Abdominal decompression after cardiac surgery: outcome of 42 patients with abdominal compartment syndrome (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Up to 50% of patients in intensive care units develop intraabdominal hypertension (IAH) in the course of medical treatment. If not detected on time and treated adequately, IAH may develop
Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths using the Kato-Katz technique: what is the influence of stirring, storage time and storage temperature on... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminths infect about one ninth of the world's population and have a negative impact on health. The Kato-Katz technique is the recommended method to detect soil-transmitt
Premature mortality due to air pollution in European cities: a health impact assessment (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Ambient air pollution is a major environmental cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Cities are generally hotspots for air pollution and disease. However, the exact extent of the hea
Global oral cholera vaccine use, 2013-2018 (Publications)
Vaccination is a key intervention to prevent and control cholera in conjunction with water, sanitation and hygiene activities. An oral cholera vaccine (OCV) stockpile was established by the World Heal
Machine learning-based lifetime breast cancer risk reclassification compared with the BOADICEA model: impact on screening recommendations (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The clinical utility of machine-learning (ML) algorithms for breast cancer risk prediction and screening practices is unknown. We compared classification of lifetime breast cancer risk bas
Trends in extrapulmonary TB cases at three teaching hospitals in Ghana, 2008-2017 (Publications)
SETTING: Three teaching hospitals in Ghana. OBJECTIVE: To elucidate trends in demographics, clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes in extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) patients. DESIGN: This was a ret
Sleeping sickness survey in the Serengeti [16mm film] (Publications)
"Die Serengeti und ihre Umgebung als Reservoir (besonders die Wildtiere) für Trypanosomen wird von der EATRO (East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization) und dem Schweizerischen Tropeninstitut
Burden of soil-transmitted helminth infection in pregnant refugees and migrants on the Thailand-Myanmar border: results from a retrospective cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions. While many STH infections are asymptomatic, vulnerable populations (e.g., pregnant women) fac
The influence of roads on the fine-scale population genetic structure of the dengue vector <em>Aedes aegypti</em> (Linnaeus) (Publications)
Dengue is endemic in tropical and subtropical countries and is transmitted mainly by Aedes aegypti. Mosquito movement can be affected by human-made structures such as roads that can act as a barrier.