Modelling reactive case detection strategies for interrupting transmission of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria (Publications)
RCD is highly resource intensive, requiring testing and treating of 400-500 people every week for 5-10 years for a reasonable chance of elimination in a Zambia-like setting.
Varicella seroprevalence in individuals with a negative or unknown varicella history - results from a large travel clinic in Switzerland between 2008... (Publications)
y with increasing age. Those aged less than 40 years were significantly more often seronegative (9.5%) than those aged 40 years and above (6.0%, p = 0.049). Seropositivity was associated with nationality
Implementation of tuberculosis intensive case finding, isoniazid preventive therapy, and infection control ("Three I's") and HIV-tuberculosis service... (Publications)
2012 at 47 sites in 26 countries: 6 (13%) Asia Pacific, 7 (15%), Caribbean, Central and South America, 5 (10%) Central Africa, 8 (17%) East Africa, 14 (30%) Southern Africa, and 7 (15%) West Africa. RESULTS:
Improving institutional childbirth services in rural Southern Tanzania: a qualitative study of healthcare workers' perspective (Publications)
11 dispensaries and 2 health centres in rural Southern Tanzania. PARTICIPANTS: 4 clinical officers, 5 nurses and 6 medical attendants from different health facilities were interviewed. RESULTS: The healthcare
Diagnostic performance of conventional and ultrasensitive rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in febrile outpatients in Tanzania (Publications)
us-qPCR (Npos=357) only marginally (us-RDT, 75%; co-RDT, 73%). Specificity of both RDTs was > 99%. 5 of 11 additional positive us-RDT were negative in us-qPCR. HRP2 concentration was above the detectable
Multistage antiplasmodium activity of astemizole analogues and inhibition of hemozoin formation as a contributor to their mode of action (Publications)
first ever gametocytes screening of AST and its analogues revealed their moderate activity (IC50: 1 - 5 microM) against late stage P. falciparum gametocytes, while the evaluation of activity against P. berghei
Reactivity to accelerometer measurement of children and adolescents (Publications)
CONCLUSION: Reactivity to accelerometer measurement of PA is likely to be present to an extent of about 5% on the first day and may introduce a relevant bias to accelerometer-based studies. In pre-school children
The effect of workplace smoking bans on heart rate variability and pulse wave velocity of non-smoking hospitality workers (Publications)
with a 2.3 % (95 % CI 0.2-4.4; p = 0.031) higher root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD), a 5.7 % (95 % CI 0.9-10.2; p = 0.02) higher high-frequency component and a 0.72 % (95 % CI 0.40-1.05; p
Vaccines safety; effect of supervision or SMS on reporting rates of adverse events following immunization (AEFI) with meningits vaccine... (Publications)
visits or (iii) no intervention. The primary outcome was the reported AEFI incidence rate from week 5 to 8 after the immunization campaign. Poisson regression model was used to estimate the effect of i
Assessing willingness to pay for improved sanitation in rural Vietnam (Publications)
household, (2) age of the head of household, (3) economic status of household, (4) type of current toilet, (5) satisfaction with existing toilet, and (6) knowledge of health effects of poor sanitation. The significant
