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Health for development, research partnerships and fairness: a literature review

Despite the recent efforts of the United Nations in the enactment of global partnerships for development, at the moment there are no concrete tools to assess the dynamics of international research partnerships in the health domain. The Research Fairness Initiative (RFI) aims at filling this gap, and in order to do so it collected a […]
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Reduction of Mosquito Survival in Mice Vaccinated with Anopheles stephensi Glucose Transporter

Despite the fact that recent efforts to control/eradicate malaria have contributed to a significant decrease in the number of cases and deaths, the disease remains a global health challenge. Vaccines based on mosquito salivary gland antigens are a potential approach for reducing vector populations and malaria parasites. The Anopheles AGAP007752 gene encodes for a glucose transporter that […]
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Prevalence of colonization and multilocus genotyping profiles of Pneumocystis jirovecii among patients with various pulmonary disorders in Poland

This study describes the prevalence and genotype distribution of Pneumocystis jirovecii obtained from nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs from immunocompetent Cuban infants and toddlers with whooping cough (WC). A total of 163 NP swabs from 163 young Cuban children with WC who were admitted to the respiratory care units at two pediatric centers were studied. The prevalence of the […]
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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: Still a concern in patients with haematological malignancies and stem cell transplant recipients-authors’ response

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