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Mikaela R. Koch Lansana Kanneh Paul H. Wise Lianne M. Kurina Foday Alhasan Robert F. Garry John S. Schieffelin Jeffrey G. Shaffer Donald S. Grant 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2021,15(7)
BackgroundThe West African Ebola epidemic of 2013–2016 killed nearly 4,000 Sierra Leoneans and devastated health infrastructure across West Africa. Changes in health seeking behavior (HSB) during the outbreak resulted in dramatic underreporting and substantial declines in hospital presentations to public health facilities, resulting in an estimated tens of thousands of additional maternal, infant, and adult deaths per year. Sierra Leone’s Kenema District, a major Ebola hotspot, is also endemic for Lassa fever (LF), another often-fatal hemorrhagic disease. Here we assess the impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on health seeking behaviors with respect to presentations to the Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) Lassa Ward, which serves as the primary health care referral center for suspected Lassa fever cases in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.Methodology/Principal findingsPresentation frequencies for suspected Lassa fever presenting to KGH or one of its referral centers from 2011–2019 were analyzed to consider the potential impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on presentation patterns. There was a significant decline in suspected LF cases presenting to KGH following the epidemic, and a lower percentage of subjects were admitted to the KGH Lassa Ward following the epidemic. To assess general HSB, a questionnaire was developed and administered to 200 residents from 8 villages in Kenema District. Among 194 completed interviews, 151 (78%) of respondents stated they felt hospitals were safer post-epidemic with no significant differences noted among subjects according to religious background, age, gender, or education. However, 37 (19%) subjects reported decreased attendance at hospitals since the epidemic, which suggests that trust in the healthcare system has not fully rebounded. Cost was identified as a major deterrent to seeking healthcare.Conclusions/SignificanceAnalysis of patient demographic data suggests that fewer individuals sought care for Lassa fever and other febrile illnesses in Kenema District after the West African Ebola epidemic. Re-establishing trust in health care services will require efforts beyond rebuilding infrastructure and require concerted efforts to rebuild the trust of local residents who may be wary of seeking healthcare post epidemic. 相似文献
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BACKGROUND: This study investigated causes of malaria and how cases were managed at household level, in order to improve the ability to identify malaria and ensure correct use of chloroquine. It was conducted in Nakonde District, Northern Province of Zambia, between 2000 and 2001. Nakonde district is in a hyperendemic malaria province, where Plasmodium falciparum is predominant. The district has a total population of 153, 548 people, the majority of whom are peasant farmers. The main aim of the post intervention survey was to establish the proportion of caretakers of children five years and below, who were able to identify simple and severe malaria and treat it correctly using chloroquine in the home. METHODS: A baseline survey was conducted in five wards divided into intervention and control.Intervention and control wards were compared. Village health motivators and vendors were identified and trained in three intervention wards, as a channel through which information on correct chloroquine dose could be transmitted. A total of 575 carers, who were 15 years old and above and had a child who had suffered from malaria 14 days before the survey commenced, were interviewed. The two control wards received no intervention. 345 caretakers were from the intervention wards, while 230 came from the control wards. Identification of malaria and correct use of anti-malarial drugs was assessed in terms of household diagnosis of malaria in children under five years, type and dose of anti-malarial drugs used, self medication and the source of these anti-malarials. RESULTS: The majority of respondents in the study were females (81%). Chloroquine was the most frequently used anti-malarial (48.5%) in both the intervention and control wards. There was no difference between the intervention and control wards at pre-intervention (P = 0.266 and P = 0.956), in the way mothers and other caretakers identified simple and severe malaria. At baseline, knowledge on correct chloroquine dosage in the under five children was comparable between intervention and control wards. Post-intervention revealed that mothers and other caretakers were 32% and 51%, respectively, more likely to identify simple and severe malaria. There was a 60% increase on correct chloroquine dosage in all age groups among carers living in post-intervention wards. CONCLUSION: Compliance with standard therapeutic doses and correct identification of malaria was poorest in control wards, where no motivators and vendors were trained. 相似文献
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SE?Aleshin AV?Timofeev MV?Khoretonenko LG?Zakharova GV?Pashvykina JR?Stephenson AM?Shneider AD?AltsteinEmail author 《BMC microbiology》2005,5(1):45
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Heterologous prime-boost immunization protocols using different gene expression systems have proven to be successful tools in protecting against various diseases in experimental animal models. The main reason for using this approach is to exploit the ability of expression cassettes to prime or boost the immune system in different ways during vaccination procedures. The purpose of the project was to study the ability of recombinant vaccinia virus (VV) and bacterial plasmid, both carrying the NS1 gene from tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus under the control of different promoters, to protect mice against lethal challenge using a heterologous prime-boost vaccination protocol. 相似文献24.
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López-Valenzuela BE Armenta-Bojórquez AD Hernández-Verdugo S Apodaca- Sánchez MA Samaniego-Gaxiola JA Valdez-Ortiz A 《Phyton》2019,88(1):37-46
Microbes that are beneficial to plants are used to
enhance the crop growth, yield and are alternatives to chemical
fertilizers. Trichoderma and Bacillus are the predominant plant
growth-promoting fungi and bacteria. The objective of this study
was select, characterize, and evaluate isolates of Trichoderma
spp. and Bacillus spp. native from the northern region of Sinaloa,
Mexico, and assess their effect on growth promotion in maize (Zea
mays L.). In greenhouse conditions, four Trichoderma isolates and
twenty Bacillus isolates, as well as two controls, were tested in a
completely randomized design with three replicates. We selected
the two best strains of Trichoderma and Bacillus: TB = Trichoderma
asperellum, TF = Trichoderma virens, B14 = Bacillus cereus sensu
lato and B17 = Bacillus cereus, which were evaluated in the field in
a completely randomized blocks in factorial arrangement design
with three replicates applying different rates of nitrogen fertilizer
(0, 150 kg N/ha, and 300 kg N/ha). Treatments 5 (B17 = B. cereus)
and 11 (TF = T. virens) both fertilized with 150 kg N/ha showed
similar yields and they did not reveal significant differences from
the treatments fertilized with 300 kg N/ha. This indicated that
treatment 5 (B17= B. cereus with 150 kg N/ha) and treatment
11 (TF= T. virens with 150 kg N/ha) were efficient as growth
promoters, by not showing significant differences in root volume
and dry weight of foliage. The results indicated a reduction of 50%
in the rate of nitrogen to fertilizer required for maize (Zea mays
L.) crops. These microorganisms Trichoderma and Bacillus could
be an alternative to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers in maize. 相似文献
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Molecular evolutionary dynamics of cytochrome b in strepsirrhine primates: the phylogenetic significance of third-position transversions 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
DNA sequences of the complete cytochrome b gene are shown to contain robust
phylogenetic signal for the strepsirrhine primates (i.e., lemurs and
lorises). The phylogeny derived from these data conforms to other molecular
studies of strepsirrhine relationships despite the fact that uncorrected
nucleotide distances are high for nearly all intrastrepsirrhine
comparisons, with most in the 15%-20% range. Cytochrome b sequences support
the hypothesis that Malagasy lemuriforms and Afro-Asian lorisiforms each
comprise clades that share a sister- group relationship. A study (Adkins
and Honeycutt 1994) of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COII) gene
placed one Malagasy primate (Daubentonia) at the base of the strepsirrhine
clade, thereby suggesting a diphyletic Lemuriformes. The reanalysis of COII
third- position transversions, either alone or in combination with
cytochrome b third-position transversions, however, yields a tree that is
congruent with phylogenetic hypotheses derived from cytochrome b and other
genetic data sets.
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Jake Dunning Foday Sahr Amanda Rojek Fiona Gannon Gail Carson Baimba Idriss Thomas Massaquoi Regina Gandi Sebatu Joseph Hassan K. Osman Timothy J. G. Brooks Andrew J. H. Simpson Ian Goodfellow Lucy Thorne Armando Arias Laura Merson Lyndsey Castle Rebecca Howell-Jones Raul Pardinaz-Solis Benjamin Hope-Gill Mauricio Ferri Jennifer Grove Mark Kowalski Kasia Stepniewska Trudie Lang John Whitehead Piero Olliaro Mohammed Samai Peter W. Horby for the RAPIDE-TKM trial team 《PLoS medicine》2016,13(4)
BackgroundTKM-130803, a small interfering RNA lipid nanoparticle product, has been developed for the treatment of Ebola virus disease (EVD), but its efficacy and safety in humans has not been evaluated.ConclusionsAdministration of TKM-130803 at a dose of 0.3 mg/kg/d by intravenous infusion to adult patients with severe EVD was not shown to improve survival when compared to historic controls.