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A comparative analysis and review of how national guidelines for chronic disease monitoring are made in low- and middle-income compared to high-income countries

scientific article published in 2021

A comparison of the conditional inference survival forest model to random survival forests based on a simulation study as well as on two applications with time-to-event data.

scientific article

A live weight-heart girth relationship for accurate dosing of east African shorthorn zebu cattle.

scientific article published on 25 August 2012

ART Adherence, Resistance, and Long-term HIV Viral Suppression in Postpartum Women

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

An estimate of the proportion of symptoms reported in self-administered questionnaires that are captured as adverse drug events in an observational database.

scientific article published on September 2007

Antibiotic stewardship ward rounds and a dedicated prescription chart reduce antibiotic consumption and pharmacy costs without affecting inpatient mortality or re-admission rates

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Antiretroviral Adherence, Elevated Viral Load, and Drug Resistance Mutations in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected Women Initiating Treatment in Pregnancy: A Nested Case-control Study

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Association of Vitamin D Related Information from a Telephone Interview with 25-Hydroxyvitamin D

Associations between maternal mental health and early child wheezing in a South African birth cohort

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Asthma symptoms, spirometry and air pollution exposure in schoolchildren in an informal settlement and an affluent area of Nairobi, Kenya

scientific article published in November 2023

Bias in the estimation of cumulative viremia in cohort studies of HIV-infected individuals

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Blood cultures taken from patients attending emergency departments in South Africa are an important antibiotic stewardship tool, which directly influences patient management

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Brief Report: Viral Load Monitoring in Pregnancy to Predict Peripartum Viremia in South Africa

scientific article published in September 2021

Burden of tuberculosis in intensive care units in Cape Town, South Africa, and assessment of the accuracy and effect on patient outcomes of the Xpert MTB/RIF test on tracheal aspirate samples for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a prospective bu

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

COVID-19 and the Gaping Wounds of South Africa's Suboptimal Immunisation Coverage: An Implementation Research Imperative for Assessing and Addressing Missed Opportunities for Vaccination

scientific article published on 23 June 2021

Changes in Body Fat Distribution on Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in Black South Africans Starting First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy

scientific article published on October 2016

Chronic respiratory disease observatory for Africa (CHEST-Africa): study protocol for the prevalence, determinants and economic impacts of asthma and COPD in Africa

scientific article published on 17 July 2024

Comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative type 2 diabetes monitoring intervals in resource limited settings

scientific article published on 15 October 2024

Comparison of Myocardial Perfusion during Hemodialysis and Hemodiafiltration

Comparison of guidelines for HIV viral load monitoring among pregnant and breastfeeding women in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Complement pathway gene activation and rising circulating immune complexes characterize early disease in HIV-associated tuberculosis

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Comprehensive review of safety in Experimental Human Pneumococcal Challenge

scientific article published in 2023

Concentration-Dependent Antagonism and Culture Conversion in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

scientific article

Correction to: The CombinADO study to assess the impact of a combination intervention strategy on viral suppression, antiretroviral therapy adherence, and retention in HIV care among adolescents and young people living with HIV: protocol for a cluste

scientific article correction published on 17 January 2022

Decreased prevalence and severity of asthma symptoms among adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria, 1995-2018

scientific article published in December 2023

Delivery effectiveness of and adherence to intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine with or without targeted information transfer or sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine in western Kenya: a three-armed,

scientific article published in October 2024

Delivery of antiretroviral therapy to HIV-infected women during the postpartum period: The Postpartum Adherence Clubs for Antiretroviral Therapy (PACART) trial

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Diurnal variability of fine-particulate pollution concentrations: data from 14 low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published in March 2021

Early pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) discontinuation among pregnant and postpartum women: Implications for maternal PrEP roll out in South Africa

scientific article published on 4 May 2021

Early pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation and continuation among pregnant and postpartum women in antenatal care in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published in February 2022

Economic evaluation of shortened, bedaquiline-containing treatment regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM stage 2): a within-trial analysis of a randomised controlled trial

Effect of patterns of transferring patients among healthcare institutions on rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission: a Monte Carlo simulation

scientific article

Effect on mortality of point-of-care, urine-based lipoarabinomannan testing to guide tuberculosis treatment initiation in HIV-positive hospital inpatients: a pragmatic, parallel-group, multicountry, open-label, randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 9 March 2016

Feasibility, accuracy, and clinical effect of point-of-care Xpert MTB/RIF testing for tuberculosis in primary-care settings in Africa: a multicentre, randomised, controlled trial

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Frequency of Viremic Episodes in HIV-Infected Women Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy During Pregnancy: A Cohort Study

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

HIV Viremia During Pregnancy and Neurodevelopment of HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children in the Context of Universal Antiretroviral Therapy and Breastfeeding: A Prospective Study

article

High diversity of alpha, beta and gamma human papillomaviruses in genital samples from HIV-negative and HIV-positive heterosexual South African men.

scientific article

Hormonal contraception and risk of STIs and bacterial vaginosis in South African adolescents: secondary analysis of a randomised trial

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Host adapted intramammary infections in pregnant heifers which were co-housed and reared on fresh milk as calves

scientific article

Household Air Pollution and Risk of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV-Infected Adults

preprint article published on 10 October 2023

Household air pollution and risk of pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-Infected adults

scholarly article published on 17 January 2024

Household carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in a large African city: An unquantified public health burden?

scientific article published in June 2024

Human Infection Challenge with Serotype 3 Pneumococcus

scientific article published in December 2022

Impact of universal ART for pregnant and postpartum women on ART uptake and retention

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Implementation and Operational Research: Community-Based Adherence Clubs for the Management of Stable Antiretroviral Therapy Patients in Cape Town, South Africa: A Cohort Study

scientific article

Improved virologic outcomes in postpartum women living with HIV referred to differentiated models of care

scientific article published on 15 September 2022

Incidence of acetylcholine receptor-antibody-positive myasthenia gravis in South Africa

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Increasing the uptake of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in pregnancy using Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) through seasonal malaria chemoprevention channel delivery: protocol of a multicenter cluster randomized implementation trial

scientific article published on 2 January 2024

Integration of postpartum healthcare services for HIV-infected women and their infants in South Africa: A randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Interleukin-17 mediated differences in the pathogenesis of HIV-1-associated tuberculous and cryptococcal meningitis

scientific article

Long-term outcomes of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa: a cohort study

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Master statistical analysis plan: attractive targeted sugar bait phase III trials in Kenya, Mali, and Zambia

scientific article published on 29 November 2023

Maternal psychosocial risk factors and lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) during infancy in a South African birth cohort

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Missed Opportunities for Vaccination and Associated Factors among Children Attending Primary Health Care Facilities in Cape Town, South Africa: A Pre-Intervention Multilevel Analysis

scientific article published on 16 May 2022

Mixed-method estimation of population-level HIV viral suppression rate in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Mobility during the post-partum period and viraemia in women living with HIV in South Africa

scientific article published on 3 November 2023

Modelling the impact of COVID-19 on HIV

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Moderate to severe HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment: A randomized placebo-controlled trial of lithium.

scientific article

Neutrophil-associated central nervous system inflammation in tuberculous meningitis immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

scientific article

Non-communicable respiratory disease and air pollution exposure in Malawi: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Noncommunicable Respiratory Disease and Air Pollution Exposure in Malawi (CAPS). A Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Optimal timing of viral load monitoring during pregnancy to predict viraemia at delivery in HIV-infected women initiating ART in South Africa: a simulation study

scientific article published in November 2017

Outcomes, infectiousness, and transmission dynamics of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and home-discharged patients with programmatically incurable tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study

scientific article

Ovarian cysts and breast cancer: results from the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences Study

scientific article

Patient outcomes associated with post-tuberculosis lung damage in Malawi: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Persistent accelerated epigenetic ageing in a longitudinal cohort of vertically infected HIV-positive adolescents

scientific article published in June 2023

Persistent chronic respiratory symptoms despite TB cure is poorly correlated with lung function

scientific article published in April 2021

Plasma biomarkers to detect prevalent, or predict progressive, HIV-1-associated tuberculosis

article

Positive attitudes toward adoption of a multi-component intervention strategy aimed at improving HIV outcomes among adolescents and young people in Nampula, Mozambique: perspectives of HIV care providers

scientific article published on 6 June 2023

Pregnant and breastfeeding women: A priority population for HIV viral load monitoring

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Preterm birth, birth weight, infant weight gain and their associations with childhood asthma and spirometry: a cross-sectional observational study in Nairobi, Kenya

scientific article published in September 2023

Prevalence and Risk Factors for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection among Health Workers in HIV Treatment Centers in North Central, Nigeria

scientific article published on 5 July 2023

Prevalence, severity and risk factors for asthma in school-going adolescents in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

scientific article published in May 2023

Prolonged tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: characteristics and risk factors

scientific article

Psychological distress and its relationship with non-adherence to TB treatment: a multicentre study

scientific article published on July 2015

Regularized deconvolution on the 2D-Euclidean motion group

article published in 2008

Relationship between chest radiographic characteristics, sputum bacterial load, and treatment outcomes in patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 03 November 2018

Relationship between cumulative silica exposure and silicosis: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 September 2024

Reliability of a Robotic Knee Testing Tool to Assess Rotational Stability of the Knee Joint in Healthy Female and Male Volunteers

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Renal safety of lithium in HIV-infected patients established on tenofovir disoproxil fumarate containing antiretroviral therapy: analysis from a randomized placebo-controlled trial.

scientific article published on 04 February 2017

Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

scientific article published in June 2014

Respiratory symptoms and lung function in patients treated for pulmonary tuberculosis in Malawi: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published in November 2022

Risk Factors and Determinants of Pulmonary Function Impairments in Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Ethiopia: A Hospital-based Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on 19 January 2024

Safety of licensed vaccines in HIV-infected persons: a systematic review protocol

scientific article

Screening for post-TB lung disease at TB treatment completion: Are symptoms sufficient?

scholarly article

Self-reported use of evidence-based medicine and smoking cessation 6 - 9 months after acute coronary syndrome: a single-centre perspective.

scientific article

Serotype 3 Experimental Human Pneumococcal Challenge (EHPC) study protocol: dose ranging and reproducibility in a healthy volunteer population (challenge 3)

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

Simulating therapeutic drug monitoring results for dose individualisation to maintain investigator blinding in a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 07 June 2017

Simulation studies to generate evidence for policy change: The case for progress towards elimination of hepatitis C

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Study protocol: an observational study of distress, immune function and persistent pain in HIV

scientific article published on 3 June 2022

Surveillance towards preventing paediatric incidence of respiratory syncytial virus attributable respiratory tract infection in primary and secondary/tertiary healthcare settings in Merseyside, Cheshire and Bristol, UK

scientific article published in June 2023

Tackling missed opportunities for vaccination in a new era of immunisation

scientific article published on 3 July 2021

Test characteristics and potential impact of the urine LAM lateral flow assay in HIV-infected outpatients under investigation for TB and able to self-expectorate sputum for diagnostic testing

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

The CombinADO study to assess the impact of a combination intervention strategy on viral suppression, antiretroviral therapy adherence, and retention in HIV care among adolescents and young people living with HIV: protocol for a cluster-randomized co

scientific article published on 27 December 2021

The Global Burden of Asthma

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

The burden and determinants of post-TB lung disease

scientific article published in October 2021

The burden of asthma, hay fever and eczema in adults in 17 countries: GAN Phase I study

scientific article published in September 2022

The development of simple anthropometric measures to diagnose antiretroviral therapy-associated lipodystrophy in resource limited settings

scientific article

The impact of co-infections on the haematological profile of East African Short-horn Zebu calves

scientific article

The role of HIV viral load in mathematical models of HIV transmission and treatment: a review

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Therapeutic drug monitoring of amlodipine and the Z-FHL/HHL ratio: Adherence tools in patients referred for apparent treatment-resistant hypertension.

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

Transfer of Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy Attending Primary Health Care Services in South Africa

scientific article published in July 2022

Transfers between health facilities of people living with diabetes attending primary health care services in the Western Cape Province of South Africa: A retrospective cohort study

scientific article published in June 2024

Urinary prostanoids in preschool wheeze.

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Use of Tenofovir Diphosphate Levels to Predict Viremia During the Postpartum Period in Women Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): A Nested Case-Control Study

scientific article published on 14 September 2022

Use of cleaner-burning biomass stoves and airway macrophage black carbon in Malawian women.

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Virologic outcomes after early referral of stable HIV-positive adults initiating ART to community-based adherence clubs in Cape Town, South Africa: A randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in 2022

Vitamin D and Reduced Risk of Breast Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

Vitamin D from dietary intake and sunlight exposure and the risk of hormone-receptor-defined breast cancer

scientific article published on 27 August 2008

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