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1. Randomized, controlled trial of the long term safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of RTS,S/AS02D malaria vaccine in infants living in a... (Publications)

   Randomized, controlled trial of the long term safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of RTS,S/AS02D malaria vaccine in infants living in a malaria-endemic region

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   BACKGROUND: The RTS,S/AS malaria candidate vaccine is being developed with the intent to be delivered, if approved, through the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) of the World Health Organizatio

2. Molecular epidemiology of pneumococci obtained from Gambian children aged 2-29 months with invasive pneumococcal disease during a trial of a 9-valent... (Publications)

   Molecular epidemiology of pneumococci obtained from Gambian children aged 2-29 months with invasive pneumococcal disease during a trial of a 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

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   BACKGROUND: The study describes the molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease in Gambian children METHODS: One hundred and thirty-two S. pneumoniae isolates were reco

3. Comparative genomics of the anopheline glutathione s-transferase epsilon cluster (Publications)

   Comparative genomics of the anopheline glutathione s-transferase epsilon cluster

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   Enzymes of the glutathione S-transferase (GST) family play critical roles in detoxification of xenobiotics across many taxa. While GSTs are ubiquitous both in animals and plants, the GST epsilon class

4. Cardiac alterations in human African trypanosomiasis (<em>T.b. gambiense</em>) with respect to the disease stage and antiparasitic treatment (Publications)

   Cardiac alterations in human African trypanosomiasis (<em>T.b. gambiense</em>) with respect to the disease stage and antiparasitic treatment

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   BACKGROUND: In Human African Trypanosomiasis, neurological symptoms dominate and cardiac involvement has been suggested. Because of increasing resistance to the available drugs for HAT, new compounds

5. Health services for Buruli ulcer control: lessons from a field study in Ghana (Publications)

   Health services for Buruli ulcer control: lessons from a field study in Ghana

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   BACKGROUND: Buruli ulcer (BU), caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans infection, is a debilitating disease of the skin and underlying tissue. The first phase of a BU prevention and treatment programme (BUPa

6. Detectability of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> clones (Publications)

   Detectability of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> clones

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   ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In areas of high transmission people often harbour multiple clones of Plasmodium falciparum, but even PCR-based diagnostic methods can only detect a fraction (the detectability,

7. Achieving high coverage of larval-stage mosquito surveillance: challenges for a community-based mosquito control programme in urban Dar es Salaam,... (Publications)

   Achieving high coverage of larval-stage mosquito surveillance: challenges for a community-based mosquito control programme in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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   BACKGROUND: Preventing malaria by controlling mosquitoes in their larval stages requires regular sensitive monitoring of vector populations and intervention coverage. The study assessed the effectiven

8. Health and survival of young chlidren in southern Tanzania (Publications)

   Health and survival of young chlidren in southern Tanzania

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   BACKGROUND: With a view to developing health systems strategies to improve reach to high-risk groups, we present information on health and survival from household and health facility perspectives in f

9. Improvements in access to malaria treatment in Tanzania following community, retail sector and health facility interventions - a user perspective (Publications)

   Improvements in access to malaria treatment in Tanzania following community, retail sector and health facility interventions - a user perspective

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   BACKGROUND: The ACCESS programme aims at understanding and improving access to prompt and effective malaria treatment. Between 2004 and 2008 the programme implemented a social marketing campaign for i

10. Improvements in access to malaria treatment in Tanzania after switch to artemisinin combination therapy and the introduction of accredited drug... (Publications)

    Improvements in access to malaria treatment in Tanzania after switch to artemisinin combination therapy and the introduction of accredited drug dispensing outlets - a provider perspective

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    BACKGROUND: To improve access to treatment in the private retail sector a new class of outlets known as Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlets (ADDO) was created in Tanzania. Tanzania changed its first-li