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Piplartine/dermaseptin combinations showed synergistic effect, with combination index (CI) values less than 0.9 when S. mansoni adults or schistosomula were simultaneously incubated with both drugs in vitro; synergy
Prevalence of clinically significant functional fatigue or weakness in specialty outpatient clinics of Pune, India (Publications)
clinics than in psychiatry and medicine clinics. The female preponderance (63.83%) was notable (p < 0.001). Mean age of patients with this condition was similar across clinics. Logistic regression showed
Academic institutions and One Health: building capacity for transdisciplinary research approaches to address complex health issues at the... (Publications)
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Macyranones: structure, biosynthesis, and binding mode of an unprecedented epoxyketone that targets the 20S proteasome (Publications)
against the parasites Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Leishmania donovani with IC50 values of 1.55 and 0.22 muM, respectively
Prevalence and factors associated with convulsive status epilepticus in Africans with epilepsy (Publications)
ACE among the general population across the 3 sites was 2.3 per 1,000, and differed with site (p < 0.0001). Over half (55%) of CSE occurred in febrile illnesses and focal seizures were present in 61%.
Screening for pulmonary tuberculosis in Tanzanian prison and computer-aided interpretation of chest X-rays (Publications)
better than CAD4TB, three were comparable, and two performed significantly worse (area under the curve 0.75 in receiver operating characteristics analysis). On a superset of 1321 CXRs, CAD4TB successfully
Clonal waves of <em>Neisseria</em> colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt: eight- year longitudinal study in Northern Ghana (Publications)
the colonisation isolates. The overall meningococcal colonisation rate of the study population was 6.0%. All culture-confirmed patient isolates and the majority of carriage isolates were associated with
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> msp1, msp2 and glurp allele frequency and diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
endemicity namely Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Burkina Faso and Sao Tome. METHODS: A total 780 baseline (Day 0) blood samples from children less than seven years, recruited in a randomized controlled clinical trials
Social and cultural features of cholera and shigellosis in peri-urban and rural communities of Zanzibar (Publications)
often by rural respondents. Rural women had more difficulty (20%) to identify a cause than men (7.1%, p=0.016). Peri-urban self treatment emphasised rehydration; the rural community preferred herbal treatment
Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) II: epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) (Publications)
in Dar es Salaam during a dry spell in 2003 showed that the prevalence of malaria parasites was low: 0.8%, 1.4%, 2.7% and 3.7% in the centre, intermediate, periphery and surrounding rural areas, respectively
