Search Results - "Austin, Nicole"
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Determinants of tuberculosis disease development in children in central Ethiopia: A matched case-control study
Published in PloS one (09-05-2024)“…The risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) disease development in children remained understudied, particularly in low-income countries like Ethiopia. The objective…”
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Fear of Falling in Older Women: A Longitudinal Study of Incidence, Persistence, and Predictors
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-10-2007)“…OBJECTIVES: To determine longitudinal predictors of incident and persistent fear of falling (FOF) in older women. DESIGN: Longitudinal study. SETTING: Clinical…”
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Predicted Pharmacokinetic Interactions Between Hormonal Contraception and Single or Intermittently Dosed Rifampicin
Published in Journal of clinical pharmacology (01-11-2023)“…The scale-up of rifampicin-based prevention regimens is an essential part of the global leprosy strategy. Daily rifampicin may reduce the effectiveness of the…”
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Epidemiology of childhood tuberculosis and predictors of death among children on tuberculosis treatment in central Ethiopia: an extended Cox model challenged survival analysis
Published in BMC public health (04-07-2023)“…Childhood tuberculosis (TB) was poorly studied in Ethiopia. This study aimed to describe the epidemiology of childhood TB and identify predictors of death…”
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Towards equitable & resilient post-pandemic urban food systems: The role of community-based organizations
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Cytomegalovirus Enterocolitis in Immunocompetent Young Children: A Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature
Published in The Pediatric infectious disease journal (01-05-2016)“…Cytomegalovirus (CMV) causes significant morbidity and mortality in congenitally infected children and immunocompromised hosts. Among healthy individuals, CMV…”
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Facilitators and barriers to initiating and completing tuberculosis preventive treatment among children and adolescents living with HIV in Uganda: a qualitative study of adolescents, caretakers and health workers
Published in AIDS research and therapy (29-08-2024)“…People living with HIV (PLHIV) have a 20-fold risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease compared to HIV-negative people. In 2021, the uptake of TB preventive treatment…”
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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a young child after travel to India
Published in The Lancet infectious diseases (01-12-2015)“…Summary Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide, but little is known about XDR tuberculosis in young…”
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Improving access to tuberculosis preventive treatment for children in Ethiopia: designing a home-based contact management intervention for the CHIP-TB trial through formative research
Published in BMC health services research (10-09-2024)“…Tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment (TPT) is a long-standing recommendation for children exposed to TB but remains poorly implemented. Home-based contact…”
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The magnitude of unfavorable tuberculosis treatment outcomes and their relation with baseline undernutrition and sustained undernutrition among children receiving tuberculosis treatment in central Ethiopia
Published in Heliyon (30-03-2024)“…One of the global key indicators for monitoring the implementation of the World Health Organization's End Tuberculosis (TB) Strategy is the treatment outcome…”
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Pragmatic cluster-randomized trial of home-based preventive treatment for TB in Ethiopia and South Africa (CHIP-TB)
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (25-07-2023)“…Each year, 1 million children develop TB resulting in over 200,000 child deaths. TB preventive treatment (TPT) is highly effective in preventing TB but remains…”
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Correction: Facilitators and barriers to initiating and completing tuberculosis preventive treatment among children and adolescents living with HIV in Uganda: a qualitative study of adolescents, caretakers and health workers
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Child Contact Case Management-A Major Policy-Practice Gap in High-Burden Countries
Published in Pathogens (Basel) (21-12-2021)“…The 2021 Global Tuberculosis (TB) report shows slow progress towards closing the pediatric TB detection gap and improving the TB preventive treatment (TPT)…”
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Cost-effectiveness of scaling up short course preventive therapy for tuberculosis among children across 12 countries
Published in EClinicalMedicine (01-01-2021)“…While household contact investigation is widely recommended as a means to reduce the burden of tuberculosis (TB) among children, only 27% of eligible pediatric…”
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Preventive Treatment for Household Contacts of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis Patients
Published in Pathogens (Basel) (29-10-2022)“…People who live in the household of someone with infectious pulmonary tuberculosis are at a high risk of tuberculosis infection and subsequent progression to…”
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Post-trial perceptions of a symptom-based TB screening intervention in South Africa: implementation insights and future directions for TB preventive healthcare services
Published in BMC nursing (08-02-2021)“…Tuberculosis is a top-10 cause of under-5 mortality, despite policies promoting tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT). We previously conducted a cluster…”
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Overcoming barriers to scaling up tuberculosis preventive treatment for household contacts
Published in The lancet respiratory medicine (01-08-2024)Get full text
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Tuberculosis in Children
Published in Infectious disease clinics of North America (01-03-2022)“…Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of mortality in children worldwide, but there remain significant challenges in diagnosing and treating TB…”
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The intersection of structure and agency within charitable community food programs in Toronto, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic: cultivating systemic change
Published in Critical public health (27-05-2023)“…Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, food insecurity was already a serious public health problem in Canada, impacting 12.7 percent of households. In recent years,…”
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High-dose rifampicin to treat tuberculosis infection: potential and pitfalls
Published in The lancet respiratory medicine (01-06-2024)Get full text
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