The combined effects of family size and farm exposure on childhood hay fever and atopy (Publications)
79,888 6-12-yr-old children. Aeroallergen-specific serum IgE was measured in a stratified sample of 8,023 children. Multiple logistic regression was used to compare gradients in allergy prevalence by sibship
Responding to a crying infant - you do not learn it overnight: a phenomenological study (Publications)
participant observations in the postnatal ward and two narrative interviews at participants' homes at 6-8 and 12-14 weeks post partum. Data analysis used interpretive approaches of case analysis, thematic analysis
Cotton dust, endotoxin and cancer mortality among the Shanghai textile workers cohort: a 30-year analysis (Publications)
(95% CI 1.4 to 5.2); cancer excluding lung cancer HR=3.4 (1.7-7.0); gastrointestinal cancer HR=4.1 (1.8-9.7)). With the exclusion of lung cancer, risks of cancer were more pronounced. When stratified by category
The prevalence and distribution of food sensitization in european adults (Publications)
to foods ranged from 23.6% to 6.6%. The least common IgE sensitizations were to fish (0.2%), milk (0.8%) and egg (0.9%), and the most common were to hazelnut (9.3%), peach (7.9%) and apple (6.5%). The order
In vitro antiplasmodial activity and toxicity assessment of some plants from Nigerian ethnomedicine (Publications)
bark of Trema orientalis (L.) Blume (Ulmaceae) showed the highest antiplasmodial activity (IC(50) 1.8-1.93 microg/mL) against P. falciparum K1 strain but elicited low cytotoxicity (selective index > 10)
Clinical and socio-demographic predictors for virologic failure in rural Southern Africa: preliminary findings from CART-1 (Publications)
(aOR). RESULTS: Data from 1,488 patients were analyzed. Overall VF-prevalence was 6.9% (95% CI 5.7-8.3). In univariate analysis, the following were associated with VF: age /=2 hours, disclosure of HIV
Near-roadway pollution and childhood asthma: implications for developing "win-win" compact urban development and clean vehicle strategies (Publications)
roads, a proxy for near-roadway exposure. RESULTS: We estimated that 27,100 cases of childhood asthma (8% of total) in LAC were at least partly attributable to pollution associated with residential location
Innovation in evaluating the impact of integrated service-delivery: the integra indexes of HIV and reproductive health integration (Publications)
reduce service costs. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Data were drawn from the Integra Initiative's client flow (8,263 clients in Swaziland and 25,539 in Kenya) and costing tools implemented between 2008-2012 in 40
Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths in the era of preventive chemotherapy: effect of multiple stool sampling and use of different diagnostic... (Publications)
s for T. trichiura, hookworm, A. lumbricoides, and S. stercoralis were 47.9%, 22.5%, 16.5%, and 10.8% after examining 3 stool samples. These values are close to the 'true' prevalences predicted by a m
High prevalence of large trematode eggs in schoolchildren in Cambodia (Publications)
were observed in 18.3% of 191 cattle livers. The prevalence of fascioliasis in cattle droppings was 88.8%. The low prevalence of schoolchildren that tested positive for Fasciola spp. with specific molecular
