School distribution as keep-up strategy to maintain universal coverage of long-lasting insecticidal nets: implementation and results of a program in... (Publications)
LLINs were distributed to schools, with 464,510 (97.9% of those registered) students and 24,206 (95.8% of those registered) school teachers receiving LLINs. LLIN ownership and use is expected to have increased
Successful comeback of the single-dose live oral cholera vaccine CVD 103-HgR (Publications)
vaccine: single-dose, protective efficacy of 90–100% against moderate to severe cholera, acting within 8 days and exhibiting excellent safety, indiscernible from placebo. However, there were strong headwinds:
A generic schema and data collection forms applicable to diverse entomological studies of mosquitoes (Publications)
sample management with generic software and minimal expertise. Forms use now includes 20 experiments, 8 projects, and 15 users at 3 research and control institutes in 3 African countries, resulting in 11
Real-time PCR for detection of <em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> in human stool samples from Côte d'Ivoire: diagnostic accuracy, inter-laboratory... (Publications)
of S. stercoralis as compared to a combination of all diagnostic techniques was 21.4%, 37.5% and 76.8%, respectively. The inter-laboratory agreement of S. stercoralis-specific PCR was substantial (?=0.63
Alcohol use and depression: link with adherence and viral suppression in adult patients on antiretroviral therapy in rural Lesotho, Southern Africa: a... (Publications)
hazardous drinkers (men: 10.7 %, women: 4.4 %, p < 0.001). The prevalence of depressive symptoms was 28.8 % (men 20.2 %, women 32.7 %, p < 0.001). Both alcohol consumption (adjusted odds-ratio: 2.09, 95 % CI:
Outcomes of antiretroviral treatment programmes in rural Lesotho: health centres and hospitals compared (Publications)
three-year retention were 68.7 and 69.7% at HCs and hospitals, respectively, among women (p=0.81) and 68.8% at HCs versus 54.7% at hospitals among men (p
Approved oncology drugs lack <em>in vivo</em> activity against <em>Trichuris muris</em> despite <em>in vitro</em> activity (Publications)
on the adult worm stage (> 80 % drug effect at 50 muM), of which six revealed IC50 values between 1.8 and 5.0 muM. Except for tamoxifen citrate, all in vitro active drugs were protein kinase inhibitors
Association between serum vitamin D, retinol and zinc status, and acute respiratory infections in underweight and normal-weight children aged 6-24... (Publications)
children with sufficient status. Underweight children, those with serum retinol deficiency were at 1.8 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.4-2.4] times higher risk of ALRI than those with retinol sufficiency
Asymptomatic and sub-microscopic malaria infection in Kayah State, eastern Myanmar (Publications)
Plasmodium spp. infection was 2.3% (11/485) by real-time PCR. Plasmodium vivax accounted for 72.7% (8/11) and Plasmodium falciparum for 27.3% (3/11) of infections. Men were at greater risk of infection
IgE levels, atopy markers and hay fever in relation to age, sex and smoking status in a normal adult Swiss population (Publications)
concentrations (assessed by means of the Phadiatop test) and on the prevalence of hay fever. A total of 8,344 subjects aged 18-60 years, comprising 2,776 current smokers, 1,888 former smokers and 3,680 nonsmokers
