<em>In vitro</em> and<em> in vivo</em> drug-drug interaction study of the effects of ivermectin and oxantel pamoate on tribendimidine (Publications)
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections still remain a major health problem in poor rural settings. The lack of efficacious drugs against all STH species raises the interest in drug combinations. D
A review of exposure assessment methods for epidemiological studies of health effects related to industrially contaminated sites (Publications)
BACKGROUND: this paper is based upon work from COST Action ICSHNet. Health risks related to living close to industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) are a public concern. Toxicology-based risk assessmen
Dealing with crosstalk in electromagnetic field measurements of portable devices (Publications)
Portable devices measuring radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) are affected by crosstalk: signals originating in one frequency band that are unintentionally registered in another. If this i
Antiprotozoal activities of tetrazole-quinolines with aminopiperidine linker (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) and Malaria both are insect vectored tropical diseases. Only a couple of drugs is able to cure HAT, but all of them are toxic, prone
Analysis of potential household transmission events of tuberculosis in the city of Belem, Brazil (Publications)
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease with a higher risk for infection and disease among household contacts (HHC). Here, we report a molecular epidemiology-based approach to study disease transmi
Climate change and One Health (Publications)
The journal The Lancet recently published a countdown on health and climate change. Attention was focused solely on humans. However, animals, including wildlife, livestock and pets, may also be impact
Appropriateness of malaria diagnosis and treatment for fever episodes according to patient history and anti-malarial blood measurement: a... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Monitoring the impact of case management strategies at large scale is essential to evaluate the public health benefit they confer. The use of methodologies relying on objective and standar
A bead-based immunogold-silver staining assay on capillary-driven microfluidics (Publications)
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics are critically needed for the detection of infectious diseases, particularly in remote settings where accurate and appropriate diagnosis can save lives. However, it is
Interplay of strain and race/ethnicity in the innate immune response to <em>M. tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The roles of host and pathogen factors in determining innate immune responses to M. tuberculosis are not fully understood. In this study, we examined host macrophage immune responses of 3