Maternal mortality and distance to facility-based obstetric care in rural southern Tanzania: a secondary analysis of cross-sectional census data in... (Publications)
to distance, with mortality increasing from 111 per 100?000 livebirths among women who lived within 5 km to 422 deaths per 100?000 livebirths among those who lived more than 35 km from a hospital (adjusted [...] indirect maternal mortality was associated with distance to hospital. Among women who lived within 5 km of a hospital, pregnancy-related mortality was 664 deaths per 100?000 livebirths even though 72%
Rubella control in Papua New Guinea: age-specific immunity informs strategies for introduction of rubella vaccine (Publications)
infection. Of women more than 15 years of age, 91.6% (95% CI: 89.4-93.5) were immune. The force of infection was highest between 5 and 19 years of age.CONCLUSIONS: Although a population-based sample was
Years of life lost attributable to air pollution in Switzerland: dynamic exposure-response model (Publications)
time constant k of 0.5 resulted in 42 400 (95% CI 22 600-63 600) YLLs, with 4.0% being ascribed to infant deaths. A total of 39% of the effect occurred in the same year and 80% within 5 years. The estimated
Repeated cross-sectional skin testing for bovine tuberculosis in cattle kept in a traditional husbandry system in Ethiopia (Publications)
cent). Due to the low apparent prevalence, the true prevalence could be calculated only in Meskan (4.5 per cent) and Bako-Gazer (2.4 per cent) for the more than 2 mm cut-off. With the exception of Meskan [...] per cent CI 1.4 to 2.6, respectively), as were animals in good body condition (OR 2, 95 per cent CI 1.5 to 2.9). Similar results were found at woreda level with the exception of Woldia, where none of the
Evaluation of antiprotozoal and plasmodial enoyl-ACP reductase inhibition potential of turkish medicinal plants (Publications)
potent antiplasmodial activity was observed with the CHCl(3) extracts of Phlomis kurdica (IC(50) 1.5 microg[sol ]mL), P. leucophracta (IC(50) 1.6 microg[sol ]mL), Scrophularia cryptophila (IC(50) 1.8 [...] (IC(50) 1.6 microg[sol ]mL). Twenty-one extracts with significant antimalarial activity (IC(50) < 5 microg[sol ]mL) were also tested for their ability to inhibit the purified enoyl-ACP reductase (FabI)
A phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African infants (Publications)
candidate malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 reduced episodes of both clinical and severe malaria in children 5 to 17 months of age by approximately 50% in an ongoing phase 3 trial. We studied infants 6 to 12 weeks [...] confidence interval [CI], 23.6 to 36.1). Vaccine efficacy in the per-protocol population was 31.3% (97.5% CI, 23.6 to 38.3). Vaccine efficacy against severe malaria was 26.0% (95% CI, -7.4 to 48.6) in the
An analysis of interprovincial migration in Vietnam from 1989 to 2009 (Publications)
sample survey in the 2009 Population and Housing Census, the 3% sample in the 1999 national census, the 5% sample in the 1989 national census, and selected data from the 2008 Vietnam Household Living Standards [...] c factors related to migration.Results: In 2009, of 6.7 million internal migrants (approximately 6.5% of the total population), 3.4 million were interprovincial migrants. Three notable trends were observed
HPLC-based activity profiling for antiplasmodial compounds in the traditional Indonesian medicinal plant <em>Carica papaya</em> L (Publications)
HPLC-MS and MPLC-ELSD. Structures were established by HR-ESI-MS and NMR spectroscopy. For compounds 5 and 7 absolute configuration was confirmed by comparison of experimental and calculated electronic circular [...] nicotiflorin. Five compounds isolated from the alkaloidal fraction were piperidine alkaloids. Compounds 5 and 6 were inactive carpamic acid and methyl carpamate, while three alkaloids 7-9 showed high antiplasmodial
Screening mammographies in Switzerland: what makes female and male physicians prescribe them? (Publications)
es more often than their colleagues from the German-speaking part (odds ratio OR 2.5; 95% confidence interval CI 1.5-4.2). Clinical practice in obstetrics/gynaecology (OR 2.4; CI 1.3-4.2) and a self-reported
Sensory modulation of voluntary and TMS-induced activation in hand muscles (Publications)
noxious D2 and digit V (D5) stimulation. Then, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to evoke MEPs in the same hand muscles at rest-conditioned by equal noxious D2 or D5 stimulation and individually