Rubella immunity among pregnant women aged 15–44 years, Namibia, 2010

Autor: Anna Jonas, Cristina V. Cardemil, Anita Beukes, Raydel Anderson, Paul A. Rota, Bettina Bankamp, Howard E. Gary Jr, Souleymane Sawadogo, Sadhna V. Patel, Sikota Zeko, Clementine Muroua, Esegiel Gaeb, Kathleen Wannemuehler, Sue Gerber, James L. Goodson

Publikováno v: International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 49, Iss C, Pp 196-201 (2016)

Background: The level of rubella susceptibility among women of reproductive age in Namibia is unknown. Documenting the risk of rubella will help estimate the potential burden of disease in Namibian women and the risk of congenital rubella syndrome (C

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Incidence of HIV in Windhoek, Namibia: demographic and socio-economic associations.

Autor: Marielle Aulagnier, Wendy Janssens, Ingrid De Beer, Gert van Rooy, Esegiel Gaeb, Cees Hesp, Jacques van der Gaag, Tobias F Rinke de Wit

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 10, p e25860 (2011)

OBJECTIVE: To estimate HIV incidence and prevalence in Windhoek, Namibia and to analyze socio-economic factors related to HIV infection. METHOD: In 2006/7, baseline surveys were performed with 1,753 private households living in the greater Windhoek a

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Limited utility of dried-blood- and plasma spot-based screening for antiretroviral treatment failure with Cobas Ampliprep/TaqMan HIV-1 version 2.0

Autor: Souleymane Sawadogo, Chunfu Yang, Esegiel Gaeb, Harold Kaura, Andrew D. Maher, David W. Lowrance, Guoqing Zhang, Andreas Shiningavamwe, Joy Chang, Dennis Ellenberger

Publikováno v: Journal of clinical microbiology. 52(11)

The 2013 WHO antiretroviral therapy (ART) guidelines recommend dried blood spots (DBS) as an alternative specimen type for viral load (VL) monitoring. We assessed the programmatic utility of screening for antiretroviral (ARV) treatment failure (TF) a

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Hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-Sectional Surveys in Four Rural and Urban Communities

Autor: Tanimola M. Akande, Gert Van Rooy, Marijke T. L. Roos, Judith Lammers, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit, Joep M. A. Lange, Jacques van der Gaag, Lizzy M. Brewster, Igna Bonfrer, Constance Schultsz, Ferdinand W. N. M. Wit, Berber Kramer, Wendy Janssens, Marleen E. Hendriks, Sayoki Mfinanga, Ingrid de Beer, Esegiel Gaeb, PM Gatongi, Amos Kahwa

Publikováno v: Hendriks, M E, Wit, F W N M, Roos, M T L, Brewster, L M, Akande, T M, de Beer, I H, Mfinanga, S G, Kahwa, A M, Gatongi, P, van Rooy, G, Janssens, W, Lammers, J, Kramer, B N, Bonfrer, I, Gaeb, E, van der Gaag, J, Rinke de Wit, T, Lange, J M A & Schultz, C 2012, ' Hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-Sectional Surveys in Four Rural and Urban Communities ', PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 3, e32638 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032638
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PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 3, p e32638 (2012)
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BackgroundCardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of adult mortality in low-income countries but data on the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension are scarce, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study aims

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032638

Measles immunity among pregnant women aged 15–44 years in Namibia, 2008 and 2010

Autor: Anita Beukes, Sue Gerber, Bettina Bankamp, Clementine Muroua, Raydel Anderson, Esegiel Gaeb, Howard E. Gary, Cristina V. Cardemil, Sikota Zeko, Sadhna V. Patel, Souleymane Sawadogo, Anna Jonas, Kathleen Wannemuehler, James L. Goodson, Paul A. Rota

Publikováno v: International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 49, Iss C, Pp 189-195 (2016)
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases

S U M M A R Y Background: Namibia experienced a large measles outbreak starting in 2009, with 38% of reported cases in adults, including women of reproductive age. Population immunity was assessed among pregnant women to determine whether immunizatio

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