Experience and lessons from health impact assessment guiding prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in a copper mine project, northwestern Zambia (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To avoid or mitigate potential project-related adverse health effects, the Trident copper project in Kalumbila, northwestern Zambia, commissioned a health impact assessment. HIV was identi
The recurrent campylobacteriosis epidemic over Christmas and New Year in European countries, 2006-2014 (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Campylobacteriosis is the most frequently reported foodborne disease in Europe with a notification rate of 71 per 100,000 population in the European Union in 2014. Surveillance data show a
Antiplasmodial ealapasamines A-C,'mixed' naphthylisoquinoline dimers from the Central African liana <em>Ancistrocladus ealaensis</em> (Publications)
Three unusual heterodimeric naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, named ealapasamines A-C (1-3), were isolated from the leaves of the tropical plant Ancistrocladus ealaensis J. Leonard. These 'mixed', const
Adoption of clean cookstoves after improved solid fuel stove programme exposure: a cross-sectional study in three Peruvian Andean regions (Publications)
This study examined measures of clean cookstove adoption after improved solid fuel stove programmes in three geographically and culturally diverse rural Andean settings and explored factors associated
Prevalence of dementia, depression, and mild cognitive impairment in a rural area of the island of Crete, Greece (Publications)
The studies on the prevalence of dementia, depression, and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in Greece are sparse and show major variations of prevalence depending on geographical areas, nutritional hab
Urbanization is a main driver for the larval ecology of <em>Aedes</em> mosquitoes in arbovirus-endemic settings in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Failure in detecting naturally occurring breeding sites of Aedes mosquitoes can bias the conclusions drawn from field studies, and hence, negatively affect intervention outcomes. We charac
Draft genome sequences of seven <em>Streptococcus agalactiae </em>strains isolated from <em>Camelus dromedarius</em> at the Horn of Africa (Publications)
We present draft whole-genome sequences of seven Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from Camelus dromedarius in Kenya and Somalia. These data are an extension to the group B Streptococcus (GBS)
HIV viral load as an independent risk factor for tuberculosis in South Africa: collaborative analysis of cohort studies (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Chronic immune activation due to ongoing HIV replication may lead to impaired immune responses against opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis (TB). We studied the role of HIV repl
