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Treatment success rates among tuberculosis patients notified from the private sector in West Bengal, India

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2021
In India, an estimated 50% of tuberculosis (TB) patients are diagnosed and managed by private providers (PPs). However, there is limited information on treatment outcomes among those treated by PPs largely because of a lack of systems for patient follow ...
Vivek Sharma, Pruthu Thekkur, Poonam R. Naik, Brojo Kishore Saha, Niraj Agrawal, Milan K. Dinda, S. Parthiban, Abhijit Dey, Basavaraj Poojar, Amrita N. Shamanewadi, Srinath Satyanarayana   +10 more
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Building sustainable operational research capacity in Pakistan: starting with tuberculosis and expanding to other public health problems

Global Health Action, 2019
Background: For many years, operational research capacity has been a challenge and has remained a low priority for the health sector in Pakistan. Building research capacity for developing a critical mass of researchers in Pakistan was done through ...
Razia Fatima, Aashifa Yaqoob, Ejaz Qadeer, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker, Einar Heldal, Rony Zachariah, Anthony D. Harries, Ajay M. V. Kumar   +7 more
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Acute and chronic brucellosis eleven-year audit from a tertiary hospital in Armenia

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2019
Introduction: The incidence of brucellosis in Armenia in 2010 was twice as high as in other countries of the Caucasian region and has almost doubled over the last three decades.
Lilit Sargsyan, Karapet Davtyan, Katrina Hann, Samvel Gasparyan, Vladimir Davidyants, Vladimir Shekoyan, Gayane Poghosyan, Diana Petrosyan   +7 more
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Is vitiligo associated with wearing plastic shoes in a podoconiosis endemic region of Ethiopia?

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2020
Introduction: Endemic non-filarial elephantiasis also known as podoconiosis often affects bare footed farmers and is endemic in Ethiopia. The disease is prevented by wearing shoes. We recently observed several patients presenting to a dermatology clinic
Wendemagegn Enbiale, Kasanesh Abebe, Berhane Debru, Johan van Griensven, Kuda Takarinda, Marcel Manzi, Rony Zachariah   +6 more
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Young mothers in care, contributing to the contemporary debate [PDF]

, 2008
Teenage pregnancy has become a broad issue in contemporary society and has become a focus for concern for young women in or exiting the care system. The article draws on interviews with twenty-four young mothers in, or on the fringes of the care system ...
Aldgate J., Allen I., Bowlby J., Corlyon J., Hadley A., Hudson F., Jane Reeves, Moms J., Phoenix A., Tabberer S., Triseliotis J.   +10 more
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Mental health interventions for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis patients with alcohol use disorders, Zhytomyr, Ukraine

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Introduction: Despite concerted efforts, Ukraine is challenged by increasing rates of multidrug and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) comorbid with alcohol use disorder (AUD). This study describes a cohort of RR-TB patients with high alcohol
Vitalii Plokhykh, Marve Duka, Laurel Cassidy, Chung-Yu Chen, Khachatur Malakyan, Petros Isaakidis, Dimitri Donchuk, Nune Truzyan, Anthony Reid, Olha Siomak, Maryna Pogrebna, Nataliia Lytvinenko   +11 more
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Alarming prevalence and clustering of modifiable noncommunicable disease risk factors among adults in Bhutan: a nationwide cross-sectional community survey

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Bhutan is currently facing a double burden of non-communicable (NCDs) and communicable diseases, with rising trends of NCDs. The 2014 STEPS survey identified high prevalence of several NCD risk factors; however, associations with socio ...
Dorji Pelzom, Petros Isaakidis, Myo Minn Oo, Mongal Singh Gurung, Pemba Yangchen   +4 more
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Sort It Out with Monotonicity [PDF]

, 2011
We present a novel analysis for sorted logic, which determines if a given sort is monotone. The domain of a monotone sort can always be extended with an extra element. We use this analysis to significantly improve well-known translations between unsorted and many-sorted logic, making use of the fact that it is cheaper to translate monotone sorts than ...
Koen Claessen, Ann Lillieström, Nicholas Smallbone   +2 more
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Antiretroviral therapy among patients with HIV in Almaty, Kazakhstan: the implication for HIV-associated tuberculosis control

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2020
Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is an effective preventive strategy against tuberculosis (TB) in people living with HIV (PLWH). In Kazakhstan, according to the revised HIV treatment guideline (2017), ART should be initiated immediately after ...
Alfiya Denebayeva, Arpine Abrahamyan, Aelita Sargsyan, Karine Kentenyants, Ainur Zhandybayeva, Zhamilya Nugmanova, Anarkhan Nurkerimova, Karapet Davtyan, Marat Tukeyev   +8 more
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Could have done otherwise, action sentences and anaphora [PDF]

, 2006
What does it mean to say of a certain agent, S, that he or she could have done otherwise? Clearly, it means nothing at all, unless the anaphoric devices within the sentence have been anchored to definite antecedents.
Steward, H.
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