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What are the essential components of HIV treatment and care services in low and middle-income countries: an overview by settings and levels of the health system?

, 2012
OBJECTIVES: To review and summarize the essential components of HIV treatment and care services in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS: Literature review and reflection on programmatic experience.
Droti, Benson, Grosskurth, Heiner, Munderi, Paula, Ross, David A   +3 more
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The WHF Roadmap for Reducing CV Morbidity and Mortality Through Prevention and Control of Rheumatic Heart Disease. [PDF]

, 2017
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a preventable non-communicable condition that disproportionately affects the world's poorest and most vulnerable. The World Heart Federation Roadmap for improved RHD control is a resource designed to help a variety of ...
Ali, SK, Haileamlak, A, Kennedy, E, Kumar, RK, Mocumbi, AO, Mwangi, J, Palafox, B, Petricca, K, Timeon, P, Watkins, D, Wyber, R   +10 more
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Serum penicillin G levels are lower than expected in adults within two weeks of administration of 1.2 million units. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
When introduced in the 1950s, benzathine penicillin G (BPG) was shown to be effective in eradicating group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus (GAS) for at least 3 weeks after administration.
Michael P Broderick, Christian J Hansen, Kevin L Russell, Edward L Kaplan, Jeffrey L Blumer, Dennis J Faix   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syphilis diagnosis and serological response to Benzathine Penicillin G among patients attending HIV clinics in N’Djaména, Chad

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background: Syphilis is endemic in the Sub-Saharan zone and disproportionately affects at-risk populations such as men who have sex with men, sex workers and HIV infected individuals.
Chatté Adawaye, Adda Oumar Souleymane, Abdelrazzack Adoum Fouda, Oumaïma Djarma, Amandine Cournil, Edouard Tuaillon, Franck J.D. Mennechet   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coinfection of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and Streptococcus pneumoniae in multiple cutaneous lesions [PDF]

, 2016
Key learning points Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common clinical disease caused by all the Leishmania species that are pathogenic to humans. Other bacterial coinfections of Leishmania lesions have been described, but this is the first report of ...
Chiapello, Laura Silvina, Cortes, Paulo R., De Petris, Carlos, Dib, David, Echenique, Jose Ricardo, Herrero, Mónica V., Nuncira, Carmen T.   +6 more
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ESTUDO EXPERIMENTAL DAS RELAÇÕES TECLDUAIS EM RATOS, PROVOCADAS POR DIFERENTES CONCENTRAÇÕES DE PENICILINA G. BENZATINA

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP
A procura de respostas científicas aos problemas decorrentes de procedimentos que envolvem ações profissionais constituem um desafio constante aos enfermeiros comprometidos com a melhoria do cuidado de enfermagem.
Mara Rita Rodrigues Massad, Eduardo Massad, Edna Apparecida Moura Arcuri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Natural history of Mycoplasma genitalium infection in a cohort of female sex workers in Kampala, Uganda.

, 2013
BACKGROUND: There have been few studies of the natural history of Mycoplasma genitalium in women. We investigated patterns of clearance and recurrence of untreated M. genitalium infection in a cohort of female sex workers in Uganda.
Baseman, Blaylock, Bradshaw, Bradshaw, Carlsen, Cohen, Dallo, Hooton, Horner, Iverson-Cabral, Jensen, Jensen, Lillis, Maeda, Manhart, McGowen, McGowin, Oakeshott, Rottem, Taylor-Robinson, Taylor-Robinson, Taylor-Robinson, Vandepitte, Vandepitte, Vandepitte, Wikstrom, Wroblewski   +26 more
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Role of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) and systemic resveratrol on immediate implant placement in type 2 diabetic rats

Photochemistry and Photobiology, EarlyView.
This study evaluated the combined effects of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) and systemic resveratrol on bone repair around immediately placed implants in type 2 diabetic rats. Resveratrol improved glycemic control and body weight, while aPDT increased implant stability and bone mineralization.
Letícia Pitol‐Palin, Carolina Sayuri Wajima, Fábio Roberto de Souza Batista, Naara Gabriela Monteiro, Isadora Castaldi Sousa, Valdir Gouveia Garcia, Dóris Hissako Matsushita, Letícia Helena Theodoro, Roberta Okamoto   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surgical treatment of a paraspinal abscess with osteomyelitis and spinal cord compression in a rabbit [PDF]

, 2017
CASE DESCRIPTION A 16-month-old neutered male Continental Giant rabbit (Lepus curpaeums) was referred for evaluation of a 7-day history of acute-onset, progressive, symmetric paraparesis.
Crawford, A H, De Decker, S, Drozdzynska, M J, Hedley, J, Lam, R W   +4 more
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Fetal glucose availability: a key regulator of the metabolic, hormonal and contractility profiles of the fetal sheep heart

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend To investigate the role of glucose availability in fetal left ventricle (LV) development, this study assessed whether maternal late gestation undernutrition (LGUN; 50% of Control diet) induced alterations in the contractility, metabolic, and hormonal profile can be ameliorated in LGUN fetuses receiving glucose infusion (LGUN+G ...
Melanie R. Bertossa, Jack R. T. Darby, Stacey L. Holman, Steven K. S. Cho, Ashley S. Meakin, Mitchell C. Lock, Jordan A. Minns, Michael D. Wiese, Christopher K. Macgowan, Mike Seed, Janna L. Morrison   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source