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Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians.
(BMC Fam Pract, 2018-03-01)
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for antibiotic
overuse worldwide. We previously showed that over 80% of outpatients presenting to
a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka ...
Etiologies of illness among patients meeting integrated management of adolescent and adult illness district clinician manual criteria for severe infections in northern Tanzania: implications for empiric antimicrobial therapy.
(Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2015-02)
We describe the laboratory-confirmed etiologies of illness among participants in a
hospital-based febrile illness cohort study in northern Tanzania who retrospectively
met Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness ...
Invasive fungal infections among organ transplant recipients: results of the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET).
(Clin Infect Dis, 2010-04-15)
BACKGROUND: Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality
among organ transplant recipients. Multicenter prospective surveillance data to determine
disease burden and secular trends are lacking. ...
Etiology of severe non-malaria febrile illness in Northern Tanzania: a prospective cohort study.
(PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2013)
INTRODUCTION: The syndrome of fever is a commonly presenting complaint among persons
seeking healthcare in low-resource areas, yet the public health community has not
approached fever in a comprehensive manner. In many areas, ...
Utilization of Healthcare in the Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa Program.
(Clin Infect Dis, 2016-03-15)
BACKGROUND: Assessing healthcare utilization is important to identify weaknesses of
healthcare systems, to outline action points for preventive measures and interventions,
and to more accurately estimate the disease burden ...
Clinical and pathological characteristics of HIV- and HHV-8-negative Castleman disease.
(Blood, 2017-03)
Castleman disease (CD) comprises 3 poorly understood lymphoproliferative variants
sharing several common histopathological features. Unicentric CD (UCD) is localized
to a single region of lymph nodes. Multicentric CD (MCD) ...
Long-term dynamics of death rates of emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia and improving air quality.
(Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis, 2014)
BACKGROUND: The respiratory tract is a major target of exposure to air pollutants,
and respiratory diseases are associated with both short- and long-term exposures.
We hypothesized that improved air quality in North Carolina ...
Prospective surveillance for invasive fungal infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, 2001-2006: overview of the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET) Database.
(Clin Infect Dis, 2010-04-15)
BACKGROUND: The incidence and epidemiology of invasive fungal infections (IFIs), a
leading cause of death among hematopoeitic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients,
are derived mainly from single-institution retrospective ...
Loss of PRDM1/BLIMP-1 function contributes to poor prognosis of activated B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
(Leukemia, 2017-03)
PRDM1/BLIMP-1, a master regulator of plasma-cell differentiation, is frequently inactivated
in activated B-cell-like (ABC) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. Little
is known about its genetic aberrations and ...