]
Van den Berg K, Vermeulen
M, Bakkour S, Stone M, Jacobs G, Nyoni C, Barker C, McClure C, Creel D,
Grebe E, Roubinian N, Jentsch U, Custer B, Busch MP, Murphy EL, on
behalf of the Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study
(REDS)-III South Africa International Program. Blood Center
Testing Allows the Detection and Rapid
Treatment of Acute and Recent HIV
Infection. Viruses 2022; 14(11): 2326. doi:10.3390/v14112326.
[42]
Vermeulen M, van Schalkwyk
C, Jacobs G, van den Berg K, Stone M, Bakkour S, Custer B, Jentsch U,
Busch MP, Murphy E, Grebe E. The Impact of
Early Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) for
HIV on the Sensitivity of the Latest
Generation of Blood Screening and Point
of Care Assays. Viruses 2022; 14(7): 1426. doi:10.3390/v14071426.
[43]
Bakkour S, Saá P, Groves
JA, Montalvo L, Di Germanio C, Best SM, Grebe E, Livezey K, Linnen JM,
Strauss D, Kessler D, Bonn M, Green V, Williamson P, Kleinman S, Stramer
SL, Stone M, Busch MP, for the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor
Evaluation Study-IV-Pediatric (REDS-IV-P). Minipool testing for
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in United
States blood donors. Transfusion 2021; 61(8): 2384–2391.
doi:10.1111/trf.16511.
[44]
De
Oliveira Garcia Mateos S, Preiss L, Gonçalez TT, Di Lorenzo Oliveira C,
Grebe E, Di Germanio C, Stone M, Amorim Filho L, Carneiro Proietti AB,
Belisario AR, De Almeida-Neto C, Mendrone-Junior A, Loureiro P, Busch
MP, Custer B, Cerdeira Sabino E, Recipient Epidemiology, Donor
Evaluation Study (REDS-III) International Component Brazil. 10-year
analysis of human immunodeficiency virus incidence in first-time and
repeat donors in Brazil. Vox Sanguinis 2021;
116(2): 207–216. doi:10.1111/vox.13002.
[45]
Di
Germanio C, Simmons G, Kelly K, Martinelli R, Darst O, Azimpouran M,
Stone M, Hazegh K, Grebe E, Zhang S, Ma P, Orzechowski M, Gomez JE,
Livny J, Hung DT, Vassallo R, Busch MP, Dumont LJ.
SARS-CoV-2 antibody persistence in COVID-19
convalescent plasma donors: Dependency on assay format and
applicability to serosurveillance. Transfusion 2021; 61(9):
2677–2687. doi:10.1111/trf.16555.
[46]
Goodhue Meyer E, Simmons G, Grebe E, Gannett M,
Franz S, Darst O, Di Germanio C, Stone M, Contestable P, Prichard A,
Reik R, Vassallo R, Young P, Busch MP, Williamson P, Dumont LJ.
Selecting COVID-19 convalescent plasma for neutralizing
antibody potency using a high-capacity SARS-CoV-2 antibody
assay. Transfusion 2021; 61(4): 1160–1170. doi:10.1111/trf.16321.
[47]
Russell WA, Grebe E, Custer B. Factors driving
availability of COVID-19 convalescent plasma:
Insights from a demand, production, and supply model.
Transfusion 2021; 61(5): 1370–1376. doi:10.1111/trf.16317.
[48]
Vermeulen M, Chowdhury D,
Swanevelder R, Grebe E, Brambilla D, Jentsch U, Busch M, Van Zyl G,
Murphy EL, for the REDS-III International Program South Africa.
HIV incidence in South African blood donors
from 2012 to 2016: A comparison of estimation methods. Vox
Sanguinis 2021; 116(1): 71–80. doi:10.1111/vox.12987.
[49]
Bakkour S, Deng X, Bacchetti P, Grebe E,
Montalvo L, Worlock A, Stone M, Deeks SG, Richman DD, Busch MP.
Replicate Aptima Assay for Quantifying Residual
Plasma Viremia in Individuals on
Antiretroviral Therapy. Journal of Clinical
Microbiology 2020; 58(12): e01400–20. doi:10.1128/JCM.01400-20.
[50]
Facente SN, Grebe E, Pilcher CD, Busch MP,
Murphy G, Welte A. Estimated dates of detectable infection
(EDDIs) as an improvement upon Fiebig staging
for HIV infection dating. Epidemiology and
Infection 2020; 148: e53. doi:10.1017/S0950268820000503.
[51]
Grebe E, Busch MP, Notari EP, Bruhn R, Quiner
C, Hindes D, Stone M, Bakkour S, Yang H, Williamson P, Kessler D, Reik
R, Stramer SL, Glynn SA, Anderson SA, Williams AE, Custer B.
HIV incidence in US first-time blood donors
and transfusion risk with a 12-month deferral for men who have sex with
men. Blood 2020; 136(11): 1359–1367. doi:10.1182/blood.2020007003.
[52]
Quiner C, Bruhn R, Grebe
E, Di Germanio C, Kessler D, Reik R, Williamson P, Hampton D, Fayed R,
Anderson SA, Williams AE, Glynn SA, Busch MP, Stramer SL, Custer B, for
the Transfusion-Transmissible Infections Monitoring System
(TTIMS). Recently acquired infection among
HIV-seropositive donors in the US from
2010-2018. Transfusion 2020; 60(10): 2340–2347. doi:10.1111/trf.16032.
[53]
Facente SN, Busch MP, Grebe E, Pilcher CD,
Welte A, Rice B, Murphy G. Challenges to the performance of current
HIV diagnostic assays and the need for centralized specimen
archives: A review of the Consortium for the
Evaluation and Performance of HIV
Incidence Assays (CEPHIA) repository. Gates Open
Research 2019; 3: 1511. doi:10.12688/gatesopenres.13048.1.
[54]
Gonese E, Kilmarx PH, van
Schalkwyk C, Grebe E, Mutasa K, Ntozini R, Parekh B, Dobbs T, Duong
Pottinger Y, Masciotra S, Owen M, Nachega JB, van Zyl G, Hargrove
JW. Evaluation of the Performance of Three
Biomarker Assays for Recent HIV Infection Using a
Well-Characterized HIV-1 Subtype C Incidence Cohort.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 2019; 35(7): 615–627.
doi:10.1089/AID.2019.0033.
[55]
Grebe E, Facente SN, Bingham J, Pilcher CD,
Powrie A, Gerber J, Priede G, Chibawara T, Busch MP, Murphy G, Kassanjee
R, Welte A. Interpreting HIV diagnostic histories into
infection time estimates: Analytical framework and online tool. BMC
Infectious Diseases 2019; 19(1): 894. doi:10.1186/s12879-019-4543-9.
[56]
Keating SM, Rountree W,
Grebe E, Pappas AL, Stone M, Hampton D, Todd CA, Poniewierski MS,
Sanchez A, Porth CG, Denny TN, Busch MP, for the EQAPOL Limiting Antigen
(LAg) Incidence Assay External Quality Assurance (EQA) Program.
Development of an international external quality assurance program for
HIV-1 incidence using the Limiting Antigen
Avidity assay. PLoS ONE 2019; 14(9): e0222290. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222290.
[57]
Pilcher CD, Porco TC, Facente SN, Grebe E,
Delaney KP, Masciotra S, Kassanjee R, Busch MP, Murphy G, Owen SM, Welte
A. A generalizable method for estimating duration of HIV
infections using clinical testing history and HIV test
results. AIDS 2019; 33(7): 1231–1240. doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000002190.
[58]
Sempa JB, Welte A, Busch
MP, Hall J, Hampton D, Facente SN, Keating SM, Marson K, Parkin N,
Pilcher CD, Murphy G, Grebe E, on behalf of the Consortium for the
Evaluation and Performance of HIV Incidence Assays (CEPHIA).
Performance comparison of the Maxim and Sedia
Limiting Antigen Avidity assays for HIV incidence
surveillance. PLoS ONE 2019; 14(7): e0220345. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220345.
[59]
Vermeulen M, Lelie N, Coleman C, Sykes W,
Jacobs G, Swanevelder R, Busch M, Van Zyl G, Grebe E, Welte A, Reddy R.
Assessment of HIV transfusion transmission risk in
South Africa: A 10-year analysis following implementation
of individual donation nucleic acid amplification technology testing and
donor demographics eligibility changes. Transfusion 2019;
59(1): 267–276. doi:10.1111/trf.14959.
[60]
Facente SN, Grebe E, Burk K, Morris MD, Murphy
EL, Mirzazadeh A, Smith AA, Sanchez MA, Evans JL, Nishimura A, Raymond
HF. Estimated hepatitis C prevalence and key population
sizes in San Francisco: A foundation for
elimination. PLoS ONE 2018; 13(4): e0195575. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195575.
[61]
Grebe E, Welte A, Johnson
LF, van Cutsem G, Puren A, Ellman T, Etard J-F, Huerga H.
Population-level HIV incidence estimates using a
combination of synthetic cohort and recency biomarker approaches in
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PLoS ONE
2018; 13(9): e0203638. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0203638.
[62]
Nascimento EJM, Huleatt JW, Cordeiro MT,
Castanha PMS, George JK, Grebe E, Welte A, Brown M, Burke DS, Marques
ETA. Development of antibody biomarkers of long term and recent dengue
virus infections. Journal of Virological Methods 2018; 257:
62–68. doi:10.1016/j.jviromet.2018.04.009.
[63]
Grebe E, Welte A, Hall J,
Keating SM, Facente SN, Marson K, Martin JN, Little SJ, Price MA, Kallas
EG, Busch MP, Pilcher CD, Murphy G, on behalf of the Consortium for the
Evaluation and Performance of HIV Incidence Assays (CEPHIA).
Infection Staging and Incidence Surveillance
Applications of High Dynamic Range Diagnostic Immuno-Assay
Platforms. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndromes 2017; 76(5): 547–555. doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000001537.
[64]
Huerga H, Shiferie F, Grebe E, Giuliani R,
Farhat JB, Van-Cutsem G, Cohen K. A comparison of self-report and
antiretroviral detection to inform estimates of antiretroviral therapy
coverage, viral load suppression and HIV incidence in
Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC
Infectious Diseases 2017; 17(1): 653. doi:10.1186/s12879-017-2740-y.
[65]
Murphy G, Pilcher CD, Keating SM, Kassanjee R,
Facente SN, Welte A, Grebe E, Marson K, Busch MP, Dailey P, Parkin N,
Osborn J, Ongarello S, Marsh K, Garcia-Calleja JM. Moving towards a
reliable HIV incidence test – current status, resources
available, future directions and challenges ahead. Epidemiology and
Infection 2017; 145(5): 925–941. doi:10.1017/S0950268816002910.
[66]
Seaton KE, Vandergrift NA, Deal AW, Rountree W,
Bainbridge J, Grebe E, Anderson DA, Sawant S, Shen X, Yates NL, Denny
TN, Liao H-X, Haynes BF, Robb ML, Parkin N, Santos BR, Garrett N, Price
MA, Naniche D, Duerr AC, Keating S, Hampton D, Facente S, Marson K,
Welte A, Pilcher CD, Cohen MS, Tomaras GD. Computational analysis of
antibody dynamics identifies recent HIV-1 infection.
JCI Insight 2017; 2(24): e94355. doi:10.1172/jci.insight.94355.
[67]
Grebe E. The ambiguities of the
‘partnership’ between civil society and the state in
Uganda’s AIDS response during the 1990s and
2000s as demonstrated in the development of TASO.
Global Public Health 2016; 11(4): 496–512. doi:10.1080/17441692.2015.1062121.
[68]
Keating SM, Kassanjee R,
Lebedeva M, Facente SN, MacArthur JC, Grebe E, Murphy G, Welte A, Martin
JN, Little S, Price MA, Kallas EG, Busch MP, Pilcher CD, on behalf of
the Consortium for the Evaluation and Performance of HIV Incidence
Assays (CEPHIA). Performance of the Bio-Rad Geenius
HIV1/2 Supplemental Assay in Detecting
‘Recent’ HIV Infection and
Calculating Population Incidence. JAIDS Journal of
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2016; 73(5): 581–588. doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000001146.
[69]
Grebe E, Nattrass N. AIDS
conspiracy beliefs and unsafe sex in Cape Town. AIDS
and Behavior 2012; 16(3): 761–773. doi:10.1007/s10461-011-9958-2.
[70]
Grebe E. The Treatment Action
Campaign’s Struggle for AIDS Treatment
in South Africa: Coalition-building
Through Networks. Journal of Southern African Studies
2011; 37(4): 849–868. doi:10.1080/03057070.2011.608271.
[71]
Grebe E. Contingency, contestation and
hegemony: The possibility of a non-essentialist politics
for the left. Philosophy & Social Criticism 2009; 35(5):
589–611. doi:10.1177/0191453709103428.
Published conference abstracts #
[1]
Avelino-Silva VI, Stone M, Di Germanio C,
Simmons G, Sulaeman H, Deng X, Lanteri MC, Spencer BR, Hathaway CA,
Busch MP, Grebe E. SARS-CoV-2 ancestral and
variant-specific antibody titers in blood donors with prior infection,
prior vaccination or hybrid immunity: Correlations with protection
against omicron infections. Vox Sanguinis 2025; 120(Suppl. 1):
238.
[2]
Avelino-Silva VI, Stone M, Di Germanio C, Grebe
E, Custer B, Kleinman S, Deng X, Vasan S, Phanuphak N, Sacdalan C,
Akapirat S, Souza MS, Busch MP, Norris PJ. HIV serologic
reactivity in persons with HIV who started ART
during acute/early stages of infection. Topics in Antiviral
Medicine 2025; 33(1): 389.
[3]
Custer B, Buccheri R, Grebe E, Milani P,
Montalvo L, Wen L, Stone M, Miranda C, Amorim L, Loureiro P, Ribeiro M,
Guimarães da Costa A, Mendrone Jr. A, Busch MP, Sabino EC. Dengue,
chikungunya, and Zika virus surveillance in blood donors in
Brazil during the 2023–2024 outbreak season. Vox
Sanguinis 2025; 120(Suppl. 1): 47.
[4]
Di
Germanio C, Avelino-Silva VI, Deng X, Balasko B, Bhaskar J, Lanteri M,
Spencer B, Stone M, Grebe E, Busch MP. Effect of immune priming with
pre-omicron SARS-CoV-2 antigenic stimuli on antibody
responses among blood donors with omicron infections and reinfections.
Transfusion 2025; 65(S2): 21A.
[5]
Grebe E, Di Germanio C, Notari E, Stone M,
Milani P, Busch MP, Gorlin J, Reik R, Whitaker B, Custer B. Assessment
of donor presentation times relative to HIV acquisition
during different deferral policies in the U.S.
Based on quantitative biomarker testing. Transfusion 2025;
65(S2): 53A.
[6]
Grebe E, Avelino-Silva VI, Bravo MD, Busch MP,
Custer B. Development of a risk assessment model of HIV
transfusion transmission associated with undisclosed use of pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) by blood donors. Vox Sanguinis
2025; 120(Suppl. 1): 110.
[7]
Grebe E, Stone M, Sulaeman H, Di Germanio C,
Spencer B, Fink RV, Wright DJ, Lanteri MC, Busch MP. Cumulative
incidence of SARS-CoV-2 first infections and reinfections
and correlates of protection in a large U.S.
Blood donor cohort, 2022–2023. Vox Sanguinis 2025; 120(Suppl.
1): 236.
[8]
Hughes S, Kaidarova Z, Grebe E, Roberts P, Reik
R, Gorlin J, Notari E, Whitaker B, Custer B. Blood donation by
US donors living with HIV, with and without
evidence of antiretroviral therapy: Self-reported context and
motivations. Transfusion 2025; 65(S2): 239A.
[9]
Lanteri MC, Deng X, Grebe E, Stone M, Spencer
BR, Fink RV, Wright D, Sulaeman H, Busch MP. Ascertainment of
SARS-CoV-2 infections and reinfections and characterization
of anti-spike and nucleocapsid antibody levels over multiple infection
events. Vox Sanguinis 2025; 120(Suppl. 1): 241.
[10]
Miranda C, Buccheri R, Warden D, Grebe E,
Capuani L, De Almeida-Neto C, Ribeiro M, Amorim L, Loureiro P, Fraiji N,
Stone M, Sabino EC, Custer B. HIV incidence and factors
associated with recent infection among blood donors in
Brazil following adoption of individual donor assessment.
Transfusion 2025; 65(S2): 48A.
[11]
Stone M, Avelino-Silva VI, Di Germanio C,
Lanteri M, Grebe E, Custer B, Buccheri R, Busch MP, Norris P.
HIV serologic reactivity in long-term treated persons with
HIV according to timing of ART initiation and
implications for blood safety. Transfusion 2025; 65(S2):
22A.
[12]
Stone M, Grebe E, Sulaeman H, Spencer B, Fink
RV, Custer B, Avelino-Silva VI, Lanteri MC, Busch MP. Evolution of a
SARS-CoV-2 repeat blood donor serosurveillance program into
a respiratory virus repeat blood donor cohort. Vox Sanguinis
2025; 120(Suppl. 1): 341.
[13]
Sulaeman H, Stone M, Grebe E, Deng X, Di
Germanio C, Lanteri M, Busch MP. Evaluation of multiplexed serology
assays for respiratory virus serosurveillance in blood donors. Vox
Sanguinis 2025; 120(Suppl. 1): 99.
[14]
Avelino-Silva VI, Stone M, Bakkour S, Di
Germanio C, Schmidt M, Conway AL, Wright D, Grebe E, Custer B, Kleinman
SH, Deng X, Vasan S, Facente S, Phanuphak N, Sacdalan C, Akapirat S, De
Souza M, Busch MP, Norris P. Blunted HIV detectability
using contemporary donor screening serological and nucleic acid assays
following early antiretroviral treatment initiation. Vox
Sanguinis 2024; 119(Suppl. 1): 103.
[15]
Avelino-Silva VI, Bruhn R, Zurita KG, Deng X,
Yu EA, Grebe E, Stone M, Lanteri MC, Spencer BR, Busch MP, Custer B.
Long COVID in blood donors—prevalence, associations with
post-infection SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels, and clinical
subphenotypes. Vox Sanguinis 2024; 119(Suppl. 1): 109.
[16]
Braga N, Mateos S, Buccheri R, Avelino-Silva
VI, Warden DE, Almeida-Neto C, Ribeiro M, Amorim L, Loureiro P, Fraiji
N, Grebe E, Stone M, Sabino EC, Custer B. Sociodemographic factors
associated with reactivity in syphilis serology among
Brazilian blood donors from January 2020 to
February 2022. Vox Sanguinis 2024; 119(Suppl. 1):
340.
[17]
Buccheri R, Whitaker B, Pollack L, Di Germanio
C, Haaland R, Stramer S, Reik R, Pandey S, Stone M, Anderson S, Marks P,
Custer B, Grebe E. Tenofovir measurement in whole blood and plasma:
Implications for PrEP monitoring in blood safety. Vox
Sanguinis 2024; 119(Suppl. 1): 101.
[18]
Buccheri R, Mateos S, Avelino-Silva VI, Warden
DE, Almeida-Neto C, Ribeiro M, Amorim L, Loureiro P, Fraiji N, Grebe E,
Stone M, Sabino E, Custer B. Assessment of HIV prevalence
and incidence among blood donors in five Brazilian blood
centers before and after the discontinuation of deferral policies for
men who have sex with men. Vox Sanguinis 2024; 119(Suppl. 1):
104.
[19]
Custer B, Avelino-Silva VI, Bravo M, Busch MP,
Grebe E. Assessment of blood safety implications of increasing use of
HIV treatment and prevention therapies.
Transfusion 2024; 64(S3): 24A.
[20]
Grebe E, Notari EP, Di Germanio C, Huseynova E,
Stone M, Bruhn R, Belov A, Yang A, Green V, Reik R, Kessler D, Hailu B,
Dodd RY, Busch MP, Whitaker B, Stramer SL, Custer B. Residual risk of
transfusion-transmitted HIV in the US during
different eligibility policy periods before the adoption of individual
donor assessment. Vox Sanguinis 2024; 119(Suppl. 1): 102.
[21]
Grebe E, Stone M, Wright D, Chacreton D,
Spencer BR, Haynes J, Akinseye A, Lanteri MC, Green V, Avelino-Silva VI,
Bruhn RL, Custer B, Biggerstaff BJ, Coughlin M, Jones JM, Busch MP.
Enhanced SARS-CoV-2 reinfection detection using expanded
dynamic range anti-nucleocapsid antibody testing in repeat blood donors.
Vox Sanguinis 2024; 119(Suppl. 1): 230.
[22]
Roubinian N, Plimier C, Spencer BR, Bravo M,
Bruhn R, Stone M, Grebe E, Saa P, Thomas K, Goel R, Hod EA, Custer B,
Kleinman S, Norris P, Busch MP. Blood donor SARS-CoV-2
infection is associated with increased platelet transfusion
effectiveness in recipients without acute COVID-19. Vox
Sanguinis 2024; 119(Suppl. 1): 116.
[23]
Contestable P, Di Germanio C, Grebe E, Stone M,
Simmons G, Deng X, Lanteri M, Green V, Busch M. Qualification of high
titer COVID-19 convalescent plasma with an
anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG quantitative test.
Transfusion 2023; 63(S5): 234A.
[24]
Custer B, Haaland R, Grebe E, Stone M, Reik R,
Kessler D, Lanteri M, Hailu B, Whitaker B, Yang H, Stramer S, Busch MP.
Multi-year assessment of antiretroviral therapy use among
HIV repeat reactive US blood donors.
Transfusion 2023; 63(S5): 40A.
[25]
Di
Germanio C, Deng X, Balasko B, Simmons G, Stone M, Grebe E, Spencer B,
Jones J, Contestable P, Busch M. Anti-spike and nucleocapsid antibody
dynamics following SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination:
Implications for sourcing COVID-19 convalescent plasma.
Transfusion 2023; 63(S5): 148A.
[26]
Grebe E, Di Germanio C, Stone M, Notari EP,
Bruhn R, Lanteri MC, Kessler D, Reik R, Stramer SL, Busch MP, Hailu B,
Anderson S, Whitaker B, Custer B. HIV incidence in
US first-time blood donors during 12-month and 3-month
MSM deferral policy periods on behalf of the US
TTIMS program. Vox Sanguinis 2023; 118(Suppl. 1):
70.
[27]
Grebe E, Stone M, Wright D, Spencer B, Akinseye
A, Bruhn R, Biggerstaff B, Custer B, Jones J, Busch MP. Performance of
antibody boosting thresholds for serological detection of
SARS-CoV-2 reinfections. Transfusion 2023; 63(S5):
34A.
[28]
Haynes J, Spencer B, Grebe E, Stone M, Di
Germanio C, Akinseye A, Jones J, Busch M, Stramer S. Nucleocapsid
antibody boosting to identify SARS-CoV-2 reinfections among
US blood donors. Transfusion 2023; 63(S5):
130A.
[29]
Jones J, Stone M, Grebe E, Saa P, Di Germanio
C, Molina Manrique I, Lanteri M, Stramer S, Opsomer J, Busch MP.
Monitoring incidence and seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2
infections by vaccine status using the US nationwide blood
donor cohort. Transfusion 2023; 63(S5): 33A.
[30]
Roubinian N, Greene J, Liu V, Spencer B, Bruhn
R, Stone M, Grebe E, Saa P, Stramer S, Kleinman S, Custer B, Busch MP,
Norris PJ. Pulmonary and thrombotic outcomes in plasma and platelet
transfusion recipients prior to and following periods of blood donor
SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination. Vox
Sanguinis 2023; 118(Suppl. 1): 80.
[31]
Spencer B, Akinseye A, Grebe E, Stone M, Bruhn
R, Wright D, Haynes J, Stramer S, Jones J, Busch MP.
SARS-CoV-2 primary infections and reinfections among a
nationwide prospective blood donor cohort. Transfusion 2023;
63(S5): 35A.
[32]
Stone M, Grebe E, Saa P, Fink R, Manrique I, Di
Germanio C, Bravo M, Green V, Yu E, Bruhn R, Spencer B, Notari E,
Lanteri M, Stramer S, Custer B, Opsomer J, Coughlin M, Briggs-Hagen M,
Jones J, Busch M. Development of a nationwide repeat blood donor cohort
to monitor SARS-CoV-2 serosurveillance and population
immunity. Vox Sanguinis 2023; 118(Suppl. 1): 87.
[33]
Van den Berg K, Murphy E, Maartens G, Louw V,
Grebe E. The impact of non-disclosure of antiretroviral therapy on
HIV incidence algorithms. Transfusion 2023;
63(S5): 13A.
[34]
Vermeulen M, Sykes W, Van den Berg K, Cable R,
Coleman C, Glatt T, Grebe E, Mhlanga L, Swanevelder R, Welte A. The
evolution and interpretation of seroprevalence of
SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors from the beta to
omicron variant driven waves. Transfusion 2023; 63(S5):
236A.
[35]
Bakkour S, Altan A, Grebe E, Green V, Delwart
E, Glynn S, Reik RA, Kessler DA, Stramer SL, Custer B. HIV
drug-resistance-associated mutations in United States blood
donors, 2015–2020. Transfusion 2022; 62(S2): 30A.
[36]
Bruhn RL, Kaidarova Z, Grebe E, Notari EP, Reik
RA, Kessler DA, Kamel H, Yang H, Stramer SL, Custer B. Risk factors for
HIV infection in US blood donors: 2015–2020.
Transfusion 2021; 61(S3): 12A.
[37]
Grebe E, Di Germanio C, Bakkour S, Bruhn RL,
Notari EP, Kessler DA, Reik RA, Anderson SA, Stramer SL, Custer B.
HIV incidence in US first-time blood donors
during the entire 12-month MSM deferral period.
Transfusion 2021; 61(S3): 195A.
[38]
Sykes W, Cable R, Coleman C, Glatt T, Grebe E,
Mhlanga L, Pieterson N, Swanevelder R, Van den Berg K, Vermeulen M,
Welte A. Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in
South African blood donors. Topics in Antiviral
Medicine 2021; 29(1): 247.
[39]
Grebe E, Notari EP, Bruhn R, Quiner C, Stone M,
Bakkour S, Yang H, Kessler D, Reik R, Busch MP, Stramer S, Glynn SA,
Williams AE, Custer B. No HIV incidence increase in
first-time blood donors with 12-month deferral for MSM.
Topics in Antiviral Medicine 2020; 28(1): 483.
[40]
Grebe E, Custer B, Belov A, Yang H, Forshee RA,
Busch MP. HIV infectious window period with minipool
NAT screening for residual transfusion transmission risk
estimation. Transfusion 2020; 60(S5): 46A–47A.
[41]
Russell WA, Grebe E, Custer B. Projecting
COVID-19 convalescent plasma production, supply, and demand
during an epidemic. Transfusion 2020; 60(S5): 21A.
[42]
Grebe E, Murphy G, Keating SM, Hampton D, Busch
MP, Facente SN, Marson K, Pilcher CD, Longosz A, Eshleman SH, Quinn TC,
Welte A, Parkin N, Laeyendecker O. Impact of HIV-1 subtype
and sex on sedia limiting antigen avidity assay performance. Topics
in Antiviral Medicine 2019; 27(suppl 1): 483.
[43]
Sempa JB, Welte A, Busch MP, Hall J, Hampton D,
Keating SM, Facente SN, Marson K, Pilcher CD, Parkin N, Murphy G, Grebe
E. Performance comparison of the maxim and sedia limiting antigen
avidity assays. Topics in Antiviral Medicine 2019; 27(suppl 1):
483.
[44]
Grebe E, Vermeulen M, Brits T, Swanevelder R,
Jacobs G, Busch MP, Welte A. Innate dynamic range of abbott PRISM
HIV O PLUS is adequate for recency staging. Topics in
Antiviral Medicine 2018; 26(suppl 1): 483.
[45]
Grebe E, Vermeulen M, Brits T, Swanevelder R,
Jacobs G, Busch MP, Welte A. Performance validation of the sedia
LAg assay in South African blood donors.
Topics in Antiviral Medicine 2018; 26(suppl 1): 483.
[46]
Grebe E, Welte A, Hall J, Busch MP, Facente S,
Keating S, Marson K, Pilcher CD, Murphy G. Recency staging of
HIV infections through routine diagnostic testing.
Topics in Antiviral Medicine 2017; 25(suppl 1): 983.
[47]
Pilcher CD, Facente SN, Grebe E, Keating S,
Kassanjee R, Price M, Busch MP, Murphy G, Welte A, Porco TC. Assessing
utility of HIV incidence assays in estimating individual
infection times. Topics in Antiviral Medicine 2017; 25(suppl
1): 983.
Other refereed conference presentations #
[1]
Kelley C, Matovu Kiweewa F, Ogbuagu O, Facente
S, Grebe E, Glidden DV, Shao Y, Zhao Y, Cox S, Kintu A, Brown LB, Carter
CC, Das M, Bekker L-G. Estimation of the counterfactual HIV
incidence in the PURPOSE trials. In: 13th International
AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on
HIV Science. Kigali, Rwanda, 2025.
[2]
Grebe E, Bravo MD, Bruhn RL, Stone M, Yu EA,
Green V, Williamson PC, Vassallo RR, Busch MP, Custer B. Estimating
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness using repeat blood donor
data. In: 2021 AABB Annual Meeting. Online,
2021.
[3]
Grebe E, Carter C, Cox S, Shao Y, Kintu A, Das
M, Baeten J, Facente SN. Context-specific performance of recency assays
in South Africa and Uganda: An in silico
simulation approach. In: 18th European AIDS
Conference. Online; London, UK, 2021.
[4]
Mhlanga L, Grebe E, Welte A, Ohler L, Van
Cutsem G, Huerga H, Conan N. Evidence of declining incidence in a
semi-urban district of South Africa, based on two modestly
sized cross sectional surveys. In: Epidemics8: 8th
International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. Online,
2021.
[5]
Parkin N, Gao F, Grebe E, Cutrell A, Das M,
Donnell D, Glidden D, Hughes JP, Mullick C, Murray J, Robertson M,
Tchelidze T, Miller V. HIV recent infection test-based
incidence as a counter-factual for new PrEP trials. In:
11th IAS Conference on HIV Science
(IAS 2021). Online, 2021.
[6]
Sykes W, Cable R, Coleman C, Glatt T, Grebe E,
Mhlanga L, Pietersen N, Swanevelder R, Van den Berg K, Vermeulen M,
Welte A. Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in
South African blood donors. In: Conference on
Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Online, 2021.
[7]
Goodhue Meyer E, Simmons G, Grebe E, Gannett M,
Franz S, Darst O, Di Germanio C, Stone M, Contestable P, Prichard A,
Reik R, Vassallo R, Young P, Busch MP, Williamson P, Dumont LJ.
Selecting COVID-19 convalescent plasma for neutralizing
antibody potency using a high-capacity SARS-CoV-2 antibody
assay. In: 2020 American Association of Blood Banks
(AABB) Annual Meeting. Online, 2020.
[8]
Russell WA, Grebe E, Custer B. Interactive tool
to inform COVID-19 convalescent plasma policy and
operations. In: 42nd Annual North American Meeting, Society for
Medical Decision Making. Online, 2020.
[9]
Bingham J, Grebe E, Welte A. Full accounting of
time dependence and inter/intra-subject variation of infectiousness and
test sensitivity: Implications for transfusion-transmitted risk
estimates. In: Epidemics7: 7th International Conference
on Infectious Disease Dynamics. Charleston, SC, 2019.
[10]
Facente SN, Grebe E, Owen R, Pilcher CD, Sharma
U, Welte A, Busch MP, Murphy G. Case study of the value of historical
archives for diagnostic advancements. In: 2019 HIV
Diagnostics Conference. Atlanta, GA, 2019.
[11]
Grebe E, Owen R, Facente SN, Hampton D, Cheng
C, Shumaker M, Mink R, Pilcher CD, Murphy G, Welte A, Busch MP.
Independent assessment of the sedia Asanté™
HIV-1 rapid Recency® assay. In: 2019
HIV Diagnostics Conference. Atlanta, GA, 2019.
[12]
Grebe E, Vermeulen M, Jacobs G, Swanevelder R,
Brits T, Busch MP, Welte A. Time from earliest detection of
HIV infection by individual donation nucleic acid testing
to detection by serological screening in South African
blood donors. In: 2019 HIV Diagnostics Conference.
Atlanta, GA, 2019.
[13]
Grebe E, Facente SN, Bingham J, Pilcher CD,
Powrie A, Gerber J, Priede G, Chibawara T, Busch MP, Murphy G, Kassanjee
R, Welte A. Interpreting HIV diagnostic histories into
HIV infection date estimates: An online tool. In:
International AIDS Conference. Amsterdam,
Netherlands, 2018.
[14]
Facente SN, Raymond HF, Burk K, Murphy EL,
Mirzazadeh A, Morris MD, Smith AA, Sanchez MA, Evans JL, Nishimura A,
Grebe E. Estimated hepatitis C prevalence and key
population sizes in San Francisco: A foundation for
elimination. In: 9th IAS Conference on HIV
Science (IAS 2017) and Hepatitis Coinfection Meeting.
Paris, 2017.
[15]
Grebe E, Welte A, Johnson L, Van Cutsem G,
Puren A, Ellman T, Etard J-F, Huerga H. Estimating population-level
HIV incidence by combining synthetic cohort and recency
biomarker approaches: A demonstration using survey data from
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In:
Epidemics6: 6th International Conference on Infectious
Disease Dynamics. Sitges, 2017.
[16]
Grebe E, Facente SN, Burk K, Murphy EL,
Mirzazadeh A, Morris MD, Smith AA, Sanchez MA, Evans JL, Nishimura A,
Raymond HF. Estimating hepatitis C burden in San
Francisco: Quantifying the disproportionate impact on people who
inject drugs. In: 6th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in
Substance Users. Jersey City, NY, 2017.
[17]
Grebe E, Huerga H, Van Cutsem G, Welte A.
Cross-sectionally estimated age-specific HIV incidence
among young women in a rural district of KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa. In: International AIDS
Conference. Durban, South Africa, 2016.
[18]
Grebe E, Murphy G, Pilcher CD, Keating S,
Facente S, Marson K, Busch MP, Kassanjee R, Welte A. Unmodified
diagnostic assay provides similar performance to avidity modification
for surveillance and clinical recency staging applications. In: 2016
HIV Diagnostics Conference. Atlanta, GA, 2016.
[19]
Parkin N, Ongarello S, Osborn J, Grebe E,
Daniel S, Welte A, Rousseau C, Kassanjee R, Dailey P. HIV
incidence assay performance required to monitor prevention intervention
impact. In: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic
Infections. Boston, MA, 2016.
[20]
Pilcher CD, Porco T, Kassanjee R, Facente S,
Grebe E, Masciotra S, Norris P, Garrett P, Busch MP, Owen S, Welte A. A
generalizable method with improved accuracy for estimation of
HIV infection duration, using clinical HIV
testing histories. In: 2016 HIV Diagnostics
Conference. Atlanta, GA, 2016.
[21]
Grebe E, Low M. New forms of transnational
organisation on medicines access: The case of imatinib. In:
XVIII ISA World Congress of
Sociology. Yokohama, Japan, 2014.
[22]
Grebe E, Woermann M. Institutions of integrity
and the integrity of institutions: Integrity and ethics in the politics
of developmental leadership. In: International Conference on
Responsible Leadership. Pretoria, 2010.
[23]
Grebe E. Marginalisation of indigenous
knowledge or empowerment through science? The politics of knowledge in
the struggle for AIDS treatment in South
Africa. In: Democracy, Human Rights and Social Justice in a
New Global Dispensation — Orebro-Unisa International Conference.
Pretoria, 2010.
[24]
Nattrass N, Grebe E. Prevalence and
determinants of AIDS conspiracy and AIDS
denialist beliefs and implications for risky sexual behaviour among
young adults in Cape Town, South Africa. In:
XVIII International AIDS Conference.
Vienna, 2010.
[25]
Grebe E. Transnational networks of influence in
South African AIDS activism. In:
XVII International AIDS Conference.
Mexico City, 2008.
[26]
Grebe E. Negativity and critique in
Adorno and Derrida. In: Annual Conference
of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa. Pretoria,
2008.
Chapters in books #
[1]
Grebe E. Negativity, difference and critique:
The ethical moment in complexity. In: Cilliers P, Preiser R (eds)
Complexity, Difference and Identity: An Ethical Perspective.
Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. Epub ahead of print 2010. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9187-1.
[2]
Grebe E. Contingency, contestation and
hegemony: The possibility of a non-essentialist politics for the left.
In: O’Donnell M (ed) Structure and Agency. London: Sage
Publications, 2010.
Preprints and working papers #
[1]
Bingham J, Cable R,
Coleman C, Glatt TN, Grebe E, Mhlanga L, Nyano C, Pieterson N,
Swanevelder R, Swarts A, Sykes W, van den Berg K, Vermeulen M, Welte
A. Estimates of prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2
antibodies among blood donors in South Africa in
March 2022. Research Square 2022; rs.3.rs–1687679.
doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1687679/v2.
[2]
Cable R, Coleman C, Glatt
T, Grebe E, Mhlanga L, Nyoni C, Pieterson N, Swanevelder R, Swarts A,
Sykes W, van den Berg K, Vermeulen M, Welte A. Estimates of
prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors
in eight provinces of South Africa in November
2021. Epub ahead of print February 2022. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1359658/v1.
[3]
Sykes W, Mhlanga L,
Swanevelder R, Glatt TN, Grebe E, Coleman C, Pieterson N, Cable R, Welte
A, van den Berg K, Vermeulen M. Prevalence of
anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors in
Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern
Cape, and Free State provinces of South
Africa in January 2021. Epub ahead of print February
2021. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-233375/v1.
[4]
Grebe E. The politics of social protection
in a competitive African democracy: Explaining
social protection policy reform in Ghana (2000-2014).
CSSR Working Paper 361, Centre for Social Science Research, University
of Cape Town, http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/pub/wp/361
(2015).
[5]
Grebe E. The evolution of social protection
policy in Ghana’s ‘Fourth
Republic’: Contributory social insurance
reform and limited social assistance for the ‘extreme poor’
under NPP and NDC governments, 2000-2014.
CSSR Working Paper 360, Centre for Social Science Research, University
of Cape Town, http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/pub/wp/360
(2015).
[6]
Grebe E, Low M. Transnational mobilisation
on access to medicines: The global movement around the
imatinib mesylate case and its roots in the AIDS
movement. CSSR Working Paper 349, Centre for Social Science
Research, University of Cape Town, http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/pub/wp/349
(2014).
[7]
Grebe E. Civil society and the state in
Uganda’s AIDS response. CSSR Working
Paper 341, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town,
http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/pub/wp/341
(2014).
[8]
Grebe E. Donor agenda-setting and
bureaucratic advocacy on cash transfers in Uganda
(2002-2013). CSSR Working Paper 352, Centre for Social Science
Research, University of Cape Town, http://cssr.uct.ac.za/pub/wp/352
(2014).
[9]
Grebe E, Mubiru JB. Development and social
policy reform in Uganda: The slow emergence of
a social protection agenda (1986-2014). CSSR Working Paper 353,
Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, http://cssr.uct.ac.za/pub/wp/353
(2014).
[10]
Grebe E. Book review:
‘Against the Odds:
Politicians, institutions and the struggle against
poverty’ by Melo, Ng’ethe &
Manor, http://www.dlprog.org/ftp/view/Public\%20Folder/Book\%20Reviews/Book\%20review\%20Melo\%20Ngethe\%20and\%20Manor.pdf
(2013).
[11]
Grebe E. Book review:
‘Transformative Political Leadership:
Making a difference in the developing world’ by
Robert Rotberg, http://www.dlprog.org/news-events/review-transformative-political-leadership-making-a-difference-in-the-developing-world-by-robert-rotberg.php
(2013).
[12]
Grebe E. Civil Society Leadership
in the Struggle for Aids Treatment in
South Africa and Uganda. SSRN Electronic
Journal. Epub ahead of print 2012. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2549636.
[13]
Grebe E. Global advocacy in an era of resource
constraints and shifting global priorities, http://www.medicusmundi.ch/de/bulletin/mms-bulletin/hiv-aids-and-advocacy/hiv-aids-and-advocacy/global-advocacy-in-an-era-of-resource-constraints-and-shifting-global-priorities
(2012).
[14]
Grebe E, Woermann M. Institutions of
integrity and the integrity of institutions: Integrity and
ethics in the politics of developmental leadership. DLP Research
Paper 15, Developmental Leadership Program, http://www.dlprog.org (2011).
[15]
Grebe E. Leaders, networks and coalitions
in the AIDS response: A comparison of
Uganda and South Africa. DLP Research
Paper 3, Developmental Leadership Program, http://www.dlprog.org (2009).
[16]
Grebe E. Networks of influence in
South African AIDS treatment activism.
CSSR Working Paper 222, Centre for Social Science Research, University
of Cape Town, http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/pub/wp/222
(2008).
[17]
Grebe E. Networks of influence:
A theoretical review and proposed approach to
AIDS treatment activism. CSSR Working Paper 218,
Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/pub/wp/218
(2008).
