Long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) ownership, use and cost of implementation after a mass distribution campaign in Kasai Occidental Province,... (Publications)
increased from 18.0 to 68.3%. Higher LLIN ownership was achieved with the fixed delivery strategy compared with the door-to-door (92.5% [95% CI 90.2-94.4%] versus 85.2% [95% CI 78.5-90.0%]), while distribution
Local and foreign authorship of maternal health interventional research in low- and middle-income countries: systematic mapping of publications... (Publications)
LMIC institution). RESULTS: The total number of papers led by an LMIC author rose from 45.0/year in 2000-2003 to 98.0/year in 2004-2007, but increased only slightly thereafter to 113.1/year in 2008-2012. In
Identifying risk factors for <em>Plasmodium </em>infection and anaemia in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
group in both transmission settings, but it increased more gently for the lower transmission HZs (p = 0.009). In a separate analysis in children over 5 years in two selected HZs, the peak prevalence was in [...] with malaria in both transmission strata, with no evidence of a difference in these associations (p = 0.71); however in children older than 5 years there was a significant interaction with a stronger association
Interventions that effectively target <em>Anopheles funestus</em> mosquitoes could significantly improve control of persistent malaria transmission in... (Publications)
4% unamplified samples. Of all mosquitoes positive for Plasmodium, 82.6% were An. funestus s.s, 14.0% were An. arabiensis and 3.4% were An. rivulorum. An. funestus and An. arabiensis contributed 86.21% [...] , of annual entomological inoculation rate (EIR). An. arabiensis fed on humans (73.4%), cattle (22.0%), dogs (3.1%) and chicken (1.5%), but An. funestus fed exclusively on humans. The An. funestus populations
Performance and impact of GeneXpert MTB/RIF® and Loopamp MTBC Detection Kit® assays on tuberculosis case detection in Madagascar (Publications)
81.1-90.7%) and 97.4% (95% CI 94.9-98.8%)) and Loopamp MTBC Detection Kit(R) (84.6% (95% CI 78.9-89.0%) and 98.4% (95% CI 96.2-99.4%)). Implementation of GeneXpert MTB/RIF(R) and Loopamp MTBC Detection [...] MTB/RIF(R) and Loopamp MTBC Detection Kit(R) respectively improved case detection by 23.8 and 21.2% (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Including GeneXpert MTB/RIF(R) or Loopamp MTBC Detection Kit(R) molecular assays for
Cross-country comparison of dietary patterns and obesity among women of reproductive age in urban sub-Saharan Africa (P10-069-19) (Publications)
examined across ordered DP quartiles/quintiles using a non-parametric test for trends (significance: P < 0.05). Results: Two DPs were identified in both Ghana and Malawi, explaining 34% and 42% of dietary variance [...] associated with lower age and lower prevalence of underweight. DPs were not significantly (all P > 0.05) associated with overweight or obesity in either Ghana or Malawi. Conclusions: Healthy and protein
Outbreak of <em>Cryptosporidium hominis</em> following river flooding in the city of Halle (Saale), Germany, August 2013 (Publications)
years (range: 0-77). Compared to controls (n = 61), cases (n = 20) were more likely to report visits to previously flooded areas (OR: 4.9; 95%-CI: 1.4-18) and the zoo (OR: 2.6; 95%-CI: 0.9-7.6). In mu
Safety and immunogenicity of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in infants and children identified as HIV-infected during a randomized trial in... (Publications)
plus 1 comparator vaccine dose (R3C group), or 4 comparator vaccine doses (C3C group) at study months 0, 1, 2 and 20. Infants and children with WHO stage III/IV HIV disease were excluded but HIV testing was [...] 491.5 EU/mL in RTS,S/AS01-vaccinated immunogenicity controls with unknown or negative HIV status (p=0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: The safety profile of RTS,S/AS01 in HIV-infected children was comparable to that
Temporal variation of pesticide mixtures in rivers of three agricultural watersheds during a major drought in the Western Cape, South Africa (Publications)
11 pesticide compounds between reported on spraying records and observations in the streams (kappa = 0.90). However, 23 detected pesticides were not found on spray records, many of them being herbicides [...] terbuthylazine exceeded at least once their EQS 58-fold (EQS 13 ng/L), 12-fold (EQS 10 ng/L), 9-fold (EQS 0.46 ng/L), 5-fold (EQS 24 ng/L) and 3-fold (EQS 220 ng/L), respectively. Our study substantially widens
Machine learning-based lifetime breast cancer risk reclassification compared with the BOADICEA model: impact on screening recommendations (Publications)
based on the Swiss Surveillance Protocol. RESULTS: The predictive accuracy of ML-based algorithms (0.843
