Effect of fireworks events on urban background trace metal aerosol concentrations: is the cocktail worth the show? (Publications)
We report on the effect of a major firework event on urban background atmospheric PM(2.5) chemistry, using 24-h data collected over 8 weeks at two sites in Girona, Spain. The firework pollution episod
Bayesian analysis of zero inflated spatiotemporal HIV/TB child mortality data through the INLA and SPDE approaches: applied to data observed between... (Publications)
Longitudinal mortality data with few deaths usually have problems of zero-inflation. This paper presents and applies two Bayesian models which cater for zero-inflation, spatial and temporal random eff
Bisabololoxide derivatives from <em>Artemisia persica</em>, and determination of their absolute configurations by ECD (Publications)
Five antiplasmodial bisabololoxide sesquiterpene diesters were isolated from an EtOAc extract of the aerial parts of Artemisia persica following an HPLC-time-based activity profiling of the extract. S
Impact of a national HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaign on VCT in a rural hospital in Tanzania (Publications)
Summary Objective To evaluate the impact of a national HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaign on presentation to HIV care in a rural population in Tanzania. Methods Retrospective analysi
Systems to support health technology assessment (HTA) in member states of the European union with limited institutionalization of HTA (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to support health technology assessment (HTA) capacity building in Member States of the European Union with limited experience or without institutionalized HTA. T
Discovery of novel orally bioavailable oxaborole 6-carboxamides that demonstrate cure in a murine model of late stage central nervous system African... (Publications)
We report the discovery of novel boron-containing molecules, exemplified by N-(1-hydroxy-1,3-dihydrobenzo[c][1,2]oxaborol-6-yl-2-trifluoromethylbenzam ide (AN3520) and 4-Fluoro-N-(1-hydroxy-1,3-dihydr
Bis(oxyphenylene)benzimidazoles: a novel class of anti-<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> agents (Publications)
A small library of 26 2,2'-[alkane-alpha,omega-diylbis(oxyphenylene)]bis-1H-benzimidazoles has been prepared and evaluated against Giardia intestinalis, Entamoeba histolytica, Trypanosoma brucei rhode
Traffic, susceptibility, and childhood asthma (Publications)
Results from studies of traffic and childhood asthma have been inconsistent, but there has been little systematic evaluation of susceptible subgroups. In this study, we examined the relationship of lo
Antiparasitic agents: new drugs on the horizon (Publications)
The need for new drugs against tropical parasites such as Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosoma brucei is persistent since problems with resistance and toxicity are jeopardizing the currently availabl