Shiv Kumar Sarin, Ashok houdhury, Manoj K. Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
The first consensus report of the working party of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up in 2004 on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) was published in 2009. With international groups volunteering to join, the “APASL ACLF Research Consortium (AARC)” was formed in...
Christopher Troeger, Ibrahim A. Khalil, Puja C Rao, Shujin Cao et al.
Importance: Rotavirus infection is the global leading cause of diarrhea-associated morbidity and mortality among children younger than 5 years. Objectives: To examine the extent of rotavirus infection among children younger than 5 years by country and the number of deaths averted because of the rota...
Ibrahim A Khalil, Christopher Troeger, Brigette F. Blacker, Puja C Rao et al.
BACKGROUND: Shigella and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are bacterial pathogens that are frequently associated with diarrhoeal disease, and are a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors study 2016 (GBD 2016) is a syst...
Ibrahim A Khalil, Christopher Troeger, Puja C Rao, Brigette F. Blacker et al.
BACKGROUND: The protozoan Cryptosporidium is a leading cause of diarrhoea morbidity and mortality in children younger than 5 years. However, the true global burden of Cryptosporidium infection in children younger than 5 years might have been underestimated in previous quantifications because it only...
Katherine E. Eddy, Joshua P. Vogel, Nick Scott, Dagnachew Fetene et al.
BACKGROUND: After considerable debate, there is now unequivocal evidence that use of antenatal corticosteroids improves outcomes in preterm neonates when used in women at risk of early preterm birth in reasonably equipped hospitals in low-resource countries. We aimed to evaluate the cost-effectivene...
WHO ACTION Trials Collaborators, Temitope Adesiji Adegboyega, Ebunoluwa A. Adejuyigbe, Olubukola Adesina et al.
BACKGROUND: Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of newborn and under-5 mortality. Over 85% of all preterm births occur in the late preterm period, i.e. between 34 and < 37 weeks of gestation. Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) prevent mortality and respiratory morbidity when administered ...
M. N. Abubacker, T. Mehala
<strong>ABSTRACT</strong> Physico-chemical analysis of textile dye effluent have shown higher concentrations of total solids, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, total hardness, carbonate, bicarbonate alkalinities, chlor...
Temitope Adesiji Adegboyega, Ebunoluwa A. Adejuyigbe, Olubukola Adesina, Babalola Adeyemi et al.
Background: Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of newborn and under-5 mortality. Over 85% of all preterm births occur in the late preterm period i.e., between 34 and Methods: WHO ACTION III trial is a parallel-group, three-arm, individually randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled...