The Washington aerial spray drift study: modeling pesticide spray drift deposition from an aerial application (Publications)
application guidelines. The calibrated model also provided 15-min time-resolved deposition images over the 5-h application period. These time-resolved maps revealed that actual community deposition occurred in
Prognostic indicators of early and late death in children admitted to district hospital in Kenya: cohort study (Publications)
MEASURES: Prognostic indicators of mortality. RESULTS: Of 8091 children admitted up to 1 June 2000, 436 (5%) died. Sixty (14%) died within four hours after admission (immediate), 193 (44%) after 4-48 hours (early)
Sleeping hearts: the role of the heart in sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) (Publications)
consistent with heart failure such as exertional dyspnoea (19%vs. 1.7%; P = 0.002) or palpitations (18%vs. 5%; P = 0.28) occurred more frequently in patients than in controls. The median NT-proBNP was significantly
Anti-protozoal activity of aporphine and protoberberine alkaloids from <em>Annickia kummeriae</em> (Engl. & Diels) Setten & Maas (Annonaceae) (Publications)
(2), palmatine (3), jatrorrhizine (4) and two sets of mixtures of jatrorrhizine (4) with columbamine (5) and palmatine (3) with (-)-tetrahydropalmatine (6). The alkaloids showed low cytotoxicity activity
Risk of latent tuberculosis infection in children living in households with tuberculosis patients: a cross sectional survey in remote northern Lao... (Publications)
sputum prior to treatment (AFB > 2+; OR: 4.7, 95% CI: 1.7-12.3), and living in ethnic minorities (OR: 5.4, 95% CI: 2.2-13.6). CONCLUSION: The study supports the importance of contact tracing in remote settings
The epidemiology of multiple <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections. 8. Effect of iron supplementation and malaria prophylaxis in infants on... (Publications)
under conditions of intense transmission, all samples of P. falciparum obtained from children aged 5 and 8 months were genotyped by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis
Air pollution and respiratory symptoms in preschool children (Publications)
A diary study on a random sample of 625 Swiss children aged 0 to 5 yr was conducted in two cities in Switzerland to investigate the association between air pollution and respiratory symptoms. Total suspended
Estimated global resources needed to attain international malaria control goals (Publications)
45 billion will be required from 2006 to 2015. The average cost during this period is US$ 3.8 to 4.5 billion per year. The average costs for Africa are US$ 1.7 billion and US$ 2.2 billion per year in the
Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) II: epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) (Publications)
periphery and surrounding rural areas, respectively. Health facilities surveys showed that only 37/717 (5.2%) of presenting fever cases and 22/781 (2.8%) of non-fever cases were positive by blood slide. As
The European Community Respiratory Health Survey II (Publications)
been collated and the programme of monitoring particles with a 50% cut-off aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 µm has been completed in 21 centres in 10 countries