Spraying tick-infested houses with lambda-cyhalothrin reduces the incidence of tick-borne relapsing fever in children under five years old (Publications)
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality of children in central Tanzania. This study assessed the effect of house interior residual spraying with lambda-cyhalothri
The Eukaryotic Promoter Database EPD: the impact of in silico primer extension (Publications)
The Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD) is an annotated non-redundant collection of eukaryotic POL II promoters, experimentally defined by a transcription start site (TSS). There may be multiple promot
Comparison of the Paracheck-Pf test with microscopy, for the confirmation of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in Tanzania (Publications)
Paracheck-Pf is a rapid, qualitative immuno-assay for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum-specific histidine-rich protein-2 in samples of human blood. The assay has now been evaluated, against the
The prevalence of antibodies to human herpesvirus 8 and hepatitis B virus in patients in two hospitals in Tanzania (Publications)
The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) and the immunization status for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in febrile patients in two districts of the U