Prevalence and determinants of undernutrition in schoolchildren in the Kilombero district, south-eastern Tanzania (Publications)
potential factors. The prevalence of stunting, wasting, underweight, overweight, and obesity was 11.8%, 4.3%, 3.9%, 11.1%, and 2.0%, respectively. Overall, 1.5% of the children had malaria, as determined
Prevalence and determinants of undernutrition in schoolchildren in the Kilombero district, South-Eastern Tanzania (Publications)
potential factors. The prevalence of stunting, wasting, underweight, overweight, and obesity was 11.8%, 4.3%, 3.9%, 11.1%, and 2.0%, respectively. Overall, 1.5% of the children had malaria, as determined
Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: rationale and study protocol of a prospective national case-control and molecular source attribution study... (Publications)
Switzerland has one of the highest annual Legionnaires' disease (LD) notification rates in Europe (7.8 cases/100,000 population in 2021). The main sources of infection and the cause for this high rate remain
A multi-pronged approach to improve blood culture diagnostics in different clinical departments: a single-centre experience (Publications)
were fully trained. The intervention led to a considerable increase in BC knowledge (from 62.4 to 79.8% correct answers) with differences between the individual professional groups. Relevant reduced con
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): a preliminary survey among patients in Switzerland (Publications)
gastro-intestinal infections (15.4%) and tick-borne diseases (16.2%). Viral infections were recalled by 77.8% of the respondents, with Epstein Barr Virus being the most commonly reported agent. Patients self-reported
Using a <em>Madurella mycetomatis</em> specific PCR on grains obtained via non-invasive fine needle aspirated material is more accurate than cytology (Publications)
biopsy, and 30 had a positive PCR when DNA was obtained from US-FNA material. This resulted in a 96.8% sensitivity, and 100% specificity with 97.1% diagnostic accuracy for PCR performed on US-FNA. CONCLUSION:
Workplace support and breastfeeding duration: the mediating effect of breastfeeding intention and self-efficacy (Publications)
of the indirect effects showed that self-efficacy in attaining breastfeeding goals accounted for 40.8% (P-value=0.032) of the total effect; however, all other mediation ratios did not show statistical
Work time allocation at primary health care level in two regions of Albania (Publications)
RESULTS: The observed health workers spent 40.7% of their overall working time unproductively (36.8% on waiting for patients and 3.9% on breaks), 25.3% on service provision to users, 18.7% on administrative
Effect modification of greenness on the association between heat and mortality: a multi-city multi-country study (Publications)
decreasing approximately 50 excess deaths per year. 20% increase of greenspace would reduce 9·02% (95%CI: 8·88, 9·16) heat-related attributable fraction, and this would result in saving approximately 933 excess
Strong off-target antibody reactivity to malarial antigens induced by RTS,S/AS01E vaccination is associated with protection (Publications)
prevaccination differences were found. A small subset of antigens presented IgG levels reaching 4- to 8 fold increases in the RTS,S/AS01E group, comparable in magnitude to anti-CSP IgG levels (~11-fold increase)
