Browsing Blizard Institute by Subject "Zambia"
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Contribution of Schistosoma mansoni to systemic inflammation and microbial translocation among people with HIV in Zambia.
(2021-07-14)BACKGROUND: Schistosoma mansoni is hyperendemic in many rural areas of Zambia where up to 77% of people are positive for infection via serologic evaluation. Zambia also has a high prevalence of HIV infection. Individually, ... -
Diagnostic yield of nontuberculous mycobacteria in patients booked for endoscopy at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka.
(2017-01-07)BACKGROUND: The intestinal carriage of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is associated with disease, especially in severely immunocompromised individuals. These organisms, although often considered contaminants, have been ... -
Endoscopic diagnosis of gastric and oesophageal cancer in Lusaka, Zambia: a retrospective analysis.
(BMC, 2024-04-01)INTRODUCTION: There are uncertainties surrounding the spectrum of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. This is mainly due to the limitations of data collection and recording. We previously reported ... -
Prevalence of Clarithromycin-Resistant Helicobacter pylori Strains in Zambia: A Sub-Saharan African Country.
(Karger Publishers, 2024-01-05)INTRODUCTION: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is one of the most important infections globally, affecting more than 50% of the human population. Clarithromycin (CLA)-containing regimens are recommended for empirical ... -
T cell subset profile in healthy Zambian adults at the University Teaching Hospital.
(2016)INTRODUCTION: Symptom-free human immunodeficiency virus antibody-negative Zambian adults (51 subjects, aged 20 to 62 years, 33.3% women and 66.7% men) were studied to establish T cell subset reference ranges. METHODS: We ... -
Transcriptomic analysis of enteropathy in Zambian children with severe acute malnutrition.
(2019-07)BACKGROUND: Children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), with or without diarrhoea, often have enteropathy, but there are few molecular data to guide development of new therapies. We set out to determine whether SAM ... -
Tryptophan, glutamine, leucine, and micronutrient supplementation improves environmental enteropathy in Zambian adults: a randomized controlled trial.
(2019-11-01)BACKGROUND: Environmental enteropathy (EE) refers to villus blunting, reduced absorption, and microbial translocation in children and adults in tropical or deprived residential areas. In previous work we observed an effect ...