The role of children and adolescents in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a rapid review (Publications)
years). RESULTS: Of 2778 screened articles, we included 63 (20 case reports, 18 cross-sectional studies, 8 cohort studies, 6 narrative reviews or viewpoints, 10 systematic reviews and 1 modelling study). Children
Same-day antiretroviral therapy initiation for people living with HIV who have tuberculosis symptoms: a systematic review (Publications)
start same-day). Two of the four studies were conducted sequentially; proven viral load suppression at 8 months was 31% when everyone with tuberculosis symptoms had ART deferred, and 44% when the algorithm
LuftiBus in the school (LUIS): a population-based study on respiratory health in schoolchildren (Publications)
included 3870 children at baseline and 655 at the 1-year follow-up. Median age was 12.7 years; 281 (8%) had wheezed in the past year. At baseline we collected 3457 (89%) parental and 3546 (92%) child q
Associations between household socioeconomic status, car ownership, physical activity, and cardiorespiratory fitness in South African primary... (Publications)
and PA/cardiorespiratory fitness. METHODS: Parents/guardians of 908 children (49% girls, mean age = 8.3 [1.4] y) completed a survey on household SES. PA was assessed via 7-day accelerometry, parental and
Health of farming communities prior to modification of the occupational environment through a watershed development project in Kolar, India (Publications)
5%) and frequent pesticide application in fields (26.7%). The prevalence of child underweight was 23.8%. Conclusions: VBDs, poor water quality and child undernutrition were found to be important local health
A stable, oligosymptomatic malaria focus in Thailand (Publications)
32% of P. falciparum gametocytaemias. Fever rates were marginally higher in those below 10 years old (8%) but occurred with equal frequency in those with patent infections or negative. The spleen rate (89%
Repositioning and characterization of 1-(pyridin-4-yl)pyrrolidin-2-one derivatives as <em>Plasmodium </em>cytoplasmic prolyl-trna synthetase... (Publications)
profile and the relative high propensity to develop resistance in vitro (minimum inoculum resistance of 8 x 10(5) parasites at a selection pressure of 3 x IC50) constitute unfavorable features for treatment
The influence of roads on the fine-scale population genetic structure of the dengue vector <em>Aedes aegypti</em> (Linnaeus) (Publications)
17 larvae Ae. aegypti were collected from June to September 2017 in 13 sites across EB. North (N1-N8) and South (S1-S5) comprised of 211 and 165 individuals, respectively. All mosquitoes were genotyped
Emergence of artemisinin-resistant <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> with <em>kelch13 </em>C580Y mutations on the island of New Guinea (Publications)
mutants among 239 genotyped clinical samples. One of these mutants exhibited the highest survival rate (6.8%) among all parasites surveyed in ring-stage survival assays (RSA) for artemisinin. Analyses of kelch13
Mortality in a cohort of people living with HIV in rural Tanzania, accounting for unseen mortality among those lost to follow-up (Publications)
(40%) died and 130 (40%) transferred. Five-year mortality estimates were A) 13.1%; B) 16.2%; C) 36.8%; D) 35.1%. Higher mortality was associated with male sex, referral as hospital in-patient, living close
