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| Axel KroegerSummaryAffiliation: University of Liverpool Country: UK Publications
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Implementation research to support the initiative on the elimination of kala azar from Bangladesh, India and Nepal--the challenges for diagnosis and treatmentShyam Sundar
Trop Med Int Health 13:2-5. 2008
Community cooperatives and insecticide-treated materials for malaria control: a new experience in Latin AmericaAxel Kroeger
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK
Malar J 1:15. 2002..The objectives of this research were to analyse the processes and results of this approach and to identify the favourable and limiting factors...
Building a better ovitrap for detecting Aedes aegypti ovipositionAudrey E Lenhart
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, UK
Acta Trop 96:56-9. 2005
Prevention of the transmission of Chagas' disease with pyrethroid-impregnated materialsAxel Kroeger
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Am J Trop Med Hyg 68:307-11. 2003..Thus, users of impregnated bed nets are well protected from transmission of Chagas' disease, and vector reduction or elimination can potentially be achieved in areas infested with R. prolixus and R. robustus...
Insecticide impregnated curtains to control domestic transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Venezuela: cluster randomised trialAxel Kroeger
School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA
BMJ 325:810-3. 2002..To measure the impact on transmission of leishmaniasis of curtains impregnated with insecticide...
The Buen Pastor cemetery in Trujillo, Venezuela: measuring dengue vector output from a public areaMayumi Abe
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Trop Med Int Health 10:597-603. 2005..The study shows the importance of public places as sources of dengue vectors in urban areas, and the need to include such areas in vector control programmes...
Pyrethroid-impregnated curtains for Chagas' disease control in VenezuelaOliver Herber
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK
Acta Trop 88:33-8. 2003..robustus are the main vectors...
Health services analysis as a tool for evidence-based policy decisions: the case of the Ministry of Health and Social Security in MexicoAxel Kroeger
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Trop Med Int Health 8:1157-64. 2003..To describe the strengths and weaknesses of two Mexican health care providers for poor populations [Ministry of Health (MoH) and Social Security (SS)] in order to facilitate policy decisions about the future of the two systems...
Malaria control reinvented: health sector reform and strategy development in ColombiaAxel Kroeger
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Trop Med Int Health 7:450-8. 2002..The potentials of the new system have not yet been fully exploited: capacity building, communication and management skills need to be improved and it require guidance from the national level...
Using schoolchildren's reports of bed net use monitored by schoolteachers as a proxy of community coverage in malaria endemic areas of UgandaRichard Ndyomugyenyi
Vector Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda
Trop Med Int Health 12:230-7. 2007....
Present situation of vector-control management in Bangladesh: a wake up callDinesh Mondal
Parasitology Laboratory, Laboratory Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Health Policy 87:369-76. 2008..The objective of the present study was to identify the favorable factors and the constraints of present vector-control management in Bangladesh...
Effective control of dengue vectors with curtains and water container covers treated with insecticide in Mexico and Venezuela: cluster randomised trialsAxel Kroeger
Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Medicine TDR WHO, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
BMJ 332:1247-52. 2006..To measure the impact on the dengue vector population (Aedes aegypti) and disease transmission of window curtains and water container covers treated with insecticide...
Delivery of insecticide-treated net services through employer and community-based approaches in KenyaDaniel G Wacira
African Medical and Research Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 12:140-9. 2007....
Does Brussels listen? European health systems research in developing countries at the edge of extinctionAxel Kroeger
Trop Med Int Health 7:101-3. 2002
[Health sector reform in Colombia and its effects on tuberculosis control and immunization programs]Carlos Ayala Cerna
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Pembroke Place, Liverpol L3 5QA, UK
Cad Saude Publica 18:1771-81. 2002..There are transitory but also structural maladjustments that require a political response...
[Control of Chagas disease in blood banks in Colombia]Markus Behrend
Latin American Centre for Health Research, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, U.K
Biomedica 22:39-45. 2002..Most (95.1%) of the blood banks used basic, internal quality control procedures, and 73.8% sent positive samples to other laboratories for external quality control...
What does dengue disease surveillance contribute to predicting and detecting outbreaks and describing trends?Silvia Runge-Ranzinger
Abteilung Tropenhygiene and Offentliches Gesundheitswesen, Universitatsklinikum, Heidelberg, Germany
Trop Med Int Health 13:1022-41. 2008....
