Maternal age at delivery, lung function and asthma in offspring: a population-based survey (Publications)
92) and respiratory symptoms (OR 0.87, 95% CI 0.82-0.92) decreased with increasing maternal age (per 5 years) in females, but not in males (pinteraction 0.05 and 0.001, respectively). The results were consistent
Prognostic value of quickSOFA as a predictor of 28-day mortality among febrile adult patients presenting to emergency departments in Dar es Salaam,... (Publications)
causes of infections were the respiratory tract (43%), dengue (26%), malaria (6%) and typhoid fever (5%). Twenty-eight-day all-cause mortality was 6%: 3% for patients with a qSOFA /=2 (absolute difference
The importance of dog population contact network structures in rabies transmission (Publications)
contact sensors recorded the location and contacts of 237 domestic dogs in N'Djamena over a period of 3.5 days. The contact network data showed that urban dogs are socially related to larger communities and
<em>Schistosoma japonicum</em>: effect of artemether on glutathione <em>S</em>-transferase and superoxide dismutase (Publications)
inhibitions were observed at the higher dose of artemether, which gradually increased to levels of 52.5-55.1%, 72 h post-treatment. GST inhibitions could be reversed by application of 1,4-dithiothreitol at
FLOTAC: a new sensitive technique for the diagnosis of hookworm infections in humans (Publications)
of eggs per gram of stool (155.8 EPG) compared with the FLOTAC (37.7 EPG) and ether concentration (5.7 EPG) methods. The FLOTAC method shows promise as an important new tool for individual hookworm diagnosis
Acute gastroenteritis in primary care: a longitudinal study in the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network, Sentinella (Publications)
patients received dietary recommendations and/or medical prescriptions; antibiotics were prescribed in 8.5%. Stool testing was initiated in 12.3% of cases; more frequently in patients reporting recent travel
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
Kinetic characterization of squalene synthase from<em> Trypanosoma cruzi:</em> selective inhibition by quinuclidine derivatives (Publications)
The Michaelis-Menten constants of the purified enzyme for farnesyl diphosphate and NAD (NADPH) were 5.25 and 23.34 microM, respectively, whereas the V(max) was 1,428.56 nmol min(-1)mg(-1). Several quinuclidine
An evaluation of urine-CCA strip test and fingerprick blood SEA-ELISA for detection of urinary schistosomiasis in schoolchildren in Zanzibar (Publications)
haematobium was 30.7% (95% confidence interval (CI)=23.4-38.7%) and a total of 35.3% (95% CI=27.7-43.5%) and 8.0% (95% CI=4.2-13.6%) children presented with micro- and macro-haematuria, respectively. Diagnostic
Sex differentials in the uptake of antiretroviral treatment in Zambia (Publications)
significantly larger proportion of men (32.7%) than women (25.6%) did not uptake ART (Pearson ?2 = 5.9135; p = 0.015). In the crude analysis, poor health status and low self-efficacy were common factors