The influence of sensitisation to pollens and moulds on seasonal variations in asthma attacks (Publications)
637 young adults with asthma living in 15 countries reported months in which they usually had attacks of asthma and had skin prick tests performed. Differences in seasonal patterns by sensitisation status [...] were assessed using generalised estimating equations.Most young adults with asthma reported periods of the year when their asthma attacks were more common (range 47% in Sweden to 86% in Spain). Seasonal
'BRICS without straw'? A systematic literature review of newly emerging economies' influence in global health (Publications)
global) health development with a new set of ideas and values, has also, if belatedly, begun to attract the attention of the global health community. But what influence, if any, do the BRICS wield in global [...] Africa) have caught the imagination, and scholarly attention, of political scientists, economists and development specialists. The prospect of a unified geopolitical bloc, consciously seeking to re-frame [...] global health, and, if they do wield influence, how has that influence been...
HIV infection in women: immunological markers and the influence of pregnancy (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To describe the influence of pregnancy on immunological marker paths and progression of HIV-infected women. DESIGN: Analysis of prospectively collected immunological and clinical data collected [...] total lymphocyte counts, there being no influence of pregnancy on either CD4% or CD8%. CONCLUSIONS: In asymptomatic HIV infection, changes in the absolute levels of CD4 and CD8 lymphocyte counts are primarily [...] between the marker paths of women according to risk activity; women who...
Larval and adult environmental temperatures influence the adult reproductive traits of <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> s.s. (Publications)
temperature of adults only affected the incubation period of the first egg batch. Temperature influenced the time to hatching of eggs, as well as the time to development at every stage. The number of eggs laid [...] proportion of eggs hatching after the second and third blood meal. Higher adult temperatures significantly decreased the probability of blood feeding, but the larval temperature of adults had no influence on the [...] size. Females were blood fed three times, and the number of...