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1. Performance of prediction rules and guidelines in detecting serious bacterial infections among Tanzanian febrile children (Publications)

   Performance of prediction rules and guidelines in detecting serious bacterial infections among Tanzanian febrile children

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   ruling-in or ruling-out SBI with positive and negative likelihood ratios ranging from 1.04-1.87 to 0.47-0.92, respectively. IMCI had a sensitivity of 36.7% (95% CI 29.4-44.6%) at a specificity of 70.3% (67

2. The role of humidity in associations of high temperature with mortality: a multicountry, multicity study (Publications)

   The role of humidity in associations of high temperature with mortality: a multicountry, multicity study

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   increase of 23% in RH (the 99th percentile anomaly) associated with a 1.1% [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.8, 1.3] decrease in mortality. Allowing curvature in the RH term or adding terms for interaction of [...] improve the model fit. The humidity-related decreased risk was made up of a positive coefficient at lag 0 outweighed by negative coefficients at lags of 1-3 d. Key results were broadly robust to small model

3. HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga hospital, Democratic Republic of... (Publications)

   HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo

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   questionnaire regarding HIV knowledge was given to all participants. Data were analysed with STATA 13.0. Descriptive statistics of key variables were computed and logistic regression was used to assess the [...] (376/460) reported that they have never been tested in the past for HIV infection and the prevalence was at 0.9% (4/460). Conclusion. Knowledge of MTCT of HIV, previous uptake of HIV testing and prevalence was

4. Socioeconomic inequalities in cervical precancer screening among women in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe: analysis of... (Publications)

   Socioeconomic inequalities in cervical precancer screening among women in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe: analysis of population-based HIV impact assessment surveys

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   inequalities in percentage points, with differences of 20%+ defined as high inequality, 5%-20% as medium, 0%-5% as low. RESULTS: The sample size of participants ranged from 5882 in Ethiopia to 9186 in Tanzania [...] Tanzania. The screening rates were low in the surveyed countries, ranging from 3.5% (95% CI 3.1% to 4.0%) in Rwanda to 17.1% (95% CI 15.8% to 18.5%) and 17.4% (95% CI 16.1% to 18.8%) in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

5. Residential greenspace and lung function decline over 20 years in a prospective cohort: the ECRHS study (Publications)

   Residential greenspace and lung function decline over 20 years in a prospective cohort: the ECRHS study

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   RESULTS: A 0.2-increase (average interquartile range) in NDVI in the 500 m buffer was consistently associated with a faster decline in FVC (-1.25 mL/year [95% confidence interval: -2.18 to -0.33]). These

6. Integrating large-scale stationary and local mobile measurements to estimate hyperlocal long-term air pollution using transfer learning methods (Publications)

   Integrating large-scale stationary and local mobile measurements to estimate hyperlocal long-term air pollution using transfer learning methods

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   6 mug/m(3)) and improved the percentage explained variances compared to the global model (R(2), 0.43 vs 0.28, assessed by independent long-term NO(2) measurements in Amsterdam, n = 90). The Global2Local

7. Acute exposure to simulated nocturnal train noise leads to impaired sleep quality and endothelial dysfunction in young healthy men and women: a... (Publications)

   Acute exposure to simulated nocturnal train noise leads to impaired sleep quality and endothelial dysfunction in young healthy men and women: a sex-specific analysis

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   women (p < 0.001 vs. control). Likewise, endothelial function measured by flow-mediated dilation (FMD) was significantly impaired after noise 30 and noise 60 nights in both men and women (p < 0.001 vs. control)

8. Cumulative antibiotic exposure in the first five years of life: estimates for 45 low- and middle-income countries from demographic and health survey... (Publications)

   Cumulative antibiotic exposure in the first five years of life: estimates for 45 low- and middle-income countries from demographic and health survey data

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   prevalence of fever, diarrhea or cough and antibiotic treatment for these illnesses were estimated for ages 0-59 months and aggregated to estimate cumulative illness and antibiotic treatment for each country. We [...] treatments in Niger (95% CI: 2.8-4.6) to 38.6 treatments in DR Congo (95% CI: 34.7-42.4). A median of 9.0% of antibiotic treatment was attributable to informal care (IQR: 5.9-21.2), and 16.9% to self-medication

9. Evaluating malaria prevalence and land cover across varying transmission intensity in Tanzania using a cross-sectional survey of school-aged children (Publications)

   Evaluating malaria prevalence and land cover across varying transmission intensity in Tanzania using a cross-sectional survey of school-aged children

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   between greater forest cover and reduced malaria prevalence in low transmission areas (POR: 0.74, 95% UI: 0.51, 1.03), however the uncertainty intervals of both estimates included the null. CONCLUSIONS:

10. Compliance with recommended <em>Varroa destructor</em> treatment regimens improves the survival of honey bee colonies over winter (Publications)

    Compliance with recommended <em>Varroa destructor</em> treatment regimens improves the survival of honey bee colonies over winter

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    95% CI: 2.6-55.2, p = 0.002). The risk of colony death increased 25-fold in apiaries with substantial deviations from the recommendations (odds ratio: 50.4, 95% CI: 9.7-262.5, p < 0.0001). The deviations