September 2015
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
September 2015
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
September 2014
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
December 2013
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
November 2013
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Similarities with climate change are evident. Many efforts have been made to describe the many different facets of antibiotic resistance and the...Read more
August 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
Limiting the spread of antimalarial resistance is one of the key rationales motivating ACT deployment, but surprisingly little research has been conducted on the spread of antimalarial resistance following large-scale ACT deployment. This study reports on the large-scale surveillance of dhfr and...Read more
May 2010
Environmental Health, Environmental Health
Canadian municipal water utilities have had to face many difficulties in the past few years, not the least of which has been an erosion of consumer confidence in the safety of publicly supplied drinking water. This paper discusses how economic theory is used to develop a methodology for determining...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
We interviewed commuters in Delhi, India, to estimate their willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce their risk of dying in road traffic accidents in three scenarios that mirror the circumstances under which traffic fatalities occur in Delhi. The WTP responses are internally valid: WTP increases with the...Read more
May 2010
Environmental Health, Environmental Health
In support of an assessment of the mortality impacts of the Kuwait Oil Fires we interviewed six European experts in epidemiology and toxicology using formal procedures for elicitation of expert judgment. While the primary focus of the elicitations was to characterize the public health impacts of...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance
Background: No simple, cost-effective methods exist to identify patients at high risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization outside intensive care settings. Without such methods, colonized patients are entering hospitals undetected and...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
In recent decades, penicillin-resistant pneumococci (PRP) have emerged and spread rapidly between and within countries over the world. In this study we developed an iterative artificial neural network (ANN) model to describe and predict the spread of PRP in space and time as a function of...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
AIM: To determine if the use of alcohol-based hand-disinfection as a complement to regular hand washing at daycare centers (DCCs) can reduce the childhood rate of absenteeism.METHODS: Children aged 0-6 years attending DCC were studied in a cluster randomized controlled trial during 30 weeks. Thirty...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of hygiene routines and characteristics of the daycare centre (DCC) on sickness absence in preschool children. Background In Sweden most children attend daycare outside home during daytime. Daycare outside home results in cognitive and social gains...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Environmental Health
Objectives: To estimate the fraction of human cases of enterically transmitted illness by five major pathways (food, environment, direct animal contact, human-human transmission, and travel) and by 11 groups within the food pathway.Methods: Food safety experts were asked to provide their estimates...Read more
May 2010
Disease Control Priorities, Antibiotic Resistance
Policies for handling cases of penicillin-non-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae (PNSP) in day-care groups vary between different counties in Sweden. The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiological effect of excluding PNSP-carriers from children's day-care centres (DCC). We...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance
Objectives: The aim of this study was to use detailed weekly data on outpatient antibiotic sales for pre-school children in Sweden to test for the significance of trends during 1992-2002. We also report on the special features found in weekly antibiotic data, and how the interrupted time series (...Read more
May 2010
Disease Control Priorities, Environmental Health
This study is an initial effort to estimate one important category of benefits of environmental improvements in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), those related to the effects of air pollution on human health. Our estimates are derived from data on ambient air quality in selected CEE locations,...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
May 2010
Environmental Health, Health and Development
Rabies control in terrestrial wildlife reservoirs relies heavily on an oral rabies vaccine (ORV). In addition to direct ORV delivery to protect wildlife in natural habitats, vaccine corridors have been constructed to control the spread; these corridors are often developed around natural barriers,...Read more
May 2010
Environmental Health
We investigated the microbial diversity of biofilms found in dental unit water systems (DUWS) by three methods. The first was microscopic examination by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), acridine orange staining, and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). Most bacteria present in the biofilm...Read more
