Absence of hepatitis delta infection in a large rural HIV cohort in Tanzania (Publications)
III/IV HIV disease and median CD4 count was 179 cells/muL. The prevalence of anti-HDV positivity was 5.0% (95% confidence interval 2.8%-8.9%). There was no significant predictor of anti-HDV positivity. HDV
Antenatal care and skilled delivery service utilization in Somali pastoral communities of eastern Ethiopia (Publications)
confounders. RESULTS: 27% [95%CI 22.8-31.2%] of women used antenatal care and 22.6% [95%CI 18.7-26.5%] received skilled delivery service. None of the respondents reported postnatal care. 43% reported that
Synthesis, <em>in-vitro</em> antiprotozoal activity and molecular docking study of isothiocyanate derivatives (Publications)
exhibited antiplasmodial activity with IC50s in the range of 1.1-2.7microM and SI values between 1.1 and 14.5. The isothiocyanate derivative 7c showed against T. cruzi with an IC50 value of 1.9microM and SI 4.
Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis sequelae after treatment: a follow-up study 12 years after treatment (Publications)
were compared to before and immediately after treatment and to controls matched for sex and age (+/-5 years). In first stage HAT patients, the prevalence of all signs and symptoms decreased compared to
Detection of second line drug resistance among drug resistant <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> isolates in Botswana (Publications)
isolates analyzed, 33 (58%) were MDR-TB, 4 (7%) were additionally resistant to flouroquinolones and 3 (5%) were resistant to both fluoroquinolones and second-line injectable drugs. The most common fluoroquinolone
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for rapid identification of <em>Salmonella</em> spp. from agar and blood culture broth--an option for the... (Publications)
of 97.4% for environmental Salmonella spp. isolates, and sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 99.5% for blood culture materials. CONCLUSIONS: FISH proved to be highly reliable for a rapid identification
Spatio-temporal modelling of routine health facility data for malaria risk micro-stratification in mainland Tanzania (Publications)
parts of Tanzania. Approximately 11.7 million people lived in areas where malaria TPR was very low ( < 5%; 90% certainty). HF data can be used to identify different epidemiological strata and guide malaria
Recent advances on social determinants of mental health: looking fast forward (Publications)
on mental health outcomes. In this overview, the authors discuss the recent research, from the past 5 years, on advances made in SDOH work. SDOH frameworks and theories have expanded to include more social
Putative biomarkers of environmental enteric disease fail to correlate in a cross-sectional study in two study sites in Sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
proposed and are widely used in the field. Here, we assessed in a cross-sectional study of children aged 2-5 years for a large set of biomarkers including markers of protein exudation (duodenal and fecal alph
Different classes of genomic inserts contribute to human antibody diversity (Publications)
malaria parasites, non-VDJ inserts were detected in 80% of individuals at frequencies of 1 in 10(4) to 10(5) B cells. We detected insertions in heavy, but not in light chain or T cell receptor transcripts. We