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Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Pneumocystis Pneumonia

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 2020
In human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is a wellk-nown opportunistic infection and its management has been established.
Sadatomo Tasaka, M.D.
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Imported Melioidosis, Israel, 2008

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
In 2008, melioidosis was diagnosed in an agricultural worker from Thailand in the southern Jordan Valley in Israel. He had newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus, fever, multiple abscesses, and osteomyelitis.
Avivit Cahn, Benjamin Koslowsky, Ran Nir-Paz, Violeta Temper, Nurit Hiller, Alla Karlinsky, Itzhak Gur, Carlos Hidalgo-Grass, Samuel N. Heyman, Allon E. Moses, Colin Block   +10 more
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Mode of action and choice of antimalarial drugs for intermittent preventive treatment in infants.

, 2009
Intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) is an effective and safe malaria control strategy. However, it remains unclear what antimalarials should be used to replace sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) when and where SP is no longer an effective ...
Cairns, Matthew, Gosling, Roly, Gesase, Samwel, Mosha, Jacklin, Greenwood, Brian, Chandramohan, Daniel   +5 more
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Malaria prevention in travelling children

South African Family Practice, 2012
Preventing malaria in children is often neglected. Prevention is very important, as malaria is still a significant cause of childhood mortality. Parents must be aware that the same measures must be taken by children to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes ...
S. Mathijs
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Phytochemical Profiling and Cytotoxic Potential of Musa acuminata Stem Extracts against Transformed Dysplastic Oral Keratinocytes (T-DOK): An In vitro Chemoprevention Study

Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology
Background: Oral cancers are often preceded with precancers, which paves the way for chemoprevention. Musa acuminata rich in phytochemical bioactives can serve as novel preference. Objective: To analyze the phytochemical bioactives of Musa acuminata (red
E. Gracelin Ranjitha, N. Rakesh, Angeline Deepthi, Deepu George Mathew, J. Venkatesh, Kandasamy Murugan   +5 more
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Managing Re-emergent Malaria in South Africa

South African Family Practice, 1999
Malaria is a re-emerging disease in South Africa with a sustained upward trend in case incidence and deaths in the past two decades. Burgeoning travel by non-immune travelers into malaria areas, parasite carriers and infected mosquitoes into malaria-free
David N. Durrheim, Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo, Lucille Blumberg   +2 more
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Antibiotics for eradicating meningococcal carriages: Network meta-analysis and investigation of evidence inconsistency [PDF]

, 2016
AIM: To compare different antibiotics for eradicating the carriage of Neisseria meningitidis, and to investigate heterogeneity and evidence inconsistency.
Abdelhamid, Asmaa, Abubakar, Ibrahim, Loke, Yoon, Song, Fujian   +3 more
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Factors of postembryonic ontogeny: relationship with the effectiveness of tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis in children

Zdorovʹe Rebenka
Background. A child’s body as a functional system is formed starting from the fetal period. Therefore, analysis of even distant in time situations allows to identify factors that affect the functioning of the child’s body in the present time and ...
K.I. Bodnia, A.M. Zosimov, І.M. Asoyan, V.V. Kondratyuk, T.І. Navet, E.M. Khodosh, V.D. Makarenko   +6 more
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Prevention of infectious diseases in athletes. [PDF]

, 2007
The sports medicine physician may face challenging issues regarding infectious diseases when dealing with teams or highly competitive athletes who have difficulties taking time off to recover.
d'Hemecourt, Pierre, Luke, Anthony
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Analysis of black holes in our knowledge concerning animal health in the organic food production chain [PDF]

, 2003
Although a large body of research on health aspects can be found via the web or in conference proceedings, only few papers reach the peer reviewed literature.
Eijck, Ineke, Groot, Maria, Kasteel, Daniella, Kijlstra, Aize, Roest, van der, Joop   +4 more
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