Submissions from 2008
Assay for and replication of Karshi (mammalian tick-borne flavivirus group) virus in mice, Michael J. Turell, Chris A. Whitehouse, Ashley Butler, Carson Baldwin, Hannah Hottel, and Christopher N. Mores
Arbovirus transmission by Culex nigtipalpus in Florida, 2005, Christopher J. Vitek, Stephanie L. Richards, Christopher N. Mores, Jonathan F. Day, and Cynthia C. Lord
Infectious diseases in the context of war, civil strife and social dislocation, Ronald Waldman
Molecular epidemiology of eastern equine encephalitis virus, New York, David S. Young, Laura D. Kramer, Joseph G. Maffei, Robert J. Dusek, P. Bryon Backenson, Christopher N. Mores, Kristen A. Bernard, and Gregory D. Ebel
Submissions from 2007
International emergency medicine and the role for academic emergency medicine, K. Alagappan, R. Schafermeyer, J. Holliman, K. Iserson, and I. A. Sheridan
Trends in childhood injury mortality in a developing country: United Arab Emirates, Abdulbari Bener, Adnan A. Hyder, and Ellen Schenk
Age-related changes in hookworm infection, anaemia and iron deficiency in an area of high Necator americanus hookworm transmission in south-eastern Brazil., S. Brooker, A. Jardim-Botelho, R. J. Quinnell, M. G. Stefan, and R. C. Iramaya
Determinants of Normal Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness Measured by Stratus OCT, Donald L. Budenz, Douglas R. Anderson, Rohit Varma, Joel Schuman, Louis Cantor, Jonathan Savell, David S. Greenfield, Vincent Michael Patella, Harry A. Quigley, and James Tielsch
Risk factors for corneal infiltrates with continuous wear of contact lenses, Robin L. Chalmers, John J. McNally, Oliver D. Schein, Joanne Katz, James M. Tielsch, Eduardo Alfonso, Mark Bullimore, Denis O'Day, and Joseph Shovlin
Socio-economic status and health awareness are associated with choice of cooking oil in Costa Rica, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Edmond K. Kabagambe, Ana Baylin, Alberto Ascherio, Hannia Campos, and Karen E. Peterson
Translating research into action: A case study on trans fatty acid research and nutrition policy in Costa Rica, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Ana C. Lindsay, Rafael Monge-Rojas, Mary L. Greaney, Hannia Campos, and Karen E. Peterson
Understanding the 'de jure' standard of care for research: A reply to Faust [2], Liza Dawson and Adnan A. Hyder
A multiplexed TaqMan assay for the detection of arthropod-borne flaviviruses, J. Dyer, D. M. Chisenhall, and C. N. Mores
Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with severe anemia of pregnancy on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tamer H. Farag, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Sabra S. Khalfan, and James M. Tielsch
Unexpectedly low prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection among pregnant women on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tamer H. Farag, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Sabra S. Khalfan, and James M. Tielsch
Incidence, patterns and severity of reported unintentional injuries in Pakistan for persons five years and older: Results of the National Health Survey of Pakistan 1990-94, Zafar Fatmi, Wilbur C. Hadden, Junaid A. Razzak, Huma I. Qureshi, Adnan A. Hyder, and Gregory Pappas
A comparison of methods for detecting the eggs of Ascaris, Trichuris, and hookworm in infant stool, and the epidemiology of infection in Zanzibari infants, David Goodman, Hamad J. Haji, Quentin D. Bickle, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, James M. Tielsch, Mahdi Ramsan, Lorenzo Savioli, and Marco Albonico
Effect of maternal HIV infection on child survival in Ghana, R. Hong, J. E. Banta, and J. K. Kamau
Passive smoking as a risk factor of anemia in young children aged 0-35 months in Jordan, R. Hong, J. A. Betancourt, and M. Ruiz-Beltran
Economic disparity and child survival in cambodia, R. Hong, V. Mishra, and J. Michael
Impact of prenatal care on infant survival in Bangladesh, R. Hong and M. Ruiz-Beltran
Exploring health systems research and its influence on policy processes in low income countries, Adnan A. Hyder, Gerald Bloom, Melissa Leach, Shamsuzzoha B. Syed, and David H. Peters
A case study of research ethics capacity development in Africa, Adnan A. Hyder, Rachel A. Harrison, Nancy Kass, and Suzanne Maman
Violence against children: A challenge for public health in Pakistan, Adnan Ali Hyder and Fauzia Aman Malik
Intimate partner violence among Afghan women living in refugee camps in Pakistan, Adnan A. Hyder, Zarin Noor, and Emma Tsui
Falls among children in the developing world: A gap in child health burden estimations?, Adnan A. Hyder, David Sugerman, Shanthi Ameratunga, and Jennifer A. Callaghan
Exploring the economics of motorcycle helmet laws - Implications for low and middle-income countries, Adnan A. Hyder, H. Waters, T. Phillips, and J. Rehwinkel
The impact of traumatic brain injuries: A global perspective, Adnan A. Hyder, Colleen A. Wunderlich, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, G. Gururaj, and Olive C. Kobusingye
Research ethics committees in Africa: Authors' reply [2], Nancy E. Kass, Adnan Ali Hyder, Ademola Ajuwon, John Appiah-Poku, Nicola Barsdorf, Dya Eldin Elsayed, Mantoa Mokhachane, Bavon Mupenda, Paul Ndebele, Godwin Ndossi, Bornwell Sikateyo, Godfrey Tangwa, and Paulina Tindana
The structure and function of research ethics committees in Africa: A case study, Nancy E. Kass, Adnan Ali Hyder, Ademola Ajuwon, John Appiah-Poku, Nicola Barsdorf, Dya Eldin Elsayed, Mantoa Mokhachane, Bavon Mupenda, Paul Ndebele, Godwin Ndossi, Bornwell Sikateyo, Godfrey Tangwa, and Paulina Tindana
A vaccine to prevent transmission of human malaria: A long way to travel on a dusty and often bumpy road, Nirbhay Kumar
Aquaporin 9 is the major pathway for glycerol uptake by mouse erythrocytes, with implications for malarial virulence, Yangjian Liu, Dominique Promeneur, Aleksandra Rojek, Nirbhay Kumar, Jørgen Frøkiær, Søren Nielsen, Landon S. King, Peter Agre, and Jennifer M. Carbrey
A modified Plasmodium falciparum growth inhibition assay (GIA) to assess activity of plasma from malaria endemic areas, Godfree Mlambo and Nirbhay Kumar
High prevalence of molecular markers for resistance to chloroquine and pyrimethamine in Plasmodium falciparum from Zimbabwe, Godfree Mlambo, David Sullivan, Susan L. Mutambu, White Soko, Joel Mbedzi, James Chivenga, Armin Gemperli, and Nirbhay Kumar
Analysis of genetic polymorphism in select vaccine candidate antigens and microsatellite loci in Plasmodium falciparum from endemic areas at varying altitudes, Godfree Mlambo, David Sullivan, Susan L. Mutambu, White Soko, Joel Mbedzi, James Chivenga, Thomas Jaenisch, Armin Gemperli, and Nirbhay Kumar
Experimental transmission of west nile virus by Culex nigripalpus from honduras, Christopher N. Mores, Michael J. Turell, David J. Dohm, Jamie A. Blow, Marco T. Carranza, and Miguel Quintana
Addressing gender-based violence: A critical review of interventions, Andrew Morrison, Mary Ellsberg, and Sarah Bott
Facing the challenges in human resources for humanitarian health, Hani Mowafi, Kristin Nowak, Karen Hein, Stephen Atwood, Bill Burdick, Bill Corcoran, Kiera Dowries, Rigoberto Giron, Christoph Gorder, Beth Gragg, Jim James, Louise Shea, Afaf Meleis, Masahiro Morikawa, Fitzhugh Mullan, Sonia Khush, Robin Nandy, and Jason Phillips
Non-physician clinicians in 47 sub-Saharan African countries, Fitzhugh Mullan and Seble Frehywot
Relationship between the surrogate anthropometric measures, foot length and chest circumference and birth weight among newborns of Sarlahi, Nepal, L. C. Mullany, G. L. Darmstadt, S. K. Khatry, S. C. LeClerq, and J. M. Tielsch
Risk factors for umbilical cord infection among newborns of Southern Nepal, Luke C. Mullany, Gary L. Darmstadt, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Ramesh K. Adhikari, and James M. Tielsch
Population-based survey methods to quantify associations between human rights violations and health outcomes among internally displaced persons in eastern Burma, Luke C. Mullany, Adam K. Richards, Catherine I. Lee, Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Cynthia Maung, Mahn Mahn, Chris Beyrer, and Thomas J. Lee
Enhanced malaria parasite transmission from helminth co-infected mice, Gregory S. Noland, Thaddeus K. Graczyk, Bernard Fried, and Nirbhay Kumar
Identification and molecular characterization of a novel protein Saglin as a target of monoclonal antibodies affecting salivary gland infectivity of Plasmodium sporozoites, M. A. Okulate, D. E. Kalume, R. Reddy, T. Kristiansen, M. Bhattacharyya, R. Chaerkady, A. Pandey, and N. Kumar
Young Zanzibari children with iron deficiency, iron deficiency anemia, stunting, or malaria have lower motor activity scores and spend less time in locomotion, Deanna K. Olney, Ernesto Pollitt, Patricia K. Kariger, Sabra S. Khalfan, Nadra S. Ali, James M. Tielsch, Sunil Sazawal, Robert Black, Darrell Mast, Lindsay H. Allen, and Rebecca J. Stoltzfus
Aquaglyceroporin PbAQP during intraerythrocytic development of the malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei, Dominique Promeneur, Yangjian Liu, Jorge Maciel, Peter Agre, Landon S. King, and Nirbhay Kumar
Impact of extrinsic incubation temperature and virus exposure on vector competence of Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) for West Nile virus, Stephanie L. Richards, Christopher N. Mores, Cynthia C. Lord, and Walter J. Tabachnick
Reduced infection in mosquitoes exposed to blood meals containing previously frozen flaviviruses, Stephanie L. Richards, Kendra Pesko, Barry W. Alto, and Christopher N. Mores
Setting priorities in global child health research investments: Assessment of principles and practice, Igor Rudan, Jennifer Gibson, Lydia Kapiriri, Mary Ann Lansang, Adnan A. Hyder, Joy Lawn, Gary L. Darmstadt, Simon Cousens, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Kenneth H. Brown, Sonja Y. Hess, Maureen Black, Julie Meeks Gardner, Jayne Webster, Ilona Carneiro, Daniel Chandramohan, Margaret Kosek, and Claudio F. Lanata
Commentary: Could biomass fuel smoke cause anaemia and stunting in early childhood?, Jonathan M. Samet and James Tielsch
Filling know-do gaps in road safety policy in developing countries: a case study of Thailand., Paibul Suriyawongpaisal, Adnan A. Hyder, and Nicholas H. Juul
Evidence to action needs research, Shamsuzzoha B. Syed and Adnan A. Hyder
Impact of newborn skin-cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in southern Nepal: In reply [12], James M. Tielsch, Gary L. Darmstadt, Luke C. Mullany, and Joanne Katz
Impact of newborn skin-cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in Southern Nepal: A community-based, cluster-randomized trial, James M. Tielsch, Gary L. Darmstadt, Luke C. Mullany, Subarna K. Khatry, Joanne Katz, Steven C. LeClerq, Shardaram Shrestha, and Ramesh Adhikari
Impact of newborn skin-cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in southern Nepal: A community-based, cluster-randomized trial, James M. Tielsch, Gary L. Darmstadt, Luke C. Mullany, Subarna K. Khatry, Joanne Katz, Steven C. LeClerq, Shardaram Shrestha, and Ramesh Adhikari
Effect of daily zinc supplementation on child mortality in southern Nepal: a community-based, cluster randomised, placebo-controlled trial, James M. Tielsch, Subarna K. Khatry, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Joanne Katz, Steven C. LeClerq, Ramesh Adhikari, Luke C. Mullany, Robert Black, and Shardaram Shresta
Newborn vitamin A dosing reduces the case fatality but not incidence of common childhood morbidities in South India, James M. Tielsch, Lakshmi Rahmathullah, R. D. Thulasiraj, Joanne Katz, Christian Coles, S. Sheeladevi, Rajeesh John, and Karthik Prakash
Infection with parasitic nematodes confounds vaccination efficacy, Joseph F. Urban, Nina R. Steenhard, Gloria I. Solano-Aguilar, Harry D. Dawson, Onyinye I. Iweala, Cathryn R. Nagler, Gregory S. Noland, Nirbhay Kumar, Robert M. Anthony, Terez Shea-Donohue, Joel Weinstock, and William C. Gause
Geophagia is not associated with Trichuris or hookworm transmission in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Sera L. Young, Dave Goodman, Tamer H. Farag, Said M. Ali, Mzee R. Khatib, Sabra S. Khalfan, James M. Tielsch, and Rebecca J. Stoltzfus
Submissions from 2006
Healthcare Delivery in Africa: An Overview of the Issues, Choices, Challenges and Opportunities, C. Akukwe
Evaluating asylum seekers/torture survivors in urban primary care: A collaborative approach at the Bronx Human Rights Clinic, Ramil G. Asgary, Eva E. Metalios, Clyde L. Smith, and Gerald A. Paccione
Responding to AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and emerging infectious diseases in Burma: Dilemmas of policy and practice, Chris Beyrer, Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Luke C. Mullany, Adam K. Richards, Nicole Franck, Aaron Samuels, and Thomas J. Lee
Modeling the cost effectiveness of injury interventions in lower and middle income countries: Opportunities and challenges, David M. Bishai and Adnan A. Hyder
An ounce of prevention on a budget: a nonprofit approach to developing vaccines against neglected diseases, M. E. Bottazzi, A. P. Miles, D. Diemert, and P. J. Hotez
The South Asian earthquake six months later - An ongoing crisis, Richard J. Brennan and Ronald J. Waldman
Contrasting patterns in the small-scale heterogeneity of human helminth infections in urban and rural environments in Brazil, S. Brooker, N. Alexander, S. Geiger, R. A. Moyeed, and J. Stander
Involvement of gonadal steroids and gamma interferon in sex differences in response to blood-stage malaria infection, Amy Cernetich, Lindsey S. Garver, Anne E. Jedlicka, Pamela W. Klein, Nirbhay Kumar, Alan L. Scott, and Sabra L. Klein
Road traffic deaths in the Middle East: Call for action [3], Emily Christensen-Rand, Adnan A. Hyder, and Timothy Baker
The Georgian healthcare system: Is it reaching the WHO health system goals?, T. Collins
The relation between trans fatty acid levels and increased risk of myocardial infarction does not hold at lower levels of trans fatty acids in the Costa Rican food supply, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Ana Baylin, and Hannia Campos
Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence, Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Henrica AFM Jansen, Mary Ellsberg, Lori Heise, and Charlotte H. Watts
Exploring the relationship between development and road traffic injuries: A case study from India, Nitin Garg and Adnan A. Hyder
Review Article: Road traffic injuries in India: A review of the literature, Nitin Garg and Adnan A. Hyder
The impact of concurrent and treated Ancylostoma ceylanicum hookworm infections on the immunogenicity of a recombinant hookworm vaccine in hamsters, K. Ghosh, W. Wu, A. D. Antoine, M. E. Bottazzi, and J. G. Valenzuela
Infection with Plasmodium berghei boosts antibody responses primed by a DNA vaccine encoding gametocyte antigen Pbs48/45, Diana Haddad, Jorge Maciel, and Nirbhay Kumar
Relationship between household wealth inequality and chronic childhood under-nutrition in Bangladesh, R. Hong, J. E. Banta, and J. A. Betancourt
New technologies for the control of human hookworm infection. (Special Issue: Practical parasitology.), P. J. Hotez, J. Bethony, M. E. Bottazzi, S. Brooker, and D. Diemert
The antipoverty vaccines, P. J. Hotez and M. T. Ferris
Incorporating a rapid-impact package for neglected tropical diseases with programs for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.[see comment], P. J. Hotez, D. H. Molyneux, A. Fenwick, E. Ottesen, and S. Ehrlich Sachs
Health and road transport in Pakistan, A. A. Hyder, A. A. Ghaffar, D. E. Sugerman, T. I. Masood, and L. Ali
A new challenge to child and adolescent survival in urban Africa: An increasing burden of road traffic injuries, Adnan A. Hyder, Mariam Labinjo, and Samar S.F. Muzaffar
Estimating the burden of road traffic injuries among children and adolescents in urban South Asia, Adnan Ali Hyder, Omar Hussein Amach, Nitin Garg, and Mariam Temitope Labinjo
Informed consent and collaborative research: Perspectives from the developing world, Adnan A. Hyder and Salman A. Wali
Iron supplementation in early childhood: Health benefits and risks, Lora L. Iannotti, James M. Tielsch, Maureen M. Black, and Robert E. Black
Measurement of blood loss at childbirth and postpartum, J. A. Kavle, S. S. Khalfan, R. J. Stoltzfus, F. Witter, J. M. Tielsch, and L. E. Caulfield
Suicides in the developing world: Case study from Pakistan, Murad Moosa Khan and Adnan Ali Hyder
Use of the veterans history project to assess world war II veteran's perception of military experience and health., N. LaVerda, A. Vessey, and W. F. Waters
Mortality rates in conflict zones in Karen, Karenni, and Mon states in eastern Burma, Thomas J. Lee, Luke C. Mullany, Adam K. Richards, Heather K. Kuiper, Cynthia Maung, and Chris Beyrer
Antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum vaccine candidate antigens in three areas distinct with respect to altitude, Godfree Mlambo, Susan L. Mutambu, Takafira Mduluza, White Soko, Joel Mbedzi, James Chivenga, David E. Lanar, Sanjay Singh, Daniel Carucci, Armin Gemperli, and Nirbhay Kumar
A low cost, colour coded, hand held spring scale accurately categorises birth weight in low resource settings, L. C. Mullany, Gary L. Darmstadt, P. Coffey, S. K. Khatry, S. C. LeClerq, and J. M. Tielsch
Development of clinical sign based algorithms for community based assessment of omphalitis, L. C. Mullany, G. L. Darmstadt, J. Katz, S. K. Khatry, S. C. LeClerq, R. K. Adhikari, and J. M. Tielsch
Topical applications of chlorhexidine to the umbilical cord for prevention of omphalitis and neonatal mortality in southern Nepal: A community-based, cluster-randomised trial, Luke C. Mullany, Gary L. Darmstadt, Subarna K. Khatry, Joanne Katz, Steven C. Leclerq, Shardaram Shrestha, Ramesh Adhikari, and James M. Tielsch
Safety of neonatal skin cleansing in rural Nepal, Luke C. Mullany, Gary L. Darmstadt, Subarna K. Khatry, Steve C. LeClerq, and James M. Tielsch
Impact of umbilical cord cleansing with 4.0% chlorhexidine on time to cord separation among newborns in Southern Nepal: A cluster-randomized, community-based trial, Luke C. Mullany, Gary L. Darmstadt, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Joanne Katz, and James M. Tielsch
Safety and impact of chlorhexidine antisepsis interventions for improving neonatal health in developing countries, Luke C. Mullany, Gary L. Darmstadt, and James M. Tielsch
Combined iron and folic acid supplementation with or without zinc reduces time to walking unassisted among Zanzibari infants 5- to 11-mo old, Deanna K. Olney, Ernesto Pollitt, Patricia K. Kariger, Sabra S. Khalfan, Nadra S. Ali, James M. Tielsch, Sunil Sazawal, Robert Black, Lindsay H. Allen, and Rebecca J. Stoltzfus
The economic burden of major adult visual disorders in the United States, David B. Rein, Ping Zhang, Kathleen E. Wirth, Paul P. Lee, Thomas J. Hoerger, Nancy McCall, Ronald Klein, James M. Tielsch, Sandeep Vijan, and Jinan Saaddine