Barriers and facilitators to enrollment and re-enrollment into the community health funds/Tiba Kwa Kadi (CHF/TIKA) in Tanzania: a cross-sectional... (Publications)
status (AOR = 2.0, 95% CI 1.1-3.8) and family size (household with > /= 6 members) (AOR = 1.5, 95% CI 1.0-2.5), were significant factors associated with enrollment/re-enrollment rate. CONCLUSIONS: This
Modifying effect of a common polymorphism in the interleukin-6 promoter on the relationship between long-term exposure to traffic-related particulate... (Publications)
(SDNN) (GG-carriers: -1.8%; 95% confidence interval -3.5 to 0.01; pinteraction(additive) = 0.028); and low frequency power (LF) (GG-carriers: -5.7%; 95%CI: -10.4 to -0.8; pinteraction(dominant) = 0.049)
Antibiotic-resistant <em>Escherichia coli</em> in drinking water samples from rural Andean households in Cajamarca, Peru (Publications)
isolated in 37.3% (n = 117), Klebsiella spp. in 8.0% (n = 25), Enterobacter spp. in 5.1% (n = 16), and Citrobacter spp. in 2.5% (n = 8). Of the 117 E. coli samples, 48.7% (95% CI [39.4, 58.1], n = 57) showed
Safety and protective efficacy of PfSPZ vaccine administered to HIV negative and positive Tanzanian adults (Publications)
HIV+ Tanzanians (HIV viral load < 40 copies/mL, CD4 counts > 500 cells/µL). Participants received 5 doses of PfSPZ Vaccine or normal saline over 28 days followed by controlled human malaria infection [...] adverse events in the 9 HIV- and 12 HIV+ participants. After CHMI, 6/6 normal saline (NS) controls, 1/5 HIV- vaccinees and 4/4 HIV+ vaccinees were Pf positive by qPCR. Post-immunization, anti-PfCSP (isotype
Assessment of radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure from personal measurements considering the body shadowing effect in Korean children and... (Publications)
using a portable exposure meter tailored to capture 14 Korean radiofrequency (RF) bands ranging from 87.5 to 5875 MHz. The participants carried the device for 48 h and kept a time-activity diary using a smartphone [...] 4 times. Each frequency band contribution to total RF-EMF exposure consisted of 76.7%, 2.4%, 9.9%, 5.0%, 3.3%, and 2.6% for downlink, uplink, WiFi, FMRadio, TV, and WiBro bands, respectively. Among the
Common SIRT1 variants modify the effect of abdominal adipose tissue on aging-related lung function decline (Publications)
FEV1/FVC decline was accelerated up to -0.5 % (95 % CI -1.0 to 0 %) and -0.7 % (-1.3 to -0.2 %) over interquartile range increases in BMI (2.4 kg/m(2)) or weight (6.5 kg), respectively. For FEF25-75 decline
Reduced exposure to PM10 and attenuated age-related decline in lung function (Publications)
individual home outdoor PM10 declined over the 11-year follow-up period (median, -5.3 mug per cubic meter; interquartile range, -7.5 to -4.2). In mixed-model regression analyses, with adjustment for confounders
Efficacy and safety of moxidectin-albendazole and ivermectin-albendazole combination therapy compared to albendazole monotherapy in adolescents and... (Publications)
s with primary outcome data, we observed CRs of 15.3% (11/72) in the moxidectin-albendazole and 22.5% (16/71) in the ivermectin-albendazole arm, which did not differ significantly from the CR of 13.4% [...] adverse events were abdominal pain (range across arms: 11.9-20.9%), headache (4.7-14.3%), and itching (5.8-13.1%), which were predominantly mild and transient. CONCLUSIONS: All therapies showed similar low
Feasibility and acceptability of a strategy deploying multiple first-line artemisinin-based combination therapies for uncomplicated malaria in the... (Publications)
malaria patients were surveyed at PHFs, of which 79.1% were tested by rapid diagnostic test (RDT) with 65.5% positivity rate. In total, 86.1% of the confirmed cases received the appropriate ACT according to the [...] Overall, the compliance level of health workers (HWs) with MFT strategy was 72.7% (95% CI: 69.7-75.5). The odds of using PHF as the first source of care increased after the intervention (aOR = 1.6; 95%
The prevalence of brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis in ruminants in Sidi Kacem Province, Morocco (Publications)
of brucellosis in cattle at individual and herd level was 1.9% (95% CI 1.2%-2.8%) and 9% (95% CI 4.5%-1.5%), respectively. Brucella pathogens were isolated from three cattle milk samples and were identified