Marion Campbell, Claire Snowdon, David Francis, Diana Elbourne et al.
OBJECTIVES: To identify factors associated with good and poor recruitment to multicentre trials. DATA SOURCES: Part A: database of trials started in or after 1994 and were due to end before 2003 held by the Medical Research Council and Health Technology Assessment Programmes. Part B: interviews with...
Marcelino Lucas, Jacqueline Deen, Lorenz von Seidlein, Xuan-Yi Wang et al.
BACKGROUND: New-generation, orally administered cholera vaccines offer the promise of improved control of cholera in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in many cholera-affected African populations has raised doubts about the level of prot...
Kirsty Le Doaré, Megan O’Driscoll, Kim Turner, Farah Seedat et al.
BACKGROUND: Intrapartum antibiotic chemoprophylaxis (IAP) prevents most early-onset group B streptococcal (GBS) disease. However, there is no description of how IAP is used around the world. This article is the sixth in a series estimating the burden of GBS disease. Here we aimed to review GBS scree...
Claire Francis, Patricia E. Longmuir, Charles P. Boyer, Lars Bo Andersen et al.
BACKGROUND: The Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy (CAPL) was conceptualized as a tool to monitor children's physical literacy. The original model (fitness, activity behavior, knowledge, motor skill) required revision and relative weights for calculating/interpreting scores were required. METH...
Uzma Z. Rizvi
Abstract Acknowledgement I would like to thank my colleagues and friends Praveena Gullapalli and Benjamin Porter for the comments and insights that have helped shaped this piece in its initial stages. Additionally, this work has benefited from my conversations with Sandra Scham. I would also like to...
Ali Abbas, Sheryl Ann Abdukahil, Nurul Najmee Abdulkadir, Ryuzo Abe et al.
The International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) COVID-19 dataset is one of the largest international databases of prospectively collected clinical data on people hospitalized with COVID-19. This dataset was compiled during the COVID-19 pandemic by a network of h...
Lorenz von Seidlein, Xuanyi Wang, Arminda Macuamule, Catarina Mondlane et al.
OBJECTIVE: As residents of sub-Saharan Africa are at high risk for HIV and cholera, it is biologically plausible that immune suppression caused by HIV infection predisposes to cholera. Our aim was to assess the potential association between both diseases. METHODS: We conducted a case-control study i...
Silvina P. Brengi, Qiangzheng Sun, Hilda Bolaños, Francisco Duarte-Martínez et al.
and showed several advantages over the traditional method of serological typing. These advantages included overcoming the problem of availability of suitable antisera in testing laboratories as well as facilitating the analysis of multiple samples at the same time. The method is also less time-consu...
Ana Luisa Sosa, Sonia MD Brucki, Lucía Crivelli, Francisco Lopera et al.
INTRODUCTION: While Latin America (LatAm) is facing an increasing burden of dementia due to the rapid aging of the population, it remains underrepresented in dementia research, diagnostics, and care. METHODS: In 2023, the Alzheimer's Association hosted its eighth satellite symposium in Mexico, highl...
Gonzalo R. Quintana, Fernando P. Ponce, Javier Escudero‐Pastén, J. Francisco Santibáñez-Palma et al.
BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety are among the most prevalent mental health issues experienced worldwide. However, whereas cross-cultural studies utilize psychometrically valid and reliable scales, fewer can meaningfully compare these conditions across different groups. To address this gap, the cur...
Nigel Haggan, Claire Brignall, Louisa J. Wood
This Report documents the presentations given at the World’s first international conference on the management value of the resource knowledge of small scale, indigenous and commercial fishers. The conference was inspired by Dr Robert (Bob) Johannes, whose 1981 Book ‘Words of the Lagoon’, was the fir...
Yin Mo, Ying Ding, Yang Cao, Jill Hopkins et al.
<ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Background</ns3:bold> : <ns3:bold/> Antimicrobial resistance surveillance is essential for empiric antibiotic prescribing, infection prevention and control policies and to drive novel antibiotic discovery. However, most existing surveillance systems are isolate-based without suppor...
Munib Mesinovic, Xin Ci Wong, Giri Shan Rajahram, Barbara Wanjiru Citarella et al.
By September 2022, more than 600 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been reported globally, resulting in over 6.5 million deaths. COVID-19 mortality risk estimators are often, however, developed with small unrepresentative samples and with methodological limitations. It is highly important t...
Yang Liu, Feng Zhang, Amith R. Devireddy, Raphaël Ployet et al.
Beneficial symbiotic fungi colonize plant tissues, delivering crucial ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and plant fertilization. Specifically, trees that form a nutrient-acquiring symbiosis with mutualistic ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi gain advantages from these associations by experien...
Benedikt Lennartz
ABSTRACTScholars of global governance have long attended to the role of non-state actors in formulating and interpreting regulatory instruments, analysing these actors’ engagement with processes, their influence, and their preferences in terms of the content and, to a limited degree, form of regulat...