Retrospective active case finding in Cambodia: an innovative approach to leprosy control in a low-endemic country (Publications)
2012-2015. Migration (8.4%), death (6.7%), operational issues (1.6%) and unidentified other issues (16.0%) were the main reasons for non-traceability. A total of 17,134 contacts of traced index patients (average:
Effect of immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment on the risk of acquired HIV drug resistance (Publications)
initiation, 3.1% (2.7,3.3) for initiation with CD4 cell count less than 500 cells/mul, and 2.8% (2.5,3.0) for initiation with CD4 cell count less than 350 cells/mul. In analyses restricted to individuals with
How elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem in the Kingdom of Cambodia was achieved (Publications)
assessment surveys. These found that less than 1% of school children had antigenemia in 2010, which fell to 0% in both 2013 and 2015. A separate survey in one province in 2015 using Brugia Rapid tests to test for
Knowledge and practices of mothers and caregivers on diarrhoeal management among under 5-year-old children in a medium-size town of Senegal (Publications)
confidence interval (CI) 18.9-27.8%) of respondents had good management practice of diarrhoea, while 40.0% (95% CI: 34.5-45.6%) had high level of knowledge about diarrhoea. Mothers and caregivers having sought
Clinical evaluation for morbidity associated with soil-transmitted helminth infection in school-age children on Pemba Island, Tanzania (Publications)
beds, and palmar creases predicted lower Hb values (-3.8 g/dl, 95% confidence interval (CI): -6.9, -0.6 g/dl). When examining longitudinal trends, we did not find improvements to Hb or face Wong-Baker Likert
The duration of chemoprophylaxis against malaria after treatment with artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine and the effects of <em>pfmdr1... (Publications)
for first-line treatment. RESULTS: We estimated a mean duration of post-treatment protection of 13.0 days (95% CI 10.7-15.7) for AL and 15.2 days (95% CI 12.8-18.4) for AS-AQ overall. However, the duration
Polyclonal gut colonization with extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and/or colistin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a normal status for hotel employees on... (Publications)
were collected. The following main resistance genes were found: ESC-R E. coli (blaCTX-M-15-like, 51.0%), ESC-R K. pneumoniae (blaCTX-M-9-like, 42.9%), CST-R E. coli (mcr-1, 55%) and CST-R K. pneumoniae
Prevalence of nasal colonisation by methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> among healthcare workers and... (Publications)
80 (11.8 %) of 685 students; however, 14 (1.5 %) healthcare workers carried MRSA compared with six (0.9 %) students. Nasal carriage of S. aureus and MRSA was more prevalent in women than in men, and 21
Risk factors for the carriage of<em> Streptococcus infantarius </em>subspecies <em>infantarius </em>isolated from African fermented dairy products (Publications)
overall prevalence of SBSEC and Sii carriage was 23.2% (confidence interval CI 95% = 18.9-27.5) and 12.0% (CI 95% = 8.4-15.5) for stool, respectively. Prevalence of Sii was significantly higher in consumers
Protecting migratory farmers in rural Tanzania using eave ribbons treated with the spatial mosquito repellent, transfluthrin (Publications)
Tanzania against indoor-biting and outdoor-biting mosquitoes. METHODS: In the first test, eave ribbons (0.1 m x 24 m each) treated with 1.5% transfluthrin solution were compared to untreated ribbons in 24 randomly
