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Developing Ontology Support for Human Malaria Control Initiatives [PDF]
, 2011 Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public health problem in Sub-Sahara Africa, Asia and parts of America. In this paper, we discuss the development of the Human Malaria Control Ontology (HMCO) which contains ...
Daramola, Olawande, Fatumo, S.
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Factors Associated with Prenatal Folic Acid and Iron Supplementation Among 21,889 Pregnant women in Northern Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Hospital-Based Study. [PDF]
, 2012 Folate and iron deficiency during pregnancy are risk factors for anaemia, preterm delivery, and low birth weight, and may contribute to poor neonatal health and increased maternal mortality.
Daltveit, Anne Kjersti +6 more
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River, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 389-398, November 2024.Abstract The widespread use of antibiotics has significantly increased their presence in aquatic environments, particularly in sensitive Karst River systems. In this study, the distribution and ecological, human health, and resistance selection risk assessment of 44 antibiotics in the typical Karst River, Lijiang River, were investigated during the ...
Xiong Pan, Wenjie Fu, Yuyi Yang
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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2018 In most of India, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) plus artesunate serves as first-line treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. In 112 clinical Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Mangaluru, southwestern India, we sequenced molecular markers ...
J. Wedam +13 more
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Malaria Journal, 2016 BackgroundMalawi experienced prolonged use of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP) as the front-line anti-malarial drug, with early replacement of chloroquine and delayed introduction of artemisinin-based combination therapy.
M. Ravenhall +14 more
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Addressing the challenge of neonatal mortality.
, 2013 Reducing neonatal mortality remains a challenge with an estimated 3.0 million neonatal deaths in 2011, three-quarters of these in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.
Blencowe, H, Cousens, S
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Molecular monitoring of Plasmodium falciparum super-resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is recommended for prophylactic treatment of malaria in pregnancy while artemisinin combination therapy is the recommended first-line anti-malarial treatment.
Alifrangis, Michael +8 more
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PLoS ONE, 2016 Background It is recommended that children aged 3 months to five years of age living in areas of seasonal transmission in the sub-Sahel should receive Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine (SPAQ) during ...
J. Ndiaye +16 more
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A Molecular Surveillance System for Global Patterns of Drug Resistance in Imported Malaria
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003 Analysis of imported malaria in travelers may represent a novel surveillance system for drug-resistant malaria. We analyzed consecutive falciparum malaria isolates from Canadian travelers from 1994 to 2000, for polymorphisms in pfcrt, dhfr, and dhps ...
Annie-Claude Labbé +3 more
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Developing Ontology Support for Human Malaria Control Initiatives [PDF]
, 2009 Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public health problem in Sub-Sahara Africa, Asia and parts of America. In this paper, we discuss the development of the Human Malaria Control Ontology (HMCO) which contains general ...
Daramola Olawande, Fatumo Segun
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