Human granulocytotropic anaplasmosis: a systematic review and analysis of the literature (Publications)
of the cases) often accompanied by thrombocytopenia (71.8% of the cases), abnormal liver injury tests (66.7% of the cases), and leukopenia (49.8% of the cases). Although we found complications reported [...] cases and severe and even life-threatening complications are not infrequent (e.g. acute renal failure 9.8%, multi organ failure 7.5%, ARDS 6.3%, a.o.), sequelae are rare (2.1% of the cases) and lethality is
Human granulocytotropic anaplasmosis - a systematic review and analysis of the literature (Publications)
of the cases) often accompanied by thrombocytopenia (71.8% of the cases), abnormal liver injury tests (66.7% of the cases), and leukopenia (49.8% of the cases). Although we found complications reported [...] cases and severe and even life-threatening complications are not infrequent (e.g. acute renal failure 9.8%, multi organ failure 7.5%, ARDS 6.3%, a.o.), sequelae are rare (2.1% of the cases) and lethality is
Microbiological quality and antimicrobial resistance of bacteria species recovered from ready-to-eat food, water samples, and palm swabs of food... (Publications)
and 10 vendor palm swab samples were collected. Enterobacter spp. (16.8 %), Citrobacter spp. (10.1 %), Enterococcus faecalis (7.8 %), Pseudomonas spp. (6.7 %) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (4.0 %) occurred [...] occurred in food. Isolates from water and palm were Klebsiella pneumoniae (20.8 %), Aeromonas spp. (16.7 %) and Enterobacter cloacae (11.1 %). Resistance to Amoxicillin-clavulanate, Tetracycline, Azithromycin
Large gains in schooling and income are possible from minimizing adverse birth outcomes in 121 low- and middle-income countries: a modelling study (Publications)
million school years (95% CI: 6.0,34.8) and US$ 68.8 billion (95% CI: 20.3,117.9) in lifetime income gains per birth cohort. As for preterm birth, we estimated gains of 9.8 million school years (95% CI: 1.5
The interrelationship between repeat cesarean section, smoking status, and breastfeeding duration (Publications)
breastfeeding 8 weeks or less (AOR = 4.11, 95% CI = 2.08-8.11) compared with women who gave birth vaginally after cesarean section. Among nonsmokers, the odds of never breastfeeding and breastfeeding 8 weeks or
Cross-sectional study of nutritional intake among patients undergoing tuberculosis treatment along the Myanmar-Thailand border (Publications)
Mean treatment length at time of survey was 20.7 weeks (95% CI: 16.5 to 24.8). A significantly higher proportion of women (8/8, 100%) met caloric requirements compared with men (9/20, 45.0%, p=0.010), but
A household-based community health worker programme for non-communicable disease, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV and maternal health: a stepped-wedge... (Publications)
attendance increased by approximately 30% (6.5pp (-0.3, 15.8)) and paediatric malnutrition case finding declined by 10% (-0.6 per 1000 (95% CI -2.5 to 0.8)). There were no changes in TB programme outcomes, p [...] decrease of approximately 20% in the rate of patients defaulting from chronic NCD care each month (-0.8 percentage points (pp) (95% credible interval: -2.5 to 0.5)) while maintaining the already low default
Perception of cure among leprosy patients post completion of multi-drug therapy (Publications)
self-report as unhealed (OR 4.6; 95% CI 2.5-8.5). Patients with physical disabilities (PD) grade 1 and 2 at the time of the study had a 3.1 (OR 3.1; 95% CI 1.3-7.4) and 8.8 (OR 7.7; 95% CI 3.5-21.9) times higher
Comparison of real-time PCR and the Kato-Katz method for the diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminthiasis and assessment of cure in a randomized... (Publications)
of the STHs. Relative to PCR, the calculated sensitivity of KK at follow-up was 83.6%, 43.0% and 53.8% for T. trichiura, for hookworm and for Ascaris lumbricoides, respectively. The sensitivity of PCR compared [...] method. For hookworm CRs with KK were mostly significantly lower, namely 36.7%, 91.1%, 72.2% and 77.8% for moxidectin, moxidectin in combination with tribendimidine, moxidectin in combination with albendazole [...] e and albendazole in combination with oxantel pamoate, respectively,...
Outcomes of antiretroviral treatment programs in rural Southern Africa (Publications)
important differences between countries as follows: in Zimbabwe 75.1% (72.8%-77.3%) were alive and on ART at 3 years compared with 55.4% (52.8%-58.0%) in Lesotho and 51.6% (48.0%-55.2%) in Mozambique. In all settings [...] World Health Organization stage at start of ART are reported. RESULTS: Among 7725 patients, 449 (5.8%) did not return after initiation of ART. During 9575 person-years, 698 (9.6%) of those with at least
