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1. Assessing the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention on hand hygiene and well-being in primary health care centers and schools lacking... (Publications)

   Assessing the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention on hand hygiene and well-being in primary health care centers and schools lacking functional water supply in protracted conflict settings: Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

   Relevance:

   BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene is crucial in health care centers and schools to avoid disease transmission. Currently, little is known about hand hygiene in such facilities in protracted conflict settings.

2. Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: personal beliefs, intimate partner negotiations and social pressure (Publications)

   Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: personal beliefs, intimate partner negotiations and social pressure

   Relevance:

   The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has a low prevalence of family planning use. Recent studies have highlighted the significant role that socio-cultural factors play in the decision to use fam

3. Optimizing malaria vector control in the Greater Mekong Subregion: a systematic review and mathematical modelling study to identify desirable... (Publications)

   Optimizing malaria vector control in the Greater Mekong Subregion: a systematic review and mathematical modelling study to identify desirable intervention characteristics

   Relevance:

   BACKGROUND: In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), new vector-control tools are needed to target mosquitoes that bite outside during the daytime and night-time to advance malaria elimination. METHODS:

4. Prevalence and intensity of urinary schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths among women of reproductive age in Mwaluphamba, Kwale (Publications)

   Prevalence and intensity of urinary schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths among women of reproductive age in Mwaluphamba, Kwale

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   Objective: To assess the epidemiology of urinary schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis among women of reproductive age in Mwaluphamba, Kwale County, Kenya. Methods: A community-based cros

5. Ecology of arboviruses and their potential mosquito vectors in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Gabon: a mini review (Publications)

   Ecology of arboviruses and their potential mosquito vectors in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Gabon: a mini review

   Relevance:

   Mosquito-borne arboviral zoonoses are an increasingly (re-)emerging threat for millions of people in endemic countries of Africa. Aedes-transmitted yellow fever (YF), dengue (DEN), chikungunya (CHIK),

6. hERG,<em> Plasmodium</em> life cycle, and cross resistance profiling of new azabenzimidazole analogues of astemizole (Publications)

   hERG,<em> Plasmodium</em> life cycle, and cross resistance profiling of new azabenzimidazole analogues of astemizole

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   Toward addressing the cardiotoxicity liability associated with the antimalarial drug astemizole (AST, hERG IC50 = 0.0042 μM) and its derivatives, we designed and synthesized analogues based on compoun

7. A new model for ranking schools of public health: the public health academic ranking (Publications)

   A new model for ranking schools of public health: the public health academic ranking

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   Objectives: As there is no ranking designed for schools of Public Health, the aim of this project was to create one. Methods: To design the Public Health Academic Ranking (PHAR), we used the InCites B

8. Phylogenetic analysis of pyruvate-ferredoxin oxidoreductase, a redox enzyme involved in the pharmacological activation of nitro-based prodrugs in... (Publications)

   Phylogenetic analysis of pyruvate-ferredoxin oxidoreductase, a redox enzyme involved in the pharmacological activation of nitro-based prodrugs in bacteria and protozoa

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   The present frontrunners in the chemotherapy of infections caused by protozoa are nitro-based prodrugs that are selectively activated by PFOR-mediated redox reactions. This study seeks to analyze the

9. Child health and infection with low density (CHILD) malaria: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to assess the long-term health and... (Publications)

   Child health and infection with low density (CHILD) malaria: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to assess the long-term health and socioeconomic impacts of testing and treating low-density malaria infection among children in Tanzania

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   INTRODUCTION: As malaria declines, low-density malaria infections (LMIs) represent an increasing proportion of infections and may have negative impacts on child health and cognition, necessitating dev

10. Concordance of targeted and whole genome sequencing for <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> genotypic drug susceptibility testing (Publications)

    Concordance of targeted and whole genome sequencing for <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> genotypic drug susceptibility testing

    Relevance:

    Targeted Next Generation Sequencing (tNGS) and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) are increasingly used for genotypic drug susceptibility testing (gDST) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Thirty-two multi-drug