Paediatric referrals in rural Tanzania: the Kilombero District Study - a case series (Publications)
primary level government facilities were referred to a higher level of care. At the referral hospital, 7.8 cases per thousand under five catchment population had been referred annually. The hospital MCH clinic
Obstacles to prompt and effective malaria treatment lead to low community-coverage in two rural districts of Tanzania (Publications)
education, the biomedical concept of malaria has largely been adopted by the community. 87.5% (78.2-93.8) of the fever cases in children and 80.7% (68.1-90.0) in adults were treated with one of the recommended
Prevalence and risk factors of helminths and intestinal protozoa infections among children from primary schools in western Tajikistan (Publications)
There was pronounced spatial heterogeneity. The most common helminth species was Hymenolepis nana (25.8%), whereas the prevalences of Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm and Enterobius vermicularis were below
In-hospital safety in field conditions of nifurtimox eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for <em>T.b. gambiense</em> sleeping sickness (Publications)
completion was 98.4% (619/629; 95%CI [97.1%; 99.1%]). Of the 10 patients who died during hospitalisation, 8 presented in a bad or very bad health condition at baseline; one death was assessed as unlikely related
Efficacy of ICON(R) Maxx in the laboratory and against insecticide-resistant <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> in central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
deterrence, induced exophily and an over three-fold reduction in blood-fed mosquitoes. More than half (61.8%) of the mosquitoes entering the huts with treated nets were found dead the next morning despite high
Malaria case management in Papua New Guinea prior to the introduction of a revised treatment protocol (Publications)
cases, including 100% (17/17) of test positive cases and 82% (41/50) of test negative cases. In all, 79.8% of anti-malarial prescriptions conformed to the treatment protocol current at the time of data collection
Long-term dominance of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> Uganda family in peri-urban Kampala-Uganda is not associated with cavitary disease (Publications)
cavitary disease was associated with known risk factors such as smoking (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 4.8, 95% confidence interval (CI) 3.33-6.84) and low income (aOR 2.1, 95% CI 1.47-3.01), no association
Evaluation of the <em>in vitro</em> trypanocidal activity of methylated flavonoid constituents of <em>Vitex simplicifolia</em> leaves (Publications)
Compound 6, however, showed the most selective trypanocidal activity with a selectivity index of 9.8. This is the first report of trypanocidal activity of flavonoids from this plant genus. CONCLUSIONS:
Spatial variation and land use regression modeling of the oxidative potential of fine particles (Publications)
site ratio was 1.2 for OP(DTT) and 1.4 for OP(ESR), whereas regional/urban background ratio was 0.8 for both. OP(ESR) correlated moderately with OP(DTT) (R2 = 0.35). The LUR models included estimated
Development of a bead-based Luminex assay using lipopolysaccharide specific monoclonal antibodies to detect biological threats from <em>Brucella... (Publications)
assay recognised all tested Brucella species with 'smooth' LPS with detection limits of 2 x 10(2) to 8 x 10(4) cells per mL, depending on the species tested. Milk samples spiked with Brucella spp. cells
