Sato, Chika Phongluxa, Khampheng Toyama, Noriko Gregorio, Ernesto R. Jr Miyoshi, Chiaki Nishimoto, Futoshi Takayama, Tomomi Pongvongsa, Tiengkham Takahashi, Kenzo Kounnavong, Sengchanh
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BackgroundFacility-based delivery has been promoted to improve maternal and child health care in Lao PDR and a free delivery policy was introduced at designated health care facilities (HCF) in 2013. However, according to birth records of HCFs in the impoverished and remote district, only a few women utilized the HCFs despite good physical accessibi...
Ballard, Emma Wang, Claire Y. T. Hien, Tran Tinh Tong, Nguyen Thanh Marquart, Louise Pava, Zuleima Tarning, Joel O’Rourke, Peter McCarthy, James S.
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Microscopy and 18S qPCR are the most common and field-friendly methods for quantifying malaria parasite density, and it is important that these methods can be interpreted as giving equivalent results. We compared results of quantitative measurement of Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia by microscopy and by 18S qPCR in a phase 2a study. Microscopy po...
Tintle, Nathan Heynen, Adam Van De Griend, Kristin Ulrich, Rachel Ojo, Matthew Boven, Emma Brokus, Sarah Wade, Randall Best, Aaron A.
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundTo develop and evaluate a strategy for reducing the prevalence and impact of waterborne disease, a water quality intervention was developed for Fiji by Give Clean Water, Inc. in partnership with the Fiji Ministry of Health. Residents were provided and trained on how to use a Sawyer® PointONE™ filter, while also being taught proper handwas...
Huy, Nguyen Tien Elhadad, Heba Nam, Nguyen Hai
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Tawfik, Gehad Mohamed Dila, Kadek Agus Surya Mohamed, Muawia Yousif Fadlelmola Tam, Dao Ngoc Hien Kien, Nguyen Dang Ahmed, Ali Mahmoud Huy, Nguyen Tien
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundThe massive abundance of studies relating to tropical medicine and health has increased strikingly over the last few decades. In the field of tropical medicine and health, a well-conducted systematic review and meta-analysis (SR/MA) is considered a feasible solution for keeping clinicians abreast of current evidence-based medicine. Unders...
Alkaff, Raihana Nadra Kamigaki, Taro Saito, Mayuko Ariyanti, Fajar Iriani, Dewi Utami Oshitani, Hitoshi
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BackgroundThe incidence of antimicrobial resistance has been increasing worldwide in the past decades, which includes resistance to bacteria that cause common childhood illnesses, such as acute respiratory infections and diarrhea. Numerous children with those common illnesses are treated with antibiotics. However, in such cases, antibiotic treatmen...
Chowdhury, Atique Iqbal Abdullah, Abu Yousuf Md Haider, Rafiqul Alam, Asraful Billah, Sk Masum Bari, Sanwarul Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-ur Jochem, Warren Christopher Dewan, Ashraf El Arifeen, Shams
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Tropical Medicine and Health
BackgroundA spatial and temporal study of the distribution of facility-based deliveries can identify areas of low and high facility usage and help devise more targeted interventions to improve delivery outcomes. Developing countries like Bangladesh face considerable challenges in reducing the maternal mortality ratio to the targets set by the Susta...
`Ofanoa, Reynold Ofa, Tukia Padmasiri, E. A. Kapa, D. Ramaiah
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BackgroundTonga was highly endemic for lymphatic filariasis (LF) caused by diurnally sub-periodic Wuchereria bancrofti transmitted by Aedes vector species. LF prevalence declined very appreciably as a result of chemotherapeutic intervention measures implemented in 1977, but low levels of infection persisted. Along with other Pacific Island countrie...
Batiha, Gaber El-Saber Beshbishy, Amani Magdy Tayebwa, Dickson Stuart Adeyemi, Oluyomi Stephen Yokoyama, Naoaki Igarashi, Ikuo
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Treatment is the principle way to control and eliminate piroplasmosis. The search for new chemotherapy against Babesia and Theileria has become increasingly urgent due to parasite resistance to current drugs. Ivermectin (IVM) was the world's first endectocide, capable of killing a wide variety of parasites and vectors, both inside and outside the b...
Okada, Kazuaki Sato, Akira Hiramoto, Akiko Isogawa, Rena Kurosaki, Yuji Higaki, Kazutaka Miyoshi, Shin-Ichi Chang, Kyung-Soo Kim, Hye-Sook
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BackgroundWith the emergence and growing number of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum, a new drug for malaria control must be urgently developed. The new antimalarial synthetic compound N-251 was recently discovered. As an endoperoxide structure in the body, the compound shows high antimalarial activity and curative effects. We performed a pharma...
