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Impact of five annual rounds of mass drug administration with ivermectin on onchocerciasis in Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis is endemic in 12 of the 14 health districts of Sierra Leone. Good treatment coverage of community-directed treatment …
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Schistosomiasis in Zambia: a systematic review of past and present experiences
BACKGROUND: The speedy rate of change in the environmental and socio-economics factors may increase the incidence, prevalence and risk of …
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Mobile population dynamics and malaria vulnerability: a modelling study in the China-Myanmar border region of Yunnan Province, China
The China-Myanmar border region presents a great challenge in malaria elimination in China, and it is essential to understand the …
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A retrospective cohort study of body mass index and survival in HIV infected patients with and without TB co-infection
High early morbidity and mortality following antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation has been a distinguishing feature of ART programmes in resource …
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Aerobic bacteria associated with chronic suppurative otitis media in Angola
BACKGROUND: Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is an important cause of hearing loss in children and constitutes a serious health …
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Re-emerging Lassa fever outbreaks in Nigeria: Re-enforcing “One Health” community surveillance and emergency response practice
We evaluated the impact of man-made conflict events and climate change impact in guiding evidence-based community "One Health" epidemiology and …
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Assessment of household ownership of bed nets in areas with and without artemisinin resistance containment measures in Myanmar
BACKGROUND: Myanmar lies in the Greater Mekong Subregion where there is artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. As the artemisinin compound is …
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Molecular epidemiology of Giardia duodenalis infection in humans in Southern Ethiopia: a triosephosphate isomerase gene-targeted analysis
BACKGROUND: Giardia duodenalis is a species complex consisting of multiple genetically distinct assemblages. The species imposes a major public health …
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Spatial distribution of leprosy in India: an ecological study
BACKGROUND: As leprosy elimination becomes an increasingly realistic goal, it is essential to determine the factors that contribute to its …
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Distinct clinical characteristics and helminth co-infections in adult tuberculosis patients from urban compared to rural Tanzania
Differences in rural and urban settings could account for distinct characteristics in the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB). We comparatively studied …
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Report of the first international workshop on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy
BACKGROUND: Recently, several epidemiological studies performed in Onchocerca volvulus-endemic regions have suggested that onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE) may constitute an important …
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Differentiating snail intermediate hosts of Schistosoma spp. using molecular approaches: fundamental to successful integrated control mechanism in Africa
BACKGROUND: Snail intermediate hosts play active roles in the transmission of snail-borne trematode infections in Africa. A good knowledge of …
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Temporo-spatial dynamics and behavioural patterns of 2012 cholera epidemic in the African mega-city of Conakry, Guinea
BACKGROUND: Cholera is endemic in Guinea, having suffered consecutive outbreaks from 2004 to 2008 followed by a lull until the …
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Management of dog bites by frontline service providers in primary healthcare facilities in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, 2014–2015
BACKGROUND: Dog bites are common in developing countries including Ghana, with the victims often being children. Although some breeds of …
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Yield of tuberculosis among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in Accra, Ghana
BACKGROUND: The End TB Strategy calls for systematic screening of selected high-risk groups including contacts of tuberculosis (TB) cases to …
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Treatment outcomes of tuberculosis patients under directly observed treatment short-course at Debre Tabor General Hospital, northwest Ethiopia: nine-years retrospective study
BACKGROUND: Data regarding tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes, proportion of TB/HIV co-infection and associated factors have been released at different TB …
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Sensitive detection of HIV-1 resistance to Zidovudine and impact on treatment outcomes in low- to middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Thymidine analogs, namely AZT (Zidovudine or Retrovir™) and d4T (Stavudine or Zerit™) are antiretroviral drugs still employed in over …
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Effects of sociodemographic characteristics and patients’ health beliefs on tuberculosis treatment adherence in Ethiopia: a structural equation modelling approach
BACKGROUND: Patients' beliefs are a major factor affecting tuberculosis (TB) treatment adherence. However, there has been little use of Health …
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Applying tuberculosis management time to measure the tuberculosis infectious pool at a local level in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Measuring the size of the infectious pool of tuberculosis (TB) is essential to understand the burden and monitor trends …
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Therapeutic efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: As Ethiopia is one of the sub-Saharan countries with a great burden of malaria the effectiveness of first line …