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Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the stool of HIV sero-positive individuals suspected of pulmonary tuberculosis
BACKGROUND: The impact of tuberculosis (TB) is exacerbated in Africa because of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic. Pulmonary tuberculosis …
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Measuring three aspects of motivation among health workers at primary level health facilities in rural Tanzania
BACKGROUND: The threshold of 2.3 skilled health workers per 1,000 population, published in the World Health Report in 2006, has …
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Ending preventable maternal and child deaths in western Nigeria: Do women utilize the life lines?
INTRODUCTION: Nigeria which constitutes just one percent of the world population, accounts for 13% of the world maternal and under-five …
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Perturbed adipose tissue hydrogen peroxide metabolism in centrally obese men: Association with insulin resistance
OBJECTIVE: Although adipose tissue hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and its metabolizing enzymes have been linked to obesity and insulin resistance in …
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Unconditional government cash transfers in support of orphaned and vulnerable adolescents in western Kenya: Is there an association with psychological wellbeing?
BACKGROUND: Orphaned and vulnerable adolescents (OVA) in sub-Saharan Africa are at greater risk for adverse psychological outcomes compared with their …
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Randomized trial of stopping or continuing ART among postpartum women with pre-ART CD4 ≥ 400 cells/mm3
BACKGROUND: Health benefits of postpartum antiretroviral therapy (ART) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive women with high CD4+ T-counts have …
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Percutaneous coronary intervention with second-generation drug-eluting stent versus bare-metal stent: Systematic review and cost–benefit analysis
BACKGROUND: Drug-eluting stents (DESs) were considered as ground-breaking technology promising to eradicate restenosis and the necessity to perform multiple revascularization …
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Transcriptomic analysis of salt stress responsive genes in Rhazya stricta
Rhazya stricta is an evergreen shrub that is widely distributed across Western and South Asia, and like many other members …
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Prevalence and determinants of asthma in adults in Kinshasa
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological data on asthma among adults in sub-Saharan Africa are sparse. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of and factors …
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Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains
The distribution of flowering across the growing season is governed by each species' evolutionary history and climatic variability. However, global …
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Ultra-deep sequencing reveals high prevalence and broad structural diversity of hepatitis B surface antigen mutations in a global population
The diversity of the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) has a significant impact on the performance of diagnostic screening tests …
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Epidemiology of influenza B/Yamagata and B/Victoria lineages in South Africa, 2005-2014
BACKGROUND: Studies describing the epidemiology of influenza B lineages in South Africa are lacking. METHODS: We conducted a prospective study …
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Influence of the ferric uptake regulator (Fur) protein on pathogenicity in Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. brasiliense
Iron is an important nutrient for the survival and growth of many organisms. In order to survive, iron uptake from …
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Beyond causes of death: The social determinants of mortality among children aged 1-59 months in Nigeria from 2009 to 2013
BACKGROUND: Millions of children worldwide suffer and die from conditions for which effective interventions exist. While there is ample evidence …
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Macroscale patterns in body size of intertidal crustaceans provide insights on climate change effects
Predicting responses of coastal ecosystems to altered sea surface temperatures (SST) associated with global climate change, requires knowledge of demographic …
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Effects of flood irrigation on the risk of selected zoonotic pathogens in an arid and semi-arid area in the eastern Kenya
To investigate the effects of irrigation on land cover changes and the risk of selected zoonotic pathogens, we carried out …
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Unmasking inequalities: Sub-national maternal and child mortality data from two urban slums in Lagos, Nigeria tells the story
INTRODUCTION: Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world as well as high perinatal mortality. Unfortunately, …
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Structure of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) diversity in West Africa covaries with a climatic gradient
Sub-Saharan agriculture has been identified as vulnerable to ongoing climate change. Adaptation of agriculture has been suggested as a way …
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Indoor residual spraying with micro-encapsulated pirimiphos-methyl (Actellic® 300CS) against malaria vectors in the Lake Victoria basin, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: The indoor residual spraying programme for malaria vectors control was implemented in four districts of the Lake Victoria basin …
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An African grassland responds similarly to long-term fertilization to the Park Grass experiment
We compared the results of a long-term (65 years) experiment in a South African grassland with the world's longest-running ecological …