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James Mwansa
Researcher at University of Zambia
Publications - 37
Citations - 2226
James Mwansa is an academic researcher from University of Zambia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pneumonia. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 33 publications receiving 1844 citations. Previous affiliations of James Mwansa include University of Calgary & University College London.
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Causes of severe pneumonia requiring hospital admission in children without HIV infection from Africa and Asia: the PERCH multi-country case-control study
Katherine L. O'Brien,Henry C. Baggett,W. Abdullah Brooks,Daniel R. Feikin,Laura L. Hammitt,Melissa M. Higdon,Stephen R. C. Howie,Maria Deloria Knoll,Karen L. Kotloff,Orin S. Levine,Shabir A. Madhi,David R. Murdoch,Christine Prosperi,J. Anthony G. Scott,Qiyuan Shi,Donald M. Thea,Zhenke Wu,Scott L. Zeger,Peter V. Adrian,Pasakorn Akarasewi,Trevor P. Anderson,Martin Antonio,Juliet O. Awori,Vicky L. Baillie,Charatdao Bunthi,James Chipeta,Mohammod Jobayer Chisti,Jane Crawley,Andrea DeLuca,Amanda J. Driscoll,Bernard E. Ebruke,Hubert P. Endtz,Nicholas Fancourt,Wei Fu,Doli Goswami,Michelle J. Groome,Meredith Haddix,Lokman Hossain,Yasmin Jahan,E Wangeci Kagucia,Alice Kamau,Ruth A. Karron,Sidi Kazungu,Nana Kourouma,Locadiah Kuwanda,Geoffrey Kwenda,Mengying Li,Eunice M. Machuka,Grant A. Mackenzie,Nasreen Mahomed,Susan A. Maloney,Jessica McLellan,Joanne L. Mitchell,David P. Moore,Susan C. Morpeth,Azwifarwi Mudau,Lawrence Mwananyanda,James Mwansa,Micah Silaba Ominde,Uma Onwuchekwa,Daniel E. Park,Julia Rhodes,Pongpun Sawatwong,Phil Seidenberg,Arifin Shamsul,Eric A. F. Simões,Seydou Sissoko,Somwe Wa Somwe,Samba O. Sow,Mamadou Sylla,Boubou Tamboura,Milagritos D. Tapia,Somsak Thamthitiwat,Aliou Toure,Nora L. Watson,Khalequ Zaman,Syed M. A. Zaman +76 more
TL;DR: Estimating causes of pneumonia in young African and Asian children, using novel analytical methods applied to clinical and microbiological findings, estimated that viruses accounted for 61·4% (95% credible interval [CrI] 57·3–65·6) of causes, whereas bacteria accounted for 27·3% (23·3-31·6).
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The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI): rationale, development and implementation from 2002–2008
Alan Fenwick,Joanne P. Webster,Elisa Bosqué-Oliva,Lynsey Blair,Fm M. Fleming,Yaobi Zhang,Amadou Garba,J. R. Stothard,Albis Francesco Gabrielli,Aca C. A. Clements,Nb B. Kabatereine,Seydou Touré,Robert Dembelé,Ursuline Nyandindi,James Mwansa,Artemis Koukounari +15 more
TL;DR: The case for the control of schistosomiasis has been strengthened by research by SCI teams and the principle that a national programme using ‘preventive chemotherapy’ can be successfully implemented in sub-Saharan Africa, whenever the resources are available.
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Clinical presentation, natural history, and cumulative death rates of 230 adults with primary cryptococcal meningitis in Zambian AIDS patients treated under local conditions
Peter Mwaba,James Mwansa,Chifumbe Chintu,J Pobee,Matthew Scarborough,Simon Portsmouth,Alimuddin Zumla +6 more
TL;DR: Cryptococcal meningitis, under current treatment accorded at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, has a 100% mortality in young Zambian adults with AIDS.
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Responses of small intestinal architecture and function over time to environmental factors in a tropical population
Paul Kelly,Ian S Menzies,Roger Crane,Isaac Zulu,Carole D. Nickols,Roger Feakins,James Mwansa,Victor Mudenda,Max Katubulushi,Steve Greenwald,Michael J.G. Farthing +10 more
TL;DR: The whole cohort had structural and functional evidence of tropical enteropathy, but structure and function were only weakly correlated, and seasonal variation was observed in villous height, xylose recovery, and permeability.
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Vibrio cholerae O1 hybrid El Tor strains, Asia and Africa.
TL;DR: This work examined 41 clinical V. cholerae strains from Asia and Africa that were isolated from 1991 through 2004 and confirmed as serogroup O1 by O-antigen biosynthesis gene (rfbO1)-specific PCR, and found that all strains were confirmed as El Tor.