Publications

Bigler M, Vaucher M, Wiederkehr M, Brülisauer S, Albrich W.C, Dräger S, Gisler V, Akers I, Mäusezahl D. Long-term impacts of Legionnaires' disease on health and wellbeing: rationale, study design and baseline findings of a matched cohort study (LongLEGIO). Swiss Med Wkly. 2025;155(6):4333. DOI: 10.57187/s.4333

Bigler M, Zacher F, Dräger S, Albrich W.C, Mäusezahl D, SwissLEGIO Hospital Network. Test and treat-impact of microbiological testing on antibiotic prescribing for Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: results of the multicentre SwissLEGIO study. Pneumonia (Nathan). 2025;17(1):17. DOI: 10.1186/s41479-025-00171-1

Hammes F, Gabrielli M, Cavallaro A, Eichelberg A, Barigelli S, Bigler M, Faucher S.P, Füchslin H.P, Gaia V, Gomez-Valero L, Grimard-Conea M, Haas C.N, Hamilton K.A, Healy H.G, Héchard Y, Julian T, Kieper L, Lauper U, Lefebvre X, Mäusezahl D, Ortiz C, Pereira A, Prevost M, Quon H, Roy S, Silva A.R, Sylvestre É, Tang L, Vallarino Reyes E, van der Wielen P.W.J.J, Waak M. Foresight 2035: a perspective on the next decade of research on the management of Legionella spp. in engineered aquatic environments. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2025;49:fuaf022. DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuaf022

Hinckley K, Gastiaburú Cabello M.C, Alvarado M, McCoy D.C, Mäusezahl D, Fink G, Hatch S.F, Quispe Roncal N.G, Gonzales Eslava N, Huaylinos Bustamante M.L, Castellanos A, Hartinger S.M, Jäggi L. Caregivers' perceptions and practices regarding responsive caregiving and early learning in Cajamarca, Andean Peru: a qualitative study. Infant Child Dev. 2025;34(4):e70036. DOI: 10.1002/icd.70036

Jäggi L, Hartinger S.M, Fink G, McCoy D.C, Alvarado M.L, Hinckley K, Ramirez-Varela L, Aguilar L, Castellanos A, Mäusezahl D. Parenting in the digital age: a scoping review of digital early childhood parenting interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC). Public Health Rev. 2025;45:1607651. DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2024.1607651

Sanchez-Samaniego G, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger-Peña S.M, Hattendorf J, Verastegui H, Fink G, Probst-Hensch N. Pre-pregnancy body mass index and caesarean section in Andean women in Peru: a prospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024;24:304. DOI: 10.1186/s12884-024-06466-3

Venkatesh A, Sanchez-Samaniego G, Mäusezahl D, Hattendorf J, Hartinger S.M. Prevalence of urinary tract infections in pregnancy in rural Andean communities of Peru. Womens Health (Lond). 2024;20:17455057241294215. DOI: 10.1177/17455057241294215

Fischer F.B, Bigler M, Mäusezahl D, Hattendorf J, Egli A, Julian T.R, Rölli F, Gaia V, Wymann M, Fridez F, Bertschi S. Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: rationale and study protocol of a prospective national case-control and molecular source attribution study (SwissLEGIO). Infection. 2023;51(5):1467-1479. DOI: 10.1007/s15010-023-02014-x

Fischer F.B, Mäusezahl D, Wymann M.N. Temporal trends in legionellosis national notification data and the effect of COVID-19, Switzerland, 2000-2020. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2023;247:113970. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2022.113970

Fischer F.B, Saucy A, Vienneau D, Hattendorf J, Fanderl J, de Hoogh K, Mäusezahl D. Impacts of weather and air pollution on Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: a national case-crossover study. Environ Res. 2023;233:116327. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116327

Hartinger Peña S.M, Mäusezahl D, Jäggi L, Aguilar L, Alvarado Llatance M, Castellanos A, Huaylinos Bustamante M.L, Hinckley K, Charles McCoy D, Zhang C, Fink G. Digital support systems to improve child health and development in Peru: protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2023;12:e50371. DOI: 10.2196/50371

Jäggi L, Aguilar L, Alvarado Llatance M, Castellanos A, Fink G, Hinckley K, Huaylinos Bustamante M.L, McCoy D.C, Verastegui H, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger Peña S.M. Digital tools to improve parenting behaviour in low-income settings: a mixed-methods feasibility study. Arch Dis Child. 2023;108(6):433-439. DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324964

Larson A.J, Haver S, Hattendorf J, Salmon-Mulanovich G, Riveros M, Verastegui H, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger S.M. Household-level risk factors for water contamination and antimicrobial resistance in drinking water among households with children under 5 in rural San Marcos, Cajamarca, Peru. One Health. 2023;16:100482. DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2023.100482

Nuño N, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger S.M, Riley-Powell A.R, Verastegui H, Wolf J, Muela J, Paz-Soldán V.A. Acceptance and uptake of improved biomass cookstoves in Peru: learning from system level approaches to transform large-scale cooking interventions. Energy Res Soc Sci. 2023;97:102958. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.102958

Sanchez-Samaniego G, Hartinger S.M, Mäusezahl D, Hattendorf J, Fink G, Probst-Hensch N. Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure in a cohort in Northern Andean Peru. Glob Health Action. 2023;16:2285100. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2023.2285100

Fischer F.B, Deml M.J, Mäusezahl D. Legionnaires' disease: a qualitative study on Swiss physicians' approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of community-acquired pneumonia. Swiss Med Wkly. 2022;152:w30157. DOI: 10.4414/smw.2022.w30157

Fischer F.B, Fanderl J, Mäusezahl D. Évolution dans le temps et influence de différents facteurs sur la distribution géographique de la maladie du légionnaire en Suisse. BAG Bulletin. 2022;3:8-11

Fischer F.B, Fanderl J, Mäusezahl D. Zeitliche Entwicklung und Einfluss verschiedener Faktoren auf die räumliche Verteilung der Legionärskrankheit in der Schweiz. BAG Bulletin. 2022;3:8-11

Karim A, de Savigny D, Awor P, Cobos Muñoz D, Mäusezahl D, Kitoto Tshefu A, Ngaima J.S, Enebeli U, Isiguzo C, Nsona H, Ogbonnaya I, Ngoy P, Alegbeleye A. The building blocks of community health systems: a systems framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of iCCM programs and community-based interventions. BMJ Glob Health. 2022;7(6):e008493. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008493

Karim A, de Savigny D, Ngaima J.S, Mäusezahl D, Cobos Muñoz D, Tshefu A. Assessing determinants of programmatic performance of community management of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea in children in Africa: protocol and data collection for a mixed methods evaluation of integrated community case management. JMIR Res Protoc. 2022;11(3):e33076. DOI: 10.2196/33076

Medina-Pizzali M.L, Venkatesh A, Riveros M, Cuicapuza D, Salmon-Mulanovich G, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger S.M. Whole-genome characterisation of ESBL-producing E. coli isolated from drinking water and dog faeces from rural Andean households in Peru. Antibiotics (Basel). 2022;11(5):692. DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11050692

Nuño N, Mäusezahl D, Hattendorf J, Verastegui H, Ortiz M, Hartinger S.M. Effectiveness of a home-environmental intervention package and an early child development intervention on child health and development in high-altitude rural communities in the Peruvian Andes: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Infect Dis Poverty. 2022;11:66. DOI: 10.1186/s40249-022-00985-x

Sanchez-Samaniego G, Mäusezahl D, Carcamo C, Probst-Hensch N, Verastegui H, Hartinger S.M. Metabolic syndrome in rural Peruvian adults living at high altitudes using different cookstoves. PLoS One. 2022;17(2):e0263415. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263415

Hartinger S.M, Medina-Pizzali M.L, Salmon-Mulanovich G, Larson A.J, Pinedo-Bardales M, Verastegui H, Riberos M, Mäusezahl D. Antimicrobial resistance in humans, animals, water and household environs in rural Andean Peru: exploring dissemination pathways through the One Health lens. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18:4604. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18094604

Medina-Pizzali M.L, Hartinger S.M, Salmon-Mulanovich G, Larson A, Riveros M, Mäusezahl D. Antimicrobial resistance in rural settings in Latin America: a scoping review with a One Health lens. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(18):9837. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18189837

Nuño Martínez N, Wallenborn J, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger S.M, Muela Ribera J. Socio-cultural factors for breastfeeding cessation and their relationship with child diarrhoea in the rural high-altitude Peruvian Andes - a qualitative study. Int J Equity Health. 2021;20:165. DOI: 10.1186/s12939-021-01505-3

Sanchez-Samaniego G, Hartinger S.M, Tallman P.S, Mäusezahl D. Cardiovascular disease in the Peruvian Andes: local perceptions, barriers, and paths to preventing chronic diseases in the Cajamarca region. Int J Public Health. 2021;66:1604117. DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2021.1604117

Stettler A. LeCo will Legionellen verstehen. Phase 5. 2021;1:34-39

Fischer F.B, Saucy A, Schmutz C, Mäusezahl D. Do changes in STEC diagnostics mislead interpretation of disease surveillance data in Switzerland? Time trends in positivity, 2007 to 2016. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(33):12-22. DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.33.1900584

Fischer F.B, Schmutz C, Gaia V, Mäusezahl D. Legionnaires’ disease on the rise in Switzerland: a denominator-based analysis of national diagnostic data, 2007–2016. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17:7343. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17197343

Hartinger S.M, Nuño N, Hattendorf J, Verastegui H, Karlen W, Ortiz M, Mäusezahl D. A factorial cluster-randomised controlled trial combining home-environmental and early child development interventions to improve child health and development: rationale, trial design and baseline findings. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2020;20:73. DOI: 10.1186/s12874-020-00950-y

Karim A, Cobos Muñoz D, Mäusezahl D, de Savigny D. A systems approach to assessing complexity in health interventions: an effectiveness decay model for integrated community case management. Glob Health Action. 2020;13:1794106. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2020.1794106

Karim A, Cobos Muñoz D, Mäusezahl D, de Savigny D. Thematic areas and complexity of integrated community case management (iCCM) design, implementation, and evaluation: protocol for a scoping review. Syst Rev. 2020;9:205. DOI: 10.1186/s13643-020-01454-y

Nuño Martínez N, Mäusezahl D, Hartinger S.M. A cultural perspective on cooking patterns, energy transfer programmes and determinants of liquefied petroleum gas use in the Andean Peru. Energy Sustain Dev. 2020;57:160-167. DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2020.06.007

Nuño Martínez N, Ribera J, Hausmann-Muela S, Cevallos M, Hartinger S.M, Christen A, Mäusezahl D. The meanings of water: Socio‐Cultural Perceptions of Solar Disinfected (SODIS) drinking water in Bolivia and implications for its uptake. Water. 2020;12:442. DOI: 10.3390/w12020442

Larson A, Hartinger S.M, Riveros M, Salmon-Mulanovich G, Hattendorf J, Verastegui H, Huaylinos M.L, Mäusezahl D. Antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli in drinking water samples from rural Andean households in Cajamarca, Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;100(6):1363-1368. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0776

Schmutz C, Mäusezahl D, Jost M. Hepatitis A in Switzerland: an analysis of 29 years of surveillance data and contemporary challenges. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019;27:53-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2018.07.012

Tüshaus L, Moreo M, Zhang J, Hartinger S.M, Mäusezahl D, Karlen M. Physiologically driven, altitude-adaptive model for the interpretation of pediatric oxygen saturation at altitudes above 2000 m a.s.l. J Appl Physiol. 2019;127(3):847-857. DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00478.2018

Schmutz C, Mäusezahl D. The burden of gastroenteritis in Switzerland (BUGS) study: a research proposal for a 1-year, prospective cohort study. BMC Res Notes. 2018;11:816. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-018-3916-2

Zhang J, Tüshaus L, Nuño Martínez N, Moreo M, Verastegui H, Hartinger S.M, Mäusezahl D, Karlen W. Data integrity based methodology and checklist for identifying implementation risks of physiological sensing in mHealth projects. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2018;6(12):e11896. DOI: 10.2196/11896