Key factors predicting suspected severe malaria case management and health outcomes: an operational study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)
carried out, using multilevel-mixed effects logistic regression models. Severely ill febrile children < 5 years seeking care from community-based healthcare providers were recruited into a patient surveillance [...] during 28 days home visits. RESULTS: Overall, 66.4% of patients had iCCM general danger signs. Age of 2-5 years and iCCM general danger signs predicted RAS use (aOR = 2.77, 95% CI 2.04-3.77). RAS administration
Dietary diversity in primary schoolchildren of south-central Côte d'Ivoire and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (Publications)
part of Cote d'Ivoire. Underweight and overweight were defined as a body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) < 5th and 85th up to 95th percentile for sex and age, respectively. Dietary diversity of children was calculated [...] 05). Most children were normal weight (n = 496), whereas 3.9% of children classified as prediabetic, 5% were underweight, and 15% overweight. LDL-C and HDL-C levels of children were associated with age,
Impact of road traffic noise on obesity measures: observational study of three European cohorts (Publications)
from a standardised European noise assessment framework. Residential exposures to NO2 for 2007 and PM2.5 for 2010 were estimated from Europe-wide land use regression models. Obesity markers including body [...] associations were robust to most other sensitivity analyses but attenuated by further adjustment of PM2.5 or area-level socioeconomic status. Associations were more pronounced among women, those with low physical
Abundance of <em>Opisthorchis felineus </em>metacercariae in cyprinid fish in the middle Ob river basin (Tomsk region, Russia) (Publications)
ide is the main infection source in the Ob River (prevalence of infection, 100%, and intensity, 50.5 metacercariae per fish) and the common dace in the Tom River (91.1% and 12.7 metacercariae). Although [...] fish harvested in the Tomsk region. According to epidemiological survey, among 600 participants, 87.5% (n = 525) of respondents consumed river fish, with the most popular fish being cyprinids including
The independent association of source-specific transportation noise exposure, noise annoyance and noise sensitivity with health-related quality of... (Publications)
difference in SF-36 scores between highest vs. lowest sensitivity tertile: Mental health -5.96 (-7.57; -4.36); general health -5.16 (-7.08; -3.24)). Within all noise parameters, we predominantly observed negative
Vorkommen des Hautwurms <em>Dirofilaria repens</em> bei Hunden in der Schweiz (Publications)
2018 five of 546 analyzed samples (5/546, 0,9 %, 95 % confidence interval [95 % CI]=0,7 - 1,2 %) tested positive for D. repens, in 2019 four of 591 (0,7 %, 95 % CI=0,5 - 0,9 %), in 2020 15 of 783 (1,9 %
Transfluthrin eave-positioned targeted insecticide (EPTI) reduces human landing rate (HLR) of pyrethroid resistant and susceptible malaria vectors in... (Publications)
insecticide (EPTI) depends on the resistance status of malaria vectors. METHODS: Ribbons treated with 5.25 g transfluthrin or untreated controls were used around the eaves of an experimental hut as EPTI inside [...] transfluthrin and mosquito strain on mosquito landing rates and 24-h mortality. RESULTS: EPTI treated with 5.25 g of either TG or EC transfluthrin significantly reduced HLR of all susceptible and resistant Anopheles
Incidence of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria infection in 6-month to 45-year-olds on selected areas of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (Publications)
lds, 0.26 in 5-17-year-olds, 0.20 in 18-45-year-olds). Incidence of first malaria with symptoms was 0.13 [95% CI (0.09, 0.19)] per person per 24 weeks (0.16 in 6-59-month-olds, 0.10 in 5-17-year-olds,
Comparison of cone bioassay estimates at two laboratories with different <em>Anopheles </em>mosquitoes for quality assurance of pyrethroid... (Publications)
METHODS: Double-blinded bioassays were conducted on twenty unused pyrethroid ITNs of 4 brands (100 nets, 5 subsamples per net) that had been delivered for mass distribution in Papua New Guinea (PNG) having passed [...] mortality (M24) (rs = 0.9,p < 0.0001,n = 20) but BA showed systematic bias between the results. Of the 5 nets with discrepant result between IHI and PNGIMR, three had confidence intervals overlapping the 80%
The effect of dose on the antimalarial efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine: a systematic review and pooled analysis of individual patient data (Publications)
analyses. The PCR-adjusted therapeutic efficacy was 97.6% (95% CI 97.4-97.9) at day 28 and 96.0% (95.6-96.5) at day 42. After controlling for age and parasitaemia, patients prescribed a higher dose of artemether [...] a total lumefantrine dose less than 60 mg/kg had the lowest PCR-adjusted efficacy (91.7%, 95% CI 86.5-96.9). In Africa, the risk of treatment failure was greatest in malnourished children aged 1-3 years