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First meeting of the vector control advisory group, WHO HQ, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2013 Institute of Tropical Medicine
Second meeting of the vector control advisory group, Geneva, Switzerland, 10-12 February 2014 Institute of Tropical Medicine
Determinants of uptake, short-term and continued use of insecticide-treated curtains and jar covers for dengue control Ghent University
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the acceptance and long-term use of insecticide-treated (IT) materials for dengue vector control. METHODS In 2007, IT jar covers and/or curtains (PermaNet (R)) were distributed under routine conditions to 4101 households (10 clusters) in Venezuela and to 2032 households (22 clusters) in Thailand. The use of IT tools was measured at distribution (uptake), at 5/6 months (short-term use) and at 18/22 months (continued use) ...
La lutte contre les vecteurs du paludisme dans le cadre d'un projet de développement rural au Burundi Institute of Tropical Medicine
'The fight against malaria vectors in the context of a rural development project in Burundi': In the context of a large project for the socio-economic improvement of the Imbo area of Burundi, measures were taken for the integration at all levels of malaria control: health centres for improvement of curative care; hygiene and sanitation centres, communes and agricultural projects for vector control; craftsmen, cooperatives and social centres for ...
Les coûts du paludisme et son impact socio-économique en Afrique Institute of Tropical Medicine
Third meeting of the vector control advisory group, Geneva, Switzerland, 12-14 November 2014 Institute of Tropical Medicine
Latent variable models in diagnostic medicine Institute of Tropical Medicine
In the field of infectious diseases, perfect reference tests are rare. Instead of relying on an imperfect reference test to assess the value of diagnostic test, latent variable models (LVMs) can be used. In a latent variable model, the true disease status is considered to be an unobserved, latent, variable with two possible states: diseased or not-diseased. The observed data consists of the results to one or more diagnostic tests and imperfect ...
An application of Bayesian growth mixture modelling to estimate infection incidences from repeated serological tests KU Leuven
Diagnoses of infectious diseases are often performed using antibody detection through enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay techniques. These data are usually dichotomized into positive and negative samples using a fixed cut-off and prevalences of infection are subsequently estimated assuming perfect correspondence between the dichotomized test results and infection status. In contrast to this approach, in this case study, we estimate the effect of ...