Nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy for second-stage <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</em> sleeping sickness: a randomized clinical trial in... (Publications)
nifurtimox-eflornithine group. Drug reactions were frequent in both arms, and severe reactions affected 25.5% of patients in the eflornithine group and 9.6% of those in the nifurtimox-eflornithine group, resulting
Low efficacy of amodiaquine or chloroquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> and <em>P. vivax malaria</em> in... (Publications)
ted treatment failure rates up to day 28 ranged between 10.3% and 28.8% for AQ plus SP and between 5.6% and 28.6% for CQ plus SP, depending on the region and the year of assessment. Overall treatment failure
Self-reported nonadherence to antiretroviral therapy as a predictor of viral failure and mortality (Publications)
ratio [HR] 1.15, 95% confidence interval 0.79-1.67; two doses: 2.15, 1.31-3.53; more than two doses: 5.21, 2.96-9.18). The risk of death increased with more than two missed doses (HR 4.87, 2.21-10.73). Missing
Tuberculosis in antiretroviral treatment programs in lower income countries: availability and use of diagnostics and screening (Publications)
sites, 98%), chest X-ray (38, 81%), sputum microscopy (37, 79%), culture (16, 34%), and Xpert MTB/RIF (5, 11%). CONCLUSIONS: Mycobacterial culture was infrequently used despite its availability at most sites
Strategies for detection of <em>Plasmodium species</em> gametocytes (Publications)
optimized different strategies for field and laboratory procedures in a cross sectional survey in 315 5-9 yr old children from Papua New Guinea. qRT-PCR was performed for gametocyte markers pfs25 and pvs25
Transmission of malaria in relation to distribution and coverage of long-lasting insecticidal nets in central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
the EIR decreased significantly from 514.6 ib/h/y to 62.0 ib/h/y (Bozi) and from 83.9 ib/h/y to 25.5 ib/h/y (Yoho). The risk of an infectious bite over the three-year period was significantly lower in
Short-term effects of ambient particles on mortality in the elderly: results from 28 cities in the APHEA2 project (Publications)
elderly daily number of deaths was 0.8%, (0.7-0.9%) and the corresponding number for BS was 0.6%, (0.5-0.8%). The effect size was modified by the long-term average levels of nitrogen dioxide (higher levels
Effect of large-scale social marketing of insecticide-treated nets on child survival in rural Tanzania (Publications)
programme. The modest average coverage achieved by 1999 in the two districts (18% in children younger than 5 years) suggests that insecticide-treated nets prevented 1 in 20 child deaths at that time. INTERPRETATION:
DNA methylation assessed by SMRT sequencing is linked to mutations in <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> isolates (Publications)
mutability also at 6mA methylated nucleotides, complementing mutational hotspots previously described at 5mC methylated nucleotides. These findings suggest a more diverse role of DNA methylation and Restric
How much remains undetected? Probability of molecular detection of human <em>Plasmodia</em> in the field (Publications)
infection (MOI). METHODS: Samples were obtained in a repeated cross-sectional field survey in 1 to 4.5 years old children from Papua New Guinea, who were followed up in 2-monthly intervals over 16 months