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Management of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among an Inner-city Population with Psychosocial Barriers to Treatment Adherence
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BACKGROUND: In Canada, preventive therapy for LTBI has meant long durations and frequent dosing. This contributes to poor adherence and completion rates. In response, a shortened treatment regimen, once weekly rifapentine plus isoniazid for 3 months (3HP), is now available, though there has been...
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Exploring the Relationship Between Depression and Adherence in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes
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Background: Depression is a well-known risk factor for poor medication adherence in individuals with diabetes; however, this association is based on cross-sectional and cohort studies measuring adherence after depression is diagnosed. Symptoms of depression often progress before medical...
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Who is Using Non-Invasive Ventilation? A Descriptive Study Examining the Population Enrolled in a Pediatric Non-Invasive Ventilation Program
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The use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in infants and children is increasing. This thesis examined the population of infants and children enrolled in a quaternary pediatric hospital’s NIV program with the goal of describing the clinical characteristics of that population over a one-year...
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Developing and Testing a Theoretical Model to Determine Children’s Adherence to Oral Health Behaviours
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Background: Adherence to health care advice is a complex health concern especially when it involves children. Dental caries has been identified as the most common chronic childhood disease that occurs in a continuum. At the same time, it can be prevented by adherence to proper oral health...
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Fall 2018
Sudden unexplained death (SUD) is a term used when comprehensive medical examination and autopsy fail to find a conclusive cause of sudden death. In cases of SUD, post-mortem molecular and genetic evaluation methods have helped identify ion channel abnormalities leading to arrhythmias as cause....
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Refocusing the focus on adherence to antiretroviral therapy using a community-based participatory research approach
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Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is critical to treatment success. Using an epidemiological and community-based participatory research approach, my thesis reports on two papers related to antiretroviral therapy success (and subsequent failure). My thesis also includes a third paper which...
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Cost - effectiveness of integrating methadone maintenance with antiretroviral treatment in injection-driven HIV epidemics
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In the household survey, Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of patients on antiretroviral treatment (ART) was profoundly reduced and significantly lower among drug users (DUs) than that of non-DUs, especially in the psychological and social dimensions. Drug use is known to negatively affect...
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The APETALA-2-Like Transcription Factor OsAP2-39 Controls Key Interactions between Abscisic Acid and Gibberellin in Rice
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Rothstein, Steven J., Bi, Yong-Mei, Zhu, Tong, El-kereamy, Ashraf, Beatty, Perrin H., Yaish, Mahmoud W., Good, Allen G.
The interaction between phytohormones is an important mechanism which controls growth and developmental processes in plants. Deciphering these interactions is a crucial step in helping to develop crops with enhanced yield and resistance to environmental stresses. Controlling the expression level...
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Generation of a restriction minus enteropathogenic Escherichia coli E2348/69 strain that is efficiently transformed with large, low copy plasmids
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Raivio, T.L., Price, N.L., Ward, J.D., Hobson, N.
Background Many microbes possess restriction-modification systems that protect them from parasitic DNA molecules. Unfortunately, the presence of a restriction-modification system in a given microbe also hampers genetic analysis. Although plasmids can be successfully conjugated into the...