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The Effect of Distance to Formal Health Facility on Childhood Mortality in Rural Tanzania, 2005-2007. [PDF]

, 2012
Major improvements are required in the coverage and quality of essential childhood interventions to achieve Millennium Development Goal Four (MDG 4). Long distance to health facilities is one of the known barriers to access. We investigated the effect of
Kadobera, Daniel, Masanja, Honorati, Mathew, Alexander, Sartorius, Benn, Waiswa, Peter   +4 more
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Relationship Between Household Socio-Economic Status and under-five Mortality in Rufiji DSS, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
Disparities in health outcomes between the poor and the better off are increasingly attracting attention from researchers and policy makers. However, policies aimed at reducing inequity need to be based on evidence of their nature, magnitude, and ...
Cornelius Nattey, Doctor HV, Ettarh RR, Filmer D, Honorati Masanja, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Mwageni E, Sartorius B, Xu YH   +8 more
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Optimizing a PCR protocol for cpn60-based microbiome profiling of samples variously contaminated with host genomic DNA. [PDF]

, 2015
The current recommended protocol for chaperonin-60 (cpn60) universal target based microbiome profiling includes universal PCR of microbiome samples across an annealing temperature gradient to maximize the diversity of sequences amplified.
Chaban, B, Harding, JC, Hill, JE, Johnson, LA   +3 more
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The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2007
Background Survey data are traditionally collected using pen-and-paper, with double data entry, comparison of entries and reconciliation of discrepancies before data cleaning can commence.
Mushi Adiel, John Davis, Manzi Fatuma, Schellenberg Joanna, Mukasa Oscar, Shirima Kizito, Mrisho Mwifadhi, Tanner Marcel, Mshinda Hassan, Schellenberg David   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Microbiological Context of HIV Resistance: Vaginal Microbiota and Mucosal Inflammation at the Viral Point of Entry

International Journal of Inflammation, 2012
Immune activation is increasingly recognized as a critical element of HIV infection and pathogenesis, causing expansion of virus founder populations at the mucosal port of entry and eventual exhaustion of cellular immune effectors.
John J. Schellenberg, Francis A. Plummer
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of DNA extraction and PCR product purification methods for cervicovaginal microbiome analysis using cpn60 microbial profiling.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundThe microbiota of the lower female genital tract plays an important role in women's health. Microbial profiling using the chaperonin60 (cpn60) universal target (UT) improves resolution of vaginal species associated with negative health outcomes
Elinor Shvartsman, Meika E I Richmond, John J Schellenberg, Alana Lamont, Catia Perciani, Justen N H Russell, Vanessa Poliquin, Adam Burgener, Walter Jaoko, Paul Sandstrom, Kelly S MacDonald   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of a Community Intervention on Malaria in Rural Tanzania-A Randomised Controlled Trial. [PDF]

, 2010
Malaria infections are a major public health problem in Africa and prompt treatment is one way of controlling the disease and saving lives. This cluster-randomised controlled community intervention conducted in 2003-2005 aimed at improving early malaria ...
Eriksen, J, Gustafsson, L L, Jahn, A, Kouyaté, B, Mujinja, P, Müller, O, Nsimba, S, Sauerborn, R, Tomson, G, Warsame, M   +9 more
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Selection, phenotyping and identification of acid and hydrogen peroxide producing bacteria from vaginal samples of Canadian and East African women. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
The common but poorly understood condition known as bacterial vaginosis (BV) increases vulnerability to HIV infection and is associated with the absence of H(2)O(2)-producing Lactobacillus. Vaginal lactic acid bacteria (LAB) produce anti-HIV factors such
John J Schellenberg, Tim J Dumonceaux, Janet E Hill, Joshua Kimani, Walter Jaoko, Charles Wachihi, Jane Njeri Mungai, Margo Lane, Keith R Fowke, T Blake Ball, Francis A Plummer   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discerning Progress in Schellenberg's Evolutionary Religion

Zygon
John L. Schellenberg has suggested that the evolution of religion should be guided towards the goal of discovering the truth about transcendent reality. I argue that some way of discerning progress is needed if this project is to be practically feasible.
Carl-Johan Palmqvist
doaj   +2 more sources

A MAPT mutation in a regulatory element upstream of exon 10 causes frontotemporal dementia

Neurobiology of Disease, 2006
We report here the genetic analysis of a newly ascertained kindred in which frontotemporal dementia occurs in an apparent autosomal dominant fashion, and in which a novel MAPT gene mutation co-segregates with disease. Sequencing the MAPT gene in affected
Roneil Malkani, Ian D'Souza, Katrina Gwinn-Hardy, Gerard D. Schellenberg, John Hardy, Parastoo Momeni   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source