The architecture and effect of participation: a systematic review of community participation for communicable disease control and elimination.... (Publications)
. This paper reports the findings of an atypical systematic review of 60 years of literature in order to arrive at a more comprehensive awareness of the constructs of participation for communicable disease [...] various forms of community participation. The use of locally selected volunteers provided with adequate training, supervision and resources are common and important elements of the success of the interventions [...] realize the benefits of this approach it is vital to provide adequate...
Virus detection by high-throughput sequencing of small RNAs: large scale performance testing of sequence analysis strategies (Publications)
related to the identification of host genome-integrated viral sequences or misinterpretation of the results. Reproducibility was high (91.6%). This work revealed the key influence of bioinformatics strategies [...] sensitive detection of viruses in HTS sRNA datasets and, more specifically (i) the difficulty to detect viral agents when they are novel and/or their sRNA abundance is low, (ii) the influence of key parameters [...] at both assembly and annotation steps, (iii) the importance of...
Virus detection by high-throughput sequencing of small RNAs: large scale performance testing of sequence analysis strategies (Publications)
related to the identification of host genome-integrated viral sequences or misinterpretation of the results. Reproducibility was high (91.6%). This work revealed the key influence of bioinformatics strategies [...] sensitive detection of viruses in HTS sRNA datasets and, more specifically (i) the difficulty to detect viral agents when they are novel and/or their sRNA abundance is low, (ii) the influence of key parameters [...] at both assembly and annotation steps, (iii) the importance of...
Gender and hearing aids: patterns of use and determinants of nonregular use (Publications)
auditory systems of men and women, communication, and psychological issues. Differences between men and women in the use of hearing aids are less clear. To date, no study has examined the effects of gender on [...] be a gender difference in the impact of some determinants on hearing aid use. A consideration of such factors could increase hearing aid use. Therefore, the aim of the present investigation was to provide [...] women but a protective factor in men. Higher risks of nonregular use were...
Gender and hearing aids: patterns of use and determinants of nonregular use (Publications)
auditory systems of men and women, communication, and psychological issues. Differences between men and women in the use of hearing aids are less clear. To date, no study has examined the effects of gender on [...] be a gender difference in the impact of some determinants on hearing aid use. A consideration of such factors could increase hearing aid use. Therefore, the aim of the present investigation was to provide [...] women but a protective factor in men. Higher risks of nonregular use were...
Association of environmental factors with the onset of status epilepticus (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: The goal of the work described here was to investigate the influence of environmental factors on admissions of patients with status epilepticus (SE) to the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS: [...] university hospital ICU because of SE. Poisson regression and likelihood ratio tests were employed to determine associations between environmental factors and the incidence of SE. RESULTS: Data on 184 patients
Association of environmental factors with the onset of status epilepticus (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: The goal of the work described here was to investigate the influence of environmental factors on admissions of patients with status epilepticus (SE) to the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS: [...] university hospital ICU because of SE. Poisson regression and likelihood ratio tests were employed to determine associations between environmental factors and the incidence of SE. RESULTS: Data on 184 patients
<em>Ancylostoma caninum</em>: calibration and comparison of diagnostic accuracy of flotation in tube, McMaster and FLOTAC in faecal samples of dogs (Publications)
performed a calibration of flotation in tube, McMaster and FLOTAC to determine the optimal flotation solution (FS) and the influence of faecal preservation for the diagnosis of Ancylostoma caninum in dogs [...] resulted in higher A.caninum eggs per gram of faeces (EPG) and lower coefficient of variation (CV) than McMaster and flotation in tube. The best results in terms of mean faecal egg counts (highest value, i [...] and compared the accuracy of the three copromicroscopic techniques. Among...
<em>Ancylostoma caninum</em>: calibration and comparison of diagnostic accuracy of flotation in tube, McMaster and FLOTAC in faecal samples of dogs (Publications)
performed a calibration of flotation in tube, McMaster and FLOTAC to determine the optimal flotation solution (FS) and the influence of faecal preservation for the diagnosis of Ancylostoma caninum in dogs [...] resulted in higher A.caninum eggs per gram of faeces (EPG) and lower coefficient of variation (CV) than McMaster and flotation in tube. The best results in terms of mean faecal egg counts (highest value, i [...] and compared the accuracy of the three copromicroscopic techniques. Among...
Distribution of survival times of deliberate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections in tertiary syphilis patients (Publications)
Survival time data of Plasmodium falciparum infections from deliberate infection of human subjects with P. falciparum between 1940 and 1963 as a treatment for neurosyphilis in the USA (Georgia) have been [...] result has important implications for mathematical modelling of malaria, which has for the past century exclusively assumed that the duration of malaria infections has an exponential distribution. It is desirable [...] desirable to know the correct distribution because its shape profoundly...