Nizame, Fosiul A Unicomb, Leanne Sanghvi, Tina Roy, Sumitro Nuruzzaman, Md Ghosh, Probir K Winch, Peter J Luby, Stephen P
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Enteric diseases are often caused by poor hygiene and can contribute to stunting. From 50 randomly selected villages in Bangladesh, we collected quantitative and qualitative data on handwashing linked to child feeding to integrate handwashing promotion into a young child complementary feeding program. Most participants stated that the community kne...
Sosa, Néstor Capitán, Zeuz Nieto, Javier Nieto, Melissa Calzada, José Paz, Hector Spadafora, Carmenza Kreishman-Deitrick, Mara Kopydlowski, Karen Ullman, Diane
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In this randomized, double-blinded Phase 2 trial, 30 patients with Leishmania panamensis cutaneous leishmaniasis were randomly allocated (1:1) to receive once daily topical treatment with WR 279,396 (15% paromomycin + 0.5% gentamicin) or Paromomycin Alone (15% paromomycin) for 20 days. The index lesion cure rate after 6 months follow-up was 13 of 1...
Farrar, Jeremy J Hien, Tran T Horstick, Olaf Hung, Nguyen T Jaenisch, Thomas Junghanns, Thomas Kroeger, Axel Laksono, Ida S Lum, Lucy Martinez, Eric
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Gruber, Joshua S Reygadas, Fermin Arnold, Benjamin F Ray, Isha Nelson, Kara Colford, John M Jr
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In collaboration with a local non-profit organization, this study evaluated the expansion of a program that promoted and installed Mesita Azul, an ultraviolet-disinfection system designed to treat household drinking water in rural Mexico. We conducted a 15-month, cluster-randomized stepped wedge trial by randomizing the order in which 24 communitie...
Ahmed, Sami Ben Hadj Kaabi, Belhassen Chelbi, Ifhem Derbali, Mohamed Cherni, Saifedine Laouini, Dhafer Zhioua, Elyes
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Immunity to saliva of Phlebotomus papatasi protects against Leishmania major infection as determined by co-inoculation of parasites with salivary gland homogenates (SGHs) of this vector. These results were obtained with long-term colonized female P. papatasi. We investigated the effect of pre-immunization with SGH of long-term colonized P. papatasi...
Mohamed, Mohamed Mosha, Fausta Mghamba, Janeth Zaki, Sherif R Shieh, Wun-Ju Paweska, Janusz Omulo, Sylvia Gikundi, Solomon Mmbuji, Peter Bloland, Peter
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In January 2007, an outbreak of Rift Valley fever (RVF) was detected among humans in northern Tanzania districts. By the end of the outbreak in June, 2007, 511 suspect RVF cases had been recorded from 10 of the 21 regions of Tanzania, with laboratory confirmation of 186 cases and another 123 probable cases. All confirmed RVF cases were located in t...
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0001175265.INDD 445 Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 83(2), 2010, p. 445 doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0130a Copyright © 2010 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Dear Sir: In response to Hossain and others 1 paper on hospital based surveillance confirming the presence of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Bangladesh. We comment on the small prop...
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0001172130.INDD 207 Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 83(1), 2010, p. 207 doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0114a Copyright © 2010 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Dear Sir: In their short report on the utility of a point-of-care malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) in HIV-infected adults, Mills and others conclude that “the rapid diagnostic t...
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0001146616.INDD 516 Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 82(3), 2010, p. 516 doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0646a Copyright © 2010 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Dear Sir: An interesting study about clinical predictive factors of encephalitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection was recently published in the American Journal of T...
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0001139826.INDD 360 Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 82(2), 2010, p. 360 doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0581a Copyright © 2010 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Dear Sir: Your publication of the paper by Alex Rowe 1 is an impor- tant contribution to methodological discussions about how best to strengthen and evaluate public health programs...
