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| I AbubakarSummaryAffiliation: University of East Anglia Country: UK Publications
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Sex, drugs and sexually transmitted infections in British university studentsR Vivancos
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Int J STD AIDS 19:370-7. 2008..66, 95% CI 3.03, 103.04) and use of crack (AOR 32.24, 95% CI 3.33, 312.08). Multiple partners and recreational drug use may predict incidence of STI. Prevention strategies need to aim at reducing risk behaviour across various activities...- Foreign travel associated with increased sexual risk-taking, alcohol and drug use among UK university students: a cohort studyR Vivancos
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Int J STD AIDS 21:46-51. 2010..70 (95% CI 1.11-6.61). People who travel abroad during holidays are more likely to engage in risk taking behaviour and have casual sex. They are also more sexually active after holidays... 
Development and evaluation of a hand held computer based on-call pack for health protection out of hours duty: a pilot studyIbrahim Abubakar
Health Protection Agency East of England Regional Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, CB2 2SR, UK
BMC Public Health 5:35. 2005..An electronic on call pack may provide a suitable practical alternative to large paper based systems and help professionals deliver out of hours health protection advice and response to incidents...- Tuberculosis and air travel: a systematic review and analysis of policyIbrahim Abubakar
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Lancet Infect Dis 10:176-83. 2010.... 
A case-control study of drinking water and dairy products in Crohn's Disease--further investigation of the possible role of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosisIbrahim Abubakar
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 165:776-83. 2007..The observed association with meat and the negative association with pasteurized milk need further study...- Treatment of cryptosporidiosis in immunocompromised individuals: systematic review and meta-analysisI Abubakar
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Br J Clin Pharmacol 63:387-93. 2007..The results indicate that nitaxozanide reduces load of parasites and may be useful in immunocompetent individuals. The absence of effective therapy highlights the importance of preventive interventions in this group of patients... - Sexual behaviour, drugs and alcohol use of international students at a British university: a cross-sectional surveyR Vivancos
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Int J STD AIDS 20:619-22. 2009..However, they exhibit higher sexual risk behaviours that could lead to importing novel and resistant strains of STIs... - Foreign travel, casual sex, and sexually transmitted infections: systematic review and meta-analysisR Vivancos
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR47TJ, UK
Int J Infect Dis 14:e842-51. 2010..With increasing international travel it is important to understand how frequent casual travel sex and unprotected intercourse are, and what impact this may have on the risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections (STIs)... - Detection of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis from patients with Crohn's disease using nucleic acid-based techniques: a systematic review and meta-analysisI Abubakar
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Inflamm Bowel Dis 14:401-10. 2008..Future studies should determine whether there is a pathogenic role... - Direct costs of pulmonary tuberculosis among patients receiving treatment in Bauchi State, NigeriaN A Umar
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 16:835-40. 2012..These costs could represent a barrier to care, especially in a country such as Nigeria, where per capita gross national income is only US$1160 and 46% of the urban population live below the poverty line... - A systematic review of the clinical, public health and cost-effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection and identification of bacterial intestinal pathogens in faeces and foodI Abubakar
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Health Technol Assess 11:1-216. 2007.... - Evaluating compliance with national guidelines for the clinical, laboratory and public health management of tuberculosis in a low-prevalence English districtI Abubakar
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Public Health 120:155-60. 2006 - Monitoring tuberculosis treatment outcome: analysis of national surveillance data from a clinical perspectiveI C Ditah
Institute of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Thorax 63:440-6. 2008..These guidelines fail to account for clinically appropriate alterations in the management of patients... - Effect of water hardness on cardiovascular mortality: an ecological time series approachI R Lake
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 32:479-87. 2010..This study followed WHO recommendations to assess the feasibility of using ecological time series data from areas exposed to step changes in water hardness to investigate this issue... - Perceived causes of sporadic cryptosporidiosis and their relation to sources of informationMiguel F Doria
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:745-50. 2006..This has implications for the dissemination of information about control measures for cryptosporidiosis and surveillance activities... - Investigating transmission of Mycobacterium bovis in the United Kingdom in 2005 to 2008Sema Mandal
Tuberculosis Section, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom
J Clin Microbiol 49:1943-50. 2011..The incidence of M. bovis in humans in the United Kingdom remains low, and the epidemiology is predominantly that of reactivated disease... - Investigating urban-rural disparities in tuberculosis treatment outcome in England and WalesI Abubakar
Respiratory Diseases Department, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London, UK
Epidemiol Infect 136:122-7. 2008..02, 95% CI 0.83-1.26, P=0.82) after adjusting for the confounding effects of ethnic group and age. In England and Wales residence in a rural location is not an independent determinant of TB treatment outcome failure... - Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the UK: 1995 to 2007I Abubakar
Tuberculosis Section, Respiratory and Systemic Infections Department, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London, UK
Thorax 64:512-5. 2009..Participants included all 678 patients with culture-confirmed MDRTB in the UK. The main outcome measures were the proportion of isolates resistant to second-line antituberculosis drugs and treatment outcome for XDRTB cases... - Monitoring the uptake of HIV testing among first attendees at GUM clinics in the East of England regionI Abubakar
HPA Regional Epidemiology Unit East of England, Health Protection Agency, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge
Commun Dis Public Health 7:212-5. 2004..The uptake varied around the region, but all clinics are able to monitor uptake and the majority of clinics can audit uptake. The overall regional uptake has already exceeded the target for 2004... - The growing impact of HIV infection on the epidemiology of tuberculosis in England and Wales: 1999 2003Aliko B Ahmed
Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London NW9 5EQ, UK
Thorax 62:672-6. 2007..This study was undertaken to describe recent trends in the proportion of individuals with HIV infection among reported cases of tuberculosis in England and Wales, and to review the implications for clinical and public health care... - A systematic review of analytical observational studies investigating the association between cardiovascular disease and drinking water hardnessLouise A Catling
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
J Water Health 6:433-42. 2008..This study found significant evidence of an inverse association between magnesium levels in drinking water and cardiovascular mortality following a meta-analysis of case control studies. Evidence for calcium remains unclear... - Survey of tuberculosis incidents in hospital healthcare workers, England and Wales, 2005Charlotte Anderson
Respiratory Diseases Department, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, Colindale, NW9 5EQ, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 29:292-7. 2007..A retrospective survey of TB incidents in hospital-based HCWs was carried out to describe their frequency, distribution and characteristics...