<em>In vitro</em> antiplasmodial activity and cytotoxicity of extracts and chromatographic fractions of twigs from <em>Pappea capensi</em>s EckI &... (Publications)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The Vha-Venda people of South Africa use Pappea capensis EckI & Zeyh. (Sapindaceae) twigs to treat malaria and its related symptoms. AIM OF STUDY: The main aim of this
Care seeking and treatment of febrile children with and without danger signs of severe disease in northern Uganda: results from three household... (Publications)
Identification, stabilization, and prompt referral of children with signs of severe febrile disease (danger signs) in rural communities are crucial for preventing complications and death from severe m
Putative biomarkers of environmental enteric disease fail to correlate in a cross-sectional study in two study sites in Sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an elusive, inflammatory syndrome of the small intestine thought to be associated with enterocyte loss and gut leakiness and lead to stunted child growth. To
The communication chain of genetic risk: analyses of narrative data exploring proband-provider and proband-family communication in hereditary breast... (Publications)
Low uptake of genetic services among members of families with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) suggests limitations of proband-mediated communication of genetic risk. This study explored ho
A tiered approach for assessing individual and combined risk of pyrethroids using human biomonitoring data (Publications)
Pyrethroids are a major insecticide class, suitable for biomonitoring in humans. Due to similarities in structure and metabolic pathways, urinary metabolites are common to various active substances. A
Egg-laying and locomotory screens with <em>C. elegans </em>yield a nematode-selective small molecule stimulator of neurotransmitter release (Publications)
Nematode parasites of humans, livestock and crops dramatically impact human health and welfare. Alarmingly, parasitic nematodes of animals have rapidly evolved resistance to anthelmintic drugs, and tr
Cystic fibrosis related diabetes is not associated with maximal aerobic exercise capacity in cystic fibrosis: a cross-sectional analysis of an... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have reported differences in aerobic exercise capacity, expressed as peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak), between people with and without cystic fibrosis (CF) related diabetes (C
Residential exposure to greenspace and life satisfaction in times of COVID-19: a cross-sectional analysis of 9444 participants from a population-based... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Subjective well-being is an important target in the COVID-19 pandemic. Residential greenness may help cope with stress and hence influence subjective well-being during this mentally and ph