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A Public Health Paradox: The Women Most Vulnerable to Malaria Are the Least Protected

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A Research Agenda to Underpin Malaria Eradication

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

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

A call to action: addressing the challenge of artemisinin-resistant malaria

scientific article published in April 2010

A census-weighted, spatially-stratified household sampling strategy for urban malaria epidemiology

scientific article published on 29 February 2008

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

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A randomized controlled trial of folate supplementation when treating malaria in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine

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A randomized trial of artemether-lumefantrine and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria among children in western Kenya

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

A rapid assessment approach for public health decision-making related to the prevention of malaria during pregnancy

scientific article published on 07 July 2003

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

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

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An observational analysis of the impact of indoor residual spraying with non-pyrethroid insecticides on the incidence of malaria in Ségou Region, Mali: 2012-2015.

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Anaemia, iron status and vitamin A deficiency among adolescent refugees in Kenya and Nepal

scientific article published in February 2006

Antenatal and delivery care in rural western Kenya: the effect of training health care workers to provide "focused antenatal care".

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Antifolate resistance in Plasmodium falciparum: multiple origins and identification of novel dhfr alleles

scientific article published on 13 June 2006

Assessing bed net use and non-use after long-lasting insecticidal net distribution: a simple framework to guide programmatic strategies

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Assessment of molecular markers for anti-malarial drug resistance after the introduction and scale-up of malaria control interventions in western Kenya

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Association between immunoglobulin GM and KM genotypes and placental malaria in HIV-1 negative and positive women in western Kenya

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

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Breast-feeding decreases the risk of sporadic salmonellosis among infants in FoodNet sites

scientific article published in April 2004

Burden and impact of Plasmodium vivax in pregnancy: A multi-centre prospective observational study

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Case-control study of an acute aflatoxicosis outbreak, Kenya, 2004

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Caution is required when using health facility-based data to evaluate the health impact of malaria control efforts in Africa

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Challenges in surveillance and response

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

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Combination of probenecid-sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy ⬇️

scientific article published on February 9, 2012

Community-based intermittent mass testing and treatment for malaria in an area of high transmission intensity, western Kenya: study design and methodology for a cluster randomized controlled trial

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Comparison of government statistics and demographic surveillance to monitor mortality in children less than five years old in rural western Kenya ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2003

Comparison of national malaria surveillance system with the national notifiable diseases surveillance system in the United States

scientific article published in July 2009

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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Decreased Ebola transmission after rapid response to outbreaks in remote areas, Liberia, 2014

journal article published in 2015

Determinants and coverage of vaccination in children in western Kenya from a 2003 cross-sectional survey

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

Determinants of Use of Household-level Water Chlorination Products in Rural Kenya, 2003–2005 ⬇️

scientific article published on October 25, 2010

Diarrhea in children less than two years of age with known HIV status in Kisumu, Kenya

scientific article published on 6 August 2009

Differences in selective pressure on dhps and dhfr drug resistant mutations in western Kenya

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

Differential association of gene content polymorphisms of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors with placental malaria in HIV- and HIV+ mothers

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Dihydrofolate reductase I164L mutations in Plasmodium falciparum isolates: clinical outcome of 14 Kenyan adults infected with parasites harbouring the I164L mutation

scientific article published on 5 March 2008

Does cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for the prevention of HIV-associated opportunistic infections select for resistant pathogens in Kenyan adults?

scientific article published in September 2008

Ebola and its control in Liberia, 2014-2015

journal article published in 2016

Ebola: the hidden toll

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Effect of haematinic supplementation and malaria prevention on maternal anaemia and malaria in western Kenya.

scientific article published in March 2007

Effect of malaria transmission reduction by insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) on the genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein (MSP-1) and circumsporozoite (CSP) in western Kenya

scientific article published on 27 August 2013

Effect of placental malaria and HIV infection on the antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum in infants

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Effect of sustained insecticide-treated bed net use on all-cause child mortality in an area of intense perennial malaria transmission in western Kenya

scientific article published on July 2005

Effect of transmission reduction by insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) on antimalarial drug resistance in western Kenya

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Effectiveness of insecticide-treated bednets in malaria prevention in Haiti: a case-control study

scientific article published on 25 November 2016

Effects of transmission reduction by insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) on parasite genetics population structure: I. The genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum parasites by microsatellite markers in western Kenya

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Efficacy and safety of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria in African infants: a pooled analysis of six randomised, placebo-controlled trials

scientific article published on 16 September 2009

Elevated gamma interferon-producing NK cells, CD45RO memory-like T cells, and CD4 T cells are associated with protection against malaria infection in pregnancy

scientific article published on 4 February 2008

Emergence of Community-Acquired, Multidrug-Resistant Invasive Nontyphoidal Salmonella Disease in Rural Western Kenya, 2009-2013.

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Epidemic diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.

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Epidemiology of sporadic bloody diarrhea in rural Western Kenya

scientific article published in June 2003

Estimating the Burden of Malaria: The Need for Improved Surveillance ⬇️

scientific article published on December 20, 2011

Evaluation of long-lasting insecticidal nets after 2 years of household use.

scientific article published in November 2005

Evaluation of the WHO Haemoglobin Colour Scale for diagnosis of anaemia in children and pregnant women as used by primary health care nurses and community health workers in western Kenya

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Evaluation of various methods of maternal placental blood collection for immunology studies

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Factors Associated with the Rapid and Durable Decline in Malaria Incidence in El Salvador, 1980-2017.

scientific article published on 14 May 2018

Farm visits and undercooked hamburgers as major risk factors for sporadic Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection: data from a case-control study in 5 FoodNet sites

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

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Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum parasite by microsatellite markers after scale-up of insecticide-treated bed nets in western Kenya

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Geographic distribution of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Western Kenya: implications for anthelminthic mass treatment.

scientific article published in September 2003

Geohelminth Infections among pregnant women in rural western Kenya; a cross-sectional study.

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

scientific article published in April 2010

HIV and malaria: interactions and implications

scientific article published on February 2007

HIV immunosuppression and antimalarial efficacy: sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in HIV-infected adults in Siaya, Kenya.

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among individuals aged 13-34 years in Rural Western Kenya

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HIV, malaria, and infant anemia as risk factors for postneonatal infant mortality among HIV-seropositive women in Kisumu, Kenya

scientific article published on 16 May 2007

High-resolution metabolomics to discover potential parasite-specific biomarkers in a Plasmodium falciparum erythrocytic stage culture system

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House screening for malaria control

scientific article published on 3 September 2009

Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial

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Implementation of Ebola case-finding using a village chieftaincy taskforce in a remote outbreak - Liberia, 2014 ⬇️

journal article published in 2015

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

Intermittent Preventive Treatment with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine: More Than Just an Antimalarial?

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Intermittent preventive treatment in infants for the prevention of malaria in rural Western kenya: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial

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Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with mefloquine in HIV-infected women receiving cotrimoxazole prophylaxis: a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled trial

scientific article (publication date: September 2014)

Investigation of multistate foodborne disease outbreaks

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It is time to rethink tactics in the fight against malaria ⬇️

scientific article published on April 24, 2013

Limited genetic variation in the Plasmodium falciparum heme detoxification protein (HDP).

scientific article published on 24 December 2008

Malaria Survey in Post-Earthquake Haiti—2010 ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Malaria and anaemia among pregnant women at first antenatal clinic visit in Kisumu, western Kenya

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Malaria control in pregnancy: still a long way to go.

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Malaria control in the municipality of San Esteban, Honduras

scientific article published in March 2009

Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: Evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

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Malaria scale-up progress: is the glass half-empty or half-full?

scientific article published on 18 November 2008

Malaria surveillance - United States, 2005.

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Malaria surveillance - United States, 2008.

scientific article published on June 2010

Malaria surveillance--United States, 2004.

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Malaria surveillance--United States, 2006.

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Malaria vector research and control in Haiti: a systematic review

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Malaria, malnutrition, and birthweight: A meta-analysis using individual participant data

scientific article published on 08 August 2017

Mass drug administration for malaria

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Mass drug administration for malaria

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Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative, a pooled birth cohort of 13 pregnancy studies in Africa and the Western Pacific

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2016)

Measuring malaria drug efficacy and transmission intensity

scientific article published on July 2006

Mefloquine pharmacokinetics and mefloquine-artesunate effectiveness in Peruvian patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria

scientific article published on 09 April 2009

Modeling the financial and clinical implications of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in the case-management of older children and adults in Kenya

scientific article published on June 2008

Mortality of sick children after outpatient treatment at first-level health facilities in rural western Kenya

scientific article published in October 2007

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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Neglected parasitic infections in the United States: needs and opportunities

scientific article published on May 2014

Novel antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal strains recovered from the upper respiratory tracts of HIV-infected adults and their children in Kisumu, Kenya

scientific article published in January 2005

Operational strategies to achieve and maintain malaria elimination

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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

Pharmacokinetics of mefloquine and its effect on sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim steady-state blood levels in intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) of pregnant HIV-infected women in Kenya

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Plasma folate level and high-dose folate supplementation predict sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment failure in pregnant women in Western kenya who have uncomplicated malaria

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Polymorphisms in genes of interleukin 12 and its receptors and their association with protection against severe malarial anaemia in children in western Kenya

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Pre-departure and post-arrival management of P. falciparum malaria in refugees relocating from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States.

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

scientific article published in August 2012

Quantitative urban classification for malaria epidemiology in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 25 February 2008

Rapid response to Ebola outbreaks in remote areas - Liberia, July-November 2014 ⬇️

journal article published in 2015

Rapid scale-up of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets through integration into the national immunization program during child health week in Togo, 2004.

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Reduced Nevirapine Concentrations Among HIV-Positive Women Receiving Mefloquine for Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Malaria Control During Pregnancy

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Reproductive health issues in rural Western Kenya

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

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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Safety and immunogenicity of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in infants and children with WHO stage 1 or 2 HIV disease: a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial

scientific article published on 6 July 2016

Safety, efficacy and determinants of effectiveness of antimalarial drugs during pregnancy: implications for prevention programmes in Plasmodium falciparum-endemic sub-Saharan Africa

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Secondary infections with Ebola virus in rural communities, Liberia and Guinea, 2014-2015

journal article published in 2016

Selective sweeps and genetic lineages of plasmodium falciparum drug -resistant alleles in Ghana

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Serological markers for monitoring historical changes in malaria transmission intensity in a highly endemic region of Western Kenya, 1994-2009

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Significance of travel to rural areas as a risk factor for malarial anemia in an urban setting

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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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Strategies and approaches to vector control in nine malaria-eliminating countries: a cross-case study analysis

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

Surveillance for bacterial diarrhea and antimicrobial resistance in rural western Kenya, 1997-2003.

scientific article published on 11 July 2006

Sustainability of reductions in malaria transmission and infant mortality in western Kenya with use of insecticide-treated bednets: 4 to 6 years of follow-up

scientific article published in June 2004

Targeting of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria ⬇️

scientific article published on December 13, 2011

Temporal trends of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) drug-resistance molecular markers in Plasmodium falciparum parasites from pregnant women in western Kenya

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The New Global Health ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2013

The Role of Public Health Institutions in Global Health System Strengthening Efforts: The US CDC's Perspective ⬇️

scientific article published on April 3, 2012

The central role of national programme management for the achievement of malaria elimination: a cross case-study analysis of nine malaria programmes

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

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 cost-effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants in Sub-Saharan Africa

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The etiology of severe acute gastroenteritis among adults visiting emergency departments in the United States

scientific article published on 27 March 2012

The impact of distance of residence from a peripheral health facility on pediatric health utilisation in rural western Kenya

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The silent threat: asymptomatic parasitemia and malaria transmission

scientific article published on June 2013

The threat of artemisinin-resistant malaria

scientific article published on September 2011

Tracking Origins and Spread of Sulfadoxine-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum dhps Alleles in Thailand ⬇️

scientific article published on October 18, 2010

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

Triple-Antiretroviral Prophylaxis to Prevent Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission through Breastfeeding—The Kisumu Breastfeeding Study, Kenya: A Clinical Trial ⬇️

scientific article published on March 29, 2011

Use of antenatal services and delivery care among women in rural western Kenya: a community based survey

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

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

Weighing for results: assessing the effect of IPTp

scientific article published in April 2013

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