A genome-focused investigation reveals the emergence of a <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> strain related to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in... (Publications)
A previous study in Pará, Northern Brazil, described a strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with a unique genotype (SIT2517/T1) associated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). To improve ou
Changes in seasonality and sex ratio of scrub typhus: a case study of South Korea from 2003 to 2019 based on wavelet transform analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus (ST, also known as tsutsugamushi disease) is a common febrile vector-borne disease in South Korea and commonly known as autumn- and female-dominant disease. Although understan
From fragmentation to open access: building an open data portal for health data dissemination (Publications)
Open data is defined as data that can be used and redistributed by anyone with minimal or no restrictions. A design science research methodology was applied to the development of an open data portal f
Single- and two-pollutant concentration-response functions for PM2.5 and NO2 for quantifying mortality burden in health impact assessments (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) for air pollutant mixtures are challenging because risk estimates are primarily derived from single-pollutant models. Combining risk estimates from multiple
Temporal change in minimum mortality temperature under changing climate: a multicountry multicommunity observational study spanning 1986–2015 (Publications)
Background: The minimum mortality temperature (MMT) or MMT percentile (MMTP) is an indicator of population susceptibility to nonoptimum temperatures. MMT and MMTP change over time; however, the changi
The influence of malaria control interventions and climate variability on changes in the geographical distribution of parasite prevalence in Kenya... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The burden of malaria in Kenya was showing a declining trend, but appears to have reached a plateau in recent years. This study estimated changes in the geographical distribution of malari
Suspected acute pulmonary coccidioidomycosis in traveler returning to Switzerland from Peru (Publications)
We report a suspected case of acute pulmonary coccidioidomycosis contracted in Peru, where the disease is not known to occur, in a patient from Switzerland. Although not confirmed by direct diagnostic
