There remains no evidence to support the use of ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19 infection, state the authors of an updated Cochrane Review, which now contains 11 trials across 3,409 people. The authors note ...
Jun 24, 2022
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A potential game-changer in the tuberculosis epidemic was how the tuberculosis community viewed rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and tuberculosis drug resistance. This was 12 years ago, with the launch of Xpert MTB/RIF, ...
Apr 26, 2022
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The latest update of the Cochrane review "Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhea: vaccines in use" has found that rotavirus vaccines pre-qualified by the World Health Organization (WHO) (Rotarix, RotaTeq, Rotasiil, and ...
Nov 18, 2021
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Research conducted through an equitable partnership of the LSTM and its partners (theRESPOND-Africa consortium), which includes NIMR in Tanzania and MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit in Uganda, has found that integrating ...
Sep 10, 2021
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Ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasites such as scabies in humans and intestinal helminths in cattle, was screened in 2020 for activity against COVID-19. Laboratory tests suggested a weak effect on SARS-CoV-2 virus in ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Malaria still kills millions. Researchers are excited by a new intervention: giving people a drug which kills mosquitoes that bite them. Incredibly, this is a reality, as the drug ivermectin, widely used for the control of ...
Jun 30, 2021
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Researchers from LSTM's Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) have been using an infrared thermal imaging camera to detect subclinical cases and predict the progression of lymphatic filariasis in Bangladesh.
May 26, 2021
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Researchers from LSTM confirm that in areas with high pyrethroid resistance in mosquitoes, fewer people were infected with malaria parasites when piperonyl butoxide (PBO) + pyrethroid-treated bed nets were used. The updated ...
May 24, 2021
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Tuberculosis (TB) causes more deaths in people living with HIV than any other disease, with more than 300,000 deaths in 2017. When detected, early TB can be treated effectively; however, people with advanced HIV are at high ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Researchers from LSTM, working alongside colleagues from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, have used whole genome sequencing to understand copy-number variants (CNVs) ...
Jul 26, 2019
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