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Differential Item Functioning on the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 by Disease Subtype, Language, Sex, and Age Among People With Systemic Sclerosis: A Scleroderma Patient‐Centered Intervention Network Cohort Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Somatic items used in depression assessments can potentially overlap with symptoms related to physical illness, including systemic sclerosis (SSc). No studies have looked at whether somatic depression items may be influenced by diffuse versus limited SSc disease subtypes, which are associated with varying degrees of symptom presentation.
Sophie Hu, Marie‐Eve Carrier, Marie‐Claude Geoffroy, Meira Golberg, Linda Kwakkenbos, Susan J. Bartlett, Catherine Fortuné, Amy Gietzen, Karen Gottesman, Geneviève Guillot, Laura K. Hummers, Amanda Lawrie‐Jones, Vanessa L. Malcarne, Michelle Richard, Maureen Sauvé, Luc Mouthon, Andrea Benedetti, Brett D. Thombs, on behalf of the SPIN Investigators, Claire E. Adams, Marie Hudson, Maureen D. Mayes, James Stempel, Robyn K. Wojeck, Christian Agard, Laurent Alric, Marc André, Floryan Beaslay, Elana J. Bernstein, Sabine Berthier, Lyne Bissonnette, Sophie Blaise, Eva Bories, Alessandra Bruns, Carlotta Cacciatore, Patricia Carreira, Marion Casadevall, Benjamin Chaigne, Lorinda Chung, Benjamin Crichi, Thylbert Deltombe, Christopher P. Denton, Tannvir Desroche, Robyn Domsic, James V. Dunne, Bertrand Dunogue, Regina Fare, Dominique Farge‐Bancel, Paul R. Fortin, Tracy Frech, Loraine Gauzère, Anne Gerber, Jessica K. Gordon, Brigitte Granel‐Rey, Aurélien Guffroy, Geneviève Gyger, Eric Hachulla, Daphna Harel, Monique Hinchcliff, Sabrina Hoa, Michael Hugues, Alena Ikic, Sindhu R. Johnson, Nader Khalidi, Kimberly S. Lakin, Marc Lambert, Maggie Larche, David Launay, Yvonne C. Lee, Paul Legendre, Catarina Leite, Hélène Maillard, Nancy Maltez, Joanne Manning, Isabelle Marie, Maria Martin Lopez, Thierry Martin, Ariel Masetto, Arsène Mekinian, Sheila Melchor Díaz, Morgane Mourguet, Christelle Nguyen, Karen Nielsen, Mandana Nikpour, Louis Olagne, Vincent Poindron, Janet Pope, Susanna Proudman, Grégory Pugnet, Loïc Raffray, François Rannou, Alexis Régent, Frederic Renou, Sébastien Rivière, David Robinson, Esther Rodríguez Almazar, Tatiana Sofia Rodríguez‐Reyna, Sophie Roux, Perrine Smets, Vincent Sobanski, Robert F. Spiera, Virginia Steen, Evelyn Sutton, Carter Thorne, Damien Vagner, John Varga, Pearce Wilcox, Vanessa Cook, Cassidy Dal Santo, Monica D'Onofrio, Elsa‐Lynn Nassar   +110 more
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Assessment of community knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to schistosomiasis in a hyper-endemic region of the Democratic Republic of Congo: mixed methods

BMC Public Health
Background Schistosomiasis remains a significant public health challenge in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While the current control efforts rely on mass drug administration, understanding community knowledge and perceptions of the disease ...
Sylvie Linsuke, Alain Mpanya, Patrick Mitashi, Sylvain Baloji, Jean-Pierre Van geertruyden, Pascal Lutumba   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cell Cycle Inhibition To Treat Sleeping Sickness

mBio, 2017
African trypanosomiasis is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei. During infection, this pathogen divides rapidly to high density in the bloodstream of its mammalian host in a manner similar to that of leukemia.
Conrad L. Epting, Brian T. Emmer, Nga Y. Du, Joann M. Taylor, Ming Y. Makanji, Cheryl L. Olson, David M. Engman   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detection of trypanosomes in small ruminants and pigs in western Kenya: important reservoirs in the epidemiology of sleeping sickness?

, 2005
Background Trypanosomosis is a major impediment to livestock farming in sub-Saharan Africa and limits the full potential of agricultural development in the 36 countries where it is endemic.
Musa O Ng'ayo, Zablon K Njiru, Eucharia U Kenya, Njiru, Z.K., Ellie O Osir, Kenya, E.U., Masiga, D.K., Geoffrey M Muluvi, Osir, E.O., Muluvi, G.M., Daniel K Masiga, Ng'ayo, M.O.   +11 more
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Developing eradication investment cases for onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, and human African trypanosomiasis : rationale and main challenges [PDF]

, 2013
An EIC is essentially an economic composite assessment in the broader meaning of economics, addressing thus all three fundamental economics questions. An EIC in fact answers: 1) the ‘‘What’’ question, that compares remaining in control mode versus moving
Steinmann, Peter, Marcel Tanner, Peter Steinmann, de Savigny, Don, Tediosi, Fabrizio, Fabrizio Tediosi, Don de Savigny, María Gloria Basáñez, Tanner, Marcel   +8 more
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New Onset of Fibromyalgia After Exposure to a Combat Environment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Traumatic life events are hypothesized to be triggers for the onset of fibromyalgia. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common comorbidity of fibromyalgia. However, limited prospective data are available on the development of fibromyalgia after exposure to high‐magnitude stress.
Jay B. Higgs, Willie J. Hale, Casey L. Straud, Jim Mintz, Stacey Young‐McCaughan, Kimberly D. Gomes, Chelsea J. Sterne, Katrina M. Lawrence‐Wolff, Alan J. Bartholomew, Kevin M. Kelly, Douglas M. Maurer, Catherine Vriend, Brett T. Litz, Douglas E. Williamson, Alan L. Peterson, for the STRONG STAR Consortium   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Synthesis of Cysteine Protease Inhibitors

Proceedings, 2017
We have been preparing new dipeptidyl inhibitors against parasitic cysteine proteases cruzain (related to Chagas disease) and rhodesain (related to Sleeping Sickness disease), and against human cathepsins. [...]
Florenci V. Gonzalez
doaj   +1 more source

Building a Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in the Rheumatology Context: Content and Approaches

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
People with systemic autoimmune and rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are at higher risk than the general population of experiencing adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes such as preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and maternal and/or fetal death.
Mehret Birru Talabi, Sonya Borrero
wiley   +1 more source

Association between high cardiac output at altitude and acute mountain sickness: preliminary study on Mt. Fuji

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2023
Background Acute mountain sickness (AMS) affects around 30% of people climbing Mt. Fuji, but its pathogenesis is incompletely understood. The influence of a rapid ascent to high altitude by climbing and summiting Mt.
Takeshi Ebihara, Kentaro Shimizu, Yumi Mitsuyama, Hiroshi Ogura, Jun Oda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense transmitted by a single tsetse fly bite in vervet monkeys as a model of human African trypanosomiasis [PDF]

, 2008
Sleeping sickness is caused by a species of trypanosome blood parasite that is transmitted by tsetse flies. To understand better how infection with this parasite leads to disease, we provide here the most detailed description yet of the course of ...
Thuita, J.K., John K. Thuita, Mwangangi, D., C. M. R. Turner, Matovu, E., Masiga, D., Enock Matovu, Kagira John M., John K Thuita, Kagira, J.M., John M. Kagira, David Mwangangi, Turner, C.M.R., Thuita John K., Masiga Daniel, Mwangangi David, Matovu Enock, C M R Turner, Daniel Masiga, Turner C. M. R., John M Kagira   +20 more
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