Actual and perceived weight status and its association with slimming and energy-balance related behaviours in 10- to 12-year-old European children:... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Both parents' and children's perception of children's weight status may be important predictors of slimming and energy-balance related behaviours, independent of children's actual weight s
The effects of growing up on a farm on adult lung function and allergic phenotypes: an international population-based study (Publications)
RATIONALE: Evidence has suggested that exposure to environmental or microbial biodiversity in early life may impact subsequent lung function and allergic disease risk. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the i
Factors affecting the implementation of childhood vaccination communication strategies in Nigeria: a qualitative study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The role of health communication in vaccination programmes cannot be overemphasized: it has contributed significantly to creating and sustaining demand for vaccination services and improvi
Unexpected low soil-transmitted helminth prevalence in the Butha-Buthe district in Lesotho, results from a cross-sectional survey (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections with Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm and Trichuris trichiura affect large parts of the world's population. For the implementation of national STH
The extractive industry in Latin America and the Caribbean: health impact assessment as an opportunity for the health authority (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The extractive industries have contributed to the economic and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean for centuries. We have undertaken a narrative review to assess the role
<em>Ascaris lumbricoides</em> egg die-off in an experimental excreta storage system and public health implication in Vietnam (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: We studied the influence of different additive materials (lime, and rice husk) and aeration conditions on Ascaris lumbricoides egg die-off in 24 vaults of an experimental excreta storage u
Structure of the malaria vaccine candidate antigen CyRPA and its complex with a parasite invasion inhibitory antibody (Publications)
Invasion of erythrocytes by Plasmodial merozoites is a composite process involving the interplay of several proteins. Among them, the Plasmodium falciparum Cysteine-Rich Protective Antigen (PfCyRPA) i
<em>Plasmodium </em>Helical Interspersed Subtelomeric (PHIST) proteins, at the Center of Host Cell Remodeling (Publications)
During the asexual cycle, Plasmodium falciparum extensively remodels the human erythrocyte to make it a suitable host cell. A large number of exported proteins facilitate this remodeling process, whic