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Jan 8, 2025 | 
labmanager.com | Swiss Tropical
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study led by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) shows that resistance to the new MDR-TB treatment regimen recently recommended by the World Health Organization is already spreading between patients.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 02706-5/abstract?hss_channel=tw-27013292&dgcid=twitter_organic_comment25_lancet&sz=64)
thelancet.com | Swiss Tropical |Antimicrobial resistance
aDepartment of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK bNational Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania cDepartment of Biochemistry, Kampala International University in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania dMalaria Elimination Initiative, Institute of Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA eDepartment of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA fMahidol Oxford...
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Swiss Tropical
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:Malaria, spread by Anopheles mosquitoes, is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. In Kenya, malaria remains a major health challenge, particularly for children under the age of five years.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Swiss Tropical
Travellers frequently visit popular destinations like Brazil, India, Peru, Thailand, and Tanzania, each presenting varying malaria risks. The extent to which travellers enter high-risk malaria-endemic areas in destinations with heterogeneous malaria risk remains unclear.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com | Swiss Tropical
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Han Zhang |Swiss Tropical |Jessica Cohen
Key PointsQuestion
How has the widescale distribution of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria across sub-Saharan African countries affected febrile illness management and mortality for children younger than 5 years of age? Findings
Increasing distribution of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria was associated with increased blood testing, use of antimalarial drugs, and antibiotic use and modestly improved child survival. The greatest benefits occurred in areas with a high prevalence of malaria.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com | Swiss Tropical
The coordinating centre is located in SolidarMed’s field office in Butha-Buthe, Lesotho. This is a secure, locked building with secure, locked rooms inside of which the study team can safely store data. The trial steering committee consists of the study PIs (a clinical psychologist and a microbiologist), the Sponsor-Investigator (a medical doctor), a psychiatrist, and two PhD candidates in clinical research.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Swiss Tropical |Region Stockholm
To whom correspondence should be addressed. Sarah L. McGuinness, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Australia 3004. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on:Division of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Institute for Hygiene and Environment , Hamburg, Search for other works by this author on:
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | Swiss Tropical
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com | Swiss Tropical
Macroinvertebrate predators naturally inhabit aquatic ecosystems that form larval breeding habitats of malaria vector species of the Anopheles gambiae complex (An. arabiensis, An. gambiae s. s., An. coluzzii, An. merus, and An. melas) [1, 2]. The abundance and composition of macroinvertebrate predator taxa supported by aquatic habitats of the An. gambiae s.l. species complex depends greatly on habitat permanency [3].
