Johns Hopkins University
International Health
1 Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue City, Viet Nam 2 Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of Newcastle, Hunter Valley Research Foundation, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 3 Australian Centre for International and Tropical... more
Calculation of the incidence of typhoid fever during preschool years is important to define the optimum age of immunisation and the choice of vaccines for public-health programmes in developing countries. Hospital-based studies have... more
Anaemia caused by iron deficiency is common in children younger than age 5 years in eastern Africa. However, there is concern that universal supplementation of children with iron and folic acid in areas of high malaria transmission might... more
Mortality associated with diarrhea was investigated in a longitudinally followed cohort of children under 6 years of age in rural North India. During the followup, 1663 episodes of diarrhea and 23 diarrhea-related deaths were recorded in... more
We evaluated the efficacy and safety of an oral rehydration solution containing glycyl-glycine, glycine, and maltodextrin (GGG-ORS), in comparison to the glucose based ORS (standard ORS). The osmolality of the GGG-ORS (305 mOsm/l) and... more
The role of feeding breast milk, unmodified bovine milk or adapted infant formula during acute diarrhoea in protecting against or causing persistence of the episodes was investigated in a population-based case control study in an urban... more
Previously we reported poorly nourished infants had slower gross motor development as measured by trained workers' observations. This study examined whether a parent report scale could also detect nutritional influences on motor... more
Author's reply EDrrOR,-I believe that the points raised by Alexander C Maclennan and Gerald W McGarry were addressed in my review. In fact, we both reference the same paper for the same reason.' When an overview of a... more
Anemia of chronic disease and hyperbilirubinemia can decrease the specificity of an iron deficiency diagnosis based on hematofluorometry-determined increases in the ratio of ZnPPIX to heme. The influence of malaria parasitemia on... more