Vaccine hesitancy and HPV vaccine uptake among male and female youth in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Identifying factors associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake is essential for designing successful vaccination programmes. We aimed to examine the association between vacc
Metabolic, pharmacokinetic, and activity profile of the liver stage antimalarial (RC-12) (Publications)
The catechol derivative RC-12 (WR 27653) (1) is one of the few non-8-aminoquinolines with good activity against hypnozoites in the gold-standard Plasmodium cynomolgi-rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) mod
Use of index testing to close the gap in HIV diagnosis among older people in Rwanda: analysis of data from a public health programme (Publications)
BACKGROUND: As Rwanda inches closer to the UNAIDS HIV first 95 of knowing one's HIV status by 2030, finding the remaining HIV-positive individuals could be difficult by use of passive methods. Index t
Preclinical characterization and target validation of the antimalarial pantothenamide MMV693183 (Publications)
Drug resistance and a dire lack of transmission-blocking antimalarials hamper malaria elimination. Here, we present the pantothenamide MMV693183 as a first-in-class acetyl-CoA synthetase (AcAS) inhibi
Gut microbiota targeted approach in the management of chronic liver diseases (Publications)
The liver is directly connected to the intestines through the portal vein, which enables the gut microbiota and gut-derived products to influence liver health. There is accumulating evidence of decrea
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and asthma symptom score in the CONSTANCES cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The asthma symptom score allows to consider asthma as a continuum and to investigate its risk factors. One previous study has investigated the association between asthma score and air poll
G-quadruplexes in helminth parasites (Publications)
Parasitic helminths infecting humans are highly prevalent infecting approximately 2 billion people worldwide, causing inflammatory responses, malnutrition and anemia that are the primary cause of morb
Investigating seasonal patterns in enteric infections: a systematic review of time series methods (Publications)
Foodborne and waterborne gastrointestinal infections and their associated outbreaks are preventable, yet still result in significant morbidity, mortality, and revenue loss. Many enteric infections dem
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and bladder cancer incidence in a pooled European cohort: the ELAPSE project (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The evidence linking ambient air pollution to bladder cancer is limited and mixed. METHODS: We assessed the associations of bladder cancer incidence with residential exposure to fine parti
