Strategies for understanding and reducing the <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> and <em>Plasmodium ovale</em> hypnozoite reservoir in Papua New Guinean... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The undetectable hypnozoite reservoir for relapsing Plasmodium vivax and P. ovale malarias presents a major challenge for malaria control and elimination in endemic countries. This study a
The time-course of protection of the RTS,S vaccine against malaria infections and clinical disease (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Recent publications have reported follow-up of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine candidate Phase III trials at 11 African sites for 32 months (or longer). This includes site- and time-specifi
Innovative tools and OpenHDS for health and demographic surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health in low and middle income countries is on one hand characterized by a high burden associated with preventable communicable diseases and on the other hand considered to be under-docum
The transcription factor Rfx3 regulates {beta}-cell differentiation, function and glucokinase expression (Publications)
AbstractObjectives: Pancreatic islets of perinatal mice lacking the transcription factor Rfx3 exhibit a marked reduction in insulin-producing beta-cells. The objective of this work was to unravel the
Host specificity of <em>Haemonchus </em>spp. for domestic ruminants in the savanna in northern Ivory Coast (Publications)
Three Haemonchus species (Haemonchus contortus, Haemonchus placei and Haemonchus similis) live in sympatry in the savanna of North Cote d'Ivoire. Four domestic ruminant hosts (zebu-cattle, taurine-cat
