Prevalence of Malaria and Anaemia among HIV Infected Pregnant women Receiving Co-trimoxazole Prophylaxis in Tanzania: A Cross Sectional Study in Kinondoni Municipality. [PDF]
, 2014 HIV-infected pregnant women are particularly more susceptible to the deleterious effects of malaria infection particularly anaemia. In order to prevent opportunistic infections and malaria, a policy of daily co-trimoxazole prophylaxis without the ...
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Scaling-up co-trimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children in high HIV-prevalence countries. [PDF]
, 2007 Co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) is a widely available antibiotic that substantially reduces HIV-related morbidity and mortality in both adults and children.
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Treating and Preventing Influenza in Aged Care Facilities: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial [PDF]
, 2012 PMCID: PMC3474842This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Alexander E. Rosewell +13 more
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The history and evolution of the clinical effectiveness of haemophilia type a treatment: a systematic review. [PDF]
, 2012 First evidence of cases of haemophilia dates from ancient Egypt, but it was when Queen Victoria from England in the 19th century transmitted this illness to her descendants, when it became known as the "royal disease".
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Epidemiological and experimental studies have shown an inverse relationship between infections with certain parasites and a reduced incidence of allergic diseases. We and others have shown that infection with Toxoplasma gondii prevents the development of
Mirjana Drinić +9 more
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Psychiatric adverse events in oseltamivir prophylaxis trials: Novel comparative analysis using data obtained from clinical study reports [PDF]
, 2018 PURPOSE: Estimating the rate of adverse events (AEs) caused by a treatment in clinical trials typically involves comparing the proportions of patients experiencing AEs in intervention and control groups.
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Pascal's Wager, infective endocarditis and the "no-lose" philosophy in medicine [PDF]
, 2010 Doctors and dentists have traditionally used antibiotic prophylaxis in certain patient groups in order to prevent infective endocarditis (IE). New guidelines, however, suggest that the risk to patients from using antibiotics is higher than the risk from ...
Conway, D.I., Shaw, D.
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Palaeoparasitological studies can provide valuable information on the emergence, distribution, and elimination of parasites during a particular time in the past.
Elisabeth Barsch +6 more
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Prophylaxis for venous thromboembolic disease in pregnancy and the early postnatal period [PDF]
, 2010 Some women are at risk of forming blood clots in a deep vein during pregnancy, after a caesarean birth, or during the first few weeks after childbirth. If part of the clot breaks off and lodges in a blood vessel in the lungs, it can be life-threatening ...
Abou-Nassar +92 more
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Toxicology Reports, 2019 The paper retraces the development of a mechanistic multicompartmental system model describing particle retention in lungs under chronic inhalation exposures.
Boris A. Katsnelson +6 more
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