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Drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum from the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

van den Broek IVF, van der Wardt S, Talukder L, Chakma S, Brockman A,  et al.
2004-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2004-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of antimalarial treatment and molecular markers of Plasmodium falciparum resistance in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. METHODS: A total of 203...
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Operational research within a Global Fund supported tuberculosis project in India: why, how and its contribution towards change in policy and practice

Sagili KD, Satyanarayana S, Chadha SS, Wilson NC, Kumar AMV,  et al.
2018-02-01 • Global Health Action
2018-02-01 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND:
The Global Fund encourages operational research (OR) in all its grants; however very few reports describe this aspect. In India, Project Axshya was supported by a Global...
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Operational research leading to rapid national policy change: tuberculosis-diabetes collaboration in India

Kumar AMV, Satyanarayana S, Wilson N, Chadha SS, Gupta D,  et al.
2014-06-21 • Public Health Action
2014-06-21 • Public Health Action
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Relapses of Plasmodium vivax infection usually result from activation of heterologous hypnozoites

Imwong M, Snounou G, Pukrittayakamee S, Tanomsing N, Kim JH,  et al.
2007-04-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2007-04-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND: Relapses originating from hypnozoites are characteristic of Plasmodium vivax infections. Thus, reappearance of parasitemia after treatment can result from relapse, recrudesce...
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Intensified tuberculosis case finding among malnourished children in nutritional rehabilitation centres of Karnataka, India: missed opportunities

Bhat PG, Kumar AMV, Naik B, Satyanarayana S, KG D,  et al.
2013-12-16 • PLOS One
2013-12-16 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most serious form of malnutrition affecting children under-five and is associated with many infectious diseases including Tuberculos...
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Geographical distribution of selected and putatively neutral SNPs in Southeast Asian malaria parasites

Anderson TJC, Nair SA, Sudimack D, Williams JT, Mayxay M,  et al.
2005-12-01 • Molecular Biology and Evolution
2005-12-01 • Molecular Biology and Evolution
Loci targeted by directional selection are expected to show elevated geographical population structure relative to neutral loci, and a flurry of recent papers have used this rationale to...
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Can follow-up examination of tuberculosis patients be simplified? A study in Chhattisgarh, India

Kumar AMV, Satyanarayana S, Dewan P, Nair SA, Khaparde K,  et al.
2012-12-05 • PLOS One
2012-12-05 • PLOS One
Each follow-up during the course of tuberculosis treatment currently requires two sputum examinations. However, the incremental yield of the second sputum sample during follow-up of diff...
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Selection strength and hitchhiking around two anti-malarial resistance genes

Nash D, Nair SA, Mayxay M, Newton PN, Guthmann JP,  et al.
2005-06-02 • Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society
2005-06-02 • Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society
Neutral mutations may hitchhike to high frequency when they are situated close to sites under positive selection, generating local reductions in genetic diversity. This process is though...
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Optimal health and disease management using spatial uncertainty: a geographic characterization of emergent artemisinin-resistant plasmodium falciparum distributions in Southeast Asia

Grist EP, Fleqq JA, Humphreys G, Mas IS, Anderson TJC,  et al.
2016-10-24 • International Journal of Health Geographics
2016-10-24 • International Journal of Health Geographics
BACKGROUND
Artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites are now present across much of mainland Southeast Asia, where ongoing surveys are measuring and mapping their...
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Is screening for diabetes among tuberculosis patients feasible at the field level?

Naik B, Kumar AMV, Satyanarayana S, Suryakant MD, Swamy NMV,  et al.
2013-11-04 • Public Health Action
2013-11-04 • Public Health Action
SETTING
Seventeen peripheral health institutions (PHI) in Kolar district (population: 0.5 million), South India.

OBJECTIVE
To assess the feasibility and results of scree...
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High prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes among tuberculosis patients in peripheral health facilities in Kerala

Nair SA, Kumari AK, Subramonianpillai J, Shabna DS, Kumar SM,  et al.
2013-11-04 • Public Health Action
2013-11-04 • Public Health Action
SETTING
Two tertiary care hospitals and 12 peripheral health institutions (PHIs) in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

OBJECTIVE
To determine factors associated with the prevale...