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Enabling Policy Planning and Innovation Management through Patent Information...
Submitted by Vanessa Suane (vanessa.suane@icict.fiocruz.br) on 2016-05-05T13:03:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012. Enabling policy planning and innovation management through patent... -
What parents of children who have received emergency care think about deferri...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate parents' views about deferred consent to inform management of trial disclosure after a child's death. METHODS: A postal questionnaire survey was... -
Secure Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistant Organism Colonization or Infec...
Background There is stigma attached to the identification of residents carrying antimicrobial resistant organisms (ARO) in long term care homes, yet there is a need to collect... -
Risk Factors for Non-Adherence and Loss to Follow-Up in a Three-Year Clinical...
Background: Participant non-adherence and loss to follow-up can compromise the validity of clinical trial results. An assessment of these issues was made in a 3-year... -
How well do discharge diagnoses identify hospitalised patients with community...
BACKGROUND: Credible measures of disease incidence, trends and mortality can be obtained through surveillance using manual chart review, but this is both time-consuming and... -
A controlled trial of the knowledge impact of tuberculosis information leafle...
BACKGROUND: Information leaflets are widely used to increase awareness and knowledge of disease. Limited research has, to date, been undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of these... -
Animal Welfare in Studies on Murine Tuberculosis: Assessing Progress over a 1...
There is growing concern over the welfare of animals used in research, in particular when these animals develop pathology. The present study aims to identify the main sources of... -
Will Adoption of the 2010 WHO ART Guidelines for HIV-Infected TB Patients Inc...
Background: In 2010, WHO expanded previously-recommended indications for anti-retroviral treatment to include all HIV-infected TB patients irrespective of CD4 count. India,... -
The Complete Genome Sequence of Mycoplasma bovis Strain Hubei-1
Infection by Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) can induce diseases, such as pneumonia and otitis media in young calves and mastitis and arthritis in older animals. Here, we report the... -
Developing a Buruli ulcer community of practice in Bankim, Cameroon: A model ...
Background In the Cameroon, previous efforts to identify Buruli ulcer (BU) through the mobilization of community health workers (CHWs) yielded poor results. In this paper, we... -
Rifampicin versus streptomycin for brucellosis treatment in humans: A meta-an...
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease with a high morbidity in developing countries, but there the optimal treatment is not yet determined. Therefore, the development of a simple... -
Comparative tuberculosis (TB) prevention effectiveness in children of Bacillu...
Background Except during a 1-year period when BCG vaccine was not routinely administered, annual coverage of infants with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) in Kazakhstan since... -
Economic Effects of Introducing Alternative Salmonella Control Strategies in ...
The objective of the study was to analyse the economic effects of introducing alternative Salmonella control strategies in Sweden. Current control strategies in Denmark and the... -
What is the cost of diagnosis and management of drug resistant tuberculosis i...
BACKGROUND: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is undermining TB control in South Africa. However, there are hardly any data about the cost of treating DR-TB in high burden... -
Do Xpert MTB/RIF Cycle Threshold Values Provide Information about Patient Del...
INTRODUCTION: Early diagnosis and initiation to appropriate treatment is vital for tuberculosis (TB) control. The XpertMTB/RIF (Xpert) assay... -
Diagnostic accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for bone and joint tuberculosi...
Background This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of bone and joint tuberculosis. Methods We searched databases from their... -
An attempt to reproduce a previous meta-analysis and a new analysis regarding...
: Directly observed therapy (DOT) is almost universally used for the treatment of TB. Several meta-analyses using different methods have assessed the effectiveness of DOT... -
Efficacy of a New Educational Tool to Improve Handrubbing Technique amongst H...
INTRODUCTION: Hand hygiene is a key component of infection control in healthcare. WHO recommends that healthcare workers perform six specific poses during each hand hygiene... -
Patients Are Paying Too Much for Tuberculosis: A Direct Cost-Burden Evaluatio...
Paying for health care may exclude poor people. Burkina Faso adopted the DOTS strategy implementing "free care" for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment. This should... -
Predicting the impact of patient and private provider behavior on diagnostic ...
Background Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in India continues to be high due, in large part, to long delays experienced by patients before successful diagnosis and treatment...
