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Insecticide‐treated bednets reduce mortality and severe morbidity from malaria among children on the Kenyan coast by Nevill, C. G., Some, E. S., Mung'ala, V. O., Muterni, W., New, L., Marsh, K., Lengeler, C., Snow, R. W.

“…Summary New tools to prevent malaria morbidity and mortality are needed to improve child survival in sub‐Saharan Africa. Insecticide treated bednets (ITBN)…”
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Identifying Hierarchical Structure in Sequences: A linear-time algorithm by Nevill-Manning, C. G., Witten, I. H.

“…SEQUITUR is an algorithm that infers a hierarchical structure from a sequence of discrete symbols by replacing repeated phrases with a grammatical rule that…”
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The Effect of Delivery Mechanisms on the Uptake of Bed Net Re-Impregnation in Kilifi District, Kenya by Snow, RW, Mccabe, E, Mbogo, CNM, Molyneux, CS, Some, ES, Mung'ala, Vo, Nevill, CG

“…The results of recently completed trials in Africa of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITBN) offer new possibilities for malaria control. These experimental…”
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The effects of malaria control on nutritional status in infancy by Snow, R.W., Molyneux, C.S., Njeru, E.K., Omumbo, J., Nevill, C.G., Muniu, E., Marsh, K.

“…Both malaria and undernutrition are major causes of paediatric mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. The introduction of insecticide-treated bed nets…”
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Fast probabilistic analysis of sequence function using scoring matrices by Wu, Thomas D., Nevill-Manning, Craig G., Brutlag, Douglas L.

“…*To whom correspondence should be addressed. 3Present address: Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA. E-mail: twu@gene.com…”
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Comparison of mosquito nets, proguanil hydrochloride, and placebo to prevent malaria by Nevill, C. G., Watkins, W. M., Carter, J. Y., Munafu, C. G.

“…One hundred and ninety students aged 6 to 18 at a boarding school 120 km west of Nairobi in the Rift Valley participated in a comparative trial of malaria…”
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Severe childhood malaria in two areas of markedly different falciparum transmission in east Africa by Snow, R W, Bastos de Azevedo, I, Lowe, B S, Kabiru, E W, Nevill, C G, Mwankusye, S, Kassiga, G, Marsh, K, Teuscher, T

“…Malaria remains a major public health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, yet our knowledge of the epidemiology of malaria in terms of patterns of mortality and…”
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Daily chlorproguanil is an effective alternative to daily proguanil in the prevention of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kenya by Nevill, C G, Lury, J D, Mosobo, M K, Watkins, H M, Watkins, W M

“…To test the efficacy of chlorproguanil prophylaxis, 156 malaria-free schoolchildren in the coastal region of Kenya were allocated at random to receive either…”
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Chlorproguanil/dapsone for the treatment of non-severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kenya: a pilot study by Watkins, W M, Brandling-Bennett, A D, Nevill, C G, Carter, J Y, Boriga, D A, Howells, R E, Koech, D K

“…Chlorocycloguanil, the active metabolite of chlorproguanil, was synergistic in vitro with dapsone against 2 culture-adapted Plasmodium falciparum isolates from…”
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A comparison of amodiaquine and chloroquine in the treatment therapy of falciparum malaria in Kenya by Nevill, C G, Verhoeff, F H, Munafu, C G, ten Hove, W R, van der Kaay, H J, Were, J B

“…During June to August 1989, 158 symptomatic outpatients with P. falciparum malaria were randomly treated with either amodiaquine or chloroquine 25 mg/kg,…”
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Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa by Nevill, C G

“…Malaria as a threat to health has remained undaunted in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It has been mathematically modelled, vertically attacked and continuously…”
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A single dose of intramuscular sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as an adjunct to quinine in the treatment of severe malaria: pharmacokinetics and efficacy by Newton, C R, Winstanley, P A, Watkins, W M, Mwangi, I N, Waruiru, C M, Mberu, E K, Warn, P A, Nevill, C G, Marsh, K

“…It has been suggested that sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SD/PM) may be useful in the treatment of severe malaria since it could enhance the killing of parasites…”
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Pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (Fansidar) resistance in a non-immune Kenyan--a case report by Nevill, C G, Gardner, A

“…Drug resistance in an endemic zone is often difficult to prove. This case illustrating both chloroquine and pyrimethamine sulfadoxine resistance unfolded in an…”
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Variability in the metabolism of proguanil to the active metabolite cycloguanil in healthy Kenyan adults by Watkins, W M, Mberu, E K, Nevill, C G, Ward, S A, Breckenridge, A M, Koech, D K

“…Extensive metabolizers (EM) and poor metabolizers (PM) of the malaria chemoprophylactic drug proguanil have been identified by measuring the…”
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Efficacy of pyrimethamine/sulfadoxine in uncomplicated severe falciparum malaria in Kenya by Nevill, C G, Watkins, W M

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Response of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine and Fansidar in vivo and chloroquine and amodiaquine in vitro in Uganda by Nevill, C G, Ochen, K, Munafu, C G, Bekobita, D, Sezi, C L

“…The response of P. falciparum to chloroquine and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine in vivo and chloroquine and amodiaquine in vitro was investigated in parasitaemic…”
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Compression and Explanation using Hierarchical Grammars by Nevill-Manning, C. G.

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Infant parasite rates and immunoglobulin M seroprevalence as a measure of exposure to Plasmodium falciparum during a randomized controlled trial of insecticide-treated bed nets on the Kenyan coast by Snow, R W, Molyneux, C S, Warn, P A, Omumbo, J, Nevill, C G, Gupta, S, Marsh, K

“…Repeated cross-sectional surveys among infants sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets (ITBN) and contemporary control infants were used to estimate…”
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Highly Specific Protein Sequence Motifs for Genome Analysis by Nevill-Manning, Craig G., Wu, Thomas D., Brutlag, Douglas L.

“…We present a method for discovering conserved sequence motifs from families of aligned protein sequences. The method has been implemented as a computer program…”
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On-line and off-line heuristics for inferring hierarchies of repetitions in sequences by Nevill-Manning, C.G., Witten, I.H.

“…Hierarchical dictionary-based compression schemes form a grammar for a text by replacing each repeated string with a production rule. While such schemes…”
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