Cohort profile: the Kilombero and Ulanga Antiretroviral Cohort (KIULARCO): a prospective HIV cohort in rural Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Kilombero and Ulanga Antiretroviral Cohort (KIULARCO) is a single-site, open and ongoing prospective cohort of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWHIV) established in 2
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
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
New bis(2-aminoimidazoline) and bisguanidine DNA minor groove binders with potent in vivo antitrypanosomal and antiplasmodial activity (Publications)
A series of 75 guanidine and 2-aminoimidazoline analogue molecules were assayed in vitro against Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense STIB900 and Plasmodium falciparum K1. The dicationic diphenyl compounds
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
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
