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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe Policy-Practice Gap Regarding Children in Contact with a Tuberculosis Case The prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in children are of particular importance in developing countries where TB...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Although patient attrition is recognized as a threat to the long-term success of antiretroviral therapy programs worldwide, there is no universal definition for classifying patients as lost to follow-up...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Although HIV testing and counseling (HTC) uptake has increased dramatically in Africa, facility-based services are unlikely to ever meet ongoing need to the full. A major constraint in scaling up community...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The relative importance of human diseases is conventionally assessed by cause-specific mortality, morbidity, and economic impact. Current estimates for infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) of limited valency is justified in Africa by the high burden of pneumococcal disease. Long-term beneficial effects of PCVs may be countered by serotype...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWhatever the next hottest, scientifically proven HIV treatment or prevention strategies are, they will share a common denominator for implementation: the HIV test. Whether accessing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP),...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In recent years, advances in laboratory techniques have led to a rapidly increasing use of biomarkers in epidemiological studies, a field known as molecular epidemiology [1-5]. Biomarkers are any...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Genetic and epidemiological evidence suggests an inverse association between B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels in blood and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but the prospective association of BNP with...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn the 1990s, scientists, social advocates, policy makers, and entrepreneurs debated the promises and perils of emerging digital technologies that could bring about enormous and wide-reaching changes in society. One set...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn an age when we can sequence an entire genome within a day, we expect to be able to gather and access accurate information at a pace. After all, you didn't wait for this issue of PLoS Medicine to arrive in the post or...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedA Transformative Approach to Increasing Numbers and Matching Medical Education to Population Health Needs The need to increase the number of doctors in low- and middle-income countries has been recognised as a...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: One of the most robust genetic associations for cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the Chromosome 9p21 region. However, the interaction of this locus with environmental factors has not been extensively...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The performance of routine and supplemental immunization activities is usually measured by the administrative method: dividing the number of doses distributed by the size of the target population. This...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground:Outbreaks of poliomyelitis in African countries that were previously free of wild-type poliovirus cost the Global Polio Eradication Initiative US$850 million during 2003-2009, and have limited the ability of...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In an emerging influenza pandemic, estimating severity (the probability of a severe outcome, such as hospitalization, if infected) is a public health priority. As many influenza infections are subclinical,...