Ziehl-neelsen staining technique can diagnose paragonimiasis (Publications)
appeared brownish-reddish in ZNS and were detected in 6 of 263 archived ZNS slides corresponding to 5 patients. One hundred sputum samples from 43 patients were examined with three techniques, which revealed [...] Sensitivity per slide of the FECT, ZNS and the WF technique was 84.6 (p = 0.48), 76.9 (p = 0.25) and 61.5% (p = 0.07), respectively. Percentage of fragmented eggs was below 19% and did not differ between techniques
First insights into the phylogenetic diversity of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> in Nepal (Publications)
(Euro-American lineage) with 41 (15.7%) isolates, and Lineage 1 (Indo-Oceanic lineage) with 30 isolates (11.5%). Based on spoligotyping, we found 45 different spoligotyping patterns that were previously described [...] confidence interval [95% CI] 1.42-4.67, p = 0.002), and any drug resistance (aOR 2.79; 95% CI 1.43-5.45; p = 0.002). We found no evidence for an association of Lineage 2 with age or BCG vaccination status
Nevirapine, stavudine and lamivudine pharmacokinetics in African children on paediatric fixed-dose combination tablets (Publications)
malnourished. Mean (range) nevirapine C12h, Cmax and AUC12h of 6.0 (1.4, 16.9) mg/l, 10.0 (3.8, 22.5) mg/l and 94.4 (32.1, 232) mg/l per hour were higher than those reported in adults. Nevirapine C12h [...] lamivudine C12h, Cmax, AUC12h ( < 0.015 mg/l, 0.45 mg/l, 1.05 mg/l per hour and 0.09 mg/l, 1.33 mg/l, 5.42 mg/l per hour) were comparable to adults. There was no evidence of a difference in nevirapine AUC12h
Health system support for childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: results from a health facility census (Publications)
attended a median of eight and four deliveries every month respectively. Dispensaries had a median of 2.5 (IQR 2--3) health workers including auxiliary staff instead of the recommended four clinical officer [...] including early breastfeeding, thermal care at birth and prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum was offered by 5% of dispensaries, 38% of health centres and 50% of hospitals consistently. No first-line facility had
Bridging the gap: how traditional healers interact with their patients. A comparative study in Cameroon (Publications)
except for age, where TH patients were on average 9 years younger (P < 0.05). Patients of TH travelled 2.5 times as far to their provider as did patients in the WP group (79 vs. 31 km; P < 0.05) and paid 12 [...] 12 times more for their treatment (123 vs. 10 Euros; P < 0.05). Consultations of TH were shorter (5.6 vs. 10.3 min, P < 0.01), had fewer utterances (100 vs. 166, P < 0.05) and the patient's share in the
High prevalence of symptomatic acute HIV infection in an outpatient ward in southern Mozambique: identification and follow-up (Publications)
in HIV-seronegative individuals. Plasma from HIV-seronegative patients was pooled in the ratio of 1: 5 for HIV-RNA testing. Whole blood was used for Plasmodium falciparum rapid test determination at screening [...] testing. Median HIV-1 RNA levels at diagnosis of AHI were 6.21 log10 copies/ml (interquartile range 5.92-6.41) and significantly higher than median HIV-RNA load at 4 months. At day 7 after screening, patients
Land use regression models for estimating individual NOx and NO2 exposures in a metropolis with a high density of traffic roads and population (Publications)
stepwise multiple regressions. The annual average concentrations of NOx and NO2 in Taipei were 72.4 +/- 22.5 and 48.9 +/- 12.2 mug/m(3), respectively, which were at the high end of all 36 European areas in the [...] were lengths of major roads within 25 m, 25-50 m, and 50-500 m, urban green areas within 300 m and 300-5,000 m, and semi-natural and forested areas within 500 m, with R(2)=0.81. The NO2 LUR model included
Screening mammographies in Switzerland: what makes female and male physicians prescribe them? (Publications)
es more often than their colleagues from the German-speaking part (odds ratio OR 2.5; 95% confidence interval CI 1.5-4.2). Clinical practice in obstetrics/gynaecology (OR 2.4; CI 1.3-4.2) and a self-reported
Sensory modulation of voluntary and TMS-induced activation in hand muscles (Publications)
noxious D2 and digit V (D5) stimulation. Then, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to evoke MEPs in the same hand muscles at rest-conditioned by equal noxious D2 or D5 stimulation and individually
Risk mapping of clonorchiasis in the People's Republic of China: a systematic review and Bayesian geostatistical analysis (Publications)
risk of infection across P.R. China at high spatial resolution (over a grid with grid cell size of 5x5 km). PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We obtained clonorchiasis survey data at 633 unique locations in P.R. China