Salidroside pretreatment alleviates PM2.5 caused lung injury via inhibition of apoptosis and pyroptosis through regulating NLRP3 inflammasome (Publications)
Ambient fine particulate matter (PM(2.5)) is considered a leading cause of pathogenic particulate matter induced lung injury. And Salidroside (Sal), the major bioactive constituent isolated from Rhodi
Self-reported clinical history of misdiagnosed leprosy cases in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2016-2019 (Publications)
This study aimed to analyze the self-reported clinical history of patients misdiagnosed with leprosy in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. This is a cross-sectional study of new leprosy cases diagnosed
Accelerating towards <em>P. vivax</em> elimination with a novel serological test-and-treat strategy: a modelling case study in Brazil (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax malaria is challenging to control and eliminate. Treatment with radical cure drugs fails to target the hidden asymptomatic and hypnozoite reservoirs in populations. PvSero
Prevalence of fever of unidentified aetiology in East African adolescents and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Primary health care settings and hospitals of low- and middle-income countries have few accessible diagnostic tools and limited laboratory and human resources capacity to identify multiple
Analyse qualitative du risque de contamination des maraîchers par les produits phytosanitaires à Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire (Publications)
Qualitative analysis of the risk of market gardeners being contaminated by phytosanitary products in Korhogo, Cote d'Ivoire In a context of food insecurity accentuated by climate change, urban market
Long-term exposure to airborne metals and risk of cancer in the French cohort Gazel (Publications)
Background The specific compounds that make ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) carcinogen remain poorly identified. Some metals contribute to ambient PM2.5 and possibly to its adverse effects. Bu
Evaluation of 43 species of Congolese medicinal plants used traditionally for the treatment of schistosomiasis leading to the isolation of an... (Publications)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Schistosomiasis (bilharzia) is an important, prevalent and neglected tropical disease for which new treatments are urgently required. In the DR Congo and other sub- and
Global burden of chronic respiratory diseases and risk factors, 1990-2019: an update from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Updated data on chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) are vital in their prevention, control, and treatment in the path to achieving the third UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a one-
A roadmap for using DHIS2 data to track progress in key health indicators in the Global South: experience from sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
High quality health data as collected by health management information systems (HMIS) is an important building block of national health systems. District Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) software i
Time series analysis of survival and oviposition cycle duration of <em>Anopheles funestus</em> (Giles) in Mozambique (Publications)
Background Survival and gonotrophic cycle duration are important determinants of the vectorial capacity of malaria vectors but there are a limited number of approaches to estimate these quantities fro
