March 2011

Parry-Romberg syndrome: A possible association with Lyme borreliosis

Parry-Romberg syndrome or progressive facial hemiatrophy is a rare entity of unknown etiology characterized by unilateral atrophy of the skin, subcutaneous tissue and the underlying bony structures. A case of a 4-year-old girl with Parry-Romberg syndrome and borreliosis is reported. No sure link is established between these two entities but their coincident occurrence in our patient is noted.   Key...

Author(s): Filipa Ventura, Joana Gomes, Catarina Vilarinho, Ana Paula Vieira, José Carlos Fernandes, Fernando Mota Garcia and Celeste Brito

March 2011

A cost effectiveness analysis of the H1N1 vaccine strategy for Ontario, Canada

In Ontario, Canada, a mass vaccination strategy was developed and implemented to mitigate the effects of the 2009 pandemic influenza A (pH1N1). This study investigated its cost-effectiveness, mirroring actual events in Ontario, compared to no vaccine strategy. From a societal perspective, 1,780,491 cases and 154 deaths were averted through vaccine administration; the incremental cost effectiveness ratio predicted that...

Author(s): A. Durbin, A. N. Corallo, T. G. Wibisono, D. M. Aleman, B. Schwartz and P. C. Coyte,

March 2011

Targeted indoor insecticide and malaria control in the western highlands Kenya

The study investigated the use of targeted indoor residual spraying (IRS) as a single malaria intervention in the western highlands, Kenya. Houses were randomly selected in study sites and IRS targeted 30% of houses at focal sites ‘hotspots’ at valley bottoms. Indoor resting densities of adult Anopheles gambiae s.s were monitored biweekly by pyrethrum spray capture in sprayed and control houses....

Author(s): Mulambalah Chrispinus S., Siamba Donald N., Ngeiywa Moses M. and Vulule John M.