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Laboratory confirmation of Buruli ulcer disease in Togo, 2007-2010. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
BACKGROUND: Since the early 1990s more than 1,800 patients with lesions suspicious for Buruli ulcer disease (BUD) have been reported from Togo. However, less than five percent of these were laboratory confirmed.
Gisela Bretzel, Kristina Lydia Huber, Basil Kobara, Marcus Beissner, Ebekalisai Piten, Karl-Heinz Herbinger, Franz Xaver Wiedemann, Komi Amekuse, Abiba Banla Kere, Kerstin Helfrich, Erna Fleischmann, Thomas Löscher, Adolf Diefenhardt, Jörg Nitschke   +13 more
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Health Worker Practices, Facilitators and Barriers towards the Intensified Case-Finding Tuberculosis Screening Tool in Uganda [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract Introduction Although the Tuberculosis (TB) Intensified Case Finding (ICF) tool was introduced in 2011, only 15.7% of the estimated 35 million people living with HIV were screened for TB in 2013.
Kakinda, Michael, Matovu, Joseph K.B, Obuku, Ekwaro A   +2 more
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Tuberculosis incidence rates during 8 years of follow-up of an antiretroviral treatment cohort in South Africa: comparison with rates in the community. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) is known to be associated with time-dependent reductions in tuberculosis (TB) incidence, the long-term impact of ART on incidence remains imprecisely defined due to limited duration of follow-up and ...
Kaplan, Richard, Lawn Stephen D., Gupta, Ankur, Ankur Gupta, Linda-Gail Bekker, Wood Robin, Kaplan Richard, Lawn, Stephen D, Robin Wood, Bekker, Linda-Gail, Stephen D Lawn, Bekker Linda-Gail, Richard Kaplan, Gupta Ankur, Wood, Robin   +14 more
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A many-body field theory approach to stochastic models in population biology. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Many models used in theoretical ecology, or mathematical epidemiology are stochastic, and may also be spatially-explicit. Techniques from quantum field theory have been used before in reaction-diffusion systems, principally to investigate ...
Dodd, P.J., Ferguson Neil M., Neil M Ferguson, Dodd, Peter J, Ferguson, N.M., Peter J Dodd, Dodd Peter J., Ferguson, Neil M   +7 more
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Risk factors for inadequate TB case finding in Rural Western Kenya: a comparison of actively and passively identified TB patients. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The findings of a prevalence survey conducted in western Kenya, in a population with 14.9% HIV prevalence suggested inadequate case finding. We found a high burden of infectious and largely undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), that a quarter of the ...
Anna H Van't Hoog, Barbara J Marston, John G Ayisi, Janet A Agaya, Odylia Muhenje, Lazarus O Odeny, John Hongo, Kayla F Laserson, Martien W Borgdorff   +8 more
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Willingness for Active Case Finding of Tuberculosis among Community Pharmacists in Puducherry

Indian Journal of Public Health
Background: In India, there is significant attrition in the cascade of care for tuberculosis (TB) in the public health sector. Pharmacy being the first point of contact for the majority holds considerable potential in reducing this attrition. Objectives:
Dhanajayan Govindan, Palanivel Chinnakali, Sonali Sarkar, Govindarajan Soundappan   +3 more
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Examining the promise of HIV elimination by 'test and treat' in hyperendemic settings. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that a new strategy for HIV prevention, 'Universal Test and Treat', whereby everyone is tested for HIV once a year and treated immediately with antiretroviral therapy (ART) if they are infected, could 'eliminate' the ...
Garnett, Geoff P, Dodd, Peter J, Hallett, Timothy B   +2 more
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Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on the Diagnostic Accuracy of Symptom Screening for Intensified Tuberculosis Case Finding in a South African HIV Clinic [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012
Current symptom screening algorithms for intensified tuberculosis case finding or prior to isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were derived from antiretroviral-naive cohorts. There is a need to validate screening algorithms in patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART).We performed cross ...
Molebogeng X, Rangaka, Robert J, Wilkinson, Judith R, Glynn, Andrew, Boulle, Gilles, van Cutsem, Rene, Goliath, Shaheed, Mathee, Gary, Maartens   +7 more
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Notions of synergy for combinations of interventions against infectious diseases in heterogeneously mixing populations. [PDF]

, 2010
In public health programmes interventions are frequently combined with hoped for 'synergies'[22]. However, there is not yet a precise definition for synergy between interventions that captures the idea that there is added benefit at the population-level ...
White, Peter J, Garnett, Geoff P, Peter J. Dodd, Dodd, Peter J, Peter J. White, Geoff P. Garnett   +5 more
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source