Compliance with recommended <em>Varroa destructor</em> treatment regimens improves the survival of honey bee colonies over winter (Publications)
in apiaries with substantial deviations from the recommendations (odds ratio: 50.4, 95% CI: 9.7-262.5, p < 0.0001). The deviations led to increased levels of V. destructor infestation ahead of wintering
Efficacy, metabolism and pharmacokinetics of Ro 15-5458, a forgotten schistosomicidal 9-acridanone hydrazone (Publications)
hamsters and S. japonicum-infected mice. RESULTS: Ro 15-5458 had single-dose ED50 values of 15 and 5.3 mg/kg in mice harbouring juvenile and adult S. mansoni infections, respectively. An ED50 value of
Out of pocket expenditures of patients with a chronic condition consulting a primary care provider in Tajikistan: a cross-sectional household survey (Publications)
an acute condition. Adjustment for potential confounders reduced the discrepancy from 3.3 USD to 0.5 USD. This convergence of costs was only observed in districts covered by the Basic Benefit Package (BBP)
Gaussian process emulation to improve efficiency of computationally intensive multidisease models: a practical tutorial with adaptable R code (Publications)
of more complex chronic disease simulation models. One emulator run took 3.00 seconds (95% CI: 1.65-5.28) on a 64-bit operating system laptop with 8.00 gigabytes (GB) of Random Access Memory (RAM), compared
Mapping health service coverage inequalities in Africa: a scoping review protocol (Publications)
Synthesis. We preregistered this protocol with the Open Science Framework on 26 July 2022 (https://osf.io/zd5bt). We will consider any empirical research that assesses inequalities in relation to services for
Evaluation of 43 species of Congolese medicinal plants used traditionally for the treatment of schistosomiasis leading to the isolation of an... (Publications)
horbide a (1) was isolated as an active compound with 56% activity against NTS at 50 mug/mL and 22.5% activity against adult S. mansoni at 100 mug/mL but these activities are significantly less than those
Impacts of weather and air pollution on Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: a national case-crossover study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The number of reported cases of Legionnaires' disease (LD) has risen markedly in Switzerland (6.5/100,000 inhabitants in 2021) and abroad over the last decade. Legionella, the causative agent of LD
Systematic review and meta-analysis of integrated studies on antimicrobial resistance genes in Africa - a One Health perspective (Publications)
spp. (N = 6). The most prevalent AMR genes in animals included sul1 (36.2%), sul2 (32.0%), tetA (31.5%), strB (30.8%) and blaTEM (30.0%), whereas sul2 (42.4%), tetA (42.0%), strB (34.9%), blaTEM (28.8%)
Increased impact of air pollution on lung function in preterm versus term infants: the BILD study (Publications)
of PM10 and FeNO differed between moderate to late preterm [3.4 (-0.1, 6.8) ppb] and term [-0.3 (-1.5, 0.9) ppb] infants, the interaction with prematurity was significant (pprematurity x PM10 interaction
Scoping future outbreaks: a scoping review on the outbreak prediction of the WHO Blueprint list of priority diseases (Publications)
outbreaks. RESULTS: Out of 3959 articles identified, we included 58 articles based on inclusion criteria. 5 major prediction methods emerged; the most frequent being spatio-temporal risk maps predicting outbreak