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List of works by Kayla Laserson

'He is the one who is providing you with everything so whatever he says is what you do': A Qualitative Study on Factors Affecting Secondary Schoolgirls' Dropout in Rural Western Kenya

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

'We do not know': a qualitative study exploring boys perceptions of menstruation in India

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

'We keep it secret so no one should know'--a qualitative study to explore young schoolgirls attitudes and experiences with menstruation in rural western Kenya

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A Reversal in Reductions of Child Mortality in Western Kenya, 2003–2009 ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

A cutaneous Anthrax outbreak in Koraput District of Odisha-India 2015

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

A phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African infants

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A sham case-control study of effectiveness of DTP-Hib-hepatitis B vaccine against rotavirus acute gastroenteritis in Kenya

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Adaptive immune responses in humans during Nipah virus acute and convalescent phases of infection

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Adolescent schoolgirls' experiences of menstrual cups and pads in rural western Kenya: a qualitative study

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Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites

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Age-specific malaria mortality rates in the KEMRI/CDC health and demographic surveillance system in western Kenya, 2003-2010

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Alcohol use, drunkenness and tobacco smoking in rural western Kenya ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

An analysis of pregnancy-related mortality in the KEMRI/CDC health and demographic surveillance system in western Kenya

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An occasion for pause and reflection--challenges to public health during times of instability: a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kenya Medical Research Institute on the post-election violence in Kenya

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Antiretroviral therapy uptake among adult tuberculosis patients newly diagnosed with HIV in Nyanza Province, Kenya

scientific article published on December 2013

Association of acute toxic encephalopathy with litchi consumption in an outbreak in Muzaffarpur, India, 2014: a case-control study

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Barriers and facilitators to antenatal and delivery care in western Kenya: a qualitative study

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Bed net ownership in Kenya: the impact of 3.4 million free bed nets

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Childhood cause-specific mortality in rural Western Kenya: application of the InterVA-4 model

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Clinical outcome of individualised treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Latvia: a retrospective cohort study

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Clinical, environmental, and behavioral characteristics associated with Cryptosporidium infection among children with moderate-to-severe diarrhea in rural western Kenya, 2008-2012: The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS)

scholarly article by Miranda J Delahoy et al published July 2018 in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Community Case Management of Childhood Diarrhea in a Setting with Declining Use of Oral Rehydration Therapy: Findings from Cross-Sectional Studies among Primary Household Caregivers, Kenya, 2007 ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Community-based evaluation of PMTCT uptake in Nyanza Province, Kenya

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Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia

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Continuing with "…a heavy heart" - consequences of maternal death in rural Kenya

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Deaths ascribed to non-communicable diseases among rural Kenyan adults are proportionately increasing: evidence from a health and demographic surveillance system, 2003-2010

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Dengue virus is an under-recognised causative agent of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES): Results from a four year AES surveillance study of Japanese encephalitis in selected states of India

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

Diarrhoea, enteric pathogen detection and nutritional indicators among controls in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, Kenya site: an opportunity to understand reference populations in case-control studies of diarrhoea

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Do Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Primary Schools Consistently Support Schoolgirls' Menstrual Needs? A Longitudinal Study in Rural Western Kenya

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Early uptake of HIV clinical care after testing HIV-positive during home-based testing and counseling in western Kenya.

scientific article published in January 2013

Effect of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on the management of uncomplicated malaria with artemether-lumefantrine in Kenya: a cluster randomized trial.

scientific article published on June 2009

Effect of menstruation on girls and their schooling, and facilitators of menstrual hygiene management in schools: surveys in government schools in three states in India, 2015

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Efficacy of pentavalent rotavirus vaccine against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 6 August 2010

Efficacy of pentavalent rotavirus vaccine in a high HIV prevalence population in Kenya ⬇️

scientific article published on April 27, 2012

Epidemiology of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in the United States, 1993–2008 ⬇️

scientific article published on June 28, 2012

Epidemiology, Seasonality and Factors Associated with Rotavirus Infection among Children with Moderate-to-Severe Diarrhea in Rural Western Kenya, 2008-2012: The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS)

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Examining the safety of menstrual cups among rural primary school girls in western Kenya: observational studies nested in a randomised controlled feasibility study

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

Exploring risk perception and attitudes to miscarriage and congenital anomaly in rural Western Kenya

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Factors Associated with the Duration of Moderate-to-Severe Diarrhea among Children in Rural Western Kenya Enrolled in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, 2008-2012.

scientific article published in July 2017

Factors associated with typical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection among children <5 years old with moderate-to-severe diarrhoea in rural western Kenya, 2008-2012

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Field Evaluation of a Broadly Sensitive HIV-1 In-House Genotyping Assay for Use with both Plasma and Dried Blood Spot Specimens in a Resource-Limited Country ⬇️

scientific article published on December 5, 2012

First results of phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African children

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Geographic distribution of HIV stigma among women of childbearing age in rural Kenya

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Geospatial distribution and determinants of child mortality in rural western Kenya 2002-2005.

scientific article published in April 2010

HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites.

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Health care utilization and access to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing and care and treatment services in a rural area with high HIV prevalence, Nyanza Province, Kenya, 2007.

scientific article published on 09 December 2013

Health care-seeking behavior during childhood diarrheal illness: results of health care utilization and attitudes surveys of caretakers in western Kenya, 2007-2010

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

High Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization prevalence among HIV-infected Kenyan parents in the year before pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction

scientific article published on 16 January 2016

High burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in young children in rural western Kenya, 2010-2011.

scientific article published on January 2014

Home-based HIV testing and counseling in rural and urban Kenyan communities

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Impact of implementation of free high-quality health care on health facility attendance by sick children in rural western Kenya

scientific article published on 29 March 2011

Infant and child mortality in relation to malaria transmission in KEMRI/CDC HDSS, Western Kenya: validation of verbal autopsy

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Influenza and malaria coinfection among young children in western Kenya, 2009-2011.

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

Integrated point-of-care testing (POCT) for HIV, syphilis, malaria and anaemia at antenatal facilities in western Kenya: a qualitative study exploring end-users' perspectives of appropriateness, acceptability and feasibility

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Integrated point-of-care testing (POCT) of HIV, syphilis, malaria and anaemia in antenatal clinics in western Kenya: A longitudinal implementation study

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Intermittent screening and treatment or intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the control of malaria during pregnancy in western Kenya: an op

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Jaundice outbreak likely caused by HEV in Amritsar, Punjab, India, 2013

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Kyasanur Forest disease outbreak and vaccination strategy, Shimoga District, India, 2013-2014.

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Lychee-associated acute hypoglycaemic encephalopathy outbreaks in Muzaffarpur, India - Author's reply

scientific article published in September 2017

Menstrual Needs and Associations with Sexual and Reproductive Risks in Rural Kenyan Females: A Cross-Sectional Behavioral Survey Linked with HIV Prevalence.

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Menstrual cup use, leakage, acceptability, safety, and availability: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Menstrual cups and sanitary pads to reduce school attrition, and sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility study in rural Western Kenya

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Menstrual hygiene management among adolescent girls in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Mortality and health among internally displaced persons in western Kenya following post-election violence, 2008: novel use of demographic surveillance ⬇️

scientific article published on May 10, 2010

Mortality trends from 2003 to 2009 among adolescents and young adults in rural Western Kenya using a health and demographic surveillance system

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Multiple importations and transmission of colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a hospital in northern India

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Outbreaks of unexplained neurologic illness - Muzaffarpur, India, 2013-2014.

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Performance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests as part of routine malaria case management in Kenya.

scientific article published in March 2009

Perspectives of men on antenatal and delivery care service utilisation in rural western Kenya: a qualitative study

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Pneumococcal carriage and antibiotic susceptibility patterns from two cross-sectional colonization surveys among children aged <5 years prior to the introduction of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine - Kenya, 2009-2010

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Population-Based Biochemistry, Immunologic and Hematological Reference Values for Adolescents and Young Adults in a Rural Population in Western Kenya ⬇️

scientific article published on June 21, 2011

Post-Flood Rapid Needs Assessment in Srinagar City, Jammu and Kashmir State, India, September, 2014.

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Pregnant Women's Intentions and Subsequent Behaviors Regarding Maternal and Neonatal Service Utilization: Results from a Cohort Study in Nyanza Province, Kenya

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Preparing for human papillomavirus vaccine introduction in Kenya: implications from focus-group and interview discussions with caregivers and opinion leaders in Western Kenya

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Prevalence of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Kisumu, Western Kenya, 1997 and 2008.

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Prevalence of reproductive tract infections and the predictive value of girls' symptom-based reporting: findings from a cross-sectional survey in rural western Kenya

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Profile: the KEMRI/CDC Health and Demographic Surveillance System--Western Kenya

scientific article published in August 2012

Risk Factors for Acquiring Scrub Typhus among Children in Deoria and Gorakhpur Districts, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2017

scholarly article by Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj et al published December 2018 in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Risk factors for death among children less than 5 years old hospitalized with diarrhea in rural western Kenya, 2005-2007: a cohort study

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Risk factors for death during a resurgence of influenza-A (H1N1) pdm09 in Punjab State in 2013.

scientific article published on January 2017

Risk factors for excess mortality and death in adults with tuberculosis in Western Kenya.

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Risk of Injection-Site Abscess among Infants Receiving a Preservative-Free, Two-Dose Vial Formulation of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Kenya

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Risks of miscarriage and inadvertent exposure to artemisinin derivatives in the first trimester of pregnancy: a prospective cohort study in western Kenya

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Roadmap for the international collaborative epidemiologic monitoring of safety and effectiveness of new high priority vaccines

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Rotavirus disease burden and impact and cost-effectiveness of a rotavirus vaccination program in kenya

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Routine fruit washing to prevent acute toxic encephalopathy - Authors' reply

scientific article published in September 2017

Safety of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (PRV), RotaTeq®, in Kenya, including among HIV-infected and HIV-exposed infants ⬇️

scientific article published on April 27, 2012

Secondary efficacy endpoints of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine against gastroenteritis in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on April 2012

Shame, guilt, and stress: Community perceptions of barriers to engaging in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programs in western Kenya.

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Spatial and temporal dynamics of malaria transmission in rural Western Kenya

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Spatio-temporal modeling of sparse geostatistical malaria sporozoite rate data using a zero inflated binomial model

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Strengthening infection prevention and control and systematic surveillance of healthcare associated infections in India

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The Effect of Indoor Residual Spraying on the Prevalence of Malaria Parasite Infection, Clinical Malaria and Anemia in an Area of Perennial Transmission and Moderate Coverage of Insecticide Treated Nets in Western Kenya

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

The Relationship Between Distance to Water Source and Moderate-to-Severe Diarrhea in the Global Enterics Multi-Center Study in Kenya, 2008-2011

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The World Health Organization Measles Programmatic Risk Assessment Tool-Pilot Testing in India, 2014.

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The adult population impact of HIV care and antiretroviral therapy in a resource poor setting, 2003-2008.

scientific article published in July 2012

The association of weather variability and under five malaria mortality in KEMRI/CDC HDSS in Western Kenya 2003 to 2008: a time series analysis.

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The combination of indoor residual spraying and insecticide-treated nets provides added protection against malaria compared with insecticide-treated nets alone

scientific article published on December 2011

The economic burden of maternal mortality on households: evidence from three sub-counties in rural western Kenya

scientific article published on 6 May 2015

The feasibility of using mobile-phone based SMS reminders and conditional cash transfers to improve timely immunization in rural Kenya

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The impact of home-based HIV counseling and testing on care-seeking and incidence of common infectious disease syndromes in rural western Kenya

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The impact of hotspot-targeted interventions on malaria transmission: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 2 February 2013

Towards global health security: response to the May 2018 Nipah virus outbreak linked to bats in Kerala, India

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Trauma-related mortality among adults in Rural Western Kenya: characterising deaths using data from a health and demographic surveillance system.

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Trends observed during a decade of paediatric sick visits to peripheral health facilities in rural western Kenya, 1997-2006.

scientific article published on 12 November 2008

Tuberculosis among Children in Kenya: Epidemiology and Impact of HIV in Two Provinces ⬇️

scientific article published on December 5, 2011

Uptake of skilled attendance along the continuum of care in rural Western Kenya: selected analysis from Global Health initiative survey-2012.

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

Use of menstrual cups among school girls: longitudinal observations nested in a randomised controlled feasibility study in rural western Kenya

scientific article published on 17 August 2018

Using health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) data to analyze geographical distribution of socio-economic status; an experience from KEMRI/CDC HDSS.

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Using program evaluation to improve the performance of a TB-HIV project in Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia

scientific article published in March 2008

Validation of the line-probe assay for rapid detection of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Vietnam.

scientific article published in February 2009

Viral Hepatitis Surveillance--India, 2011-2013.

scientific article published on July 2015

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Kenyan Rural Schools: Are Schools Meeting the Needs of Menstruating Girls?

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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Characteristics among HIV-Positive Households Participating in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study in Rural Western Kenya, 2008-2012

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Weekly miscarriage rates in a community-based prospective cohort study in rural western Kenya

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

What are the most sensitive and specific sign and symptom combinations for influenza in patients hospitalized with acute respiratory illness? Results from western Kenya, January 2007–July 2010 ⬇️

scientific article published on March 15, 2012

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