Evaluating the use of educational videos to support the tuberculosis care cascade in remote Madagascar (Publications)
s, 86 (58.9%) improved their score on the post-test, 50 (34.2%) obtained the same score, and 10 (6.8%) received a worse score. A statistically significant difference was observed between the pre- and post-test
Effects of transportation noise and particulate matter on the cardiovascular system: what is the new evidence? (Publications)
In 2018 the World Health Organization has published new Environmental Noise Guidelines reporting an 8% increase in risk of incident ischemic heart disease per 10 dB(A) increase in road traffic noise exposure
Acute schistosomiasis in European students returning from fieldwork at Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania (Publications)
exposure as well as clinical and laboratory data were collected. RESULTS: Schistosomiasis was diagnosed in 8 of 16 students from Berlin, Germany, who had returned from a 2- to 3-month stay of fieldwork in Kigoma
Identification of pathogens in mastitis milk samples with fluorescent in situ hybridization (Publications)
spiked whole milk samples and mastitis milk samples with bacterial loads of less than 10(3) up to 10(8) colony-forming units (CFU)/ml. Bacteria were reliably detected in milk samples with bacterial numbers
Antenatal care and skilled delivery service utilization in Somali pastoral communities of eastern Ethiopia (Publications)
antenatal care use and skilled delivery care use, controlling for confounders. RESULTS: 27% [95%CI 22.8-31.2%] of women used antenatal care and 22.6% [95%CI 18.7-26.5%] received skilled delivery service.
Revised EU and WHO air quality thresholds: where does Europe stand? (Publications)
and at 29.6 (21.9, 37.0%) above the EU values, whereas for NO2, the estimates were at 67.4% (57.9, 75.8%) and 20.2% (13.3, 28.5%), respectively. Our high-resolution model-based predictions are readily available
Multiple myeloma risk in relation to long-term air pollution exposure: a pooled analysis of four European cohorts (Publications)
at the individual and area-level. RESULTS: During 4,415,817 person-years of follow-up (average 18.8 years), we observed 404 cases of multiple myeloma. The results of the fully adjusted linear analyses
Relationship between body mass index and physical activity among children from low-income communities in Gqeberha, South Africa: a cross-sectional... (Publications)
in South Africa. Cross-sectional data were collected from 916 children (467 boys and 449 girls) aged 8-13 years (x̄ = 10.4 +/- 1.2 years) attending eight low-income schools in Gqeberha, South Africa. Measured
Persistent high burden and mortality associated with advanced HIV disease in rural Tanzania despite uptake of World Health Organization "test and... (Publications)
multivariate logistic and Cox regression, respectively. RESULTS: Of the PWH, 62.2% had AHD at diagnosis (66.8% before vs 55.7% after national uptake of WHO "test and treat" guidelines in 2016). At baseline, older
<em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> genetic diversity and drug resistance conferring mutations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)
observed within this lineage, including LAM (20 patients, 40%), T (15 patients; 30%), U (4 patients; 8%), S (3 patients; 6%), Haarlem (2 patients; 4%), and X (1 patient; 2%). No M. africanum strains were
