Asymptomatic carriers
Treatment of asymptomatic carriers with artemether lumefantrine: an opportunity to reduce the burden of malaria?
... treating asymptomatic carriers would be more than offset by the reduced number of malaria- related hospital admissions and patient visits, and by the man hours ...
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Compartmentalization and Transmission of Multiple Epstein-Barr Virus Strains in Asymptomatic Carriers
... EBV strain profiles of asymptomatic carriers. To identify and determine the relative abundance of the EBV strains present in blood and saliva, DNA was extracted from throat wash samples and total blood ...
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A controlled, parallel, cluster randomized trial of community wide screening and treatment of asymptomatic carriers of Plasmodium falciparum in Burkina Faso
... tomatic carriers could potentially reduce disease transmis- sion by reducing the pool of parasites carried by these ...of asymptomatic carriers with artemether-lumefantrine (AL) (Coartem W , Novartis ...
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Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns of Neisseria Meningitides Isolates from Asymptomatic Carriers in Gurage Zone, Southern Ethiopia
... from asymptomatic carrier for all age group at Meskan and Mareko Districts, Gurage Zone, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State ...among asymptomatic carriers is high and ...
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Dynamics of malaria transmission and susceptibility to clinical malaria episodes following treatment of Plasmodium falciparum asymptomatic carriers: results of a cluster randomized study of community wide screening and treatment, and a parallel entomology study
... falciparum asymptomatic car- riers at a community level on the incidence of symptom- atic malaria episodes with a parasite density >5,000/μL; and an entomological study to determine the effect of the screening ...
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Community screening and treatment of asymptomatic carriers of Plasmodium falciparum with artemether lumefantrine to reduce malaria disease burden: a modelling and simulation analysis
... introduction of treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapy on malaria endemicity) was modified to represent CSC and treatment of AC with AL, with the addition of malaria vector seasonality. The age grouping, ...
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Detection of asymptomatic carriers of malaria in Kohat district of Pakistan
... of asymptomatic carriers of malaria would be present in this area ...tomatic carriers act as reservoir of malaria from where the mosquitoes continue to feed and spread the parasite to other ...The ...
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Increased chromosomal radiosensitivity in asymptomatic carriers of a heterozygous BRCA1 mutation
... approximately 4 mGy [39]. Thus, direct extrapolation of our radiosensitivity results to the risks of mammography is not possible. Despite this limitation, our results may suggest caution in the IR exposure of healthy ...
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Plasma proteome analysis in HTLV 1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis
... matic carriers: although a PVL > 1% PBMCs is strongly associated with HAM, 50% of asymptomatic carriers also have a PVL > 1%, which reduces the value of this measure in the clinical diagosis of ...
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Distribution of Blastocystis subtypes isolated from humans from an urban community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
... Blastocystis isolates from patients with irritable bowel syndrome and from asymptomatic carriers exhibit similar parasitological loads, but significantly different generation times and g[r] ...
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Are Ducks Contributing to the Endemicity of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus in Asia?
... Previous research had consistently demonstrated that ducks infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses of the H5 and H7 subtypes (either naturally or experimentally inoc- ulated) developed very mild or no ...
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Serological Typing of Ureaplasma urealyticum Isolates from Urethritis Patients by an Agar Growth Inhibition Method
... urealyticum strains isolated from controls asymptomatic carriers, young children, and patients with nonNGU genitourinary tract infections and other disorders appeared to be less sensitiv[r] ...
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Hepatitis B virus with mutations in the core promoter for an e antigen-negative phenotype in carriers with antibody to e antigen.
... Some HBV DNA clones from two asymptomatic carriers carriers 2 and 10 in Table 1 and two patients with chronic hepatitis B patients 4 and 14 in Table 2, all of whom were positive for anti[r] ...
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Direct Amplification and Genotyping of Dientamoeba fragilis from Human Stool Specimens
... In the present study we analyzed the DNA of Dientamoeba fragilis directly from feces of various groups of patients and asymptomatic carriers without the need for prior culturing of the organism. Culturing ...
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Passive hemagglutination test for detection of antibody to gonococcal ribosomal antigen in sera from patients with asymptomatic gonorrhea
... The purified ribosomal fraction was used to detect antibody activity in sera obtained from culture-positive asymptomatic carriers and healthy controls by a passive hemagglutination test.[r] ...
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Colonization of toxigenic Clostridium difficile among ICU patients: a prospective study
... These asymptomatic carriers may serve as an important reservoir of toxigenic ...for carriers, and another is to identify the population at high risk of ...
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Transfusion Transmitted Infections: an Update on Product Screening, Diagnostic Techniques, and the Path Ahead
... Because asymptomatic carriers unaware of infection pose a threat to the blood supply, the AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks) recommended that the FDA expedite approval of a ...
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Application of a Novel, Rapid, and Sensitive Oligonucleotide Ligation Assay for Detection of Cancer Predicting Mutations in the Precore and Basal Core Promoter of Hepatitis B Virus
... HBV-infected carriers recruited from the Gambia Liver Cancer Study (GLCS) comprising asymptomatic HBsAg carriers, patients with cirrhosis, and patients with ...of asymptomatic carriers, ...
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Prevalence of Dermatophytes in The Haircoat of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) in The Stelvio National Park, Italy.
... prevalence of dermatophytes and to evaluate the hypothetical role of asymptomatic carriers hair samples were collected from 30 legally hunted wild red deer (Cervus elaphus) in the Stelvio National Park, ...
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Distribution of Serogroups and Genotypes among Disease Associated and Carried Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from the Czech Republic, Greece, and Norway
... from asymptomatic carriers exhibit more genetic diversity than isolate collections derived from invasive disease; the majority of cases of meningococcal dis- ease reported over the second half of the 20th ...
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