Parental and provider vaccine hesitancy and non-timely childhood vaccination in Switzerland (Publications)
Vaccines (PACV) 5-item survey instrument to 1256 parents and their children's pediatricians (N = 112, 40 CM-oriented, 72 biomedical [not CM-oriented]) to identify moderately (PACV-score 5-6) and highly [...] hesitant CM providers had 3.3 higher odds of non-timely vaccination for the 1st dose of measles and 3.5 higher odds for 1st dose of polio/pertussis/tetanus. CONCLUSION: VH by both parents and providers each
Study and implementation of urogenital schistosomiasis elimination in Zanzibar (Unguja and Pemba islands) using an integrated multidisciplinary... (Publications)
The Zanzibar government is now committed to eliminate urogenital schistosomiasis. Over the next 3--5 years, the whole at-risk population will be administered praziquantel (40 mg/kg) biannually. Additionally [...] in selected communities and the impact measured in a randomized intervention trial. METHODS: In this 5-year research study, on both Unguja and Pemba islands, urogenital schistosomiasis will be assessed in [...] aged 9--12 years annually, and in 4,500 first-year schoolchildren and 2,250...
Effect of deworming on school-aged children's physical fitness, cognition and clinical parameters in a malaria-helminth co-endemic area of Côte... (Publications)
setting of Cote d'Ivoire. METHODS: We designed an intervention study with a 5-month follow-up among schoolchildren aged 5-14 years from Niable, eastern Cote d'Ivoire. In late 2012, a baseline cross-sectional [...] performed significantly better in the sustained attention test than their non-infected counterparts at the 5-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed conflicting results regarding clinical parameters
Effect of home-based counselling on newborn care practices in southern Tanzania one year after implementation: a cluster-randomised controlled trial (Publications)
7-4.6)), and, for home births, tying the cord with a clean thread (69% versus 39%, OR 3.4 (95% CI 1.5-7.5)). For other behaviours there was little evidence of differences in reported practices between in [...] and identification and extra care for low birth weight babies. In 2011, in a representative sample of 5,240 households, we asked women who had given birth in the previous year both about counselling visits
Progress in mosquito net coverage in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
in 2009 P = 0.002), and 48.3% slept under a LLIN (32.5% in 2009, P = 0.001). LLIN use in children under five years amounted to 58.2%, compared to 39.5% in 2009 (P < 0.001). Significant regional differences [...] long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) distribution campaigns. In 2009, after the first distribution, only 32.5% of the population used a LLIN, mainly due to an insufficient number of nets available. This study
Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields: a cohort study of Swiss railway workers (Publications)
(median lifetime exposure 120.5 muT-years), and less or little exposed shunting yard engineers (42.1 muT-years), train attendants (13.3 muT-years) and station masters (5.7 muT-years). During 464,129 p [...] person-years of follow up, 5,413 deaths were recorded and 3,594 deaths were attributed to cardio-vascular diseases. We analyzed data using Cox proportional hazards models. RESULTS: For all cardiovascular
Identification of oleamide in <em>Guatteria</em> recurvisepala by LC/MS-Based <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> thioredoxin reductase ligand binding... (Publications)
20-min gradient of 95 % B consisting of (A) 0.1 % formic acid in 95 % H (2)O-5 % ACN, and (B) 0.1 % formic acid in 95 % ACN-5% H (2)O in an LC-QTOF-MS. Tandem MS of the protonated molecule M/Z 282.2792 [...] ligand identified in the extract of GUATTERIA RECURVISEPALA displayed a relative binding affinity of 3.5-fold when incubated with 1 microM PFTrxR. The ligand corresponding to the protonated molecule M/Z 282
Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) IV: epidemiology of urban malaria in Cotonou (Benin) (Publications)
surveys, a malaria infection was found in 5.2 % of all samples. The prevalence rates of parasitaemia in the centre, intermediate and periphery zones were 2.6%, 9.0% and 2.5%, respectively. In the health facility [...] shown to be protective for an infection (OR = 0.23, 95% CI 0.07-0.78). Travelling to a rural area (5.8% of all respondents) did not increase the infection risk. CONCLUSION: The homogenously low malaria
Single-center outcome analysis of 1,161 patients with St. Jude medical and ATS open pivot mechanical heart valves (Publications)
family physicians. Follow up was 98.9% complete; the median follow up was 4.6 years; total follow up was 5,624 patient-years (pt-yr). RESULTS: A total of 604 SJM and 601 ATS prostheses was implanted as isolated [...] freedom from valve-related mortality at 10 years for SJM and ATS valves were 66 +/- 3% versus 68 +/- 5% (p = 0.84) and 96 +/- 1% versus 97 +/- 1% (p = 0.36), respectively. No structural valve failure was [...] respectively, were: thromboembolism 0.9 and 1.1%/pt-yr; major bleeding...
Meat intake, cooking-related mutagens and risk of colorectal adenoma in a sigmoidoscopy-based case-control study (Publications)
nanogram consumption of 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine, 2-amino-3,4,8-trimethylimidazo[4,5-f] quinoxaline, 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline and benzo[a]pyrene (BP). We observed a
