Blar i Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care på forfatter "Blomberg, Bjørn"
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Adherence to community versus facility-based delivery of monthly malaria chemoprevention with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the post-discharge management of severe anemia in Malawian children: A cluster randomized trial
Nkosi-Gondwe, Thandile; Robberstad, Bjarne; Mukaka, Mavuto; Idro, Richard; Opoka, Robert; Banda, Saidon; Kühl, Melf-Jakob; Ter Kuile, Feiko O.; Blomberg, Bjørn; Phiri, Kamija S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-10)Background: The provision of post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) in children recently admitted with severe anemia reduces the risk of death and re-admissions in malaria endemic countries. The main objective of ... -
Antimicrobial resistance in bacterial infections in urban and rural Tanzania
Blomberg, Bjørn (Doctoral thesis, 2007-05-16)Infectious diseases cause one in every six deaths worldwide. Antimicrobial drugs have helped dramatically in curing patients suffering from bacterial infections. However, emerging antimicrobial resistance in bacteria ... -
Antimicrobial resistance predicts death in Tanzanian children with bloodstream infections: a prospective cohort study
Blomberg, Bjørn; Manji, Karim P.; Urassa, Willy K.; Tamim, Bushir S.; Mwakagile, Davis S. M.; Jureen, Roland; Msangi, Viola; Tellevik, Marit Gjerde; Holberg-Petersen, Mona; Harthug, Stig; Maselle, Samwel Y.; Langeland, Nina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2007-05-22)Background: Bloodstream infection is a common cause of hospitalization, morbidity and death in children. The impact of antimicrobial resistance and HIV infection on outcome is not firmly established. Methods: We assessed ... -
A cohort analysis of survival and outcomes in severely anaemic children with moderate to severe acute malnutrition in Malawi
Nkosi-Gondwe, Thandile; Calis, Job; van Hensbroek, Michael Boele; Bates, Imelda; Blomberg, Bjørn; Phiri, Kamija S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Introduction: Moderate to severe acute malnutrition (SAM/MAM) and severe anaemia are important and associated co-morbidities in children aged less than five years. Independently, these two morbidities are responsible for ... -
Cost-Effectiveness of Hydroxyurea for Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low-Income African Setting: A Model-Based Evaluation of Two Dosing Regimens
Teigen, David; Opoka, Robert O.; Kasirye, Phillip; Nabaggala, Catherine; Hume, Heather A.; Blomberg, Bjørn; John, Chandy C.; Ware, Russell E.; Robberstad, Bjarne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background and Objective The disease burden of sickle cell anemia (SCA) in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries is substantial, with many children dying without an established diagnosis or proper treatment. The global ... -
Delivery strategies for malaria chemoprevention with monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the post-discharge management of severe anaemia in children aged less than 5 years old in Malawi: a protocol for a cluster randomized trial
Gondwe, Thandile; Robberstad, Bjarne; Mukaka, Mavuto; Lange, Siri; Blomberg, Bjørn; Phiri, Kamija S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-07-20)Background. Children initially hospitalized with severe anaemia in Africa are at high risk of readmission or death within 6 months after discharge. No intervention strategy specifically protects children during the ... -
Education and knowledge helps combating malaria, but not degedege: a cross-sectional study in Rufiji, Tanzania
Spjeldnæs, Astrid Onarheim; Kitua, Andrew Y.; Blomberg, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-05-28)Background: Traditional medicine is readily available in Tanzania, and local terms like degedege is widely used for malaria-like illnesses, often associated with supernatural forces. Malaria prevention and intervention ... -
Education and knowledge helps preventing malaria, but not "degedege"
Spjeldnæs, Astrid Onarheim; Blomberg, Bjørn (Conference poster, 2010-10-20) -
Introducing post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) for management of severe anemia in Malawian children: a qualitative study of community health workers’ perceptions and motivation
Nkosi-Gondwe, Thandile; Robberstad, Bjarne; Blomberg, Bjørn; Phiri, Kamija S.; Lange, Siri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-19)Severe malarial anaemia is one of the leading causes of paediatric hospital admissions in Malawi. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is the intermittent administration of full treatment courses of antimalarial ... -
Nosocomial outbreak of neonatal Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis meningitis in a rural hospital in northern Tanzania
Vaagland, Hogne; Blomberg, Bjørn; Krüger, Carsten; Naman, Naftali; Jureen, Roland; Langeland, Nina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2007-09-14)Background: Clinicians at Haydom Lutheran Hospital, a rural hospital in northern Tanzania noted an unusually high case-fatality rate of pediatric meningitis and suspected an outbreak of an unknown agent or an organism ... -
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
Blomberg, Bjørn; Mwakagile, Davis S. M.; Urassa, Willy K.; Maselle, Samwel Y.; Mashurano, Marcellina; Digranes, Asbjørn; Harthug, Stig; Langeland, Nina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004-10-11)Background: Antimicrobial resistance is particularly harmful to infectious disease management in low-income countries since expensive second-line drugs are not readily available. The objective of this study was to implement ...