Publications by authors named "K J Aka"

Humoral immunity to is acquired after repeated infections, and can lead to clinical protection. This study aimed to evaluate how human-, parasite-, and environment-related determinants can modulate the dynamics of IgG responses to after an infection. Individuals ( = 68, average age = 8.

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Objectives: There remains a significant risk of recurrence of intraepithelial neoplasia regardless of the type of conservative treatment. The aim's work is to assess this rate.

Methods: All women's consenting who had received conservative treatment at the sites identified since for more than 12 months were included in this multicenter cross-sectional study.

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  • This study investigated how exposure to mosquito bites affects children's immune responses to malaria vaccine candidates in Côte d'Ivoire.
  • Results showed that children with high exposure to Anopheles mosquito bites had significantly lower antibody responses to one specific malaria antigen (PfMSP1), while responses to another antigen (PfAMA1) were not affected.
  • Findings suggest that compounds in the saliva of Anopheles mosquitoes may influence the immune system's response to malaria pathogens.
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The cavernous hemangioma is a rare benign vascular tumor. About 50 cases of this disease were found in the literature over the last century and only 9 cases of cavernous hemangioma on the pregnant uterus were published it comes into cavernous or capillary form. The symptomatology is not unequivocal and when it occurs during pregnancy or postpartum, it causes life-threatening cataclysmic hemorrhage.

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Background: Temprano ANRS 12136 was a factorial 2 × 2 trial that assessed the benefits of early antiretroviral therapy (ART; ie, in patients who had not reached the CD4 cell count threshold used to recommend starting ART, as per the WHO guidelines that were the standard during the study period) and 6-month isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) in HIV-infected adults in Côte d'Ivoire. Early ART and IPT were shown to independently reduce the risk of severe morbidity at 30 months. Here, we present the efficacy of IPT in reducing mortality from the long-term follow-up of Temprano.

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