Age-related comorbidities and mortality in people living with HIV in rural Tanzania: data from a prospective cohort study (Publications)
60); P < 0.001]. In patients aged at least 50 years, arterial hypertension was highly prevalent (43.8%), but not associated with mortality/LTFU [hazard ratios 1.04 (95% CI 0.56-1.93), P = 0.9]. Undernutrition
Clinical characteristics and outcome of children hospitalized with scrub typhus in an area of endemicity (Publications)
defined by failure to defervesce within 72 hours of antibiotic treatment initiation, was noted in 8 (23%) of 35 patients, and 1 (3%) of the 35 patients died. No evidence of relapse or reinfection was
Knowledge and practices of mothers and caregivers on diarrhoeal management among under 5-year-old children in a medium-size town of Senegal (Publications)
years of age were included. Slightly less than a quarter (23.2%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 18.9-27.8%) of respondents had good management practice of diarrhoea, while 40.0% (95% CI: 34.5-45.6%) had high
Clinical evaluation for morbidity associated with soil-transmitted helminth infection in school-age children on Pemba Island, Tanzania (Publications)
anemia, including pallor of the conjunctiva, nail beds, and palmar creases predicted lower Hb values (-3.8 g/dl, 95% confidence interval (CI): -6.9, -0.6 g/dl). When examining longitudinal trends, we did not
Exploring the potential of introducing an electronic death registration system in South Africa (Publications)
information, and a significant proportion of deaths occurring outside medical facilities. More than 80.8% of the surveyed health professionals (168/208) rated the importance of mortality statistics as high
Bactericidal effects of snake venom phospholipases A2: a systematic review and analysis of minimum inhibitory concentration (Publications)
studies were obtained from the abovementioned databases and eight through manual searches. The other 8 studies were obtained through the references of the included studies. According to the review, we reported
Signatures of transmission in within-host <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study (Publications)
across studies: mean 168·6 minority variants (95% CI 151·4-185·9) for the Colangeli et al dataset, 5·8 (1·5-10·2) for Guthrie et al (p
Follow-up of patients with chronic conditions within primary care practices during COVID-19: results from 7 central and eastern-European countries... (Publications)
and meta-analysis techniques to explore associations and heterogeneity between countries. RESULTS: 67.8% out of 978 practices reported actively following up chronic patients. Positive associations were found
Europe-wide high-spatial resolution air pollution models are improved by including traffic flow estimates on all roads (Publications)
lly-weighted regression model). Improvement of model performance was larger in urban areas (5% and 8% increases in R2 for NO2 and O3). Importantly, more detailed intra-city near-road variations were captured
Prevalence and predictors of residual antibiotics in children's blood in community settings in Tanzania (Publications)
under the age of five years. The most frequently detected antibiotics were trimethoprim (144/1699; 8.5%), sulfamethoxazole (102/1699; 6.0%), metronidazole (61/1699; 3.6%) and amoxicillin (43/1699; 2.5%)
