Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality is essential for the formation of global, regional, and national health policies. In th
Repurposing of the open access malaria box for kinetoplastid diseases identifies novel active scaffolds against trypanosomatids (Publications)
Phenotypic screening had successfully been used for hit generation, especially in the field of neglected diseases, in which feeding the drug pipeline with new chemotypes remains a constant challenge.
Occurrence and duration of various operational definitions of sedentary bouts and cross-sectional associations with cardiometabolic health indicators:... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the occurrence and duration of sedentary bouts and explored the cross-sectional association with health indicators in children applying various operational definitions o
The effect of malaria control on <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> in Africa between 2000 and 2015 (Publications)
Since the year 2000, a concerted campaign against malaria has led to unprecedented levels of intervention coverage across sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the effect of this control effort is vital t
Blood or urine IP-10 cannot discriminate between active tuberculosis and respiratory diseases different from tuberculosis in children (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Interferon-? inducible protein 10 (IP-10), either in blood or in urine, has been proposed as a tuberculosis (TB) biomarker for adults. This study aims to evaluate the potential of IP-10 di
RFX transcription factors are essential for hearing in mice (Publications)
Sensorineural hearing loss is a common and currently irreversible disorder, because mammalian hair cells (HCs) do not regenerate and current stem cell and gene delivery protocols result only in immatu
