Publications

Blum A, Mudji J, Grize L, Burri C, Zellweger M.J, Blum J. Sleeping hearts: 12 years after a follow up study on cardiac findings due to sleeping sickness. One Health. 2020;11:100182. DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100182

Blum J, Chaney M, Mudji J, Mfungwa J.K, Rice T, Labhardt N.D. Glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes followed in a rural African primary care setting - a reality check in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prim Care Diabetes. 2020;14(2):139-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2019.08.002

Mudji J, Blum A, Grize L, Wampfler R, Ruf M.T, Cnops L, Nickel B, Burri C, Blum J. Gambiense human african trypanosomiasis sequelae after treatment: a follow-up study 12 years after treatment. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2020;5(1):10. DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010010

Blum A, Mudji J, Blum J. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis presenting with double vision in a resource-limited tropical setting. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;100(1):7-8. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0473

Brummaier T, Bertschy S, Arn K, Treumann T, Ruf M.T, Nickel B, Paris D.H, Neumayr A, Blum J. A blind passenger: a rare case of documented seroconversion in an Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced eosinophilic meningitis in a traveler visiting friends and relatives. Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines. 2019;5:6. DOI: 10.1186/s40794-019-0084-x

Frauchiger B, Koch D, Gaehler A, Blum J, Lura M, Kaiser D, Buettcher M. Don't forget the past: a sleeping disease can be awakened. J Paediatr Child Health. 2019;55(7):854-856. DOI: 10.1111/jpc.14380

Javelle E, Florescu S.A, Asgeirsson H, Jmor S, Eperon G, Leshem E, Blum J, Molina I, Field V, Pietroski N, Eldin C, Johnston V, Cotar I.A, Popescu C, Hamer D.H, Gautret P. Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(10):8-13. DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.10.1900146

Mudji J, Benhamou J, Mwamba-Miaka E, Burri C, Blum J. The flipside of eradicating a disease; human African trypanosomiasis in a woman in rural Democratic Republic of Congo: a case report. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2019;4(4):142. DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed4040142

Ruperti-Repilado F.J, Haefliger S, Rehm S, Zweier M, Rentsch K.M, Blum J, Jetter A, Heim M, Leuppi-Taegtmeyer A, Terracciano L, Bernsmeier C. Danger of herbal tea: a case of acute cholestatic hepatitis due to Artemisia annua tea. Front Med (Lausanne). 2019;6:221. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2019.00221

Adamczick C, Dierig A, Welzel T, Schifferli A, Blum J, Ritz N. Double trouble: visceral leishmaniasis in twins after traveling to Tuscany - a case report. BMC Infect Dis. 2018;18:495. DOI: 10.1186/s12879-018-3394-0

Auer C, Kiefer S, Zuske M, Schindler C, Wyss K, Blum J, Bosch-Capblanch X, Widmer U, Sauthier S, Janssens J.P, Bossard K, Chatonnet C, Mazza-StalderJ, Zacek B, Zellweger J-P, Altpeter E, Mäusezahl M. Health-seeking behaviour and treatment delay in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Switzerland: some slip through the net. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;148(35-36):w14659. DOI: 10.4414/smw.2018.14659

Blum J, Neumayr A, Lockwood D. Treatment of tegumentary forms of leishmaniasis. In: Bruschi F,Gradoni L, eds. The Leishmaniases: Old Neglected Tropical Diseases, 191-225. Cham: Springer, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72386-0_9

Mosimann V, Neumayr A, Paris D, Blum J. Liposomal amphotericin B treatment of Old World cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis: a literature review. Acta Trop. 2018;182:246-250. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.03.016

Neumayr A, Stöckle M, Künzli E, Kling K, Sydow V, Labhardt N, Beck B, Blum J, Paris D.H. Fieber bei Reiserückkehrern. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;16:345-354. DOI: 10.4414/smf.2018.03240

Burri C, Blum J. Human African trypanosomiasis. In: Cohen Jonathan,Powderly William G,Opal Steven M, eds. Infectious Diseases. 2, 966-970;1761-1762: Elsevier, 2017

Guery R, Henry B, Martin-Blondel G, Rouzaud C, Cordoliani F, Harms G, Gangneux J.P, Foulet F, Bourrat E, Baccard M, Morizot G, Consigny P.H, Berry A, Blum J, Lortholary O, Buffet P, French Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Study Goup, LeishMan Network. Liposomal amphotericin B in travelers with cutaneous and muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis: not a panacea. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017;11(11):e0006094. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006094

Hasler T, Stückelberger A, Ott E, Blum J. Diplopia and ptosis after diarrhea - a diagnostic challenge. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2017;17:76. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.03.003

Mudji J.E, Blum J, Rice T.D, Baliraine F.N. Congenital malaria and neonatal bacterial co-infection in twins prematurely born to a mother with sickle-cell anaemia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Malariaworld J. 2017;8(14):1-3

Burri C, Yeramian P.D, Allen J.L, Merolle A, Serge K.K, Mpanya A, Lutumba P, Mesu V.K, Bilenge C.M, Lubaki J.P, Mpoto A.M, Thompson M, Munungu B.F, Manuel F, Josenando T, Bernhard S.C, Olson C.A, Blum J, Tidwell R.R, Pohlig G. Efficacy, safety, and dose of pafuramidine, a new oral drug for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness, in a phase 2a clinical study and phase 2b randomized clinical studies. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016;10(2):e0004362. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004362

Ginier M, Neumayr A, Günther S, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Blum J. Zika without symptoms in returning travellers: what are the implications. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016;14(1):16-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.01.012

Kiefer S, Auer C, Altpeter E, Zellweger J.P, Blum J, Wyss K. Tuberkulose in der Schweiz: das Wichtigste in Kürze. Swiss Med Forum. 2016;16(30-31):613-618

Kling K, Künzli E, Blum J, Neumayr A. Acute Strongyloidiasis in a traveller returning from South East Asia. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016;14(5):535-536. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.05.003

Künzli E, Labhardt N, Balestra G, Weisser M, Zellweger M.J, Blum J. Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as a complication of toxocariasis-associated endomyocarditis with fibrosis: a case report. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3(3):ofw145. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw145

Künzli E, Neumayr A, Chaney M, Blum J. Toxocariasis-associated cardiac diseases: a systematic review of the literature. Acta Trop. 2016;154:107-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.11.003

Mosimann V, Blazek C, Grob H, Chaney M, Neumayr A, Blum J. Miltefosine for mucosal and complicated cutaneous old world leishmaniasis: a case series and review of the literature. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3(1):ofw008. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw008

Neumayr A, Blum J. When horse serum meets dog bite [Case illustrated]. IDCases. 2016;3:1-2. DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2015.09.003

Pohlig G, Bernhard S.C, Blum J, Burri C, Mpanya A, Lubaki J.P, Mpoto A.M, Munungu B.F, N'tombe P.M, Deo G.K, Mutantu P.N, Kuikumbi F.M, Mintwo A.F, Munungi A.K, Dala A, Macharia S, Bilenge C.M, Mesu V.K, Franco J.R, Dituvanga N.D, Tidwell R.R, Olson C.A. Efficacy and safety of pafuramidine versus pentamidine maleate for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness in a randomized, comparator-controlled, international phase 3 clinical trial. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016;10(2):e0004363. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004363

Stettler K, Beltramello M, Espinosa D.A, Graham V, Cassotta A, Bianchi S, Vanzetta F, Minola A, Jaconi S, Mele F, Foglierini M, Pedotti M, Simonelli L, Dowall S, Atkinson B, Percivalle E, Simmons C.P, Varani L, Blum J, Baldanti F, Cameroni E, Hewson R, Harris E, Lanzavecchia A, Sallusto F, Corti D. Specificity, cross-reactivity and function of antibodies elicited by Zika virus infection. Science. 2016;353(6301):823-826. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf8505

Berthod D, Genton B, Hatz C, Blum J, de Vallière S. Ability of physicians to diagnose influenza and usefulness of a rapid influenza antigen test in febrile returning travelers: a randomized controlled trial. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2015;13(5):394-399. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.08.001

Blum J, Kling K, Labhardt N. Leishmania et trypanosomes (Kinetoplastida): rares, mais plus actuels que nous le voudrions. Swiss Med Forum. 2015;15(50-51):1193-1195

Blum J, Kling K, Labhardt N. Leishmanien und Trypanosomen (Kinetoplastida): selten, aber aktueller, als uns lieb ist. Swiss Med Forum. 2015;15(50-51):1193-1195

Blum J. Recommendations for management for cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis: case studies and discussion. Trop Med Int Health, 2015;20(Suppl. 1):36

Gadient Hotz S, Müller D.J, Chaney M, Blum J. No fever, no malaria? A diagnostic challenge in an immunocompromised patient. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2015;13(6):511-512. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.11.002

Henry B, Morizot G, Blum J, Van der Auwera G, Clerinx J, Harms G, Bart A, Armstrong M, Ravel C, Robert-Gagneux F, Gangneux J.P, Felger I, Bailey M, Grogl M, Lockwood D, Buffet P. Worldwide diversity of leishmaniasis: harmonized collection of data and isolates by the European "LeishMan" network: the LeishMan Network. Trop Med Int Health, 2015;20(Suppl. 1):35. Abstracts of the 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, 6-10 September 2015, Basel, Switzerland

Kiefer S, Auer C, Wyss K, Blum J. Studie zum Wissen über Tuberkulose bei Hausärzten in der Schweiz : durchgeführt im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Gesundheit. Basel: Schweizerisches Zentrum für Internationale Gesundheit, 2015

Blum J, Buffet P, Visser L, Harms G, Bailey M.S, Caumes E, Clerinx J, van Thiel P.P.A.M, Morizot G, Hatz C, Dorlo T.P.C, Lockwood D.N.J. LeishMan recommendations for treatment of cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis in travelers, 2014. J Travel Med. 2014;21(2):116-129. DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12089

Künzli E, Jaeger V.K, Frei R, Neumayr A, DeCrom S, Haller S, Blum J, Widmer A.F, Furrer H, Battegay M, Endimiani A, Hatz C. High colonization rates of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli in Swiss travellers to South Asia- a prospective observational multicentre cohort study looking at epidemiology, microbiology and risk factors. BMC Infect Dis. 2014;14:528. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-528

Blum J, Pletscher M. Dermatologische Probleme bei Tropenrückkehrern - "banales Häufiges" und "seltenes, aber Gefährliches". Ther Umsch. 2013;70(6):335-342. DOI: 10.1024/0040-5930/a000412

Blum J. LeishMan: harmonising diagnostic and clinical management of leishmaniasis in Europe. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(30):20538

Mosimann V, Neumayr A, Hatz C, Blum J.A. Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Switzerland: first experience with species-specific treatment. Infection. 2013;41(6):1177-1182. DOI: 10.1007/s15010-013-0500-5