March 2011
Parry-Romberg syndrome: A possible association with Lyme borreliosis
Parry-Romberg syndrome or progressive facial hemiatrophy is a rare entity of unknown etiology characterized by unilateral atrophy of the skin, subcutaneous tissue and the underlying bony structures. A case of a 4-year-old girl with Parry-Romberg syndrome and borreliosis is reported. No sure link is established between these two entities but their coincident occurrence in our patient is noted. Key...
March 2011
A cost effectiveness analysis of the H1N1 vaccine strategy for Ontario, Canada
In Ontario, Canada, a mass vaccination strategy was developed and implemented to mitigate the effects of the 2009 pandemic influenza A (pH1N1). This study investigated its cost-effectiveness, mirroring actual events in Ontario, compared to no vaccine strategy. From a societal perspective, 1,780,491 cases and 154 deaths were averted through vaccine administration; the incremental cost effectiveness ratio predicted that...
March 2011
Targeted indoor insecticide and malaria control in the western highlands Kenya
The study investigated the use of targeted indoor residual spraying (IRS) as a single malaria intervention in the western highlands, Kenya. Houses were randomly selected in study sites and IRS targeted 30% of houses at focal sites ‘hotspots’ at valley bottoms. Indoor resting densities of adult Anopheles gambiae s.s were monitored biweekly by pyrethrum spray capture in sprayed and control houses....
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