Timeliness and completeness of vaccination and risk factors for low and late vaccine uptake in young children living in rural southern Tanzania (Publications)
Background: We studied coverage and timeliness of vaccination and risk factors for low and delayed vaccine uptake in children aged ,2 years in rural Tanzania. Methods: We used data from a cluster surv
Genetic diversity in <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
Recent years have witnessed an increased appreciation of the extent and relevance of strain-to-strain variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This paradigm shift can largely be attributed to an impro
Chronic burden of near-roadway traffic pollution in 10 European cities (APHEKOM network) (Publications)
Recent epidemiological research suggests that near road traffic-related pollution may cause chronic disease, as well as exacerbate related pathologies, implying that the entire "chronic disease progre
Mould and dampness in dwelling places, and onset of asthma: the population-based cohort ECRHS (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To study new onset of adult asthma in relation to dampness and moulds in dwelling places. METHODS: Totally, 7104 young adults from 13 countries who participated in the European Community R
Evaluation of land use regression models for NO2 and particulate matter in 20 European study areas: the ESCAPE project (Publications)
Land use regression models (LUR) frequently use leave-one-out-cross-validation (LOOCV) to assess model fit, but recent studies suggested that this may overestimate predictive ability in independent da
Role of highway traffic on spatial and temporal distributions of air pollutants in a Swiss alpine valley (Publications)
Traffic-related air pollutants show high spatial variability near roads, posing a challenge to adequately assess exposures. Recent modeling approaches (e.g. dispersion models, land-use regression (LUR
