Search Results - "Stuyft, P. Van der"

Drug policy for visceral leishmaniasis: a cost‐effectiveness analysis by Vanlerberghe, V., Diap, G., Guerin, P. J., Meheus, F., Gerstl, S., Stuyft, P. Van der, Boelaert, M.

“…Summary Objective  To facilitate the choice of the best visceral leishmaniasis (VL) treatment strategy for first‐line health services in (VL)‐endemic areas, we…”
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Isoniazid preventive therapy completion in children under 5 years old who are contacts of tuberculosis cases in Lima, Peru: study protocol for an open-label, cluster-randomized superiority trial by Otero, L, Zetola, N, Campos, M, Zunt, J, Bayer, A, Curisinche, M, Ochoa, T, Reyes, M, Vega, V, Van der Stuyft, P, Sterling, T R

“…Children < 5 years old in contact with TB cases are at high risk for developing severe and fatal forms of TB. Contact investigation, BCG vaccination, and…”
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Drug toxicity and cost as barriers to community participation in HAT control in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Robays, J., Lefèvre, P., Lutumba, P., Lubanza, S., Kande Betu Ku Mesu, V., Van der Stuyft, P., Boelaert, M.

“…Summary Introduction  Active case‐finding programmes by mobile teams are the cornerstone of West African Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) control. Low…”
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Exploring HIV risk perception and behaviour in the context of antiretroviral treatment: results from a township household survey by Boulle, A., Hilderbrand, K., Menten, J., Coetzee, D., Ford, N., Matthys, F., Boelaert, M., Van der Stuyft, P.

“…The objective of this cross-sectional household survey was to assess factors influencing HIV risk perception, behaviour and intervention uptake in a community…”
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Visceral leishmaniasis control: a public health perspective by Boelaert, M., Criel, B., Leeuwenburg, J., Van Damme, W., Le Ray, D., Van der Stuyft, P.

“…Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is a vector-borne disease caused by a protozoan of the Leishmania donovani complex. A phlebotomine…”
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Community involvement in dengue vector control: cluster randomised trial by Vanlerberghe, V, Toledo, M E, Rodríguez, M, Gomez, D, Baly, A, Benitez, J R, Van der Stuyft, P

“…Objective To assess the effectiveness of an integrated community based environmental management strategy to control Aedes aegypti, the vector of dengue,…”
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Private practitioners' contributions to the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in a South Indian district by Yellappa, V., Battaglioli, T., Gurum, S. K., Narayanan, D., Van der Stuyft, P.

“…SETTING: Tumkur District, South India.OBJECTIVE: To assess the participation of for-profit, formal private practitioners (PPs) under the Revised National…”
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Real-time parameter estimation of Zika outbreaks using model averaging by SEBRANGO-RODRÍGUEZ, C. R., MARTÍNEZ-BELLO, D. A., SÁNCHEZ-VALDÉS, L., THILAKARATHNE, P. J., DEL FAVA, E., VAN DER STUYFT, P., LÓPEZ-QUÍLEZ, A., SHKEDY, Z.

“…Early prediction of the final size of any epidemic and in particular for Zika disease outbreaks can be useful for health authorities in order to plan the…”
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Breteau Index threshold levels indicating risk for dengue transmission in areas with low Aedes infestation by Sanchez, L, Cortinas, J, Pelaez, O, Gutierrez, H, Concepción, D, Van der Stuyft, P

“…We used Breteau Indices to - retrospectively - predict dengue transmission. The presence of one house block (on average about 50 houses) with a Breteau Index…”
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Manual liquid culture on simple Middlebrook 7H9 or MGIT for the diagnosis of smear‐negative pulmonary tuberculosis by Battaglioli, T., Soto, A., Agapito, J., Acurio, V., Stuyft, P.

“…Objectives To compare the performance of liquid culture on simple Middlebrook 7H9 to the one of manual mycobacterial growth indicator tube (MGIT) and solid…”
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Intersectoral coordination, community empowerment and dengue prevention: six years of controlled interventions in Playa Municipality, Havana, Cuba by Sanchez, L, Perez, D, Cruz, G, Castro, M, Kourí, G, Shkedy, Z, Vanlerberghe, V, Van der Stuyft, P

“…To document the process, outcome and effectiveness of a community-based intervention for dengue control. The primary intervention, focused on strengthening…”
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The economic burden of visceral leishmaniasis for households in Nepal by Rijal, S., Koirala, S., Van der Stuyft, P., Boelaert, M.

“…Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) affects persons from the lowest socioeconomic strata of the community, but its economic impact is not precisely known. An…”
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The potential of Latent Class Analysis in diagnostic test validation for canine Leishmania infantum infection by BOELAERT, M., AOUN, K., LIINEV, J., GOETGHEBEUR, E., VAN DER STUYFT, P.

“…Accuracy assessment of diagnostic tests may be seriously biased if an imperfect reference test is used such as parasitology in the diagnosis of visceral…”
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Residual insecticidal activity of long-lasting deltamethrin-treated curtains after 1 year of household use for dengue control by Vanlerberghe, V, Trongtokit, Y, Cremonini, L, Jirarojwatana, S, Apiwathnasorn, C, Van der Stuyft, P

“…To evaluate the residual insecticidal activity of the PermaNet® curtains on Aedes aegypti after 1 year of use in Thai households and to assess the influence of…”
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Comparative performance of Thin Layer Agar and Löwenstein–Jensen culture for diagnosis of tuberculosis by Battaglioli, T., Rintiswati, N., Martin, A., Palupi, K.R., Bernaerts, G., Dwihardiani, B., Ahmad, R.A., Matthys, F., Mahendradhata, Y., Van der Stuyft, P.

“…Sputum smear microscopy for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is cheap and simple but its sensitivity is low. Culture on Löwenstein–Jensen (LJ) is more…”
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Time to initiation of multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis treatment and its relation with outcome in a high incidence district in Lima, Peru by Otero, L., De Orbegoso, A., Navarro, A. F., Ríos, J., Párraga, T., Gotuzzo, E., Seas, C., Van der Stuyft, P.

“…Objective To determine the time from diagnosis to start of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) treatment in Lima, Peru. Methods We studied new…”
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Paraquat poisoning by Stuyft Van der, Patrick

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Editorial: Delays to tuberculosis treatment: shall we continue to blame the victim? by Lambert, M. L., Van der Stuyft, P.

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Towards active community participation in dengue vector control: results from action research in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba by Toledo, M.E., Vanlerberghe, V., Baly, A., Ceballos, E., Valdes, L., Searret, M., Boelaert, M., Van der Stuyft, P.

“…Community participation is advocated as essential for attaining effective dengue prevention, but knowledge of how to foster this is limited. In Santiago de…”
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The unreliability of the Kato‐Katz technique limits its usefulness for evaluating S. mansoni infections by Kongs, A., Marks, G., Verlé, P., Van der Stuyft, P.

“…The Kato‐Katz technique, a (semi) quantitative stool examination technique, is generally recommended for diagnosis and evaluation of Schistosoma mansoni…”
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