Does the integrated management of childhood illness cost more than routine care? Results from the United Republic of Tanzania (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy is designed to address the five leading causes of childhood mortality, which together account for 70% of the 10 million deaths
The surface coat of procyclic <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em>: programmed expression and proteolytic cleavage of procyclin in the tsetse fly (Publications)
Trypanosoma brucei, the protozoan parasite causing sleeping sickness, is transmitted by a tsetse fly vector. When the tsetse takes a blood meal from an infected human, it ingests bloodstream form tryp
Lung function and long term exposure to air pollutants in Switzerland. (Publications)
The effect of long-term exposure to air pollutants was studied in a cross-sectional population-based sample of adults (aged 18 to 60 yr; n = 9,651) residing in eight different areas in Switzerland. St
Follow-up of the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA 2) 1991-2003: methods and characterization of participants (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA) was designed to investigate the health effects from long-term exposure to air pollution. METHODS: The health
The use of classification and regression trees to predict the likelihood of seasonal influenza (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Individual signs and symptoms are of limited value for the diagnosis of influenza. OBJECTIVE: To develop a decision tree for the diagnosis of influenza based on a classification and regres
Cause-specific mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To provide internationally comparable data on the frequencies of different causes of death. METHODS: We analysed verbal autopsies obtained during 1999 -2002 from 12 demographic surveillance
Community-directed treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in Takum, Nigeria (Publications)
A study to identify factors within the community that can ensure sustainable community-directed treatment (ComDT) with ivermectin compared the effectiveness of programme-designed (PD) and community- d