Azanaw, Melkalem Mamuye Derseh, Nebiyu Mekonnen Yetemegn, Gebeyehu Shumuye Angaw, Dessie Abebaw
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Tropical Medicine and Health
Background Tuberculosis is the oldest infectious disease and it is still the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Even though several primary studies have been conducted on the incidence of tuberculosis among HIV-infected individuals in Ethiopia, national-level tuberculosis incidence is unknown. Therefore, this study is aimed to asse...
Tilahun, Binyam Gashu, Kassahun Dessie Mekonnen, Zeleke Abebaw Endehabtu, Berhanu Fikadie Angaw, Dessie Abebaw
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Tropical Medicine and Health
Background Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of communicable diseases that principally impact the world’s poorest people. The use of digital health technologies is an emerging and promising way to improve disease prevention, diagnosis, case detection, treatment delivery, and patient follow-up and facilitating health facility ap...
Manyeh, Alfred Kwesi Chirwa, Tobias Ramaswamy, Rohit Baiden, Frank Ibisomi, Latifat
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Tropical Medicine and Health
Background Over a decade of implementing a global strategy to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in Ghana through mass drug administration, the disease is still being transmitted in 11 districts out of an initial 98 endemic districts identified in 2000. A context-specific evidence-based quality improvement intervention was implemented in the Bole Distr...
Williams, Vijai Menon, Nisha Bhatia, Prateek Biswal, Manisha Sreedharanunni, Sreejesh Jayashree, Muralidharan Nallasamy, Karthi
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Tropical Medicine and Health
Background Hyperferritinemia is increasingly associated with mortality in sepsis. Studies estimating the prevalence of hyperferritinemia in pediatric scrub typhus are limited. Methods This was a secondary analysis of a prospective observational study (FERRIS) from a tertiary care teaching hospital in North India where 72 children with confirmed scr...
Fenta, Setegn Muche Biresaw, Hailegebrael Birhan Fentaw, Kenaw Derebe
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundIn sub-Saharan African countries, neonatal mortality rates remain unacceptably high. Ethiopia is one of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with the highest death rates of newborn children. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the risk factors associated with neonatal mortality in Ethiopia at the individual and community level.MethodsT...
Sakuma, Chisako Kanuka, Hirotaka
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundBlood-sucking by mosquitoes is an inevitable behavior when pathogens are transmitted among humans. Adenine nucleotides such as ATP are known as phagostimulants for mosquitoes and are widely used to induce and enhance the blood-sucking activity in an artificial manner. Although using ATP solution is convenient to introduce a variety of sub...
Jadnanansing, Raj Blankers, Matthijs Dwarkasing, Rudi Etwaroo, Kajal Lumsden, Vincent Dekker, Jack Bipat, Robbert
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundAlcohol use disorders (AUD) have the worst impact in low-middle-income countries (LMICs), where the disease burden per liter of alcohol consumed is higher than in wealthy populations. Furthermore, the median treatment gap for AUDs in LMICs is 78.1%. The highest prevalence of AUDs worldwide in 2004 was found in the western Pacific region, ...
Ohnishi, Mayumi Tembo, Backsion Nakao, Rieko Matsuura, Emi Fujita, Wakako
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundThis study aims to examine miners’ working conditions and self-rated health status in copper mines in Zambia and to identify the conditions and factors necessary to improve the safety and health of mineworkers.MethodsA cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire was conducted anonymously among copper mineworkers in Zambi...
Walusansa, Abdul Asiimwe, Savina Kafeero, Hussein. M. Stanley, Iramiot. J. Ssenku, Jamilu. E. Nakavuma, Jesca. L. Kakudidi, Esezah. K.
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundInfectious diseases remain a leading cause of mortality and morbidity around the world, and those caused by bacteria are common in the East African region. In this region, trade and consumption of herbal medicine has been expanding in the recent decades. Herbal medicines may be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria; however, there is limi...
Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn Teshale, Achamyeleh Birhanu
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundDespite the remarkable decrease in infant mortality rate in most countries, the rate of decline is slow and it remains unacceptably high in Sub-Saharan Africa. The progress in infant mortality in Ethiopia is far below the rate needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal. Understanding the residential inequality and spatiotemporal c...
