Masahiro Hashizume, Ben Armstrong, Shakoor Hajat, Yukiko Wagatsuma et al.
BACKGROUND: We estimated the effects of rainfall and temperature on the number of non-cholera diarrhoea cases and identified population factors potentially affecting vulnerability to the effect of the climate factors in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: Weekly rainfall, temperature and number of hospital ...
Chisato Imai, Ben Armstrong, Zaid Chalabi, Punam Mangtani et al.
Time series regression has been developed and long used to evaluate the short-term associations of air pollution and weather with mortality or morbidity of non-infectious diseases. The application of the regression approaches from this tradition to infectious diseases, however, is less well explored...
Richard K. Scher, Amir Tavakkol, Bárður Sigurgeirsson, Roderick J. Hay et al.
Until now, there has been no agreement on criteria defining resolution of onychomycosis. Most published reports use clinical and mycological cure, which comprises a completely normal-appearing nail plate, and negative nail culture and microscopy results, as the end point for defining success of ther...
Masahiro Hashizume, Ben Armstrong, Shakoor Hajat, Yukiko Wagatsuma et al.
BACKGROUND: The incidence of cholera in Bangladesh shows clear seasonality, suggesting that weather factors could play a role in its epidemiology. We estimated the effects of rainfall on the incidence of cholera in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: We examined time-series patterns of the weekly number of ...
Masahiro Hashizume, Ben Armstrong, Yukiko Wagatsuma, Shah M. Faruque et al.
Attempts to explain the clear seasonality of rotavirus infections have been made by relating disease incidence to climate factors; however, few studies have disentangled the effects of weather from other factors that might cause seasonality. We investigated the relationships between hospital visits ...
Masahiro Hashizume, Yukiko Wagatsuma, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Taiichi Hayashi et al.
This paper identifies groups vulnerable to the effect of flooding on hospital visits due to diarrhoea during and after a flood event in 1998 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The number of observed cases of cholera and non-cholera diarrhoea per week was compared to expected normal numbers during the flood and p...
Ai Milojevic, Ben Armstrong, Masahiro Hashizume, Katherine McAllister et al.
BACKGROUND: There is little information available on nontraumatic health risks as the result of floods, and on the factors that determine vulnerability to them (especially in low-income settings). We estimated the pattern of mortality, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infection following the 2004 flo...
M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov et al.
A search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into W boson pairs is presented. It uses a data sample from proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb -1 collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. This searc...
Masahiro Hashizume, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Yukiko Wagatsuma, Taiichi Hayashi et al.
BACKGROUND: The mechanisms underlying the seasonality of cholera are still not fully understood, despite long-standing recognition of clear bimodal seasonality in Bangladesh. We aimed to quantify the contribution of climatic factors to seasonal variations in cholera incidence. METHODS: We investigat...
Barrak Alahmad, Haitham Khraishah, Meghana Kamineni, Dominic Royé et al.
BACKGROUND: Extreme temperatures contribute significantly to global mortality. While previous studies on temperature and stroke-specific outcomes presented conflicting results, these studies were predominantly limited to single-city or single-country analyses. Their findings are difficult to synthes...
Shihab Uddin, Markus Löw, Shahnaj Parvin, Glenn J. Fitzgerald et al.
This study investigated crop water use of wheat grown in a dryland Mediterranean-type environment under elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations ([CO2]). Two related cultivars, contrasting in agronomic features (cvs. Scout and Yitpi; Scout has good early vigour and high transpiration efficiency), wer...
Matt Aldag, Regina C. Armstrong, Faris A. Bandak, Patrick S.F. Bellgowan et al.
The United States Department of Defense Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office organized the 2015 International State-of-the-Science meeting to explore links between blast-related head injury and the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Before the meeting, the planning c...
Daniel M. Green, Liang Zhu, Mingjuan Wang, Kirsten K. Ness et al.
RATIONALE: The relationship between treatment-related impairment of pulmonary function in adult survivors of childhood cancer and subsequent physical function has not been studied. OBJECTIVES: In this prospective evaluation of 606 adult survivors of childhood cancer, we sought to determine the risk ...
Benedikt Ley, Ari Winasti Satyagraha, Mohammad Golam Kibria, Jillian N. Armstrong et al.
BACKGROUND: The introduction of novel short course treatment regimens for the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax requires reliable point-of-care diagnosis that can identify glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficient individuals. While deficient males can be identified using a qualitative diagn...
Shahnaj Parvin, Shihab Uddin, Maryse Bourgault, Ute Roessner et al.
Abstract Increased biomass and yield of plants grown under elevated [CO 2 ] often corresponds to decreased grain N concentration ([N]), diminishing nutritional quality of crops. Legumes through their symbiotic N 2 fixation may be better able to maintain biomass [N] and grain [N] under elevated [CO 2...