Primary cultivation: factors affecting contamination and <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> growth after long turnover time of clinical specimens (Publications)
BackgroundWhile cultivation of pathogens represents a foundational diagnostic approach in the study of infectious diseases, its value for the confirmation of clinical diagnosis of Buruli ulcer is limi
Demographic model of the Swiss cattle population for the years 2009-2011 stratified by gender, age and production type (Publications)
Demographic composition and dynamics of animal and human populations are important determinants for the transmission dynamics of infectious disease and for the effect of infectious disease or environm
Disparities of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infection, malaria-related morbidity and access to malaria prevention and treatment among school-aged... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is limited knowledge on the malaria burden of school-aged children in Cote d'Ivoire. The aim of this study was to assess Plasmodium falciparum infection, malaria-related morbidity, u
<em>In vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em> antischistosomal activity of ferroquine derivatives (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease and drug-repurposing is a useful strategy to fill its exhausted drug development pipeline. The ferrocenyl analogue of chloroquine, ferroquin
Medication exposure during pregnancy: a pilot pharmacovigilance system using health and demographic surveillance platform (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is limited safety information on most drugs used during pregnancy. This is especially true for medication against tropical diseases because pharmacovigilance systems are not much dev
Collateral benefits of restricted insecticide application for control of African trypanosomiasis on <em>Theileria parva</em> in cattle: a randomized... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Tick and tsetse-borne diseases (TTBDs) constrain livestock production in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Of this community of endemic diseases, East coast fever (T.parva) is
Diarrhoeal diseases among adult population in an agricultural community Hanam province, Vietnam, with high wastewater and excreta re-use (Publications)
Objectives: This study was carried out to determine diarrhoeal incidence and associated risk factors among the adult population exposed to wastewater and excreta used in agriculture in Hanam province,
A systematic mapping of funders of maternal health intervention research 2000-2012 (Publications)
BackgroundThe priorities of research funding bodies govern the research agenda, which has important implications for the provision of evidence to inform policy. This study examines the research fundin