Caregiving can be costly: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to conducting kangaroo mother care in a US tertiary hospital neonatal... (Publications)
mothers of preterm infants (N = 20) at a large academic medical center in Massachusetts. A series of open-ended interview questions were designed to elicit all aspects of mothers' experiences and to understand
A MALDI-TOF MS library for rapid identification of human commensal gut bacteria from the class <em>Clostridia</em> (Publications)
library alone), thus classifying 60% of the formerly unknown isolates. DISCUSSION: We describe a new open-source MSP database for fast and accurate identification of the Clostridia class from the human gut
Ultrasound in managing extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a randomized controlled two-center study (Publications)
overtreatment of tuberculosis and to underdiagnosis of possible differential diagnoses. METHODS: This open-label, parallel-group, superiority randomized controlled trial is done in a rural and an urban center
Engagement in care, viral suppression, drug resistance and reasons for non-engagement after home-based same-day ART initiation in Lesotho: a two-year... (Publications)
HIV testing improved engagement in care and viral suppression 12 months after diagnosis. However, open questions remain regarding long-term outcomes and the risk of propagating drug resistance. METHODS:
Path concentration profile reconstruction of optical remote sensing measurements using polynomial curve fitting procedures (Publications)
Open path Fourier transform infrared (OP-FTIR) spectroscopy is one of several optical remote sensing (ORS) techniques that can identify and quantify many air pollutants. These instruments provide path
Artesunate-mefloquine combination therapy in acute <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in young children: a field study regarding neurological and... (Publications)
African children are scarce, although WHO recommends this therapy in Africa. METHODS: A phase IV, open label, single arm study was conducted among African children between 10 and 20 kg with acute uncomplicated
Seasonally dependent relationships between Indicators of malaria transmission and disease provided by mathematical model simulations (Publications)
were run with an ensemble of models of malaria epidemiology and within-host dynamics, as part of the OpenMalaria modeling platform. For a given seasonality profile, regression analysis mapped simulation results
Pragmatic Clinical Trial for a more Effective, Concise and Less toxic MDR-TB treatment regimen(s) (TB-PRACTECAL) (Projects)
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Treatment Regimen) aims to find shorter, effective treatment regimens with minimal side effects. This open-label phase II/III randomized controlled trial, using an adaptive design evaluates the safety and
Effects of Climate Change on Health (Page)
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limited, and we depend on foundations and donors who want to use their potential and support us in opening up new and innovative fields of research. Please do contact us if you wish to support us in this
<em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em>: spatial distribution of a highly prevalent and ubiquitous soil-transmitted helminth in Cambodia (Publications)
age of 13 and women aged 50 years and over had lower odds of infection than their male counterparts. Open defecation was associated with higher odds of infection, while having some knowledge of the health