D. Scott Merrell, Susan M. Butler, Firdausi Qadri, Nadia Dolganov et al.
The factors that enhance the transmission of pathogens during epidemic spread are ill defined. Water-borne spread of the diarrhoeal disease cholera occurs rapidly in nature, whereas infection of human volunteers with bacteria grown in vitro is difficult in the absence of stomach acid buffering. It i...
Lorcan McGarvey, Claire A. Butler, Susan Stokesberry, Liam Polley et al.
Background The airway epithelium is exposed to a range of physical and chemical irritants in the environment that are known to trigger asthma. Transient receptor potential (TRP) cation channels play a central role in sensory responses to noxious physical and chemical stimuli. Recent genetic evidence...
Susan M. Butler, Eric J. Nelson, Nityananda Chowdhury, Shah M. Faruque et al.
Factors that enhance the transmission of pathogens are poorly understood. We show that Vibrio cholerae shed in human 'rice-water' stools have a 10-fold lower oral infectious dose in an animal model than in vitro grown V. cholerae, which may aid in transmission during outbreaks. Furthermore, we ident...
Jamie Hartmann‐Boyce, Annika Theodoulou, Jason Oke, Ailsa R. Butler et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine if the characteristics of behavioural weight loss programmes influence the rate of change in weight after the end of the programme. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES: Trial registries, 11 electronic databases, and forward citation searching (from datab...
Jamie Hartmann‐Boyce, Linda Cobiac, Annika Theodoulou, Jason Oke et al.
AIMS: We used data from a recent systematic review to investigate weight regain after behavioural weight management programmes (BWMPs, sometimes referred to as lifestyle modification programmes) and its impact on quality-of-life and cost-effectiveness. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Trial registries, databa...
Alizeh Abbas, Lubna Samad, Doruk Ozgediz, Adesoji Ademuyiwa et al.
We aimed to understand the challenges facing children’s surgical care providers globally and realistic interventions to mitigate the catastrophic impact of COVID-19 on children’s surgery. Two online Action Planning Forums (APFs) were organized by the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS) w...
Erin E. Butler, Margaret R. Karagas, Eugene Demidenko, David C. Bellinger et al.
Introduction: High-level prenatal and childhood arsenic (As) exposure characteristic of several regions in Asia (e.g., Bangladesh), may impact motor function. However, the relationship between lower-level arsenic exposure (characteristic of other regions) and motor development is largely unstudied, ...
Guillaume Butler‐Laporte, Kathryn Auckland, Zannatun Noor, Mamun Kabir et al.
Abstract Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine escape mutants (VEM) are increasingly described, threatening progress in control of this virus worldwide. Here we studied the relationship between host genetic variation, vaccine immunogenicity and viral sequences implicating VEM emergence. In a cohort of 1,0...
Faiza Gaba, Nicolò Bizzarri, Paul Kamfwa, Allison Saiz et al.
Background The Global Gynaecological Oncology Surgical Outcomes Collaborative (GO SOAR) aims to develop a network of gynecological oncology surgeons, surgical departments, and other interested parties that will have the long-term ability to collaborate on outcome studies. The protocol for the first ...
Karen Zivi
ABSTRACTCalls to think or embrace an 'after' to rights, particularly ones that suggest adopting alternative ways of thinking or acting politically, often do so because of frustration with the liberal dimensions of rights. In this paper, I draw insights from theories of performativity and feminist ph...
Maria Elander
Abstract.At the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the trial against the two surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge charged in Case 002 is about to deal with the ‘regulation of marriage’. This is the name given by the ECCC to the Khmer Rouge-instigated marriages also known as ‘re...