Healthcare use for diarrhoea and dysentery in actual and hypothetical cases, Nha Trang, Viet Nam. [PDF]
To better understand healthcare use for diarrhoea and dysentery in Nha Trang, Viet Nam, qualitative interviews with community residents and dysentery case studies were conducted. Findings were supplemented by a quantitative survey which asked respondents
Canh, Do Gia +9 more
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Typhoid conjugate vaccines: is a single dose enough for durable protection?
Introduction Typhoid fever is widespread in developing countries. Most typhoid vaccines have gone into some disrepute for their substantial side effects and low efficacy.
Vipin M. Vashishtha, Puneet Kumar
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ABSTRACT In endemic areas, acute undifferentiated febrile illness has a wide differential with overlapping features that can lead to misdiagnosis. Although triple co‐infection with scrub typhus, dengue, and leptospirosis is extremely rare, high clinical suspicion and early detection are vital to avoid delayed treatment, multi‐organ dysfunction, and ...
Sulav Kumar Jha +5 more
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Global Health Initiatives and Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan‐Aligned for the Future?
ABSTRACT There is increasing global discourse on Global Health Initiatives' (GHIs) role and the need for better alignment with universal health coverage (UHC), which is particularly salient given recent rapid reductions in global aid. However, tensions within national ecosystems of GHI assistance and country alignment towards UHC are less well ...
Shehla Zaidi +8 more
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Conducting Controlled human infection model studies in India is an ethical obligation [PDF]
Weighing competing obligations and achieving the “greatest balance” of right over wrong guides an individual, an agency or a country in determining what ought to be done in an ethically challenging situation.
Dholakia, S. Y., Dholakia, Saumil
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Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) offer a powerful approach to accelerate vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This review highlights scientific and translational advances enabled by CHIMs, with a focus on a novel Leishmania major model.
Vivak Parkash
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Serological Survey Of Salmonella gallinarum Antibody In Chickens Around Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria [PDF]
A serological survey of the prevalence of antibodies to Salmonella gallinarum among chickens under two different management systems around Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria was carried out using the standard plate agglutination test.
Adetunji, JA +4 more
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High dose multiple micronutrient supplementation improves villous morphology in environmental enteropathy without HIV enteropathy: results from a double-blind randomised placebo controlled trial in Zambian adults [PDF]
PMCID: PMC3897937This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...
Banda, R +5 more
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Dynamical Modelling and Optimal Control of Conjunctivitis Epidemic
Conjunctivitis disease was modelled using a deterministic modelling approach, with the dynamics presented by the compartments in the flowchart. The results showed that intervention D is the best cost‐effectiveness policy. ABSTRACT In this study, we develop a mathematical model for conjunctivitis transmission dynamics.
Sacrifice Nana‐Kyere +5 more
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Although it has rapidly decreased since the early 2000s, fowl typhoid still occurs in commercial layer chickens, causing a significant economic loss in Korea.
Hye-Jin Lee +8 more
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