David Schellenberg

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1 First results of phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African children. N Engl J Med 2011 10.79
2 Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania. Lancet 2003 8.79
3 A phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African infants. N Engl J Med 2012 6.64
4 Effectiveness and cost of facility-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Tanzania. Lancet 2004 5.91
5 Efficacy and safety of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria in African infants: a pooled analysis of six randomised, placebo-controlled trials. Lancet 2009 4.84
6 Factors affecting home delivery in rural Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health 2007 3.91
7 The use of antenatal and postnatal care: perspectives and experiences of women and health care providers in rural southern Tanzania. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2009 2.95
8 Age-patterns of malaria vary with severity, transmission intensity and seasonality in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and pooled analysis. PLoS One 2010 2.90
9 Health and survival of young children in southern Tanzania. BMC Public Health 2008 2.83
10 The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania. Emerg Themes Epidemiol 2007 2.53
11 Age interactions in the development of naturally acquired immunity to Plasmodium falciparum and its clinical presentation. PLoS Med 2007 1.93
12 Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with Kaposi sarcoma: higher incidence and mortality in Africa than in the UK. AIDS 2013 1.71
13 Assessment of a national voucher scheme to deliver insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women. CMAJ 2010 1.71
14 Understanding home-based neonatal care practice in rural southern Tanzania. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2008 1.57
15 Staff experiences of providing maternity services in rural southern Tanzania - a focus on equipment, drug and supply issues. BMC Health Serv Res 2013 1.51
16 Risk factors for presentation to hospital with severe anaemia in Tanzanian children: a case-control study. Trop Med Int Health 2002 1.43
17 The acceptability of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) delivered through the expanded programme of immunization in southern Tanzania. Malar J 2008 1.40
18 The age patterns of severe malaria syndromes in sub-Saharan Africa across a range of transmission intensities and seasonality settings. Malar J 2010 1.38
19 A large cross-sectional community-based study of newborn care practices in southern Tanzania. PLoS One 2010 1.38
20 Performance of HRP-2 based rapid diagnostic test for malaria and its variation with age in an area of intense malaria transmission in southern Tanzania. Malar J 2010 1.37
21 How is childhood development of immunity to Plasmodium falciparum enhanced by certain antimalarial interventions? Malar J 2007 1.35
22 Human resources for health care delivery in Tanzania: a multifaceted problem. Hum Resour Health 2012 1.34
23 Etiology of diarrhea in children less than five years of age in Ifakara, Tanzania. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2004 1.31
24 Evaluation of efficacy of community-based vs. institutional-based direct observed short-course treatment for the control of tuberculosis in Kilombero district, Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health 2003 1.27
25 From strategy development to routine implementation: the cost of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants for malaria control. BMC Health Serv Res 2008 1.22
26 The cost-effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants in Sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS One 2010 1.22
27 Malaria in school-age children in Africa: an increasingly important challenge. Trop Med Int Health 2014 1.19
28 Cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) in Mozambique and the United Republic of Tanzania. Bull World Health Organ 2009 1.15
29 Overcoming health systems barriers to successful malaria treatment. Trends Parasitol 2013 1.12
30 Assessing agreement between malaria slide density readings. Malar J 2010 1.12
31 Assessment of severe malaria in a multicenter, phase III, RTS, S/AS01 malaria candidate vaccine trial: case definition, standardization of data collection and patient care. Malar J 2011 1.11
32 Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants: a decision-support tool for sub-Saharan Africa. Bull World Health Organ 2010 1.09
33 Varying efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants in two similar trials: public health implications. Malar J 2007 1.09
34 Development of behaviour change communication strategy for a vaccination-linked malaria control tool in southern Tanzania. Malar J 2008 1.09
35 Seroepidemiological and parasitological evaluation of the heterogeneity of malaria infection in the Gambia. Malar J 2013 1.07
36 Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria control in infants: moving towards evidence-based policy and public health action. Trop Med Int Health 2005 1.07
37 Modelling the epidemiological impact of intermittent preventive treatment against malaria in infants. PLoS One 2008 1.04
38 Protective efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and parasite resistance. PLoS One 2010 1.04
39 Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria and anaemia control in Tanzanian infants; the development and implementation of a public health strategy. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2008 1.00
40 Prescribing practice for malaria following introduction of artemether-lumefantrine in an urban area with declining endemicity in West Africa. Malar J 2010 0.99
41 Clean home-delivery in rural Southern Tanzania: barriers, influencers, and facilitators. J Health Popul Nutr 2013 0.96
42 Modelling the impact of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria on selection pressure for drug resistance. Malar J 2007 0.95
43 Randomized, controlled trial of the long term safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of RTS,S/AS02(D) malaria vaccine in infants living in a malaria-endemic region. Malar J 2013 0.94
44 The effects of short-term iron supplementation on iron status in infants in malaria-endemic areas. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2004 0.94
45 Community case management in malaria: review and perspectives after four years of operational experience in Saraya district, south-east Senegal. Malar J 2013 0.94
46 Effect of home-based counselling on newborn care practices in southern Tanzania one year after implementation: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. BMC Pediatr 2014 0.93
47 Health centre surveys as a potential tool for monitoring malaria epidemiology by area and over time. PLoS One 2011 0.92
48 Roles and effectiveness of lay community health workers in the prevention of mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low and middle income countries: a systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res 2013 0.91
49 The potential impact of improving appropriate treatment for fever on malaria and non-malarial febrile illness management in under-5s: a decision-tree modelling approach. PLoS One 2013 0.90
50 Neonatal deaths in rural southern Tanzania: care-seeking and causes of death. ISRN Pediatr 2012 0.89
51 The practice of 'doing' evaluation: lessons learned from nine complex intervention trials in action. Implement Sci 2014 0.89
52 Prevalence of different virulence factors and biofilm production in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli isolates causing diarrhea in children in Ifakara (Tanzania). Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 0.88
53 Effect of context on respiratory rate measurement in identifying non-severe pneumonia in African children. Trop Med Int Health 2015 0.84
54 A community-randomized evaluation of the effect of intermittent preventive treatment in infants on antimalarial drug resistance in southern Tanzania. J Infect Dis 2012 0.83
55 Are insecticide treated bednets failing? Lancet Infect Dis 2012 0.81
56 Evaluating the effectiveness of IPTi on malaria using routine health information from sentinel health centres in southern Tanzania. Malar J 2011 0.79
57 Public health system readiness to treat malaria in Odisha State of India. Malar J 2013 0.78
58 Global health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Lancet 2009 0.78
59 Malaria infection does not appear to modify the risk of bronchiolitis early in life. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2002 0.76
60 Safety of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants: evidence from large-scale operational research in southern Tanzania. Int Health 2011 0.76