Dengue fever in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: clinical features and outcome in populations of black and non-black racial category (Publications)
2.9 versus 2.7 days; p = 0.01). Malaria coinfection was not significantly different between black (5%) and non-black (1.6%) patients (p = 0.06). The same proportion of patients in both group had secondary [...] Non-black race (adjusted OR 3.9; 95% CI 1.3-12) and previously known diabetes (adjusted OR 43; 95% CI 5.2-361) were independently associated with severe dengue. CONCLUSIONS: Although all patients were infected
Outbreak of <em>Cryptosporidium hominis</em> following river flooding in the city of Halle (Saale), Germany, August 2013 (Publications)
95%-CI: 0.9-7.6). In multivariable analysis visits to the floodplain remained the sole risk factor (OR: 5.5; 95%-CI: 1.4-22). Only C.hominis of a single genotype (IbA9G2) was detected in stools. Oocysts were
Different aspects of electronic media use, symptoms and neurocognitive outcomes of children and adolescents in the rural Western Cape region of South... (Publications)
cohort (31.8%) are mobile phone users reporting average duration of calls per day up to 75 min (mean = 2.5 mins; SD = 8.9 mins). Amongst 46% of the cohort who report e-media device use, total screen time ranged [...] disturbance score increased by 2.0 (1.1, 2.9) units and headache impact score significantly increased by 5.4 (2.6; 8.2) units compared to non-exposed. Cognitive performance scores tended to be slightly improved
The impact of soil transmitted helminth on malaria clinical presentation and treatment outcome: a case control study among children in Bagamoyo... (Publications)
species tended to be associated with increased risk of clinical malaria [OR = 3.0, 95% CI of 0.9-9.5]. In multiple conditional regression analysis, the overall protective effect was lower for all helminth [...] parasitemia to severe malaria, there was a 50% significant protective effect with overall helminths [OR = 0.5, 95% CI of 0.3-0.9]. On the contrary, hookworm species was highly predictive of uncomplicated and severe
Epidemiological links between malaria parasitaemia and hypertension: findings from a population-based survey in rural Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
Malaria parasitaemia was negatively associated with hypertension in participants with body temperature 36.5 degrees C or less [OR 0.23 (95% CI 0.06-0.84)]. Contrastingly, microscopic malaria parasitaemia showed [...] showed positive associations with hypertension in participants with elevated body temperature [> 36.5 degrees C; OR: 2.93 (95% CI 0.94-9.14)]. Participants having microscopic malaria parasitaemia with elevated
Assessment of radio frequency electromagnetic field exposure induced by base stations in several micro-environments in France (Publications)
urban and rural areas, are selected in France under on the one hand the French Beyond5G project and on the other hand the 5G expOsure, causaL effects and rIsk perception through citizen engagement (GOLIAT)
Predictive value of clinical and laboratory features for the main febrile diseases in children living in Tanzania: a prospective observational study (Publications)
(aLR+> 1) or rule out (aLR+ /=40 degrees C (aLR+8.4, 95%CI 4.7-15), for typhoid abdominal tenderness (5.9,2.5-11), for urinary tract infection (UTI) age > /=3 years (0.20,0-0.50), for radiological pneumonia
Wayanin and guaijaverin, two active metabolites found in a <em>Psidium acutangulum</em> Mart. ex DC (syn. P. persoonii McVaugh) (Myrtaceae)... (Publications)
(wayanin and guaijaverin) were found to be moderately active against P. falciparum FcB1 in vitro (IC50 5.5 and 6.9microM respectively). We proposed the name wayanin during public meetings organized in June
A malaria risk map of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
in 2011, with seven HZs sampled in both surveys. Mean prevalence for malaria and anaemia was 6.4 % (5.6-7.4) and 65.1 % (63.7-66.6) in 2009, and 17.0 % (15.7-18.3) and 64.2 % (62.6-65.9) in 2011. In two [...] % and 0.8 % in Ngiri Ngiri (urban). History of fever during the preceding two weeks was 13.2 % (12.5-14.3) and 22.3 % (20.8-23.4) in 2009 and 2011. Household ownership of at least one insecticide-treated
Comparison of sensitivity and faecal egg counts of mini-FLOTAC using fixed stool samples and Kato-Katz technique for the diagnosis of <em>Schistosoma... (Publications)
readings revealed prevalences of Schistosoma mansoni, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm of 99.3%, 72.5% and 7.4%, respectively. Employing a Bayesian latent class analysis to estimate the true sensitivity [...] was 50.1% (95% Bayesian credible interval (BCI): 30.9-70.2%) for hookworm and 68.0% (95% BCI: 34.9-93.5%) for T. trichiura. When applying Mini-FLOTAC using FS7, the sensitivity was 89.9% (95% BCI: 86.9-97