Neue Parameter für die Wirkstofftestung gegen <em>Trypanosoma cruzi</em> (Publications)
Chagas disease is a zoonosis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by triatomine bugs. Autochthonous to Latin America, Chagas disease has spread globally through travel and migration. New drugs
Targeted capture and sequencing of <em>Orientia tsutsugamushi</em> genomes from chiggers and humans (Publications)
Scrub typhus is a febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, transmitted by larval stage Trombiculid mites (chiggers), whose primary hosts are small mammals. The phylogenomics of O. tsutsugamus
Multi-decade changes in pollen season onset, duration, and intensity: a concern for public health? (Publications)
Longitudinal shifts in pollen onset, duration, and intensity are public health concerns for the growing number of individuals with pollen sensitization. National analyses of long-term pollen changes a
Exposure to <em>Leptospira </em>spp. and associated risk factors in the human, cattle and dog populations in Bhutan (Publications)
Leptospirosis is a neglected worldwide zoonotic bacterial disease with a high prevalence in subtropical and tropical countries. The prevalence of Leptospira spp. in humans, cattle and dogs is unknown
Cost-effectiveness modelling to optimise active screening strategy for <em>gambiense </em>human African trypanosomiasis in endemic areas of the... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) has been brought under control recently with village-based active screening playing a major role in case reduction. In the approach to elimin
Structural basis of malaria RIFIN binding by LILRB1-containing antibodies (Publications)
Some Plasmodium falciparum repetitive interspersed families of polypeptides (RIFINs)—variant surface antigens that are expressed on infected erythrocytes1—bind to the inhibitory receptor LAIR1, and in
Sleeping sickness survey in the Serengeti [16mm film] (Publications)
"Die Serengeti und ihre Umgebung als Reservoir (besonders die Wildtiere) für Trypanosomen wird von der EATRO (East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization) und dem Schweizerischen Tropeninstitut
Burden of soil-transmitted helminth infection in pregnant refugees and migrants on the Thailand-Myanmar border: results from a retrospective cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions. While many STH infections are asymptomatic, vulnerable populations (e.g., pregnant women) fac
The influence of roads on the fine-scale population genetic structure of the dengue vector <em>Aedes aegypti</em> (Linnaeus) (Publications)
Dengue is endemic in tropical and subtropical countries and is transmitted mainly by Aedes aegypti. Mosquito movement can be affected by human-made structures such as roads that can act as a barrier.
