Identification of enteric pathogen reservoirs and transmission pathways associated with short childhood stature in the Kolkata Indian site of the... (Publications)
enteric infections. In the MSD cohort, rotavirus and typical EPEC (tEPEC) infections among children 0-11 months of age and ST-ETEC infections among children 12-23 months of age were associated with lower
A tiered approach for assessing individual and combined risk of pyrethroids using human biomonitoring data (Publications)
c refinement quantified the risk level of the most exposed population (Belgium) at 2% or between 1-0.1% depending on the assumptions. In the substance specific assessments, the 95th percentiles of urinary
High-throughput <em>Plasmodium falciparum hrp2</em> and <em>hrp3 </em>gene deletion typing by digital PCR to monitor malaria rapid diagnostic test... (Publications)
quantifies hrp2, hrp3, and a control gene with very high accuracy. The theoretical limit of detection was 0.33 parasites/microL. The deletion was reliably detected in mixed infections with wild-type and hrp2-deleted
Effects of engaging communities in decision-making and action through traditional and religious leaders on vaccination coverage in Cross River State,... (Publications)
four intervention LGAs. Baseline, midline and endline surveys collected information on children aged 0-23 months. The effect of the intervention on outcomes including the proportion fully up-to-date with
Relationship between <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> genotype and the clinical phenotype of pulmonary and meningeal tuberculosis (Publications)
genotype had consolidation on chest X-ray than was the case with disease caused by other genotypes (P = 0.006). Multivariate analysis revealed that meningitis caused by the East Asian/Beijing genotype was
Evaluation of antiprotozoal and antimycobacterial activities of the resin glycosides and the other metabolites of <em>Scrophularia cryptophila</em> (Publications)
against Leishmania donovani. Harpagide (4) and 3 emerged as the best leishmanicidal agents (IC(50)'s 2.0 and 5.8 microg/ml). Only compounds 3, 6 and 7 showed antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum
Gender, suicide, and the sociocultural context of deliberate self-harm in an urban general hospital in Mumbai, India (Publications)
of depressive disorder was made for 48.9 percent of women and 39.4 percent of men. Many patients (50.0 percent of women and 41.3 percent of men) did not fulfill the criteria for any diagnosis, or did so
Synthesis and antitubulin activity of N1- and N4-substituted 3,5-dinitro sulfanilamides against African trypanosomes and Leishmania (Publications)
35) augments antitrypanosomal and antileishmanial activity. Compound 35 possesses IC(50) values of 0.12 and 2.6 microM against cultured T. brucei and L. donovani amastigote-like forms, surpassing the activity
Antigens released at schizont burst stimulate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-specific CD4+ T cells from non-exposed donors: potential for... (Publications)
from a non-exposed donor. T cells were able to respond to infected blood at a parasitaemia as low as 0.000003% (comparable to the level at which individuals can first experience symptoms of malaria) and
Tracking a tuberculosis outbreak over 21 years: strain-specific single nucleotide polymorphism-typing combined with targeted whole genome sequencing (Publications)
division into three sub-clusters. Isolates from patients with confirmed epidemiological links differed by 0-11 SNPs. CONCLUSIONS: Strain-specific SNP-genotyping allowed rapid and inexpensive identification of
