Sleeping sickness at the crossroads (Publications)
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a disease with truly historic dimensions [...].
Investigating health impacts of natural resource extraction projects in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania: protocol for a mixed methods... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Natural resource extraction projects offer both opportunities and risks for sustainable development and health in host communities. Often, however, the health of the community suffers. Hea
microRNA expression profiles and personal monitoring of exposure to particulate matter (Publications)
An increasing number of findings from epidemiological studies support associations between exposure to air pollution and the onset of several diseases, including pulmonary, cardiovascular and neurodeg
Health systems and global progress towards malaria elimination, 2000-2016 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: As more countries progress towards malaria elimination, a better understanding of the most critical health system features for enabling and supporting malaria control and elimination is ne
Estimation of free-roaming domestic dog population size: investigation of three methods including an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based approach (Publications)
Population size estimation is performed for several reasons including disease surveillance and control, for example to design adequate control strategies such as vaccination programs or to estimate a
One mean to rule them all? The arithmetic mean based egg reduction rate can be misleading when estimating anthelminthic drug efficacy in clinical... (Publications)
Animal and human helminth infections are highly prevalent around the world, with only few anthelminthic drugs available. The anthelminthic drug performance is expressed by the cure rate and the egg re
Estimation of dog population and dog bite risk factors in departments of San Pedro and Bouake in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
Rabies is endemic in Cote d'Ivoire and was identified in January 2017 as a priority zoonosis by all stakeholders in public health. A well-designed integrated national rabies control is essential to at
Dog-assisted therapy in neurorehabilitation of children with severe neurological impairment: an explorative study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Dog-assisted therapy (DAT) is increasingly applied in neurorehabilitation of patients with severe neurological impairments. To date, there are only anecdotal reports investigating its effe
The haemochromatosis gene Hfe and Kupffer cells control LDL cholesterol homeostasis and impact on atherosclerosis development (Publications)
AIMS: Imbalances of iron metabolism have been linked to the development of atherosclerosis. However, subjects with hereditary haemochromatosis have a lower prevalence of cardiovascular disease. The ai
<em>In vitro </em>drug efficacy testing against <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em> (Publications)
The recent endorsement of fexinidazole by the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis has demonstrated the high predictive value of cell-based assays for parasite
