Do health workers' preferences influence their practices? Assessment of providers' attitude and personal use of new treatment recommendations for... (Publications)
decade. First in 2001 chloroquine (CQ) was replaced by sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) for management of uncomplicated malaria and by late 2006, SP was replaced by artemether-lumefantrine (AL). We assessed [...] Attitudes were assessed by enquiring which antimalarial was considered most suitable for the management of uncomplicated malaria for the three patient categories: i) children below 5; ii) older children and [...] with reported attitudes and practices towards the new treatment...
Do health workers' preferences influence their practices? Assessment of providers' attitude and personal use of new treatment recommendations for... (Publications)
decade. First in 2001 chloroquine (CQ) was replaced by sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) for management of uncomplicated malaria and by late 2006, SP was replaced by artemether-lumefantrine (AL). We assessed [...] Attitudes were assessed by enquiring which antimalarial was considered most suitable for the management of uncomplicated malaria for the three patient categories: i) children below 5; ii) older children and [...] with reported attitudes and practices towards the new treatment...
Influences of blood digestion on the development of <em>Plasmodium gallinaceum</em> (Brumpt) in the midgut of <em>Aedes aegypti</em> (L.) (Publications)
Blood digestion of Aedes aegypti and development of Plasmodium gallinaceum were shifted against each other by giving the mosquitoes two consecutive blood meals. In this way the parasites were exposed to [...] are explained by the action of trypsin-like proteases on the parasites and indicate that plasmodia 0-10 h after blood meal are more sensitive to the enzymes than later stages of the parasites
Influence of parasite density and sample storage time on the reliability of <em>Entamoeba histolytica</em>-specific PCR from formalin-fixed and... (Publications)
previous 4 decades. Association of sample age, parasite density, and reliability of PCR was analyzed. E. histolytica PCR was positive in 20 of 34 biopsies (58.8%); 2 of these 20 were microscopically negative [...] We report on the reliability of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection of Entamoeba histolytica from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue in comparison with microscopy and have determined [...] predictors that may influence PCR results. E. histolytica-specific and...
The influence of host and bacterial genotype on the development of disseminated disease with <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
govern the development of tuberculosis disease are incompletely understood. We hypothesized that some strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) are more capable of causing disseminated disease [...] pulmonary tuberculosis. The host genotype of tuberculosis cases was also compared with the genotype of 392 cord blood controls from the same population. Isolates of M. tuberculosis were genotyped by large [...] suggesting these strains are less capable of extra-pulmonary dissemination...
