Pacing and sprint performance in speed skating during a competitive season (Publications)
spending a shorter fraction of time in the last (women in S3: B = 239.1; P < .0001; men in S3: B = 201.5; P < .0001) but not in the first (women in S1: B = -313.1; P < .0001; men in S1: B = -345.6; P < .0001)
Discovery of novel orally bioavailable oxaborole 6-carboxamides that demonstrate cure in a murine model of late stage central nervous system African... (Publications)
carboxamides cured stage 1 (hemolymphatic) trypanosomiasis infection in mice when administered orally at 2.5 to10 mg/kg for 4 consecutive days. In stage 2 disease (central nervous system (CNS) involvement), mice
Traffic, susceptibility, and childhood asthma (Publications)
ip of local traffic-related exposure and asthma and wheeze in southern California school children (5-7 years of age). Lifetime history of doctor-diagnosed asthma and prevalent asthma and wheeze were evaluated
Mammography screening in Switzerland: limited evidence from limited data (Publications)
breast cancer mortality. The achievable long-term reduction in breast cancer mortality ranges from 5-20% in the target population provided that appropriate diagnostic investigation and treatment are available
Ethnobotanical study of some of mosquito repellent plants in north-eastern Tanzania (Publications)
mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus. High biting protection (83% to 91%) and feeding inhibition (71.2% to 92.5%) was observed against three species of mosquitoes. Likewise the extracts of Ocimum plants induced KD90
Inhibitory activity of marine sponge-derived natural products against parasitic protozoa (Publications)
osin-1 (1), furospinulosin-2 (2), furospongin-1 (3), furospongin-4 (4), and demethylfurospongin-4 (5); four linear meroterpenes: 2-(hexaprenylmethyl)-2-methylchromenol (6), 4-hydroxy-3-octaprenylbenzoic
Tuberculosis among transhumant pastoralist and settled communities of south-eastern Mauritania (Publications)
TB cases were identified, leading to an overall prevalence of 2.8%, (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.5-4.7%). The prevalence was non-significantly higher among villagers than pastoralists (3.6% vs. 2.0%)
Geostatistical modelling of the malaria risk in Mozambique: effect of the spatial resolution when using remotely-sensed imagery (Publications)
and Health survey carried out in 2011, which collected malaria parasitemia data on children from 0 to 5 years old, analysing them with a Bayesian geostatistical model. We compared the risk predicted using
Relative performance of indoor vector control interventions in the Ifakara and the West African experimental huts (Publications)
with > 4-fold higher mosquito exit relative to the West African huts (odds ratio 4.18, 95% CI: 3.18-5.51, P < 0.0001), regardless of treatment. While blood-feeding rates were significantly higher in the
A large-scale behavior change intervention to prevent Nipah transmission in Bangladesh: components and costs (Publications)
similar intervention in 30 districts where NiV spillover has occurred, would cost between $2.6 and $3.5 million for one season. Placing the posters would cost $96,000 and only broadcasting the public service