Association of activities related to pesticide exposure on headache severity and neurodevelopment of school-children in the rural agricultural... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Children and adolescents living in agricultural areas are likely to be exposed to mixtures of pesticides during their daily activities, which may impair their neurodevelopment. We investiga
Lifelong exposure to air pollution and greenness in relation to asthma, rhinitis and lung function in adulthood (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate if air pollution and greenness exposure from birth till adulthood affects adult asthma, rhinitis and lung function. METHODS: We analysed data from 3428 participants (mean ag
Misdiagnosis of leprosy in Brazil in the period 2003-2017: spatial pattern and associated factors (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Leprosy causes a range of symptoms, and most diagnoses are established based on the clinical picture. Therefore, false negative and positive diagnoses are relatively common. We analyzed th
Emergence of artemisinin-resistant <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> with <em>kelch13 </em>C580Y mutations on the island of New Guinea (Publications)
The rapid and aggressive spread of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum carrying the C580Y mutation in the kelch13 gene is a growing threat to malaria elimination in Southeast Asia, but there i
Long-term exposure to low-level air pollution and incidence of asthma: the ELAPSE project (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution has been linked to childhood-onset asthma, while evidence is still insufficient. Within the multicentre project "Effects of Low-Level Air Pollut
