Discovery, biosynthetic origin, and heterologous production of massinidine, an antiplasmodial alkaloid (Publications)
Bacteria of the genus Massilia represent an underexplored source of bioactive natural products. Here, we report the discovery of massinidine (1), a guanidine alkaloid with antiplasmodial activity, fro
Influence of testing modality on bioefficacy for the evaluation of Interceptor® G2 mosquito nets to combat malaria mosquitoes in Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Insecticide-treated net (ITN) durability is evaluated using longitudinal bioefficacy and fabric integrity sampling post-distribution. Interceptor((R)) G2 was developed for resistance manag
Publico - a digital tool for pandemic crisis communication and management (Publications)
COVID-19 vividly demonstrates the global challenges of crisis communication. A flood of pandemic-related information from various sources and highly variable quality is inundating media platforms. To
The impact of <em>Loa loa</em> microfilaraemia on research subject retention during a whole sporozoite malaria vaccine trial in Equatorial Guinea (Publications)
Loa loa microfilariae were found on thick blood smears (TBSs) from 8 of 300 (2.7%) residents of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, during a Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite malaria vaccine clinical tria
Operational lessons learned in conducting an international study on pharmacovigilance in pregnancy in resource-constrained settings: the WHO Global... (Publications)
The WHO Global Vaccine Safety Multi-Country Collaboration study on safety in pregnancy aims to estimate the minimum detectable risk for selected perinatal and neonatal outcomes and assess the applicab
Cohort profile: the South African HIV Cancer Match (SAM) study, a national population-based cohort (Publications)
Purpose The South African HIV Cancer Match (SAM) Study is a national cohort of people living with HIV (PLWH). It was created using probabilistic record linkages of routine laboratory records of PLWH r
Methods matter: a comparative review of health risk assessments for ambient air pollution in Switzerland (Publications)
Objectives: Air pollution health risk assessments (AP-HRAs) provide a method to quantify health effects for entire populations. In Switzerland, AP-HRAs are included in Swiss assessments for Transport