World Tuberculosis Day 2021 (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/world-tuberculosis-day-2021
TB are missed or not reported, and may therefore not get the care they need. What are some of the open biological questions in tuberculosis? In addition to insufficient political will and inadequate funding
Leading House Africa | Swiss TPH (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/research/leading-house-africa
Program S-SAM - Swiss Sub-Saharan Africa Migration Network SARECO - Swiss-African Research Cooperation Open Calls We are pleased to announce that the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
Diagnostic Centre at Swiss TPH | Expertise in Parasitic Diseases (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/services/diagnostic-centre
Diagnostic Centre Important Customer Information Cancellation of malaria on-call service in the evening, on weekends and on public holidays! From 1 March 2025, the Diagnostic Centre will no longer off
Epidemiology and Viral Evolution | Research at Swiss TPH (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/about/mpi/epidemiology-and-viral-evolution
insights into the ever-evolving 'dance' between viruses and humans. Pathoplexus Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering [...] looking at factors like reinfection, waning immunity, and immune pressure on viral epitopes. Using an open-source resource on Nextstrain, the research will facilitate real-time tracking of NP-EV evolution
Implementation of a Digital Clinical Decision Support System / ICRC Libya (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/implementation-of-a-digital-clinical-decision-support-system-/-icrc-libya
health outcomes had been proven in a large-scale scientific evaluation (Schmitz T, Beynon F et al. BMJ Open 2022; doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055315). In 2021, ICRC decided to replicate the ALMANACH project for [...] Ministry of Health Development of the ICT code to transcribe the clinical content to be processed by an open-source software called Community Health Toolkit (CHT) Elaboration of training material and facilitation
KvarQ: Targeted and direct variant calling in FastQ reads of bacterial genomes (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/about/mpi/tuberculosis-ecology-and-evolution/kvarq-targeted-and-direct-variant-calling-in-fastq-reads-of-bacterial-genomes
ng (the latter adapted and modified from SpolPred). Software KvarQ is written in Python and C, is open-source and published under GNU GPLv3. Pre-compiled packages are available for Windows 7 or later,
Caregiving can be costly: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to conducting kangaroo mother care in a US tertiary hospital neonatal... (Publications)
mothers of preterm infants (N = 20) at a large academic medical center in Massachusetts. A series of open-ended interview questions were designed to elicit all aspects of mothers' experiences and to understand
Intensified therapy with inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β2-agonists at the onset of upper respiratory tract Infection to prevent chronic... (Publications)
driven, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study. At inclusion, patients were assigned to open-labelled low maintenance dose ICS/LABA. Each patient was randomised either to intensified dose ICS/LABA
Engagement in care, viral suppression, drug resistance and reasons for non-engagement after home-based same-day ART initiation in Lesotho: a two-year... (Publications)
HIV testing improved engagement in care and viral suppression 12 months after diagnosis. However, open questions remain regarding long-term outcomes and the risk of propagating drug resistance. METHODS:
Ultrasound in managing extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a randomized controlled two-center study (Publications)
overtreatment of tuberculosis and to underdiagnosis of possible differential diagnoses. METHODS: This open-label, parallel-group, superiority randomized controlled trial is done in a rural and an urban center
