<em>Schistosoma</em>, other helminth infections, and associated risk factors in preschool-aged children in urban Tanzania (Publications)
and performed medical examinations. We performed full blood cell counts and screened for HIV and malaria. Point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA), urine filtration, Kato-Katz, FLOTAC, and Baermann
Phase III study to compare intravenous with oral iron to treat iron deficiency anaemia (Projects)
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supply, different perception of medication needs and compliance as well as concomitant diseases like malaria, soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis or HIV. All these factors may influence the efficacy
The cost-effectiveness of permethrin impregnated bednets in preventing child mortality in Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana (Publications)
bednets are now being widely promoted as an effective means of protecting African children against malaria, but there is little evidence of their cost-effectiveness. The impact on child mortality of introducing
Key contributions by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute towards new and better drugs for tropical diseases (Publications)
clonorchiasis, fascioliasis and opisthorchiasis), human African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, malaria, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis and tuberculosis. In this article, we show case
Morbidity due to <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em>: an epidemiological assessment of distended abdomen syndrome in Ugandan school children with... (Publications)
chronically evolved morbidity and/or that other interacting factors were involved, e.g. malnutrition and malaria. At 1-year follow-up, ACR scores showed an overall trend of regression towards the mean, potentially
Alterations in T cell subsets in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults with co-infections in southern Mozambique (Publications)
viruses I and II [HTLV-I/II], Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus [KSHV], Plasmodium falciparum malaria, and tuberculosis), and levels of activated CD8 and CD4 T cell subsets as well as naive and memory
From innovation to application: social-ecological context, diagnostics, drugs and integrated control of schistosomiasis (Publications)
Compared to malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, schistosomiasis remains a truly neglected tropical disease. Schistosomiasis, perhaps more than any other disease, is entrenched in prevailing social-ecological
Characterization of the small exported <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> membrane protein SEMP1 (Publications)
Survival and virulence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum during the blood stage of infection critically depend on extensive host cell refurbishments mediated through export of numerous
Sequence analysis of the MSP 1 gene of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> isolates from Hainan, China (Publications)
. METHODS: Genomic DNA was prepared directly from blood samples spotted on filter papers from 2 malaria patients from Baoting County, Hainan Province. PCR amplification of the target gene was carried out
Diagnosis of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infection using ParaSight(R)-F test in blood and urine of Papua New Guinean children (Publications)
Rapid, simple, accurate and cheap methods are required for the diagnosis of malaria in endemic areas. The ParaSight(R)-F test, which is based on qualitative detection by monoclonal antibody of the Plasmodium