Direct costs of schizophrenia in Italian community psychiatric services (Publications)
56.3% of the total cost, daycare centre days for between 11.3 and 35.5%, home visits for 7.8 to 16.4%, and day-hospital days for 5.4 to 32.8%. Antipsychotics and anxiolytics were the most prescribed drugs
Reproducibility of pacing profiles in elite swimmers (Publications)
The level of both competitions for the analysis had to be at least national championships (7.7 +/- 5.4 wk apart). Standard error of measurement expressed as percentage of the subject's mean score (CV) [...] 0.9% and 2.6% in all finals. Split-time variability for finals and heats ranged between 0.9% and 2.5% (CL 0.3-4.9%). CONCLUSION: Pacing profiles are consistent between different competitions. Variability
High prevalence of symptomatic acute HIV infection in an outpatient ward in southern Mozambique: identification and follow-up (Publications)
in HIV-seronegative individuals. Plasma from HIV-seronegative patients was pooled in the ratio of 1: 5 for HIV-RNA testing. Whole blood was used for Plasmodium falciparum rapid test determination at screening [...] testing. Median HIV-1 RNA levels at diagnosis of AHI were 6.21 log10 copies/ml (interquartile range 5.92-6.41) and significantly higher than median HIV-RNA load at 4 months. At day 7 after screening, patients
Increased regulatory T-cell numbers are associated with farm milk exposure and lower atopic sensitization and asthma in childhood (Publications)
in life, such as regulatory T (Treg) cells. OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess whether Treg cells from 4.5-year-old children from the Protection against Allergy: Study in Rural Environments birth cohort study [...] CONCLUSIONS: Farm milk exposure was associated with increased Treg cell numbers on stimulation in 4.5-year-old children and might induce a regulatory phenotype early in life, potentially contributing to
Severe dental fluorosis in juvenile deer linked to a recent volcanic eruption in patagonia (Publications)
November 2012. We show that tephra caused severe dental fluorosis, with bone fluoride levels up to 5,175 ppm. Among subadults, tephra caused pathologic development of newly emerging teeth typical of fluorosis [...] highly susceptible to fluorosis, with average bone level increasing over 38-fold during the first 15.5 mo of exposure to tephra. This is the first report of fluorosis in wild ungulates from a volcanic eruption
Local perceptions of cholera and anticipated vaccine acceptance in Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
form of praying for healing were positively associated with anticipated OCV acceptance if costs of USD 5 were assumed. Conversely, respondents who feared negative social implications of cholera were less likely [...] respondents who generated their income through fishing. With an increase of assumed costs to USD 10.5, fear of financial constraints was negatively associated as well. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest a high
Sequence conservation in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> á-helical coiled coil domains proposed for vaccine development (Publications)
promising immunological results 5 of these peptides were selected for further analysis. Direct sequencing of field samples from Papua New Guinea and Tanzania showed that 3 out of these 5 peptides were completely
Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth control in Niger: cost effectiveness of school based and community distributed mass drug administration (Publications)
large scale schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths control programme targeting children aged 5-14 years and adults. In two years 4.3 million treatments were delivered in 40 districts using school [...] Differences at sub-district are more marked. This is partly explained by the fact that a CDD treats 5.8 people for every one treated in school. The range in cost effectiveness for both direct and direct
Evaluation of farm-level parameters derived from animal movements for use in risk-based surveillance programmes of cattle in Switzerland (Publications)
METHODS: A framework was developed to select farms for surveillance based on a risk score summarizing 5 parameters. The proposed framework was validated using data from the bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) s [...] parameters. Different cut offs; 50, 90, 95 and 99 %, were explored. The final scores ranged between 0 and 5. Validation of the scores against results from the BVD surveillance programme 2013 gave promising results
Discrepancy in plasma melarsoprol concentrations between HPLC and bioassay methods in patients with <em>T. gambiense</em> sleeping sickness indicates... (Publications)
samples were obtained before the first melarsoprol injection, immediately after and at 1 h, 24 h and 5 days after the 4th injection. Urine was collected before melarsoprol therapy and at 24 h after the 4th [...] as HPLC assays but at 1 h they were 4-65-fold higher than the levels assessed by HPLC. Even 24 h and 5 days after the 4th injection there was significant but decreasing activity. Urine levels were 40-260-fold