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1. Glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes followed in a rural African primary care setting - a reality check in the Democratic Republic of... (Publications)

   Glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes followed in a rural African primary care setting - a reality check in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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   AIMS: The aim of this study was to assess diabetes control in adult patients with type II diabetes and to evaluate its association with socio-economic characteristics in rural the Democratic Republic

2. Facets of clinical stigma after attempted suicide in Mumbai, India (Publications)

   Facets of clinical stigma after attempted suicide in Mumbai, India

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   Community stigma studies may neglect clinically relevant experience and views of stigma that are important features of mental health problems. After attempting suicide, patients in a hospital emergenc

3. Nearly complete genome sequence of a novel phlebovirus-like virus detected in a human plasma sample by high-throughput sequencing (Publications)

   Nearly complete genome sequence of a novel phlebovirus-like virus detected in a human plasma sample by high-throughput sequencing

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   Here, we report a novel phlebovirus-like virus sequence detected in a plasma sample from a febrile adult patient collected in the United Republic of Tanzania in 2014. A nearly complete RNA sequence wa

4. Short course amphotericin B in addition to sertraline and fluconazole for treatment of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in rural Tanzania (Publications)

   Short course amphotericin B in addition to sertraline and fluconazole for treatment of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in rural Tanzania

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   BACKGROUND: Cryptococcal meningitis accounts for 15% of all AIDS-mortality globally. Most cases in low- and middle-income countries are treated with fluconazole monotherapy, which is associated with a

5. Dog ecology, bite incidence, and disease awareness: a cross-sectional survey among a rabies-affected community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)

   Dog ecology, bite incidence, and disease awareness: a cross-sectional survey among a rabies-affected community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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   Despite the existence of safe and efficacious human and animal rabies vaccines, millions of people remain at risk of exposure to this deadly zoonotic disease through bites of infected dogs. Sub-Sahara

6. Short-term associations between daily mortality and ambient particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and the air quality index in a Middle Eastern... (Publications)

   Short-term associations between daily mortality and ambient particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and the air quality index in a Middle Eastern megacity

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   There is limited evidence for short-term association between mortality and ambient air pollution in the Middle East and no study has evaluated exposure windows of about a month prior to death. We inve

7. Safety and tolerance of lymph node biopsies from chronic HIV-1 volunteers in rural Tanzania (Publications)

   Safety and tolerance of lymph node biopsies from chronic HIV-1 volunteers in rural Tanzania

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   OBJECTIVE: HIV-1 rapidly establishes a persistent infection that can be contained under life-long antiretroviral therapy (ART) but not cured. One major viral reservoir is the peripheral lymph node (LN

8. Genome-wide mutational biases fuel transcriptional diversity in the <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex (Publications)

   Genome-wide mutational biases fuel transcriptional diversity in the <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex

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   The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) members display different host-specificities and virulence phenotypes. Here, we have performed a comprehensive RNAseq and methylome analysis of the main c

9. Governance to address health systems pitfalls of antibiotics overuse in low- and middle-income countries (Publications)

   Governance to address health systems pitfalls of antibiotics overuse in low- and middle-income countries

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10. Host cytoskeleton remodeling throughout the blood stages of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)

    Host cytoskeleton remodeling throughout the blood stages of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>

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    SUMMARYThe asexual intraerythrocytic development of Plasmodium falciparum, causing the most severe form of human malaria, is marked by extensive host cell remodeling. Throughout the processes of invas