Pharmacovigilance in India, Uganda and South Africa with reference to WHO's minimum requirements (Publications)
reporting of data; and awareness and usage of the systems. Twenty interviews were conducted in India, 8 in Uganda and 11 in South Africa with government officials from the ministries of health, national
Medical care of asylum seekers: a descriptive study of the appropriateness of nurse practitioners' care compared to traditional physician-based care... (Publications)
respectively, received adequate care). Excessive care was observed in only 2 physician reports (0.8%) and 3 nurse reports (1.5%) (p = 0.481). CONCLUSION: Although the nursing gatekeeping system provides
Residual antimalarials in malaria patients from Tanzania - implications on drug efficacy assessment and spread of parasite resistance (Publications)
ntrine (4 ng/mL), 77 (52.0%) sulfadoxine (0.5 ng/mL), 15 (10.1%) pyrimethamine (0.5 ng/mL), 16 (10.8%) quinine (2.5 ng/mL) and none chloroquine (2.5 ng/mL). CONCLUSIONS: The proportion of patients with
Malaria and its possible control on the island of PrÃncipe (Publications)
2000 were also examined and the age and place of residence of diagnosed cases noted. RESULTS: 203 (19.8%) of the 1,026 individuals examined were found to be infected with Plasmodium falciparum. By fitting
Serodiagnosis of <em>Echinococcus spp.</em> infection: explorative selection of diagnostic antigens by peptide microarray (Publications)
57% sensitivity and 94% specificity. This candidate derived from Echinococcus multilocularis antigen B8/1 and showed strong reactivity to sera from patients infected either with E. multilocularis or E. granulosus
Differential patterns of infection and disease with <em>P. falciparum</em> and <em>P. vivax</em> in young Papua New Guinean children (Publications)
and febrile illness for 16 months. Infection status was determined by light microscopy and PCR every 8 weeks and at each febrile episode. A generalised estimating equation (GEE) approach was used to analyse
Rapid and accurate detection of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> in sputum samples by Cepheid Xpert MTB/RIF assay - a clinical validation study (Publications)
negative. Within 45 sputum samples which grew non-tuberculous mycobacteria the assay's specificity was 97.8% (95%CI = 88.2% to 99.9%). CONCLUSIONS: The Xpert MTB/RIF Assay is a highly sensitive, specific and
Dynamics of <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> egg output and associated infection parameters following treatment with praziquantel in school-aged... (Publications)
of 2.4% in weeks 5 (proteinuria) and 7 (leukocyturia) post-treatment, and 16.3% at the end of week 8 (microhaematuria). Macrohaematuria disappeared between weeks 3 and 6 post-treatment. CONCLUSIONS: For
Low efficacy of single-dose albendazole and mebendazole against hookworm and effect on concomitant helminth infection in Lao PDR (Publications)
and mebendazole resulted in CRs of 36.0% and 17.6% (odds ratio: 0.4; 95% confidence interval: 0.2-0.8; P = 0.01), and ERRs of 86.7% and 76.3%, respectively. In children co-infected with O. viverrini, a
Determining treatment needs at different spatial scales using geostatistical model-based risk estimates of schistosomiasis (Publications)
(> 50%). Overall, 72.7 million annualized praziquantel treatments (50% confidence interval (CI): 68.8-100.7 million) are required for the school-aged population if country-level schistosomiasis prevalence
