K. J. M. Aung, Armand Van Deun, Erik De Clercq, Mihir Ranjan Sarker et al.
SETTING: Tuberculosis (TB) program, Damien Foundation Projects, Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the outcome and its determinants of the first treatment for multidrug-resistant TB using a standardized regimen consisting of a minimum 9 months. DESIGN: This was a prospective, observational study of...
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar et al.
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Van Deun A, Salim Ah, E Cooreman, Hossain Ma et al.
SETTING: A tuberculosis control project in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE: To define the efficiency of numbers of microscopic fields screened and the sputum collection scheme used for diagnostic smear examination. DESIGN: Quality controllers noted cumulative numbers of acid-fast bacilli per 100 fields screen...
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar et al.
Efficient treatment of systematic uncertainties that depend on a large number of nuisance parameters is a persistent difficulty in particle physics experiments. Where low-level effects are not amenable to simple parameterization or re-weighting, analyses often rely on discrete simulation sets to qua...
M.G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar et al.
We describe an improved in-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge distributions for each of the in-ice Hamamatsu Photonics R7081-02[MOD] photomultiplier tubes in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The characterization of the individual PMT charge distributions is important for PMT calibr...
Armand Van Deun, A Hamid Salim, K J M Aung, M. Anwar Hossain et al.
SETTING: A field project in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of commonly used carbolfuchsin staining variations. DESIGN: Routine hot Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) 1% basic fuchsin staining for 15 min in 75 field clinics. Blind reading of duplicate smears stained by ZN 1% vs. 0.3% basic fuchs...
K. J. M. Aung, Erik De Clercq, Md. A. Ali, Sowjanya Naha et al.
SETTING: Damien Foundation tuberculosis (TB) control projects in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of extending the intensive phase (P1) of treatment by 1 month for patients who are smear-positive after 2 months of a 6-month regimen containing rifampicin (RMP) throughout. DESIGN: Pr...
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar et al.
Cosmic-ray interactions with the solar atmosphere are expected to produce particle showers which in turn produce neutrinos from weak decays of mesons. These solar atmospheric neutrinos (SAs) have never been observed experimentally. A detection would be an important step in understanding cosmic-ray p...
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar et al.
Abstract Since the discovery of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, searches for their origins have focused primarily at TeV-PeV energies. Compared to sub-TeV searches, high-energy searches benefit from an increase in the neutrino cross section, improved angular resolution on the neutrino...
Armand Van Deun, K. J. M. Aung, M Salim, Mahmoud Ali et al.
SETTING: Damien Foundation tuberculosis (TB) control projects in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of a 1-month extension of the intensive phase for smear-positives at 2 months of an 8-month regimen with a continuation phase consisting of isoniazid (INH) and thioacetazone (Th). DESI...
Tanvir Ahmed, Ahmed A. Al-Karmalawy, Feifei An, Ömer Aras et al.