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  1. Tanzania is East Africa’s largest country. Although it is socially diverse, it has experienced general political stability since independence in 1964. Despite gradual economic development and Tanzania’s status...

    Authors: Ronak Shah, Peter A Singer and Abdallah S Daar
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2010 10(Suppl 1):S4
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  2. Monitoring progress with disease and injury reduction in many populations will require widespread use of verbal autopsy (VA). Multiple methods have been developed for assigning cause of death from a VA but the...

    Authors: Christopher JL Murray, Rafael Lozano, Abraham D Flaxman, Peter Serina, David Phillips, Andrea Stewart, Spencer L James, Alireza Vahdatpour, Charles Atkinson, Michael K Freeman, Summer Lockett Ohno, Robert Black, Said Mohammed Ali, Abdullah H Baqui, Lalit Dandona, Emily Dantzer…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:5
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  3. Development and spread of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) constitutes a major threat to recent global malaria control achievements. Surveillance of molecular marker...

    Authors: Maja Malmberg, Billy Ngasala, Pedro E Ferreira, Erik Larsson, Irina Jovel, Angelica Hjalmarsson, Max Petzold, Zul Premji, José P Gil, Anders Björkman and Andreas Mårtensson
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2013 12:103
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  4. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently recommended the addition of a single low-dose of the gametocytocidal drug primaquine (PQ) to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in low transmission setting...

    Authors: Richard Mwaiswelo, Billy Ngasala, Irina Jovel, Berit Aydin-Schmidt, Roland Gosling, Zul Premji, Bruno Mmbando, Anders Björkman and Andreas Mårtensson
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2016 15:435
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  5. MALDI-TOF MS is an analytical method that has recently become integral in the identification of microorganisms in clinical laboratories. It relies on databases that majorly employ pattern recognition or finger...

    Authors: Ali Kassim, Valentin Pflüger, Zul Premji, Claudia Daubenberger and Gunturu Revathi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2017 17:128
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  6. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) and light microscopy are still recommended for diagnosis to guide the clinical management of malaria despite difficult challenges in rural settings. The performance of these tests ...

    Authors: Coline Mahende, Billy Ngasala, John Lusingu, Tai-Soon Yong, Paminus Lushino, Martha Lemnge, Bruno Mmbando and Zul Premji
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2016 15:391
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  7. Verbal autopsy methods are critically important for evaluating the leading causes of death in populations without adequate vital registration systems. With a myriad of analytical and data collection approaches...

    Authors: Christopher JL Murray, Alan D Lopez, Robert Black, Ramesh Ahuja, Said Mohd Ali, Abdullah Baqui, Lalit Dandona, Emily Dantzer, Vinita Das, Usha Dhingra, Arup Dutta, Wafaie Fawzi, Abraham D Flaxman, Sara Gómez, Bernardo Hernández, Rohina Joshi…
    Citation: Population Health Metrics 2011 9:27
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  9. Emergence and spread of drug resistance to every anti-malarial used to date, creates an urgent need for development of sensitive, specific and field-deployable molecular tools for detection and surveillance of...

    Authors: Yaye Dié Ndiaye, Cyrille K. Diédhiou, Amy K. Bei, Baba Dieye, Aminata Mbaye, Nasserdine Papa Mze, Rachel F. Daniels, Ibrahima M. Ndiaye, Awa B. Déme, Amy Gaye, Mouhamad Sy, Tolla Ndiaye, Aida S. Badiane, Mouhamadou Ndiaye, Zul Premji, Dyann F. Wirth…
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2017 16:153
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  10. Malaria kills. A single rectal dose of artesunate before referral can reduce mortality and prevent permanent disability. However, the success of this intervention depends on caretakers' adherence to referral a...

    Authors: Daudi O Simba, Deodatus C Kakoko, Marian Warsame, Zul Premji, Melba F Gomes, Goran Tomson and Eva Johansson
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2010 9:123
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  11. This study aimed to explore Plasmodium falciparum population dynamics during the early phase of anti-malarial drug treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapy in children with clinical malaria in a high ...

    Authors: Anja M Carlsson, Billy E Ngasala, Sabina Dahlström, Christopher Membi, Isabel M Veiga, Lars Rombo, Salim Abdulla, Zul Premji, J Pedro Gil, Anders Björkman and Andreas Mårtensson
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:380
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  12. Rapid diagnostic test (RDT) is an important tool for parasite-based malaria diagnosis. High specificity of RDTs to distinguish an active Plasmodium falciparum infection from residual antigens from a previous infe...

    Authors: Berit Aydin-Schmidt, Marycelina Mubi, Ulrika Morris, Max Petzold, Billy E Ngasala, Zul Premji, Anders Björkman and Andreas Mårtensson
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2013 12:349
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  13. Home-management of malaria (HMM) strategy improves early access of anti-malarial medicines to high-risk groups in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa. However, limited data are available on the effectiveness of...

    Authors: Billy E Ngasala, Maja Malmberg, Anja M Carlsson, Pedro E Ferreira, Max G Petzold, Daniel Blessborn, Yngve Bergqvist, José P Gil, Zul Premji and Andreas Mårtensson
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2011 10:64
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  14. By 2030, more than 50% of the African population will live in urban areas. Controlling malaria reduces the disease burden and further improves economic development. As a complement to treated nets and prompt a...

    Authors: Michael A Sattler, Deo Mtasiwa, Michael Kiama, Zul Premji, Marcel Tanner, Gerry F Killeen and Christian Lengeler
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2005 4:4
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  15. The aim of this study was to analyse willingness to pay (WTP) and ability to pay (ATP) for ACT for children below five years of age in a rural setting in Tanzania before the introduction of artemisinin-based c...

    Authors: Eleonor C Saulo, Birger C Forsberg, Zul Premji, Scott M Montgomery and Anders Björkman
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2008 7:227
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  16. The success of the universal parasite-based malaria testing policy for fever patients attending primary health care (PHC) facilities in Tanzania will depend highly on health workers’ perceptions and practices....

    Authors: Marycelina Mubi, Deodatus Kakoko, Billy Ngasala, Zul Premji, Stefan Peterson, Anders Björkman and Andreas Mårtensson
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2013 12:293
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  17. Prescribing antimalarial medicines based on parasite confirmed diagnosis of malaria is critical to rational drug use and optimal outcome of febrile illness. The impact of microscopy-based versus clinical-based...

    Authors: Billy Ngasala, Marycelina Mubi, Marian Warsame, Max G Petzold, Amos Y Massele, Lars L Gustafsson, Goran Tomson, Zul Premji and Anders Bjorkman
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2008 7:199
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  18. Verbal autopsy (VA) is used to estimate the causes of death in areas with incomplete vital registration systems. The King and Lu method (KL) for direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) ...

    Authors: Abraham D Flaxman, Alireza Vahdatpour, Spencer L James, Jeanette K Birnbaum and Christopher JL Murray
    Citation: Population Health Metrics 2011 9:35
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  19. Verbal autopsies provide valuable information for studying mortality patterns in populations that lack reliable vital registration data. Methods for transforming verbal autopsy results into meaningful informat...

    Authors: Spencer L James, Abraham D Flaxman and Christopher JL Murray
    Citation: Population Health Metrics 2011 9:31
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  20. Physician review of a verbal autopsy (VA) and completion of a death certificate remains the most widely used approach for VA analysis. This study provides new evidence about the performance of physician-certif...

    Authors: Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez, Charles Atkinson, Mohsen Naghavi, Abraham D Flaxman and Christopher JL Murray
    Citation: Population Health Metrics 2011 9:32
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