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Paludisme
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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
Validation scientifique effectuée le 13/03/2025
Contenu vérifié selon les dernières recommandations médicales
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Ministry of Health and Wellness, Belmopan, Belize.
Publications dans "Belize" :
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease in Belize: A Population-based Survey.
Lancet regional health. Americas
2021-07-17
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Infrastructure and Resources in Schools in Belize during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021-2023.
International journal of environmental research and public health
2024-04-12
Novel species of Triatoma (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) identified in a case of vectorial transmission of Chagas disease in northern Belize.
Scientific reports
2024-01-16
Incorporating COVID-19 into Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Systems, Belize, Kenya, Ethiopia, Peru, and Liberia, 2020-2021.
Emerging infectious diseases
Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Acute Dengue Virus Infections Detected through Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance, Belize 2020.
Viruses
2022-04-07
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Ministry of Health and Wellness, Belize.
Publications dans "Belize" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness, East Block Building, National Assembly, Bliss Parade, Belmopan, Belize.
Publications dans "Belize" :
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Infrastructure and Resources in Schools in Belize during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021-2023.
International journal of environmental research and public health
2024-04-12
Novel species of Triatoma (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) identified in a case of vectorial transmission of Chagas disease in northern Belize.
Scientific reports
2024-01-16
Incorporating COVID-19 into Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Systems, Belize, Kenya, Ethiopia, Peru, and Liberia, 2020-2021.
Emerging infectious diseases
Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Acute Dengue Virus Infections Detected through Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance, Belize 2020.
Viruses
2022-04-07
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, 1102 Bates Ave, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Publications dans "Belize" :
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Infrastructure and Resources in Schools in Belize during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021-2023.
International journal of environmental research and public health
2024-04-12
Novel species of Triatoma (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) identified in a case of vectorial transmission of Chagas disease in northern Belize.
Scientific reports
2024-01-16
Incorporating COVID-19 into Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Systems, Belize, Kenya, Ethiopia, Peru, and Liberia, 2020-2021.
Emerging infectious diseases
Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Acute Dengue Virus Infections Detected through Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance, Belize 2020.
Viruses
2022-04-07
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Eck Institute of Global Health, University of Notre Dame, 120 Brown Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
Publications dans "Belize" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Eck Institute of Global Health, University of Notre Dame, 120 Brown Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Pharmacy Program, Department of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Belize, Belmopan, Belize.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Data Analytics Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF, New York, New York; Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: lcarvajal@unicef.org.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Henry J.N. Taub Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Houston TX.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0W3, Canada.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. Sm22@bcm.edu.
William T. Shearer Center for Human Immunobiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. Sm22@bcm.edu.
National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. Sm22@bcm.edu.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
William T. Shearer Center for Human Immunobiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness, Belmopan, Belize.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
William T. Shearer Center for Human Immunobiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Belize Vector and Ecology Center, Orange Walk Town, Belize.
Publications dans "Belize" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Belize Vector and Ecology Center, Orange Walk Town, Belize.
Publications dans "Belize" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Medical Oncology, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize.
Publications dans "Belize" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Salud Mesoamerica Initiative, Inter-American Development Bank, USA.
Publications dans "Belize" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Inter-American Development Bank, Dominican Republic.
Publications dans "Belize" :
Phase space files used in particle Monte Carlo simulations can be large, and thereby awkward to distribute and slow to load into memory. To circumvent this, compact source models and phase space repre...
The purpose of this work was to obtain the dosimetric parameters of the new GZP3...
The Monte Carlo software Geant4 and EGSnrc were employed to derive accurate calculations of the dosimetric parameters of the new GZP3...
For channels 1 and 2 of the new GZP3...
These dosimetric data sets can be used as input data for TPS calculations and quality control for the new GZP3...
Approximately 50% of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients will experience loco-regional disease recurrence following initial courses of therapy. Retreatment with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) is te...
3D-printing techniques were used to create the anthropomorphic phantom from a patient CT dataset. Three...
The 3D-printed anthropomorphic phantom was an accurate re-creation of patient anatomy including bone. The extrapolated Jaszczak recovery coefficients were greater than that of the 3D-printed insert (∼...
The accuracy of Monte Carlo-based dosimetry for...
Seawater intrusion is a common groundwater pollution problem, which has a great impact on ecological environment and economic development. In this paper, a numerical simulation model of variable densi...
Metallic implants have been correlated to local control failure for spinal sarcoma and chordoma patients due to the uncertainty of implant delineation from computed tomography (CT). Such uncertainty c...
The proposed component method leverages the knowledge of surgical implants from medical supply vendors to predefine accurate contours for each implant component, including tulips, screw bodies, locker...
For in vivo patient implant estimation, the reference and the component method differences were 0.35, 0.17, and 0.04 cm...
A component method was developed and demonstrated using phantom and patient studies with implants. The proposed method provides more accurate implant characterization for proton MCDC and can potential...
This study proposes a red tide risk assessment method based on intercriteria correlation (CRITIC), technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS), assessment of estuarine t...
The author reminisces about some of his experiences working with Monte Carlo techniques for Medical Physics applications....
Monte Carlo simulation is considered as the most accurate method for dose calculation in radiotherapy. PRIMO is a Monte-Carlo program with a user-friendly graphical interface....
A VitalBeam with 6MV and 6MV flattening filter free (FFF), equipped with the 120 Millennium multileaf collimator was simulated by PRIMO. We adjusted initial energy, energy full width at half maximum (...
For the criterion of 2%/2 mm, 1%/2 mm and 1%/1 mm, the GPRs of 6MV PDD were 99.33-100%, 99-100%, and 99-100%, respectively; the GPRs of 6MV FFF PDD were 99.33-100%, 98.99-99.66%, and 97.64-98.99%, res...
The calculated PDD, OAR, DLG and transmission factor were all in good agreement with measurements. PRIMO is an independent (with respect to analytical dose calculation algorithm) and accurate Monte Ca...
We present two machine learning methodologies that are capable of predicting diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) energies with small data sets (≈60 DMC calculations in total). The first uses voxel deep neural...
Detected scattered photons can cause cupping and streak artifacts, significantly degrading the quality of CT images. For fast and accurate estimation of scatter intensities resulting from photon inter...