Occupational exposure and the risk of airway obstruction and mortality (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To identify occupational groups at high risk of airway obstruction (AO) and mortality and potential interactions with smoking. METHODS: Lung function data from the LuftiBus project were en
Malaria infection prevalence and sensitivity of reactive case detection in Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Reactive case detection (RCD) is a commonly used strategy for malaria surveillance and response in elimination settings. Many approaches to RCD assume detectable infections are clustered w
‘The time where the British took the lead is over’: ethical aspects of writing in complex research partnerships (Publications)
Writing reflects some of the different characteristics of the language being used and of the people who are communicating. The present paper focusses on the internal written communication in internati
Antenatal care service delivery and factors affecting effective tetanus vaccine coverage in low- and middle-income countries: results of the Maternal... (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To map the integration of existing maternal tetanus immunization programmes within antenatal care (ANC) services for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and to ident
A sister lineage of the <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>complex discovered in the African Great Lakes region (Publications)
The human- and animal-adapted lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) are thought to have expanded from a common progenitor in Africa. However, the molecular events that accompanied
The evolution of the female sexual disorder/dysfunction definitions, nomenclature, and classifications: a review of DSM, ICSM, ISSWSH, and ICD (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: The 2 most well-known classification systems that include sexual medicine diagnoses are the International Classification of Diseases and Statistics (ICD) and the Diagnostic and Statistic
Effectiveness of the innovative 1,7-malaria reactive community-based testing and response (1, 7-mRCTR) approach on malaria burden reduction in... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In 2015, a China-UK-Tanzania tripartite pilot project was implemented in southeastern Tanzania to explore a new model for reducing malaria burden and possibly scaling-out the approach into
Validation of quantitative scores derived from motor evoked potentials in the assessment of primary progressive multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal... (Publications)
Objective: To evaluate the sensitivity to change of differently calculated quantitative scores from motor evoked potentials (MEP) in patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS). Method