Socio-environmental factors associated with the risk of contracting Buruli ulcer in Tiassalé, south Côte d'Ivoire: a case-control study (Publications)
knowledge about the risks that may result in BU (aOR = 0.3, 95% CI = 0.1-0.8) and perception about the disease causes (aOR = 0.1, 95% CI = 0.02-0.3) showed protection against BU with a respective preventive [...] total of 51 incident and prevalent cases and 102 controls were enrolled. Sex ratio (male:female) was 0.9. Median age was 25 years (range: 5-70 years). Regular contact with unprotected surface water (adjusted
Longitudinal estimation of <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>prevalence in relation to malaria prevention measures in six sub-Saharan African countries (Publications)
association of anti-malarial treatment in 4 surveys (odds ratios [ORs]: 0.52, 0.52, 0.68, 0.41) and bed net use in 2 surveys (ORs: 0.63, 0.68, 1.03, 1.78) with lower risk of malaria infection. CONCLUSION: Local [...] was observed in 2 Tanzanian centres (4.6% for Korogwe and 9.95% for Bagamoyo) and Lambarene, Gabon (6.0%), while the highest PfPR was recorded for Nanoro, Burkina Faso (52.5%). PfPR significantly decreased
Implementing a community vector collection strategy using xenomonitoring for the endgame of lymphatic filariasis elimination (Publications)
875, P = 0.309) and dry (F(1,4) = 2.276, P = 0.258) seasons in the southern communities, but was significantly different for both wet (F(1,4) = 0.022, P = 0.005) and dry (F(1,4 ) = 0.079, P = 0.033) seasons [...] CVCs and the research team, respectively. We found a significant difference (F(1,13) = 27.1606, P = 0.0001) in the total number of mosquitoes collected from southern and northern communities. Validation
Peripheral neuropathy in patients with human immunodeficiency viral infection at a tertiary hospital in Ghana (Publications)
or reached the age > 34 years (p = 0.124). Respondents with longer education duration had significantly less PN (> /= 9 years of education; OR = 0.49; 95% CI 0.26-0.92). The study also identified significant [...] under ART treatment were observed when CD4 lymphocytes were elevated (aOR = 0.81; 95% CI 0.36-1.83 and aOR = 2.17; 95% CI 0.93-5.05, for 300 and 600 counts, respectively). For patients on ART, an increase
Resistance of <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> to selected insecticides used for indoor residual spraying and long-lasting insecticidal nets in Ethiopia (Publications)
of IRS insecticides (propoxur 0.1%, bendiocarb 0.1%, pirimiphos-methyl 0.25%), and insecticides used in LLINs (alpha-cypermethrin 0.05%, deltamethrin 0.05% and permethrin 0.75%), using diagnostic doses [...] stephensi from the reared population to four brands of LLINs, MAGNet™ (alpha-cypermethrin), PermaNet(®) 2.0 (deltamethrin), DuraNet(©) (alpha-cypermethrin) and SafeNet(®) (alpha-cypermethrin). A batch of ten
The MTego trap: a potential tool for monitoring malaria and arbovirus vectors (Publications)
(31% vs 29%, P-value = 0.519) and An. funestus (32% vs 33%, P = 0.520). The MT-PM6 and BGP-BGL traps showed no significant difference in capturing Ae. aegypti (33% vs 31%, P = 0.324). However, the BGP-BGL [...] than the other traps (P < 0.0001). In the dual-choice test of MT-PM6 vs BGP-BGL, similar proportions of An. funestus (25% vs 27%, P = 0.473) and Ae. aegypti (29% vs 25%, P = 0.264) were captured in the [...] captured more An. gambiae, An. arabiensis and Cx. quinquefasciatus mosquitoes...
Time series analysis of survival and oviposition cycle duration of <em>Anopheles funestus</em> (Giles) in Mozambique (Publications)
each day of 0.740 (95% credible interval [0.650–0.815]) derived from light-trap data was much lower than the estimated daily survival of male mosquitoes from the model fitted to exit-trap data (0.881, 95% [...] 95% credible interval [0.747–0.987]). There was no tendency for the oviposition cycle to become shorter at higher temperature while the odds of survival of females through the cycle was estimated to be multiplied [...] multiplied by 1.021 for every degree of mean weekly temperature...
Effect of baseline CD4 cell count at linkage to HIV care and at initatiation of antiretroviral therapy on mortality in HIV-positive adult patients in... (Publications)
95% CI 0·95-1·97); the effect was much the same for initiation of ART in this CD4 stratum (1·37, 0·92-2·04). For higher CD4 strata, linkage to care at 500 cells per µL or more was protective (0·53, 0·39-0·72) [...] 0·39-0·72), whereas the reported effect of initiation of ART on mortality was not distinguishable from chance alone (0·82, 0·21-3·20). INTERPRETATION: Efforts are needed to link and retain patients early in
Respiratory symptoms in Swiss farmers: an epidemiological study of risk factors (Publications)
farmers. In contrast, the risk of farmers to report nasal allergies was less than half as high OR 0.40 (0.29-0.56) as that of the general population. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that agricultural work in [...] age and smoking habits. RESULTS: In farmers the prevalence rate was 16.0% for chronic bronchitis, 15.4% for asthma symptoms, and 42.0% for reporting at least one work-related symptom. Using logistic regression [...] farming and pig/cattle farming was a risk factor for reporting nasal...
Challenging sleep homeostasis in narcolepsy-cataplexy: implications for non-REM and REM sleep regulation (Publications)
attenuated in NC in the second episode (P = 0.01) due to a higher number of short wake periods (P = 0.02). Prolonged wakefulness increased initial SWA in both groups (P = 0.003) and normalized the baseline differences [...] baseline were associated with reduced numbers of intermittent wake periods in the first (P = 0.01) and second (P = 0.04) NREMS episodes. All patients, but no control subjects, showed a sleep-onset rapid eye [...] homeostatic Process S were estimated from the time course of...
