Domestic dog demographic structure and dynamics relevant to rabies control planning in urban areas in Africa: the case of Iringa, Tanzania (Publications)
population. An average of 13% of all households owned dogs which equalled a dog:human ratio of 1:14, or 0.31 dogs per household or 334 dogs km-2. Dog female:male ratio was 1:1.4. The average age of the population [...] fertile up to the age of 11 years. The average number of litters whelped per fertile female per year was 0.6 with an average of 5.5 pups born per litter. The population growth was estimated at 10% y-1.CONCLUSIONS:
First insights into the phylogenetic diversity of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> in Nepal (Publications)
odds ratio [aOR] 2.58, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.42-4.67, p = 0.002), and any drug resistance (aOR 2.79; 95% CI 1.43-5.45; p = 0.002). We found no evidence for an association of Lineage 2 with age
Solar drinking water disinfection (SODIS) to reduce childhood diarrhoea in rural Bolivia: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial (Publications)
control arm. The relative rate of diarrhoea adjusted for intracluster correlation was 0.81 (95% confidence interval 0.59-1.12). The median length of diarrhoea was 3 d in both groups. CONCLUSIONS: Despite
Associations between family-related factors, breakfast consumption and BMI among 10- to 12-year-old European children: the cross-sectional... (Publications)
BMI-z-score. SUBJECTS: Ten- to twelve-year-old children (n = 6374; mean age = 11.6+/-0.7 years, 53.2% girls, mean BMI-z-score = 0.4+/-1.2) and one of their parents (n = 6374; mean age = 41.4+/-5.3 years, 82.7%
Malaria case management in Papua New Guinea following the introduction of a revised treatment protocol (Publications)
was the availability of AL (0% vs. 51.1%). The percentage of fever patients prescribed anti-malarials decreased substantially post implementation of the new NMTP (96.4% vs. 39.0%). CONCLUSIONS: PNG has achieved
Toward measuring <em>Schistosoma</em> response to praziquantel treatment with appropriate descriptors of egg excretion (Publications)
ly, had no reduction in their egg counts (ERR = 0). The 5th, 10th, and 25th centiles of the subjects treated for S. haematobium had individual ERRs of 0%, 49.3%, and 96.5%; the corresponding values for
Applications and limitations of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention miniature light traps for measuring biting densities of African malaria... (Publications)
overall best estimate for An. gambiae s.l. was 1.06 (95% credible interval: 0.68-1.64) and for An. funestus s.l. was 1.37 (0.70-2.68). Local calibration exercises are not reproducible, since only in a
Larval and adult environmental temperatures influence the adult reproductive traits of <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> s.s. (Publications)
temperatures during the larval stages resulted in significantly smaller larvae (p = 0.005) and smaller adults (p < 0.001). Adult temperature had no effect on the time to egg laying, and the larval temperature
Traffic-related air pollution, oxidative stress genes, and asthma (ECHRS) (Publications)
interaction was found between NQO1 rs2917666 and NO(2) for asthma prevalence (p = 0.02) and new-onset asthma (p = 0.04). CONCLUSIONS: Genetic polymorphisms in the NQO1 gene are related to asthma susc
Influence of HIV-related immunodeficiency on the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (Publications)
therapy use was not significantly associated with HCC risk (OR for ever versus never = 0.59, 95% confidence interval 0.18-1.91). CONCLUSION: Lower CD4+ cell counts increased the risk for HCC among persons
