Hand hygiene and face mask wearing practices for COVID-19 prevention: a non-intrusive observation of patrons of community convenience shops in Accra,... (Publications)
g, appropriate handwashing was negatively associated with adherence to IPC guidelines [aOR=0.1 (95% CI=0.01-0.59)].Conclusion:adherence to and appropriate performance of IPC measures of handwashing and
The additive effect of interpregnancy interval and maternal body mass index on pregnancy induced hypertension in the U.S (Publications)
in combination with underweight BMI was found to be inversely associated with PIH (AOR = 0.64, 95% CI = 0.53, 0.78). CONCLUSIONS: When combined, IPI and BMI are crucial risk factors for PIH. The highest
Current use pesticides in soil and air from two agricultural sites in South Africa: implications for environmental fate and human exposure (Publications)
concentrations (up to 63.6, 1.10 and 0.212 ng g(-1), respectively). In air, 16 CUPs were found, with carbaryl, tebuconazole and terbuthylazine having the highest levels (up to 25.0, 22.2 and 1.94 pg m(-3), res [...] The estimated daily intake via soil ingestion and inhalation of individual pesticides ranged from 0.126 fg kg(-1) day(-1) (isoproturon) to 14.7 ng kg(-1) day(-1) (chlorpyrifos). Except for chlorpyrifos
Exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields: comparison of exposimeters with a novel body-worn distributed meter (Publications)
Results: Across 267 microenvironments, medians and IQR of total BWDM measured RF-EMF exposure was 0.13 (0.05–0.33) mW/m2. Difference: IQR of exposimeters minus BWDM exposure levels was
A home visit-based early childhood stimulation programme in Brazil-a randomized controlled trial (Publications)
per-protocol (PP) analysis, the CDA programme resulted in a 0.22 standard deviation increase in children's development (95% confidence interval [0.01-0.43]). The results presented in this study suggest that
Molecular genotyping in a malaria treatment trial in Uganda - unexpected high rate of new infections within 2 weeks after treatment (Publications)
The ratios of proportions of new to recrudescent infections were 0.2, 0.9, 1.4 and 1.9 on days 7, 14, 21 and 28, respectively (P < 0.001, chi(2) test for linear trend). Unexpected high new infection rates
Path concentration profile reconstruction of optical remote sensing measurements using polynomial curve fitting procedures (Publications)
collected simultaneously during the experiments (R-2 = 0.83). For a narrow plume, the R-2 value between the point samples and the reconstructed plume is 0.40, similar to the one calculated from applying 4 [...] it was also found that an additional PIC could improve the fitted R-2 value significantly to above 0.7. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
The association of air pollution and depressed mood in 70,928 individuals from four European cohorts (Publications)
1.53 per 10µg/m3 increase in NO2), whereas negative associations were found in HUNT (OR=0.79; 95% CI: 0.66, 0.94 per 10µg/m3 increase in NO2). CONCLUSIONS: Our analyses of four European general population
Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) I: Epidemiology of urban malaria in Ouagadougou (Publications)
was 21.1% and 22.0%, respectively. The health facilities were likely to overestimate the malaria incidence and the age-specific fractions of malaria-attributable fevers were low (0-0.13). Peak prevalence
A new double-antibody sandwich ELISA targeting <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> aldolase to evaluate anti-malarial drug sensitivity (Publications)
paralleling those from the radioactivity-based assay (R = 0.99, p < 0.001). At the investigated assay conditions (72 h incubation time, parasitaemia = 0.3%), the assay was found to be reproducible and easy
