Isolation of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> from Swab and Fine-Needle-Aspiration Specimens (Publications)
and cultivation on supplemented medium. Nevertheless, the proportions of positive cultures, 41.7% (5/12) for fine-needle-aspiration (FNA) samples and 43.8% (49/112) for swab samples, were lower than those
VErtical GrAdient Study (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/vertical-gradient-study
knowledge for four key air pollutants, both in real-time (Particle Number Concentration (PNC), PM2.5 and black carbon) and on the long-term (NO2), and has two components: 1) A real-time (short-term) component [...] which aims to characterize vertical gradients at 10 locations in Basel for 3 air pollutants (PNC, PM2.5 and black carbon) using quality real-time instruments which are sampling simultaneously at 6 different
Prevalence and determinants of undernutrition in schoolchildren in the Kilombero district, South-Eastern Tanzania (Publications)
underweight, overweight, and obesity was 11.8%, 4.3%, 3.9%, 11.1%, and 2.0%, respectively. Overall, 1.5% of the children had malaria, as determined by rapid diagnostic tests, and 0.4% had severe anaemia. [...] emphasise the need for school-based health and nutrition programmes targeting children beyond the age of 5 to improve their nutritional status and mitigate potential adverse effects on health, cognition, and
Qualitative analysis of cultural formulation interview: findings and implications for revising the outline for cultural formulation (Publications)
Interview (CFI) for DSM-5 provided a tool enabling wider use of cultural formulation in clinical cultural assessment. Validation to justify the inclusion of the CFI in DSM-5 involved quantitative analysis
Use of antibody tools to provide serologic evidence of elimination of <em>Lymphatic filariasis</em> in the Gambia (Publications)
= 599) was also tested for antibodies to Bm14 by ELISA. Overall, the prevalence of Wb123 was low (1.5%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.1-2.1%). In 7 of 15 villages (46.7%), there were no Wb123-positive [...] positive responses to Wb123 ranged in age from 3 to 100 years. Overall, Bm14 prevalence was also low (1.5%, 95% CI 0.7-2.8%). Bm14 positivity was significantly associated with older age (P < 0.001). The low
Ealamines A-H, a series of naphthylisoquinolines with the rare 7,8'-coupling site, from the Congolese liana <em>Ancistrocladus ealaensis</em>,... (Publications)
naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids were isolated, comprising eight new compounds, named ealamines A-H (4a, 4b, 5-10), and two known ones, 6-O-demethylancistrobrevine A (11) and yaoundamine A (12), which had previously [...] nutrient-deprived medium, without causing toxicity under normal, nutrient-rich conditions, with ealamine C (5) as the most potent agent.
Interventional cardiac catheterization predictors at Al-Arabi Heart Center in Palestine in 2017 (Publications)
tested negative for troponin on presentation. Multivariate logistic regression showed Troponin (RR = 4.5), Age (RR = 1.0), Female gender (RR = 0.4) previous catheterization (RR = 2.0), and existence of diabetes [...] for an interventional cardiac catheterization was significant only in case of ST-Elevation (RR = 1.5), and T wave inversion (RR = 1.6). CK-MB, Hypertension and ECG with ST-depression were not significant
High detection rate of <em>Rickettsia africae</em> in <em>Amblyomma variegatum</em> but low prevalence of anti-rickettsial antibodies in healthy... (Publications)
was performed on 111 A. variegatum ticks. Rickettsial DNA was detected in 96 of 111 ticks studied (86.5%). Rickettsia africae was identified as the only infecting rickettsia using phylogenetic analysis of [...] rickettsial antigen was used. We found R. conorii-seropositives at all altitudes with prevalences between 0.5% and 3.1%. Our results suggest that A. variegatum ticks highly infected with R. africae are the most
Correlates and outcomes of alcohol use after single solid organ transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
reported > /=5 times. RESULTS: Of the 5331 studies identified, 76 were included in this systematic review (93.3% on liver Tx; mean sample size 148.9 (SD=160.2); 71.9% male; mean age 48.9years (SD=6.5); mean
Insufficient fruit and vegetable intake in a low- and middle-income setting: a population-based survey in semi-urban Tanzania (Publications)
A daily intake of 5 portions of fruit and vegetables (FV) is recommended for protection against non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Inadequate FV intake is a global problem but resource-poor countries like [...] participants did not meet the recommended daily FV intake While only a fraction consumed fruits daily (15.5%), almost half consumed vegetables daily (44.2%). However, the median (IQR) number of vegetable portions
