Association between Stunting in Children Under Five and Types of Food Sources by Nur Mufida Wulan Sari, Wilis Cahyaning Ayu, Trias Mahmudiono, Mahmudah Mahmudah, RR Soenarnatalina

“…Secondary data from The Gambia Demographic and Health Survey 2019-2020 were analyzed, involving 2,533 out of 8,362 children. …”
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Investigating socioeconomic disparities of Kangaroo mother care on preterm infant health outcomes by Muhammad Muneeb Hassan, Muhammad Ameeq, M. H. Tahir, Sidra Naz, Laraib Fatima, Alpha Kargbo

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Hepatitis B Virus Genotype Study in West Africa Reveals an Expanding Clade of Subgenotype A4 by Rayana Maryse Toyé, Damien Cohen, Flor Helene Pujol, Amina Sow-Sall, Gora Lô, Kunikazu Hoshino, Masashi Mizokami, Fabien Zoulim, Maud Lemoine, Coumba Touré-Kane, Isabelle Chemin

“…Fourteen HBV full-length genome sequences isolated from patients from The Gambia and Senegal were obtained and phylogenetically analyzed. …”
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Seagrasses of West Africa: New Discoveries, Distribution Limits and Prospects for Management by Mohamed Ahmed Sidi Cheikh, Salomão Bandeira, Seydouba Soumah, Gnilane Diouf, Elisabeth Mayé Diouf, Omar Sanneh, Noelo Cardoso, Abubacarr Kujabie, Melissa Ndure, Lynette John, Lisdália Moreira, Zofia Radwan, Iderlindo Santos, Adam Ceesay, Marco Vinaccia, Maria Potouroglou

“…An area of about 62,108 ha of seagrasses was documented in the studied region comprising seven countries: Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Cabo Verde. …”
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RETRACTED: Health lipid indices and physicochemical properties of dual fortified yogurt with extruded flaxseed omega fatty acids and fibers for hypercholesterolemic subjects by Nazir Ahmad, Muhammad Faisal Manzoor, Umair Shabbir, Saeed Ahmed, Tariq Ismail, Farhan Saeed, MahrUn Nisa, Faqir Muhammad Anjum, Shahzad Hussain

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Validation of a real-time polymerase chain reaction for the detection and quantification of the nucleic acid of Histoplasma from equine clinical samples by Lewis W. S. Fisher, Abdou Ceesay, Demba Jallow, Sophie F. Hawkes, Alicia Showering, Yaghouba Kane, Amadou Doumbia, Andrew P. Stringer, Claire E. Scantlebury

“…In this study, equine blood and pus samples on Whatman FTA cards from Senegal (n = 3), The Gambia (n = 19), Ethiopia (n = 16), and Mali (n = 13) were tested using a real-time PCR (qPCR) protocol. …”
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From the field to the clouds: data collection and publication with QGIS by Paolo Cavallini, Matteo Ghetta, Ulisse Cavallini

“…We describe the main solutions available for data collection and seamless publication over the web: MerginMaps, Qfield, Lizmap, with an example form a water resources project in Gambia. …”
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Risk factors identification of COVID‐19 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A retrospective study in Punjab‐Pakistan by Muhammad Muneeb Hassan, M. H. Tahir, Muhammad Ameeq, Farrukh Jamal, John T. Mendy, Christophe Chesneau

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Effect of basalt fiber hybridization on the properties of concrete with charcoal additive by Paschal Chimeremeze Chiadighikaobi, Andersen Rishammah Zakka, Kebba Camara, Vladimir Jean Paul

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Safety of Administering Live Vaccines during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Pregnancy Outcomes by Almudena Laris-González, Daniel Bernal-Serrano, Alexander Jarde, Beate Kampmann

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Monitoring malaria using health facility based surveys: challenges and limitations by Abraham Rexford Oduro, Ernest Tei Maya, James Akazili, Frank Baiden, Kwadwo Koram, Kalifa Bojang

“…Methods The study involved six areas within the administrative divisions of The Gambia. The areas were selected to reflect socioeconomic and malaria transmission intensities across the country. …”
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Multi-level feature re-weighted fusion for the semantic segmentation of crops and weeds by Lamin L. Janneh, Yongjun Zhang, Zhongwei Cui, Yitong Yang

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Predicting mechanical properties of self-healing concrete with Trichoderma Reesei Fungus using machine learning by Paschal Chimeremeze Chiadighikaobi, Mohammad Hematibahar, Makhmud Kharun, Nadezhda A. Stashevskaya, Kebba Camara

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Viral Diagnosis of Hepatitis B and Delta: What We Know and What Is Still Required? Specific Focus on Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Amie Ceesay, Khaled Bouherrou, Boun Kim Tan, Maud Lemoine, Gibril Ndow, Barbara Testoni, Isabelle Chemin

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A Fitful Path: Nigeria’s Faltering Counterterrorism Operation against the Boko Haram in the Northeast by Luqman SAKA, Abubakar ABDULRAHMAN, Abdulwaheed A. ISIAQ, Ousman M. BOJANG

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Differentials in the Prevalence of Acute Respiratory Infections Among Under-Five Children: An Analysis of 37 Sub-Saharan Countries by Michael Ekholuenetale MSc, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam MPH, Osaretin Christabel Okonji MSc, Amadou Barrow MSc, Anthony Ike Wegbom PhD, Clement Kevin Edet PhD

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Impact of Chronic Diseases on Labour Force Participation among South African Women: Further Analysis of Population-Based Data by Michael Ekholuenetale, Anthony Ike Wegbom, Clement Kevin Edet, Charity Ehimwenma Joshua, Amadou Barrow, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam

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Mass treatment with azithromycin for trachoma control: participation clusters in households. by Elizabeth N Ssemanda, Beatriz Munoz, Emma M Harding-Esch, Tansy Edwards, Harran Mkocha, Robin L Bailey, Ansumana Sillah, Dianne Stare, David C W Mabey, Sheila K West, PRET Project Team

“…As part of the Partnership for Rapid Elimination of Trachoma (PRET), 32 communities in Tanzania, and 48 in The Gambia had a detailed census taken followed by mass treatment with azithromycin. …”
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Classical sickle beta-globin haplotypes exhibit a high degree of long-range haplotype similarity in African and Afro-Caribbean populations by Hanchard, N, Elzein, A, Trafford, C, Rockett, K, Pinder, M, Jallow, M, Harding, R, Kwiatkowski, D, McKenzie, C

“…Here we evaluate the haplotype similarity of classical βs haplotypes over 400 kb in population samples from Jamaica, The Gambia, and among the Yoruba of Nigeria (Hapmap YRI). …”

Risk factors for and clinical outcome of congenital cytomegalovirus infection in a peri-urban West-African birth cohort. by , v, Kaye, S, Miles, D, Waight, P, Jeffries, D, Ojuola, O, Palmero, M, Pinder, M, Ismaili, J, Flanagan, K, Aveika, A, Zaman, A, Rowland-Jones, S, McConkey, S, Whittle, H, Marchant, A

“…METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: As part of an ongoing birth cohort study in The Gambia among term infants, urine samples were collected at birth and tested by PCR for the presence of CMV DNA. …”