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Malaria: burden of diseaseC Guinovart
Centre for International Health, Hospital Clínic IDIBAPS Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Curr Mol Med 6:137-40. 2006....
Malaria in rural Mozambique. Part I: children attending the outpatient clinicCaterina Guinovart
Barcelona Center for International Health Research CRESIB, Hospital Clinic Institut d Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer, Universitat de Barcelona, Rosselló 132, E 08036 Barcelona, Spain
Malar J 7:36. 2008..Malaria represents a huge burden for the health care services across Africa. Describing malaria attending health services contributes to quantify the burden and describe the epidemiology and clinical presentation...- Malaria in rural Mozambique. Part II: children admitted to hospitalQuique Bassat
Barcelona Center for International Health Research CRESIB, Hospital Clinic Institut d Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Rosselló 132, E 08036 Barcelona, Spain
Malar J 7:37. 2008..Minimum community based-incidence rates (MCBIRs) complement hospital data, describing the malaria burden in the community... - Methods for determining vaccine efficacy and effectiveness and the main barriers to developing a fully deployable malaria vaccineCaterina Guinovart
Barcelona Center for International Health Research, Hospital Clinic Institut d Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer, Universitat de Barcelona, Rosselló 132, Barcelona, Spain
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:276-81. 2007..Deployment of a safe and effective malaria vaccine administered in early childhood could become a major public health tool, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa... - The changing epidemiology of malaria in Ifakara Town, southern TanzaniaDavid Schellenberg
Centre for International Health, Institut de Investigaciones Biomedicas August Pi I Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
Trop Med Int Health 9:68-76. 2004..Even in low/moderate malaria transmission settings, where older children suffer most malaria episodes, targeting effective malaria control at infants may produce important reductions in infant mortality caused by malaria... - Haematological and biochemical indices in young African children: in search of reference intervalsLlorenç Quintó
Centre de Salut Internacional, Hospital Clinic IDIBAPS, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Trop Med Int Health 11:1741-8. 2006..Few studies have been performed in Africa questioning the validity of these values when applied to local African populations... - Relationship between haemoglobin and haematocrit in the definition of anaemiaLlorenç Quintó
Centre de Salut Internacional, CSI, Hospital Clinic IDIBAPS, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Trop Med Int Health 11:1295-302. 2006..Haematocrit (Hct) (%) is usually defined as three times the value of haemoglobin (Hgb) (g/dl), while the clinical definition of anaemia is related to either an abnormal Hct or Hgb value... - Duration of protection with RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine in prevention of Plasmodium falciparum disease in Mozambican children: single-blind extended follow-up of a randomised controlled trialPedro L Alonso
Centre de Salut Internacional, Hospital Clinic Institut d Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer, Universitat de Barcelona, Villarroel 170, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
Lancet 366:2012-8. 2005..An important remaining issue is the durability of protection against clinical disease in these children... - Efficacy of the RTS,S/AS02A vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum infection and disease in young African children: randomised controlled trialPedro L Alonso
Centre de Salut Internacional, Hospital Clinic IDIBAPS, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Lancet 364:1411-20. 2004..RTS,S/AS02A is a pre-erythrocytic vaccine candidate based on Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite surface antigen. We aimed to assess vaccine efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety in young African children... - Insights into long-lasting protection induced by RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine: further results from a phase IIb trial in Mozambican childrenCaterina Guinovart
Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, Hospital Clinic IDIBAPS, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
PLoS ONE 4:e5165. 2009..We performed a new, exploratory analysis to explore differences in the duration of protection among participants to better understand the protection afforded by RTS,S... 
Severe malaria and concomitant bacteraemia in children admitted to a rural Mozambican hospitalQuique Bassat
Barcelona Center for International Health Research, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Trop Med Int Health 14:1011-9. 2009..To describe the prevalence, aetiology and prognostic implications of coexisting invasive bacterial disease in children admitted with severe malaria in a rural Mozambican Hospital...- Safety of the RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine in Mozambican children during a Phase IIb trialJahit Sacarlal
Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Manhiça, Mozambique
Vaccine 26:174-84. 2008..Overall, these results indicate that the RTS,S/AS02A vaccine has a good safety profile and well tolerated when given in three doses to semi-immune children living in malaria-endemic areas... - [Factors related to experiencing respiratory failure in cases of opiate overdose for which care was provided in an open setting. Barcelona, Spain]Manel Anoro
Programa socio sanitario Can Tunis, Associació Benestar i Desenvolupament, Barcelona
Rev Esp Salud Publica 78:601-8. 2004..To determine the factors associated with respiratory arrest in opiate overdoses (coma, pupillary miosis, respiratory depression, and response to naloxone) among injecting drug users in the Can Tunis quarter of Barcelona...