Genetic diversity and protective efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine (Publications)
Background The RTS,S/AS01 vaccine targets the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum and has partial protective efficacy against clinical and severe malaria disease in infants and children.
Spatial distribution of schistosomiasis and treatment needs in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and geostatistical analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis affects more than 200 million individuals, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, but empirical estimates of the disease burden in this region are unavailable. We used geostatistica
International scale implementation of the CNOSSOS-EU road traffic noise predictin model for epidemiological studies (Publications)
The EU-FP7-funded BioSHaRE project is using individual-level data pooled from several national cohort studies in Europe to investigate the relationship of road traffic noise and health. The detailed i
How to evaluate health-related quality of life and its association with medication adherence in pulmonary tuberculosis - designing a prospective... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has become an important measure to identify and shape effective and patient-relevant healthcare interventions innovations through outcomes. Adheren
The prevalence of syphilis infection and its associated factors in the general population of Rwanda: a national household-based survey (Publications)
Background. The prevalence of syphilis among HIV-infected people is a public health concern, but there is limited literature to describe the true burden of syphilis in resource-limited settings. We co
Association of vitamin D status with incidence of enterotoxigenic, enteropathogenic and enteroaggregative <em>Escherichia coli</em> diarrhoea in... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between vitamin D status and diarrhoeal episodes by enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enterpathogenic (EPEC) and enteroaggregative (EAEC) E. coli in underweight and normal
Cluster-randomized study of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria in infants (IPTi) in southern Tanzania: evaluation of impact on survival (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria control in infants (IPTi) consists of the administration of a treatment dose of an anti-malarial drug, usually sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, at
Don't take it personal: European Union legal aspects of procuring and protecting environmental exposure data in population biobanks through the use of... (Publications)
Under European Union (EU) law, population-based cohort studies have the right to collect environmental data and to access geospatial data, at street level, on the web, from a host of public sources. A
