Physical activity and health-related quality of life among schoolchildren from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (Publications)
PURPOSE: The relationship between health-related quality of life (HRQoL), physical activity (PA), and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) among disadvantaged communities in low- and middle-income countrie
Residential air pollution and associations with wheeze and shortness of breath in adults: a combined analysis of cross-sectional data from two large... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Research examining associations between air pollution exposure and respiratory symptoms in adults has generally been inconclusive. This may be related in part to sample size issues, which
Immunohistochemical investigations of treatment with Ro 13-3978, praziquantel, oxamniquine and mefloquine in <em>Schistosoma mansoni-</em>infected... (Publications)
To date there is only one drug in use, praziquantel, to treat more than 250 million people afflicted with schistosomiasis, a debilitating parasitic disease. The aryl hydantoin Ro 13-3978 is a promisin
Estimating the burden of scrub typhus: a systematic review (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus is a vector-borne zoonotic disease that can be life-threatening. There are no licensed vaccines, or vector control efforts in place. Despite increasing awareness in endemic re
The contribution of malaria control interventions on spatio-temporal changes of parasitaemia risk in Uganda during 2009-2014 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In Uganda, malaria vector control interventions and case management with Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs) have been scaled up over the last few years as a result of increased fundi
Malaria case management by community health workers in the Central African Republic from 2009-2014: overcoming challenges of access and instability... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In the Central African Republic (CAR), decades of armed conflict have crippled the public health system. This has left the population without timely access to life-saving services and ther
Molecular characterization of bovine tuberculosis strains in two slaughterhouses in Morocco (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is caused by Mycobacterium bovis, which belongs to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Mycobacterium bovis have been described to be responsible of most cases
Review of current typhoid fever vaccines, cross-protection against paratyphoid fever, and the European guidelines (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Typhoid and paratyphoid fever remain a global health problem, which - in non-endemic countries - are mainly seen in travelers, particularly in VFRs (visiting friends and relatives), with
Association between childhood diarrhoeal incidence and climatic factors in urban and rural settings in the health district of Mbour, Senegal (Publications)
We assessed the association between childhood diarrhoeal incidence and climatic factors in rural and urban settings in the health district of Mbour in western Senegal. We used monthly diarrhoeal case