Funding Information: This research was funded by Global Alliance Vaccine Initiative through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta and World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO). African Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases (EFINTD, grant number 89539); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; grant number JO369/5 − 2) where AFLB, BM, TI and CC are fellows. The funde...
Funding Information: The study was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; JO369/5-1 and J0369/5-2) to NdD and HGO (AC, AFLB and AS scholarship). BM Ph.D. is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (270136). Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.; Mozambique introduced the Rotarix® vaccine into the National Immunization Program in September 2015. Following vaccine introduction, rotavirus...
Funding Information: Diocreciano Bero, Ph.D. was supported by Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (CNPq/TWAS, grant number 190,897/2015–5). The ViNaDia was sponsored by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , Atlanta and World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa (WHO...
Publisher Copyright: Copyright: © 2023 Bauhofer et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.; Comorbidities are defined as the simultaneous occurrence of two or more diseases within the same individual. Comorbidities...
Funding Information: Funding: This research was funded by GAVI through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta and World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO). African Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases (EFINTD, grant number 89539); Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft (DFG; grant number JO369/5-1); Fundo Nacional de Investigação (FNI); United States Agency for Intern...
Funding Information: This study was supported by the European Initiative for Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases (EFINTD), World Health Organization (WHO), The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations—Health System Strengthening (GAVI—HSS), Fundo Nacional de Investigação (FNI) and the National Research Foundation, South Africa (M.B.T., Grant specific reference number (UID 85799). Any opinion, finding,...
Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Chissaque et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.; Mozambique introduced the monovalent rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix®, GSK Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium) in September 2015. Previous a...
Group A rotavirus (RVA) remains the most important etiological agent associated with severe acute diarrhea in children. Rotarix® monovalent vaccine was introduced into Mozambique’s Expanded Program on Immunization in September 2015. In the present study, we report the diversity and prevalence of rotavirus genotypes, pre-(2012–2015) and post-vaccine (2016–2019) introduction in Mozambique, among diarrheic childre...
Funding Information: Funding: The study was supported by European Foundation Initiative into African Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases that awarded a senior fellowship to ND (EFINTD; 89539); World Health Organization (WHO); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; JO369/5-1) to ND and HGO which supported scholarship of BM, AC, AFLB, AS and SSB; Fundo Nacional de Investigação (FNI) fellowships to BM, AC, and ...
Background Intestinal parasites such as Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia lamblia and Entamoeba histolytica can cause severe diarrhea, especially among children in developing countries. This study aims to determine the frequency of Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia lamblia and Ent-amoeba histolytica in children with diarrhea and identify risk factors for infection. Methodology We conducted a cross-sectional study in ch...