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Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce pelvic infection in women having miscarriage surgery – The AIMS (Antibiotics in Miscarriage Surgery) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
(Trials, 2018)
Abstract
Background: The estimated annual global burden of miscarriage is 33 million out of 210 million pregnancies. Many
women undergoing miscarriage have surgery to remove pregnancy tissues, resulting in miscarriage ...
Neuroinflammation and Not Tauopathy Is a Predominant Pathological Signature of Nodding Syndrome
(Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, 2019)
Nodding syndrome (NS) is an epileptic disorder occurring in chil dren in African onchocerciasis endemic regions. Here, we describe
the pathological changes in 9 individuals from northern Uganda who
died with NS (n ¼ 5) ...
Nodding syndrome in Uganda is a tauopathy
(Acta neuropathologica, 2018)
Nodding syndrome is an epidemic neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming
communities of East Africa. We report the neuropathologic findings in five fatal cases (13–18 years of ...
Improving the accuracy of heart failure diagnosis in low-resource settings through task sharing and decentralization
(Global Health Action, 2019)
Background: Task sharing of TTE may improve capacity for heart failure diagnosis and
management in patients in remote, low-resource settings but the impact on diagnostic
accuracy and patient outcomes has not been ...
Factors associated with DPT 1-3 vaccine dropout in Kabarole district
(International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010)
Background: Among the top ten causes of poor health in
the district are complications due to vaccine preventable
diseases notably diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT). In 2008, the DPT dropout rate in Kabarole was ...
Assessing factors associated with CD4 cell absolute count in patients at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital: A case study by Marc Sam Opollo, Uganda
(South American Journal of Public Health, 2014)
Background: This study is set to assess individual, environmental and medication factors associated with CD4 cell count in patients attending HIV/AIDS treatment and care clinic in Gulu Regional Referral Hospital. Gulu ...
HIV Type 1 Disease Progression to AIDS and Death in a Rural Ugandan Cohort Is Primarily Dependent on Viral Load Despite Variable Subtype and T-Cell Immune Activation Levels
(The Journal of infectious diseases, 2015)
Background. Untreated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection is associated with persistent im mune activation, which is an independent driver of disease progression in European and United States cohorts. ...