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
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
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
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
Medication exposure during pregnancy: a pilot pharmacovigilance system using health and demographic surveillance platform (Publications)
and folic acid supplementation were associated with decreased risk of miscarriage/stillbirth (OR 0.1; 0.08-0.3). CONCLUSION: Almost all women were exposed to medication during pregnancy. Exposure to iron
Albendazole and mebendazole administered alone or in combination with Ivermectin against <em>Trichuris trichiura</em>: a randomized controlled trial (Publications)
ivermectin statistically significantly increased the CRs from 14% to 47% (odds ratio, 0.19; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.12-0.28). The highest egg reduction rate (97%; 95% CI, 95%-98%) was observed using the
Genetic association with response to intravitreal ranibizumab in patients with neovascular AMD (Publications)
genotypes (P = 0.005 and P = 0.006). In this study, the genotype combination of AG at CFH with CT at FZD4 (SNP rs10898563) promised an increased chance of positive treatment outcome (P = 0.004). Furthermore
Turkish freshwater and marine macrophyte extracts show in vitro antiprotozoal activity and inhibit FabI, a key enzyme of <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
extracts of C. glomerata and U. lactuca efficiently inhibited the FabI enzyme with IC(50) values of 1.0 and 4.0mug/ml, respectively. None of the extracts were cytotoxic towards mammalian L6 cells. This work reports [...] potential. The best antileishmanial activity was exerted by U. lactuca and P. oceanica (IC(50)'s 5.9 and 8.0mug/ml, respectively). Five extracts that demonstrated inhibitory activity towards P. falciparum (IC(50)'s
