Exposure to multiple pesticides and neurobehavioral outcomes among smallholder farmers in Uganda (Publications)
with overall pesticide exposure (marginal inclusion probability (MIP) for covariate-only models 0.5). RESULTS: Seventy-two percent of farmers reported use of pesticide products that contained at least
Integrated community based human and animal syndromic surveillance in Adadle district of the Somali region of Ethiopia (Publications)
constituted (42.8%) of all syndromes, followed by respiratory disorder (37.8%) and febrile illness (15.5%). In livestock, cattle contributed (40.8%) of all cases of illness, while sheep, goats and camels
An autoencoder and artificial neural network-based method to estimate parity status of wild mosquitoes from near-infrared spectra (Publications)
out-of-sample accuracies of 81.9+/-2.8 (N = 274), 68.7+/-4.8 (N = 43), 80.3+/-2.0 (N = 48), and 75.7+/-2.5 (N = 91), respectively. With the autoencoder, ANN models tested on out-of-sample data achieved 97.1+/-2
Effectiveness of the innovative 1,7-malaria reactive community-based testing and response (1, 7-mRCTR) approach on malaria burden reduction in... (Publications)
the intervention wards declined by 81% (from 26% (95% CI 23.7, 7.8), at baseline to 4.9% (95% CI 4.0, 5.9) at endline). In villages receiving the 1,7-mRCTR, the short-term case ratio decreased by over 15
Rabies immunoglobulin: brief history and recent experiences in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
groups, corresponding to a possible rabies mortality of 1.2% (95% CI 0.3-3.6%) in the eRIG group and 0.5% (95% CI 0.1-1.4%) in the non-eRIG group. The difference in proportions was small and not statistically
Anonymous HIV surveillance with risk factor elicitation at Scotland's largest prison, Barlinnie (Publications)
that there was a significant deficit of recent HIV test uptake by Glasgow residents (odds ratio, 0.5; 95% confidence interval, 0.27-0.89), that IDU were more likely to have had treatment for a sexually
Accelerating towards <em>P. vivax</em> elimination with a novel serological test-and-treat strategy: a modelling case study in Brazil (Publications)
efficacy radical cure regimen with primaquine is predicted to reduce point population prevalence by 22.5% [95% UI: 20.2%-24.8%] in a peri-urban setting with high transmission and by 25.2% [95% UI: 9.6%-42
eHealth supported multi-months dispensing of antiretroviral therapy: a mixed-methods preference assessment in rural Lesotho (Publications)
age = 43 years; 74% female), 83/112 (75%) preferred MMD for 6-12 months (median = 9 months, IQR = [5, 12]). Neither sex, age, employment, costs and time for travel to clinic, nor the duration of taking
Transmission and diversity of <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> and <em>S. bovis </em>and their freshwater intermediate snail hosts <em>Bulinus... (Publications)
between 2016 and 2019 in Pemba. By analysing a partial mitochondrial cox1 region and the nuclear ITS (1-5.8S-2) rDNA region of Schistosoma cercariae, we identified 18 S. haematobium and three S. bovis haplotypes
Simple clinical and laboratory predictors to improve empirical treatment strategies in areas of high scrub typhus and dengue endemicity, central... (Publications)
over 40. Sensitivity and specificity of predictions based on these seven factors reached 93.7% and 99.5%, respectively. When excluding the "eschar" variable, the values dropped to 76.3% and 92.3%, respectively