Efficacy and safety of mefloquine, artesunate, mefloquine-artesunate, tribendimidine, and praziquantel in patients with <em>Opisthorchis... (Publications)
19 with tribendimidine (1.87, 0.60-5.85). Egg reduction rate was 98.4% for praziquantel, 30.2% for mefloquine (egg reduction-rate ratio 1.61, 95% CI 0.21-0.72), 31.5% for artesunate (0.43, 0.23-0.80),
Pregnancy-related morbidity and risk factors for fatal foetal outcomes in the Taabo health and demographic surveillance system, Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
non-receipt of preventive treatment such as iron/folic acid supplementation (aOR = 3.15; 95% CI 1.71-5.80), only two doses of tetanus vaccination (aOR = 2.59; 95% CI 1.56-4.30), malaria during pregnancy [...] and delivery by caesarean section (aOR = 13.03; 95% CI 4.24-40.08) or by instrumental delivery (aOR = 5.05; 95% CI 1.50-16.96). Women who paid for delivery were at a significantly lower odds of a fatal foetal
Different aspects of electronic media use, symptoms and neurocognitive outcomes of children and adolescents in the rural Western Cape region of South... (Publications)
cohort (31.8%) are mobile phone users reporting average duration of calls per day up to 75 min (mean = 2.5 mins; SD = 8.9 mins). Amongst 46% of the cohort who report e-media device use, total screen time ranged [...] disturbance score increased by 2.0 (1.1, 2.9) units and headache impact score significantly increased by 5.4 (2.6; 8.2) units compared to non-exposed. Cognitive performance scores tended to be slightly improved
The duration of chemoprophylaxis against malaria after treatment with artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine and the effects of <em>pfmdr1... (Publications)
to 1.5-fold longer protection than AS-AQ. Our simulations found that these differences in the duration of protection could alter population-level clinical incidence of malaria by up to 14% in under-5-year-old
Burden of rabies in Mali (Publications)
We estimate that in the year 2016 133 [95% Confidence Interval (95%CI) 87-186] people died and that 5'366 [95%CI 3'510-7'504] years of life (YLL) were lost and in 2017 et 136 [95%CI 96-181] people died [...] [IC 95% 3'913-7'377] YLLs were lost. The loss of income was estimated at 3.2 million USD [95%CI 2,1-4,5] en 2016, and 3,3 million USD [95%CI 2,3-4,4] in 2017. This represents the highest financial loss from
Tolerability of malaria chemoprophylaxis in non-immune travellers to sub-Saharan Africa: multicentre, randomised, double blind, four arm study (Publications)
chloroquine and proguanil arm (n = 12; 8%, 4% to 13% versus doxycycline, n = 5; 3%, 1% to 6%; atovaquone and proguanil, n = 4; 2%, 0% to 5%; mefloquine, n = 2; 1%, 0% to 3%: P = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: Combined
Health and survival of young chlidren in southern Tanzania (Publications)
Infant mortality was higher in families living over 5 km from their nearest health facility compared to those living closer (RR 1.25, CI 1.0 - 1.5): 75% of households live within this distance. CONCLUSION:
Targeted subsidy for malaria control with treated nets using a discount voucher system in Tanzania (Publications)
involved focus group discussions with community leaders, male and female parents of children under 5 years. In-depth interviews were held with maternal and child health clinic staff and retail agents. [...] Quantitative data were collected through interviewing more than 750 mothers of children under 5 years during a cluster sample survey of child health. The voucher return rate was extremely high at 97%
Early manifestations (pre-AIDS) of HIV-1 infection in Uganda (Publications)
[95% confidence interval (CI), 40-61] were still asymptomatic 2 years after seroconversion. At 4 and 5 years after seroconversion, only 26% (95% CI, 17-36) and 11% (95% CI, 4-22), respectively, remained [...] World Health Organization (WHO) stage 2, and their main stage-defining conditions were weight loss 5%) and minor mucocutaneous manifestations. The median CD4 lymphocyte count for participants entering
Hydrogen sulfide removal by <em>Thiobacillus thioparus</em> bacteria on seashell bed biofilters (Publications)
seashells with 63% porosity which contains Thiobacillus thioparus bacteria to the maximum height of 27.5 cm. By mixing phosphoric acid and sodium sulfide, H2S gas is released and its concentration is measured [...] 77-93% and the optimum temperature required for growing of the microorganisms is retained between 20.5-30 degrees C. After feeding the system for three weeks the efficiency started to increase so that by