Household survey of pesticide practice, deliberate self-harm and suicide in the Sundarban region of west Bengal, India (Publications)
The toxicological impact and intentional ingestion of pesticides are major public health concerns globally. This study aimed to estimate the extent of deliberate self-harm (DSH) and suicides (suicidal
More than one way to produce protein diversity: duplication and limited alternative splicing of an adhesion molecule gene in basal arthropods (Publications)
Exon duplication and alternative splicing evolved multiple times in metazoa and are of overall importance in shaping genomes and allowing organisms to produce many fold more proteins than there are ge
Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Switzerland: first experience with species-specific treatment (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Different species of the genus Leishmania can cause cutaneous (CL) and mucosal leishmaniasis (ML). PCR-based tests allow a rapid diagnosis and determination of the species, thereby enablin
Mathematical models of contact patterns between age groups for predicting the spread of infectious diseases (Publications)
The spread of an infectious disease is sensitive to the contact patterns in the population and to precautions people take to reduce the transmission of the disease. We investigate the impact that diff
Improved characterization of visual evoked potentials in multiple sclerosis by topographic analysis (Publications)
In multiple sclerosis (MS), the combination of visual, somatosensory and motor evoked potentials (EP) has been shown to be highly correlated with the Expanded Disability Severity Scale (EDSS) and to p
Health-related quality of life in rural children living in four European countries: the GABRIEL study (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Measuring children's health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is of growing importance given increasing chronic diseases. By integrating HRQOL questions into the European GABRIEL study, we as
Nesting doctoral students in collaborative North-South partnerships for health systems research (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The European Union (EU) supports North-South Partnerships and collaborative research projects through its Framework Programmes and Horizon 2020. There is limited research on how such proje
Spatial analysis and risk mapping of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil, using Bayesian geostatistical models (Publications)
Soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm) negatively impact the health and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people, particularly in tropical and subtropic
