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1. Time to move from presumptive malaria treatment to laboratory-confirmed diagnosis and treatment in African children with fever (Publications)

   Time to move from presumptive malaria treatment to laboratory-confirmed diagnosis and treatment in African children with fever

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   BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE: Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub

2. Simulated impact of RTS,S/AS01 vaccination programs in the context of changing malaria transmission (Publications)

   Simulated impact of RTS,S/AS01 vaccination programs in the context of changing malaria transmission

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   INTRODUCTION: The RTS,S/AS01 pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccine is in phase III clinical trials. It is critical to anticipate where and how it should be implemented if trials are successful. Such planni

3. Viral hepatitis and rapid diagnostic test based screening for HBsAg in HIV-infected patients in rural Tanzania (Publications)

   Viral hepatitis and rapid diagnostic test based screening for HBsAg in HIV-infected patients in rural Tanzania

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   BACKGROUND: Co-infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is highly prevalent in people living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Screening for HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) before initiation of combination an

4. Design, implementation and evaluation of a national campaign to distribute nine million free LLINs to children under five years of age in Tanzania (Publications)

   Design, implementation and evaluation of a national campaign to distribute nine million free LLINs to children under five years of age in Tanzania

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   ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: After a national voucher scheme in 2004 provided pregnant women and infants with highly subsidized insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), use among children under five years (U5s) in m

5. Non-specific esterases during development of culicine mosquitoes (Publications)

   Non-specific esterases during development of culicine mosquitoes

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6. Eine neue Antilopenlaus, Linognathus geigyi nov. spec. (Publications)

   Eine neue Antilopenlaus, Linognathus geigyi nov. spec.

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7. Gender differences in disordered eating and weight dissatisfaction in Swiss adults: which factors matter? (Publications)

   Gender differences in disordered eating and weight dissatisfaction in Swiss adults: which factors matter?

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   BACKGROUND: Research results from large, national population-based studies investigating gender differences in weight dissatisfaction and disordered eating across the adult life span are still limited

8. Systems thinking for health systems strengthening (Publications)

   Systems thinking for health systems strengthening

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9. Efficacy and safety of praziquantel in preschool-aged children in an area co-endemic for <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> and <em>S. haematobium</em> (Publications)

   Efficacy and safety of praziquantel in preschool-aged children in an area co-endemic for <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> and <em>S. haematobium</em>

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   BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa the recommended strategy to control schistosomiasis is preventive chemotherapy. Emphasis is placed on school-aged children, but in high endemicity areas, preschool-ag

10. Formation of the circumsporozoite protein of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> in <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> (Publications)

    Formation of the circumsporozoite protein of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> in <em>Anopheles stephensi</em>

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    The place and time of synthesis of the circumsporozoite protein of P. falciparum was analysed with a monoclonal antibody directed against the (NANP)3 repetitive epitope of the CS protein. By using an