Public Health

Malaria and Chikungunya Detected using Molecular Diagnostics among Febrile Kenyan Children

May 29, 2017 - Jesse Waggoner, Julie Brichard, Francis Mutuku, Bryson Ndenga, Claire Jane Heath, Alisha Mohamed-Hadley, Malaya K. Sahoo, John Vulule, Martina Lefterova, Niaz Banaei, Dunstan Mukoko, Benjamin A. Pinsky , A. Desiree LaBeaud

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Behaviour change intervention to improve shared toilet maintenance and cleanliness in urban slums of Dhaka: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

May 28, 2017 - Mahbub-Ul Alam, Peter J. Winch, Ronald E. Saxton, Fosiul A. Nizame, Farzana Yeasmin, Guy Norman, Abdullah-Al Masud, Farzana Begum, Mahbubur Rahman, Kamal Hossain, Anita Layden, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen Luby

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Advantages and limitations for users of double pit pour-flush latrines: a qualitative study in rural Bangladesh

May 25, 2017 - Faruqe Hussain, Thomas Clasen, Shahinoor Akter, Victoria Bawel, Stephen P. Luby, Elli Leontsini, Leanne Unicomb, Milan Kanti Barua, Brittany Thomas, Peter J. Winch

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Provision versus promotion to develop a handwashing station: the effect on desired handwashing behavior

May 5, 2017 - Debashish Biswas, Fosiul Alam Nizame, Tina Sanghvi, Sumitro Roy, Stephen Luby, Leanne E. Unicomb

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Behavioral antecedents for handwashing in a low-income urban setting in Bangladesh: an exploratory study

May 5, 2017 - Musarrat J. Rahman, Fosiul A. Nizame, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen P. Luby , Peter J. Winch

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Incidences and Costs of Illness for Diarrhea and Acute Respiratory Infections for Children< 5 Years of Age in Rural Bangladesh

April 27, 2017 - Amal K Halder, Stephen P Luby, Shamima Akhter, Probir K Ghosh, Richard B Johnston, Leanne Unicomb

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Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models

April 27, 2017 - Erin A. Mordecai, Jeremy M. Cohen, Michelle V. Evans, Prithvi Gudapati, Leah R. Johnson, Catherine A. Lippi, Kerri Miazgowicz, Courtney C. Murdock, Jason R. Rohr, Sadie J. Ryan, Van Savage, Marta S. Shocket, Anna Stewart Ibarra, Matthew B. Thomas, Daniel P. Weikel

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Influenza B virus outbreak at a religious residential school for boys in Northern Bangladesh, 2011

April 27, 2017 - Farhana Haque, Katharine Sturm-Ramirez, Nusrat Homaira, Emily Suzane Gurley, Md Jahangir Hossain, S. M. Murshid Hasan, Sukanta Chowdhury, Shamim Sarkar, Abdul Khaleque Md Dawlat Khan, Mustafizur Rahman, Mahmudur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby

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Association Between Women’s Empowerment and Maternal and Child Nutrition in Kalalé District of Northern Benin

April 26, 2017 - Halimatou Alaofe , Min Zhu, Jennifer Burney , Rosamond Naylor, Taren Douglas

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Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns

April 24, 2017 - Susanne H. Sokolow, Isabel J. Jones, Merlijn Jocque, Diana La, Olivia Cords, Anika Knight, Andrea Lund, Chelsea L. Wood, Kevin D. Lafferty, Christopher M. Hoover, Phillip A. Collender, Justin V. Remais, David Lopez-Carr , Jonathan Fisk, Armand M. Kuris, Giulio De Leo

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Disease ecology, health and the environment: a framework to account for ecological and socio-economic drivers in the control of neglected tropical diseases

April 24, 2017 - A. Garchitorena, Susanne Sokolow, B. Roche, C. N. Ngonghala, M. Jocque, A. Lund, Michele Barry, Erin A. Mordecai, Gretchen Daily, James Jones, J. R. Andrews, E. Bendavid, Stephen Luby, Desiree LaBeaud, Krish Seetah, J. F. Guégan, M. H. Bonds, Giulio De Leo

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Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya

April 24, 2017 - Hillary S. Young, Douglas J. McCauley, Rodolfo Dirzo, Charles L. Nunn, Michael G. Campana, Bernard Agwanda, Erik R. Otarola-Castillo, Eric R. Castillo, Robert M. Pringle, Kari E. Veblen, Daniel J. Salkeld, Kristin Stewardson, Robert Fleischer, Eric Lambin, Todd M. Palmer, Kristofer M. Helgen

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MORTALITY IN NEWBORNS WITH MICROCEPHALY DUE TO MATERNAL ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION IN RIO GRANDE DO NORTE STATE – NORTHEAST BRAZIL: A CROSSSECTIONAL STUDY

April 18, 2017 - Nilson Nogueira Mendes Neto, Jessika Thais da Silva Maia, Marcelo Rodrigues Zacarkim, Daniel Duarte Rolim, Maria Goretti Linz, Thiago Gomes Trindade, Kleber Luz, Giovanna Fulco, Tatyana Vidal Mendes, Sebastiana Jayne Alves Vidal, Iracema Augusta

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Detecting and enumerating soil-transmitted helminth eggs in soil: New method development and results from field testing in Kenya and Bangladesh

April 5, 2017 - Lauren Steinbaum, Laura H. Kwong, Ayse Ercumen, Makeda S. Negash, Amira J. Lovely, Sammy M. Njenga, Alexandria Boehm, Amy Pickering, Kara L. Nelson

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Package ‘demogR’

April 4, 2017 - James Holland Jones, Maintainer James Holland Jones

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Big-data-driven modeling unveils country-wide drivers of endemic schistosomiasis

March 28, 2017 - Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto, Manuela Ciddio, Elhadji D Dia, Susanne H Sokolow, Giulio A De Leo, Renato Casagrandi

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Big-data-driven modeling unveils country-wide drivers of endemic schistosomiasis

March 28, 2017 - Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto, Manuela Ciddio, Elhadji D. Dia, Susanne H. Sokolow, Giulio De Leo, Renato Casagrandi

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Can sanitary inspection surveys predict risk of microbiological contamination of groundwater sources? Evidence from shallow tubewells in rural Bangladesh

March 8, 2017 - Ayse Ercumen, Abu Mohd Naser, Benjamin F Arnold, Leanne Unicomb, John M Colford Jr, Stephen P Luby

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Pneumococcal Vaccine Response After Exposure to Parasites in Utero, in Infancy, or Mid-Childhood

March 1, 2017 - Monica Nayakwadi Singer, Claire Heath, Jackson Muinde, Virginia Gildengorin, Francis M. Mutuku, David Vu, Dunstan Mukoko, Christopher L. King, Indu J. Malhotra, Charles H. King, Desiree LaBeaud

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