Blockchain high coverage rabies post-exposure prophylaxis to achieve zero human rabies deaths in Africa (Projects)
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rabies diagnostic tests adapted to African settings to inform and accelerate therapeutic decisions. 5) To ensure the validity of the approach, by monitoring patient compliance with ID-PEP, clinical outcome
Rabies immunoglobulin: brief history and recent experiences in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
groups, corresponding to a possible rabies mortality of 1.2% (95% CI 0.3-3.6%) in the eRIG group and 0.5% (95% CI 0.1-1.4%) in the non-eRIG group. The difference in proportions was small and not statistically
An autoencoder and artificial neural network-based method to estimate parity status of wild mosquitoes from near-infrared spectra (Publications)
out-of-sample accuracies of 81.9+/-2.8 (N = 274), 68.7+/-4.8 (N = 43), 80.3+/-2.0 (N = 48), and 75.7+/-2.5 (N = 91), respectively. With the autoencoder, ANN models tested on out-of-sample data achieved 97.1+/-2
Effectiveness of the innovative 1,7-malaria reactive community-based testing and response (1, 7-mRCTR) approach on malaria burden reduction in... (Publications)
the intervention wards declined by 81% (from 26% (95% CI 23.7, 7.8), at baseline to 4.9% (95% CI 4.0, 5.9) at endline). In villages receiving the 1,7-mRCTR, the short-term case ratio decreased by over 15
Exposure to multiple pesticides and neurobehavioral outcomes among smallholder farmers in Uganda (Publications)
with overall pesticide exposure (marginal inclusion probability (MIP) for covariate-only models 0.5). RESULTS: Seventy-two percent of farmers reported use of pesticide products that contained at least
Performance of a real-time PCR approach for diagnosing <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> infections of different intensity in urine samples from... (Publications)
augmenting egg counts: 80.6% (29/36) for counts between 1 and 4 eggs, 83.3% (15/18) for counts between 5 and 9 eggs, 100% (23/23) for counts between 10 and 49 eggs, and 96.4% (27/28) for counts of 50+ eggs
Simple clinical and laboratory predictors to improve empirical treatment strategies in areas of high scrub typhus and dengue endemicity, central... (Publications)
over 40. Sensitivity and specificity of predictions based on these seven factors reached 93.7% and 99.5%, respectively. When excluding the "eschar" variable, the values dropped to 76.3% and 92.3%, respectively
Farm-related determinants of food insecurity among livestock dependent households in two agrarian districts with varying rainfall patterns in Ghana (Publications)
41%). In an adjusted model, households raising cattle in the dry district [adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR) = 5.43, 95% CI: 1.94, 15.2] and being married (aOR = 9.48, 95% CI: 2.35, 38.3) were associated with moderate
eHealth supported multi-months dispensing of antiretroviral therapy: a mixed-methods preference assessment in rural Lesotho (Publications)
age = 43 years; 74% female), 83/112 (75%) preferred MMD for 6-12 months (median = 9 months, IQR = [5, 12]). Neither sex, age, employment, costs and time for travel to clinic, nor the duration of taking