Clinical TB Research (Page)
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factors for developing active tuberculosis among people living with HIV in Georgia 2019-2020 cohort. Open Forum Infect Dis . 2024;11(9):ofae466. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae466 Centner C.M et al. Reflex Xpert MTB/XDR [...] specimens: a clinical laboratory-based diagnostic accuracy and feasibility study in South Africa. Open Forum Infect Dis . 2024;11(8):ofae437. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae437 Further Projects Prospective Multicentre
Neglected Tropical Diseases: Then and Now (Page)
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against NTDs intensified. In October 2007, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases was launched as the first open-access, peer-reviewed journal entirely devoted to the NTDs. Since then, this journal has established [...] tablets in children aged 3 months to 6 years infected with Schistosoma in Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya: an open-label, partly randomised, phase 3 trial. " The Lancet. Infectious diseases vol. 23,7 (2023): 867-876 [...] patients with human African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma...
Child health and infection with low density (CHILD) malaria: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to assess the long-term health and... (Publications)
detecting and treating LMI in a low transmission setting. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The study is a 3-arm open-label individually randomised controlled trial enrolling 600 children aged 6 months to 10 years in
Risk factors for schistosomiasis in an urban area in northern Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
(odds ratio [OR] = 0.29, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.13-0.70) and abstaining from swimming in open freshwater bodies (OR = 0.16, 95% CI: 0.04-0.56) were significantly associated with decreased odds
Assessing the population coverage of a health demographic surveillance system using satellite imagery and crowd-sourcing (Publications)
System was established in the area that surrounds the Majete Wildlife Reserve (1600 km2), using the OpenHDS data system. We compared house locations obtained using GPS recordings on mobile devices during
Mass campaigns combining antimalarial drugs and anti-infective vaccines as seasonal interventions for malaria control, elimination and prevention of... (Publications)
threatened by resistance. METHODS: Malaria transmission and intervention dynamics were simulated using OpenMalaria, an individual-based simulation model of malaria transmission, by considering a seasonal t
Impact of a complex gender-transformative intervention on maternal and child health outcomes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: protocol of... (Publications)
Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews will be conducted. All narrative data will be coded (open coding) with the help of qualitative data analysis software (Atlas TI). DISCUSSION: Women's empowerment
Europe-wide high-spatial resolution air pollution models are improved by including traffic flow estimates on all roads (Publications)
Europe-wide air pollution models. We built separate random forests (RF) models for different road types in OpenStreetMap (highway, primary, secondary and tertiary, and residential roads). We collected observations
Soil-transmitted helminth infection in South America: a systematic review and geostatistical meta-analysis (Publications)
relevant survey prevalence data. We georeferenced 6948 survey locations and entered the data into the open-access Global Neglected Tropical Diseases database. Survey data were sparse for the south of the continent
Same day ART initiation versus clinic-based pre-ART assessment and counselling for individuals newly tested HIV-positive during community-based HIV... (Publications)
pre-ART assessment often requiring several clinic visits before ART-initiation. METHODS: This two-armed open-label randomized controlled trial compares in individuals tested HIV-positive during community-based
