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| P Godfrey FaussettSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Why do patients with a cough delay seeking care at Lusaka urban health centres? A health systems research approachP Godfrey-Faussett
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 6:796-805. 2002..Primary health centres in urban Lusaka, Zambia...
Tuberculosis control and molecular epidemiology in a South African gold-mining communityP Godfrey-Faussett
Department of Medicine, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
Lancet 356:1066-71. 2000..Gold miners have very high rates of tuberculosis. The contribution of infections imported into mining communities versus transmission within them is not known and has implications for control strategies...
Increased recurrence of tuberculosis in HIV-1-infected patients in KenyaM Hawken
Department of Clinical Sciences, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Lancet 342:332-7. 1993..Alternatively, a change to the combination of ethambutol and isoniazid in the continuation phase for 11 months only may not be adequate...
HIV-1 and recurrence, relapse, and reinfection of tuberculosis after cure: a cohort study in South African mineworkersP Sonnenberg
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 358:1687-93. 2001..We followed up a cohort of 326 South African mineworkers, who had successfully completed treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in 1995, to determine the rate and mechanisms of recurrence...
Tuberculosis treatment failure and drug resistance--same strain or reinfection?P Sonnenberg
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 94:603-7. 2000..Despite a high risk of infection, with a moderate proportion of background drug-resistant strains (11% SDR, 6% MDR), reinfection is not a common cause of treatment failure or drug resistance at 6 months...
Interpreting DNA fingerprint clusters of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. European Concerted Action on Molecular Epidemiology and Control of TuberculosisJ R Glynn
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 3:1055-60. 1999....
Costs and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis cultures using solid and liquid media in a developing countryD H Mueller
Health Economics and Financing Programme, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 12:1196-202. 2008..The expansion of culture has been proposed to aid tuberculosis (TB) control in developing countries...
'Kuyendela odwala TB'--visiting TB patients: the widening role of home-based care organisations in the management of tuberculosis patients in Lusaka, ZambiaV A Bond
ZAMBART Project, School of Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 9:282-7. 2005..To explore the widening role of home-based care (HBC) organisations in the management of TB patients in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1999...
Utility of nucleic acid amplification techniques for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in sub-Saharan AfricaB Kambashi
ZAMBART Project, Department of Medicine, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 5:364-9. 2001..However, the high cost of this technology may limit its application in the public sector of low-income countries...
Nasopharyngeal carriage of community-acquired, antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in a Zambian paediatric populationA Woolfson
Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, England
Bull World Health Organ 75:453-62. 1997..The establishment of ongoing surveillance to monitor trends in pneumococcal resistance should be considered...
Defining and assessing the maximum number of visits patients should make to a health facility to obtain a diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosisA D Harries
Community Health Science Unit, National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Lilongwe, Malawi
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 7:953-8. 2003..All non-private hospitals in Malawi...
BCG and HIV reconsidered: moving the research agenda forwardA C Hesseling
Vaccine 25:6565-8. 2007
