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Prospective evaluation of BDProbeTec strand displacement amplification (SDA) system for diagnosis of tuberculosis in non-respiratory and respiratory samples. [PDF]

, 2004
Nucleic acid amplification techniques (NAATs) have been demonstrated to make significant improvements in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB), particularly in the time to diagnosis and the diagnosis of smear-negative TB. The BD ProbeTec strand displacement
Billington, OJ, Gillespie, SH, Gosling, RD, Ling, CL, Lipman, MC, McHugh, TD, Patel, S, Pope, CF   +7 more
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In Vitro Inhibitory Activity of Corilagin and Punicalagin Against Toxoplasma gondii and Their Mechanism(s) of Action

Antibiotics
Background/Objectives: Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite infection in humans continues to rise due to an increasing seroprevalence rate in domestic and wild warm-blooded animals that serve as a major reservoir ...
Nicole T. Green-Ross, Homa Nath Sharma, Audrey Napier, Boakai K. Robertson, Robert L. Green, Daniel A. Abugri   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of a national voucher scheme to deliver insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women.

, 2010
BACKGROUND: The benefits of a health-related intervention may be compromised by the challenges of delivering the intervention on a large scale. We analyzed the process involved in the Tanzania National Voucher Scheme, a system for delivering insecticide ...
Armstrong-Schellenberg, Joanna, Bruce, Jane, Hanson, Kara, Jones, Caroline, Marchant, Tanya, Mponda, Hadji, Nathan, Rose, Schellenberg, David, Sedekia, Yovitha   +8 more
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Audit of failure rate of sulfadoxine/pyrimetham combined with chloroquine to treat falciparum malaria at single fourteen-day follow-up

South African Family Practice, 2002
Objective: To assess the failure rate of the present first line treatment regime for uncomplicated falciparum malaria of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combined with chloroquine. Design: A before-after study. Setting: Ndumo Clinic, Ingwavuma District, South
C.H. Vaughan Williams, C. La Cock, G.F.J. Henry, A.J. Ross   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge among Drug Dispensers and Antimalarial Drug Prescribing Practices in Public Health Facilities in Dar es Salaam. [PDF]

, 2013
Irrational prescribing and dispensing of antimalarials has been identified as a contributing factor in the emergence of malaria parasites resistant to existing antimalarial drugs.
Kamuhabwa, Appolinary Ar, Silumbe, Richard   +1 more
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Effects of pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine, chloroquine plus chlorpheniramine, and amodiaquine plus pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine on gametocytes during and after treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria in children

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006
The effects of pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine (PS), chloroquine plus chlorpheniramine, a H1 receptor antagonist that reverses chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in vitro and in vivo (CQCP), and amodiaquine plus pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine (AQPS ...
A Sowunmi, AA Adedeji, GO Gbotosho, BA Fateye, TC Happi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Different methodological approaches to the assessment of in vivo efficacy of three artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in African children. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Use of different methods for assessing the efficacy of artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments (ACTs) will result in different estimates being reported, with implications for changes in treatment policy.
A Yeka, B Greenhouse, CH Sibley, E Depoortere, Eleanor Turyakira, Elizabeth A Ashley, F Grandesso, Francesco Checchi, Grant Dorsey, H Bukirwa, Hasifa Bukirwa, I van den Broek, I Zongo, I Zongo, Ingrid van den Broek, Issaka Zongo, Jean-Paul Guthmann, JP Guthmann, JP Guthmann, JP Guthmann, K Mugittu, K Mugittu, K Stepniewska, K Stepniewska, Loretxu Pinoges, M Bonnet, Michel van Herp, N Bakyaita, NJ White, Pedro Pablo Palma Urruta, Piero Olliaro, PO Olliaro, RN Price, S Hamour, SG Staedke, Suna Balkan, TD Swarthout, Walter R Taylor, WJ Collins, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization   +43 more
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Factors influencing uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulphadoxine pyrimethamine in Sunyani Municipality, Ghana

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
Introduction Malaria continues to pose a public health challenge in Ghana particularly in pregnant women. Ghana adopted intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy policy using sulphadoxine pyrimethamine.
Heba Abdel-Fatah Ibrahim, E. Maya, Kofi Issah, P. A. Apanga, E. G. Bachan, C. Noora   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bilateral laryngeal paralysis (aplegia) occurring late during the recovery of a horse after orthopaedic surgery

Equine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary A 9‐year‐old male castrated Standardbred was presented for evaluation of a comminuted right front first phalanx fracture. On initial clinical examination, mild haemoconcentration and increased vital parameters were noted. After overnight hospitalisation, the horse underwent general anaesthesia for surgical fracture repair.
I. Lutvikadic, K. Hopster, B. Driessen
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of chloroquine, sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kajo Keji county, Sudan. [PDF]

, 2004
To provide advice on the rational use of antimalarial drugs, Médecins Sans Frontières conducted a randomized, an open label efficacy study in Kajo Keji, an area of high transmission of malaria in southern Sudan.
Epicentre, Krishna S, Kshirsagar NA, National Malaria Administration/Unicef, Ochong EO, Omari AA, Seidlein L, UN/OCHA, Vugt M, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO/Roll Back Malaria   +13 more
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