Browsing by Author "Reddy, Elizabeth A"
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A randomized controlled trial of standard versus intensified tuberculosis diagnostics on treatment decisions by physicians in Northern Tanzania.
Reddy, Elizabeth A; Njau, Boniface N; Morpeth, Susan C; Lancaster, Kathryn E; Tribble, Alison C; Maro, Venance P; Msuya, Levina J; ... (18 authors) (BMC Infect Dis, 2014-02-20)BACKGROUND: Routine tuberculosis culture remains unavailable in many high-burden areas, including Tanzania. This study sought to determine the impact of providing mycobacterial culture results over standard of care ... -
Challenges of Maintaining Good Clinical Laboratory Practices in Low-Resource Settings: A Health Program Evaluation Framework Case Study From East Africa.
Zhang, Helen L; Omondi, Michael W; Musyoka, Augustine M; Afwamba, Isaac A; Swai, Remigi P; Karia, Francis P; Muiruri, Charles; ... (10 authors) (Am J Clin Pathol, 2016-08)OBJECTIVES: Using a clinical research laboratory as a case study, we sought to characterize barriers to maintaining Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) services in a developing world setting. METHODS: Using a US Centers ... -
Comparing actual and perceived causes of fever among community members in a low malaria transmission setting in northern Tanzania.
Hertz, Julian T; Munishi, O Michael; Sharp, Joanne P; Reddy, Elizabeth A; Crump, John A (Trop Med Int Health, 2013-11)OBJECTIVE: To compare actual and perceived causes of fever in northern Tanzania. METHODS: In a standardised survey, heads of households in 30 wards in Moshi, Tanzania, were asked to identify the most common cause of fever ... -
Durability of antiretroviral therapy and predictors of virologic failure among perinatally HIV-infected children in Tanzania: a four-year follow-up.
Dow, Dorothy E; Shayo, Aisa M; Cunningham, Coleen K; Reddy, Elizabeth A (BMC Infect Dis, 2014-11-07)BACKGROUND: In Tanzania, HIV-1 RNA testing is rarely available and not standard of care. Determining virologic failure is challenging and resistance mutations accumulate, thereby compromising second-line therapy. We evaluated ... -
Epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii infection in Africa: a OneHealth systematic review.
Vanderburg, Sky; Rubach, Matthew P; Halliday, Jo EB; Cleaveland, Sarah; Reddy, Elizabeth A; Crump, John A (PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2014-04)BACKGROUND: Q fever is a common cause of febrile illness and community-acquired pneumonia in resource-limited settings. Coxiella burnetii, the causative pathogen, is transmitted among varied host species, but the epidemiology ... -
Evaluation of in-hospital management for febrile illness in Northern Tanzania before and after 2010 World Health Organization Guidelines for the treatment of malaria.
Moon, Andrew M; Biggs, Holly M; Rubach, Matthew P; Crump, John A; Maro, Venace P; Saganda, Wilbrod; Reddy, Elizabeth A (PLoS One, 2014)OBJECTIVE: In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) published updated guidelines emphasizing and expanding recommendations for a parasitological confirmation of malaria before treating with antimalarials. This study ... -
Predicting virologic failure among HIV-1-infected children receiving antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study.
Emmett, Susan D; Cunningham, Coleen K; Mmbaga, Blandina T; Kinabo, Grace D; Schimana, Werner; Swai, Mark E; Bartlett, John A; ... (9 authors) (J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 2010-08)BACKGROUND: Many HIV care and treatment programs in resource-limited settings rely on clinical and immunologic monitoring of antiretroviral therapy (ART), but accuracy of this strategy to detect virologic failure (VF) among ... -
Test site predicts HIV care linkage and antiretroviral therapy initiation: a prospective 3.5 year cohort study of HIV-positive testers in northern Tanzania.
Reddy, Elizabeth A; Agala, Chris Bernard; Maro, Venance P; Ostermann, Jan; Pence, Brian W; Itemba, Dafrosa K; Safley, Donna; ... (10 authors) (BMC Infect Dis, 2016-09-20)BACKGROUND: Linkage to HIV care is crucial to the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs worldwide, loss to follow up at all stages of the care continuum is frequent, and long-term prospective studies of care linkage ... -
Who tests, who doesn't, and why? Uptake of mobile HIV counseling and testing in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania.
Ostermann, Jan; Reddy, Elizabeth A; Shorter, Meghan M; Muiruri, Charles; Mtalo, Antipas; Itemba, Dafrosa K; Njau, Bernard; ... (10 authors) (PLoS One, 2011-01-31)BACKGROUND: Optimally, expanded HIV testing programs should reduce barriers to testing while attracting new and high-risk testers. We assessed barriers to testing and HIV risk among clients participating in mobile voluntary ...