One of the report's lead authors, Professor Michel Coleman, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it was important to look at the overall pattern of survival rates to build up a clear picture of what is going on.
Ms Johnston, 28, is a graduate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Prof Brendan Wren, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has been studying C. difficile for 25 years.
Professor Paul Fine, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said the BCG story was a very complicated one.
Those figures are based on an unpublished study from the Health Protection Agency and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Britain does not emerge well from one such ranking, compiled by Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Andrew Prentice, professor of international nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, reckons that the thrifty gene is widespread among the human race.
Professor Brian Greenwood, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, agreed that the study would help scientists better to understand the immune response to malaria.
However, Simon Cousens, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, points out that such a pattern does not necessarily mean a disease outbreak is levelling off.
To find out more, researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine took some A. aegypti mosquitoes in the laboratory, and tempted them with a human arm covered in Deet.
Andrew Prentice, a professor of nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, suggested this week that obesity is now so widespread (hem) that it represents an evolutionary shift in human body-shape.
Commenting on the study, Professor Anne Mills, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK, said that external funding may be low because a country may be funding its own malaria programmes.
Dr Dianna Lockwood, a leprologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the findings were interesting and that certainly a person with both TB and leprosy was more likely to die from the TB.
Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have also launched The Flu Survey, which has recruited volunteers from 10 European countries to report symptoms and provide weekly updates of the spread of flu across the continent.
But researchers, such as Michael Coleman at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, argue that consent and anonymisation are not always possible, and that without access to data, work that is in the public interest will stop.
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Dr Ruth McNerney, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told The Associated Press that the instrument has the potential to infect those seated near a person blowing a vuvuzela because a "lot of breath goes through" it.
Dr Sarah Walters, lead author from the Cancer Research UK Cancer Survival Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the reasons for low overall survival in the UK and Denmark were different and needed different solutions.
In an accompanying editorial Christopher Dye, of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Paul Fine, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said although the results were disappointing they were "not a terminal prognosis for MVA85A, or for any of the other tuberculosis vaccines in development".
"In the past, doctors used to try all kinds of strange things to try to treat lung infections, " said Dr. Jennifer Quint, a respiratory expert at London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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