Ocular findings in HIV-1 positive and HIV-1 negative participants in a rural population-based cohort in Uganda (Publications)
significantly more HIV positives had some sign of intraocular inflammation compared to the negatives (p = 0.02) there was no significant linear trend in the HIV positives with decreasing CD4 count. Overall, 11
Tuberculosis in pediatric antiretroviral therapy programs in low- and middle-income countries: diagnosis and screening practices (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The global burden of childhood tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to be 0.5 million new cases per year. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children are at high risk for TB. Diagnosis of
Health workers' use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) to guide clinical decision making in rural dispensaries, Tanzania (Publications)
guidelines (artemether-lumefantrine or quinine). Among the 5,162 RDT-negative patients, only 205 (4.0%) were treated with an antimalarial. Other reported treatments included antibiotics and antipyretics
Repeated stool sampling and use of multiple techniques enhance the sensitivity of helminth diagnosis: a cross-sectional survey in southern Lao... (Publications)
viverrini, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and Schistosoma mekongi infection of 77.9%, 65.0%, 33.4%, 26.2% and 24.3%, respectively. As expected, a single KK and a single FECT missed a considerable
Clinical and epidemiologic phenotypes of childhood asthma (Publications)
decreased lung function, increased genetic risk, in utero smoke exposure (odds ratio 2.03 (1.12-3.68); p=0.0191), but without established asthma diagnosis and treatment. Conclusion: Clinical phenotypes were
Interaction between asthma and smoking increases the risk of adult airway obstruction (Publications)
was found among those with early-onset asthma independently of smoking status (never smokers: OR 21.0, 95% CI 12.7-35; current smokers: OR 23.7, 95% CI 13.9-40.6). Late-onset asthma was associated with
Antiviral innate immune activation in HIV infected adults negatively affects H1/IC31(R) induced vaccine-specific memory CD4+ T cells (Publications)
following vaccination with the subunit vaccine H1/IC31(R). H1/IC31(R) was inoculated twice on study days 0 and 56 among HIV infected adults with CD4+ lymphocyte counts greater than 350 cells/mm3. Whole venous
Antiprotozoal effect of <em>Artemisia indica</em> extracts and essential oil (Publications)
chromatography-mass spectrometry simultaneously. Of the 92 compounds detected in the oil, camphor (13.0 %) and caryophyllene oxide (10.87 %) were the major components. All solvent extracts and the volatile
Epidemiology and clinical features of vivax malaria imported to Europe: sentinel surveillance data from TropNetEurop (Publications)
range 4-133) the median symptom onset was significantly delayed in patients with chemoprophylaxis (p < 0.0001). Common complaints were fever, headache, fatigue, and musculo-skeletal symptoms. All patients
Three different <em>Plasmodium</em> species show similar patterns of clinical tolerance of malaria infection (Publications)
fractions are then used to compute the incidence of attributable disease. RESULTS: Overall 33.3%, 6.1%, and 0.1% of the presumptive cases were attributable to P. falciparum, P. vivax, and P. malariae respectively
