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Detection distances in desert dwelling, high duty cycle echolocators: A test of the foraging habitat hypothesis
High Duty Cycle (HDC) echolocating bats use high frequency echolocation pulses that are clutter resistant, but their high frequencies give …
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A handmade trap for malaria mosquito surveillance by citizens in Rwanda
For effective sampling of mosquitoes in malaria surveillance programmes, it is essential to include attractive cues in traps. With the …
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Tetanus seroprotection among children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2013–2014
BACKGROUND: Tetanus is a potentially fatal disease that is preventable through vaccination. While the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) …
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Female and male partner perspectives on placebo Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTs) used by women in the TRIO study in South Africa and Kenya
BACKGROUND: Male partner awareness and acceptance of microbicide and family planning product use has been shown to increase women's own …
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A retrospective 5-year review of rubella in South Africa prior to the introduction of a rubella-containing vaccine
South Africa has yet to introduce a rubella-containing vaccine (RCV) into its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). Here we evaluated …
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Addition of digital VIA/VILI to conventional naked-eye examination for triage of HPV-positive women: A study conducted in a low-resource setting
BACKGROUND: World Health Organization guidelines for cervical cancer screening recommend HPV testing followed by visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) …
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Drivers of long-lasting insecticide-treated net utilisation and parasitaemia among under-five children in 13 States with high malaria burden in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Although Nigeria has made some progress in malaria control, there are variations across States. We investigated the factors associated …
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Suicidal behavior and associated factors among prisoners in Dilla town, Dilla, Ethiopia 2020: An institutional based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a serious cause of mortality worldwide and is a psychiatric emergency. Among prisoners, it is the leading …
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Prevalence of timely complementary feeding initiation and associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–24 months in rural north-central Ethiopia: Community based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Complementary foods are defined as any solid or liquid foods other than breast milk offered to children. Timely initiation …
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Individual and community-level determinants of underweight among lactating mothers in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis
BACKGROUND: Determining the nutritional status of lactating women is important because underweight lactating mothers will have low energy levels and …
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Distinct structural groups of histone H3 and H4 residues have divergent effects on chronological lifespan in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
We have performed a comprehensive analysis of the involvement of histone H3 and H4 residues in the regulation of chronological …
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Economic uncertainty of pandemic and international airlines behaviour
This paper examines the role of uncertainty due to infectious diseases in predicting twenty International airline stocks within a nonparametric …
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Genetic differentiation in East African ethnicities and its relationship with endurance running success
Since the 1960s, East African athletes, mainly from Kenya and Ethiopia, have dominated long-distance running events in both the male …
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Molecular snapshot of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from the Plateau State, Nigeria
Nigeria ranks 1st in Africa and 6th globally with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB). However, only a relatively few …
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What drives willingness to receive a new vaccine that prevents an emerging infectious disease? A discrete choice experiment among university students in Uganda
BACKGROUND: There is a critical need to identify the drivers of willingness to receive new vaccines against emerging and epidemic …
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COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality and hospitalization-related utilization and expenditure: Analysis of a South African private health insured population
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalization, mortality, hospital stay and cost of treatment in the African context …
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Effects of different exercise training programs on the functional performance in fibrosing interstitial lung diseases: A randomized trial
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to compare the effects of different aerobic exercise training (ET) programs on respiratory performance, exercise capacity, and …
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Crude metabolites from endophytic fungi inhabiting Cameroonian Annona muricata inhibit the causative agents of urinary tract infections
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common bacterial infections. The global emergence of multidrug-resistant uropathogens in the last decade underlines the …
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Field evaluation of the performance of seven Antigen Rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis of SARs-CoV-2 virus infection in Uganda
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of seven antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag RDTs) in …
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School-going adolescent girls’ preferences and views of family planning services in Phalombe district, Malawi: A descriptive, cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Low uptake of family planning services by adolescent girls remains a public health concern. An estimated 120 out of …