Cleaning at home and at work in relation to lung function decline and airway obstruction (Publications)
01) and occupational cleaners (-22.4; P = 0.03). The same was found for decline in FVC (DeltaFVC = -8.8 ml/yr; -13.1, P = 0.02; and -15.9, P = 0.002; respectively). Both cleaning sprays and other cleaning
The impact of the scale-up of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on the routine clinical diagnosis procedures for febrile illness: a series of repeated... (Publications)
examination leading to anti-malarial prescription irrespective of RDT use (observed in 96.1, 86.8 and 84.8% of cases, respectively, in 2011 vs. 97.5, 76.6 and 85.7% of cases in 2016). Diagnostic content
Diagnostic accuracy of the InBios Scrub Typhus DetectTM ELISA for the detection of IgM antibodies in Chittagong, Bangladesh (Publications)
samples was > /=1.25, resulting in a sensitivity (Sn) of 91.5 (95% confidence interval (95% CI: 96.8(-)82.5) and a specificity (Sp) of 92.4 (95% CI: 95.0(-)89.0), while for convalescent samples the OD [...] Sn/Sp compromise was at 1.25 OD (Sn 91.5%, Sp 92.4%) and for convalescent samples at 0.75 OD (Sn 69.8%, Sp 89.5%). A relatively high (stringent) diagnostic cut-off value provides increased diagnostic accuracy
Effects of hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 on serum creatinine concentration and development of acute kidney injury in nonazotemic cats (Publications)
received a mean volume of 98.5 +/- 76.2 mL/kg (range, 8-278 mL/kg) HES over a median of 4 (range, 1-11) days, resulting in a median dose of 20.1 (range, 8-40.5) mL/kg per day. Short-term %change in serum
Antibiotic-resistant <em>Escherichia coli</em> in drinking water samples from rural Andean households in Cajamarca, Peru (Publications)
coli was 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]
Barriers and facilitators to health insurance enrolment among people working in the informal sector in Morogoro, Tanzania (Publications)
LWFV (n=24) and Bodaboda drivers (n=26), and two focus group discussions with LWFV (n=8) and Bodaboda drivers (n=8). Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) constructs (attitude, subjective norms, and perceived
Antiprotozoal activity of plants used in the management of sleeping sickness in Angola and bioactivity-guided fractionation of <em>Brasenia... (Publications)
(IC(50) 5.5 µg/mL), and hypolaetin-7-O-glucoside (IC(50) 5.7 µg/mL) in B. schreberi, and 5-[(8Z,11Z,14Z)-heptadeca-8,11,14-trienyl] resorcinol (IC(50) 5.3 µg/mL) not described to date in N. lotus. Five of these
Barriers and facilitators to health insurance enrolment among people working in the informal sector in Morogoro, Tanzania (Publications)
LWFV (n=24) and Bodaboda drivers (n=26), and two focus group discussions with LWFV (n=8) and Bodaboda drivers (n=8). Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) constructs (attitude, subjective norms, and perceived
Antiprotozoal activity of plants used in the management of sleeping sickness in Angola and bioactivity-guided fractionation of <em>Brasenia... (Publications)
(IC(50) 5.5 µg/mL), and hypolaetin-7-O-glucoside (IC(50) 5.7 µg/mL) in B. schreberi, and 5-[(8Z,11Z,14Z)-heptadeca-8,11,14-trienyl] resorcinol (IC(50) 5.3 µg/mL) not described to date in N. lotus. Five of these
Gaussian process emulation to improve efficiency of computationally intensive multidisease models: a practical tutorial with adaptable R code (Publications)
accuracy. RESULTS: In this example, our emulator resulted in a 13-fold (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 8-22) improvement in computing time compared to that of more complex chronic disease simulation models [...] models. One emulator run took 3.00 seconds (95% CI: 1.65-5.28) on a 64-bit operating system laptop with 8.00 gigabytes (GB) of Random Access Memory (RAM), compared to > 11 hours for 1000 simulator runs on a
