New Guinean
Strategies for understanding and reducing the Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale hypnozoite reservoir in Papua New Guinean children: a randomised placebo-controlled trial and mathematical model
... Malaria control programs have greatly reduced the global malaria burden, but the ability of P. vivax and P. ovale to persist undetected in the liver as “hypnozoites” (another para- sitic form) is hindering malaria ...
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Solving the supply of Resveratrol Tetramers from Papua New Guinean rainforest Anisoptera species (Dipterocarpaceae) that inhibit bacterial type III secretion systems
... A primary assay utilizing the bacterial clone Y. pseudotuberculosis YPIII(pIB102-Elux), 15 with a luminescent reporter gene under the control of the promoter for the T3SS effector protein YopE, detected three library ...
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A longitudinal study of natural antibody development to pneumococcal surface protein A families 1 and 2 in Papua New Guinean Highland children: a cohort study
... Papua New Guinean infants [4], indicating a possible difference in the frequency of PspA1 versus PspA2 expressing pneumococcal strains circulating in this population, or functional differences between these ...
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Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in Papua New Guinean infants exposed to Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax: a randomized controlled trial
... Papua New Guinean infants were enrolled into a three-arm placebo-controlled randomized trial and assigned to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) (25 mg/kg and ...
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Differential patterns of infection and disease with P. falciparum and P. vivax in young Papua New Guinean children
... Methodology/Principal Findings: A cohort of 264 Papua New Guinean children aged 1-3 years (at enrolment) were actively followed-up for Plasmodium infection and febrile illness for 16 months. Infection ...
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Cost effectiveness of artemisinin–naphthoquine versus artemether–lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Papua New Guinean children
... For falciparum malaria in the present study, AN and AL had similar treatment efficacy (100 and 97.8% for AN and AL, respectively) but AL was significantly more cost-effective therapy with a mean cost of US$7.66 per ...
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Artemether lumefantrine versus artemisinin naphthoquine in Papua New Guinean children with uncomplicated malaria: a six months post treatment follow up study
... The present study shows that the relative clinical bene- fits of artemisinin-NQ over conventional AM-LM therapy extend well beyond the 42 days of the parent trial. Artemisinin-NQ was associated with approxi- mately half ...
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Accuracy of an HRP 2/panLDH rapid diagnostic test to detect peripheral and placental Plasmodium falciparum infection in Papua New Guinean women with anaemia or suspected malaria
... RDTs perform well outside of pregnancy and the WHO recommends their use for the diagnosis of malaria in this context [17]. Less is known about their accuracy in pregnancy, in particular when polymerase chain reaction ...
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Antioxidant activity of heartwood extracts of Papua New Guinean woods
... These results showed that several compounds in the ether-soluble, ethyl acetate- soluble, and aqueous portions caused the potent antioxi- dant effects of the metha[r] ...
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Differential impact of malaria control interventions on P. falciparum and P. vivax infections in young Papua New Guinean children
... Due to reduced levels of transmission in 2013, several villages had few P. falciparum or P. vivax infections de- tected, no clinical P. falciparum or P. vivax episodes and very few new blood-stage clones. ...
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Comparison of an assumed versus measured leucocyte count in parasite density calculations in Papua New Guinean children with uncomplicated malaria
... Papua New Guinea (PNG) have all relied on this approach, its validity was assessed as part of a trial of artemisinin-based combination therapy, which included blood smear microscopy and automated measurement of ...
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A picture of health: participation, photovoice and preventing HIV among Papua New Guinean youth
... The detailed and contextualised analysis contained in this thesis is grounded in the locations in which the Tok Piksa Project took place – in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. As outlined in Chapter 2, a review ...
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Risk factors and pregnancy outcomes associated with placental malaria in a prospective cohort of Papua New Guinean women
... In African settings, pregnant women are more vul- nerable to malaria infection than non-pregnant women [4] and susceptibility is highest in young, primigravid mothers who have two to seven times higher risk of delivering ...
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Maternal Antibodies to Pneumolysin but Not to Pneumococcal Surface Protein A Delay Early Pneumococcal Carriage in High-Risk Papua New Guinean Infants
... that new vac- cines such as pneumococcal protein-based vaccines can over- come early pneumococcal carriage and disease in young infants in developing countries, but vaccination strategies involving maternal ...
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A ‘PNG’ Study into Racial Difference In Contemporary Service Delivery Practices
... As a PNG Researcher, maybe the answer to these questions lies in the concept of positioning oneself in a way that is constantly cognisant that the position you hold as a researcher can, through the process of eliciting ...
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Nitrogen fixation and nifH diversity in human gut microbiota
... We investigated the nitrogen-fixing activity and diversity of the nitrogenase reductase NifH genes in the faecal microbiota of humans, focusing on Papua New Guinean and Japanese individu[r] ...
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Real Time PCR Assay for Rapid Detection and Analysis of PfCRT Haplotypes of Chloroquine Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Isolates from India
... The PfCRT haplotype distribution of CQ-sensitive and CQ- resistant patient-derived isolates, stratified by country, is pre- sented in Table 1. Based on the proportion of P. falciparum isolates possessing the PfCRT ...
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Clinical, Hematological and Biochemical Health Benefit Effects of Hibiscus sabdariffa Lin Dried Calyces Beverage in Human
... high Guinean savanna ...high Guinean savanna zone decrease the calyces crude protein levels harvested in this agro ecological zone of ...high Guinean savanna zone of ...high Guinean savanna ...
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Taxonomic Revision of the Afrotropical Plastotephritinae (Diptera: Platystomatidae).
... Guinean rain forest Pri m ar y Guinean rain forest Secondary Guinean rain forest Congolian rain forest: Moist evergreen bt t t f t Congolian (lowland) rain forest Rain fo[r] ...
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Effect of litter mixture on litter decomposition and nutrient release of three agroforestry species in Sudano-Guinean savannah of Ngadoundere, Adamawa Cameroon
... is Guinean type with a humid tendency (Collins, 1985; Suchel, 1987) having a dry season from mid- October to mid-March and a rainy season which starts in April by a period of violent thunder until ...
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