Recalculating the net use gap: a multi-country comparison of ITN use versus ITN access (Publications)
increased to 91.2% for access rates above 50%. Linear regression of use against access showed that 89.0% of household members with access to nets used them the night before. These results clearly show that
Performance of health workers using an electronic algorithm for the management of childhood illness in Tanzania: a pilot implementation study (Publications)
was associated with a significant increase in children checked for danger signs (41% versus 74%, P = 0.04). Antibiotic prescriptions rate dropped from 70% in the control to 26%, and 25% in paper and electronic
Social and cultural determinants of anticipated acceptance of an oral cholera vaccine prior to a mass vaccination campaign in Zanzibar (Publications)
Logistic regression models examined social and cultural determinants of anticipated acceptance at low (USD 0.9), medium (USD 4.5) and high (USD 9) price. Models including somatic symptoms (low and high price)
Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance (Publications)
The Ebola virus (EBOV) genome substitution rate in the Makona strain has been estimated at between 0.87 x 10-3 and 1.42 x 10-3 mutations per site per year. This is equivalent to 16-27 mutations in each
Pharmacokinetics of the antischistosomal lead ozonide OZ418 in uninfected mice determined by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (Publications)
(20-64.6) h. Thus the OZ418 level in plasma remained well above its in vitro IC50 values of 6.6 +/- 0.7 mug/mL (adult S. mansoni at 72 h) for at least 75 h. Consistently, OZ418 degraded little in plasma
Asymptomatic only at first sight: malaria infection among schoolchildren in highland Rwanda (Publications)
Plasmodium infection was associated with anaemia (mean haemoglobin difference of -1.2 g/dL; 95% CI, -0.8 to -1.5 g/dL), fever, underweight, clinically assessed malnutrition and histories of fever, tiredness
Development and evaluation of a bioinformatics approach for designing molecular assays for viral detection (Publications)
Flaviviridae and Bunyaviridae families. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: The genetic diversity ranges from as low as 0.45% variable sites over the complete genome of the Japanese encephalitis virus to more than 16% of variable
Air pollution from road traffic and systemic inflammation in adults: a cross-sectional analysis in the European ESCAPE project (Publications)
vehicles/day). Annual NOx concentration was also positively associated with levels of CRP (3.2%, 95% CI 0.3-6.1 per 20 microg/m3), but the effect estimate was more sensitive to model adjustments. For fibrinogen
Evaluation of knowledge-attitudes-practices of the populations in the health districts of Benoye, Laoukassy, Moundou and south N'Djamena towards... (Publications)
was little-known to be a transmission medium (4.61%) and cat vaccination to be a preventive measure (0.49%). First aid for a bite at home was the traditional practice (47,69%), wounds washing (19.48%) or
Characteristics and epidemiological profile of Buruli ulcer in the district of Tiassalé, south Côte d’Ivoire (Publications)
and 2010 in the district of Tiassale. Children under the age of 15 years were the most affected (53.0%) with a higher prevalence among males compared to females (54.7% versus 45.3%). Among individuals aged
