Epidemiological Trends of Malaria in Five Years and under Children of Nsanje District in Malawi, 2015-2019.

Background: Malaria continues to be a major public health problem in Malawi and the greatest load of mortality and morbidity occurs in children five years and under. However, there is no information yet regarding trends and predictions of malaria incidence in children five years and under at district hospital level, particularly at Nsanje district hospital.

Aim: Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the trends of malaria morbidity and mortality in order to design appropriate interventions on the best approach to contain the disease in the near future.

Effect of antiretroviral therapy initiation time and baseline CD4 cell counts on AIDS-related mortality among former plasma donors in China: a 21-year retrospective cohort study.

Background: The conventional survival analysis model on HIV/AIDS prognosis is the Cox proportional hazard model, which deals with only one event type, death, regardless of the cause. Few studies have used a competing risk model to evaluate the predictors of AIDS-related mortality.

Objective: To estimate the influence of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation time and baseline CD4 cell counts on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related death among former plasma donors.

Antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens their distribution in university teaching hospitals in Zambia.

To determine the antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens from urine, blood and wound infections and their distribution by age, sex and location. A total of 49,168 samples were collected, processed and analyzed. Multidrug resistance was observed in almost all bacterial pathogens in blood urine and wound swabs.

Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of bacteria that commonly cause bacteremia at a tertiary hospital in Zambia.

Bloodstream infections and antimicrobial resistance cause global increases in morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of bacteria that commonly cause bacteremia in humans. We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study at the University Teaching Hospitals in Lusaka, Zambia, using Laboratory Information Systems.