Spatial and socio-demographic determinants of contraceptive use in the upper east region of Ghana (Publications)
BACKGROUND: This paper presents results of baseline data on the determinants of contraceptive use in 7 districts in northern Ghana where there is an ongoing integrated primary health care systems stre
Diversity of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>and drug resistance in different provinces of Papua New Guinea (Publications)
BackgroundPapua New Guinea (PNG) is a high tuberculosis (TB) burden country of the WHO Western Pacific Region, but so far research on drug resistance (DR) and genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (
<em>Mycobacterium africanum</em> is associated with patient ethnicity in Ghana (Publications)
Mycobacterium africanum is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and an important cause of human tuberculosis in West Africa that is rarely observed elsewhere. Here we genotyped 61
Spatial distribution of heavy metals in soil, water, and vegetables of farms in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Heavy metals are ubiquitous elsewhere in nature and their measurement in environment is necessary to develop health management strategies. In this study, we aimed to find out concentration