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Sexual risk during pregnancy and postpartum periods among HIV-infected and –uninfected South African women: Implications for primary and secondary HIV prevention interventions
BACKGROUND: HIV acquisition in pregnancy and breastfeeding contributes significantly toward pediatric HIV infection. However, little is known about how sexual …
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Characterizing the metabolic phenotype of intestinal villus blunting in Zambian children with severe acute malnutrition and persistent diarrhea
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is widespread throughout the tropics and in children is associated with stunting and other adverse …
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Phylogenetic analyses and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Campylobacter spp. from diarrhoeal patients and chickens in Botswana
Campylobacter spp. are a leading cause of bacterial enteritis worldwide, including countries in Africa, and have been identified by the …
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Reaching young women who sell sex: Methods and results of social mapping to describe and identify young women for DREAMS impact evaluation in Zimbabwe
Young women (aged 15-24) who exchange sex for money or other support are among the highest risk groups for HIV …
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Proportion and predictors of transfusion-transmissible infections among blood donors in North Shewa Zone, Central North Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) pose a significant challenge for the availability and safety of blood transfusion. The aim of this …
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Optimal mode for delivery of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Ouelessebougou, Mali: A cluster randomized trial
BACKGROUND: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), the administration of complete therapeutic courses of antimalarials to children aged 3-59 months during the …
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Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) can reverse the amyloid state of fibrin seen or induced in Parkinson's disease
The thrombin-induced polymerisation of fibrinogen to form fibrin is well established as a late stage of blood clotting. It is …
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Newly identified colistin resistance genes, mcr-4 and mcr-5, from upper and lower alimentary tract of pigs and poultry in China
Antimicrobial resistance against colistin has emerged worldwide threatening the efficacy of one of the last-resort antimicrobials used for the treatment …
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Social ecological factors and intimate partner violence in pregnancy
BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy increases adverse pregnancy outcomes. Knowledge of societal, community, family and individual related factors …
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Acquisition of extended spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae in neonates: A community based cohort in Madagascar
In low and middle income countries (LMICs), where the burden of neonatal sepsis is the highest, the spread of extended …
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IL-17A, IL-17RC polymorphisms and IL17 plasma levels in Tunisian patients with rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: Interleukin-17 (IL-17), a cytokine mainly secreted by Th17 cells, seems to play a significant role in the pathogenesis of …
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HIV testing in a South African Emergency Department: A missed opportunity
BACKGROUND: South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with 19% of the global number of people living …
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Biomolecular study of human thymidylate synthase conformer-selective inhibitors: New chemotherapeutic approach
Thymidylate synthase (TS) is a well-validated target for the therapy of adult cancers. Propane-1,3-diphosphonic acid (PDPA) has significant inhibitory properties …
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Investigation of the seasonal microbiome of Anopheles coluzzii mosquitoes in Mali
The poorly understood mechanisms of dry season persistence of Anopheles spp. mosquitoes through the dry season in Africa remain a …
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Risk of heavy metal ingestion from the consumption of two commercially valuable species of fish from the fresh and coastal waters of Ghana
BACKGROUND: The need to evaluate the human health safety of fishery resources remain urgent in the mist of the ever-increasing …
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A qualitative study on the experiences and perspectives of public sector patients in Cape Town in managing the workload of demands of HIV and type 2 diabetes multimorbidity
BACKGROUND: Current South African health policy for chronic disease management proposes integration of chronic services for better outcomes for chronic …
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Listening to the community: Using formative research to strengthen maternity waiting homes in Zambia
BACKGROUND: The WHO recommends maternity waiting homes (MWH) as one intervention to improve maternal and newborn health. However, persistent structural, …
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The double burden of disease and the challenge of health access: Evidence from Access, Bottlenecks, Cost and Equity facility survey in Ghana
Despite the double burden of infectious and chronic non-communicable diseases in Africa, health care expenditure disproportionately favours infectious diseases. In …
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Multidisease testing for HIV and TB using the GeneXpert platform: A feasibility study in rural Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: HIV Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis technologies in many high burden settings are restricted to centralized laboratory testing, …
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First aid knowledge, attitude, practice, and associated factors among kindergarten teachers of Lideta sub-city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Injuries are very common and can occur at any point of time in a day. Unintended injuries in kindergarten …