Comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of three rapid tests for the serodiagnosis of hepatic cystic echinococcosis in humans (Publications)
to ELISA. All tests were poorly sensitive in diagnosing inactive cysts (33.3% ELISA and ADAMU-CE, 42.8% DIGFA, 47.6% VIRapid). The reproducibility of all RDTs was good-very good. Band intensity of VIRapid
Detection and characterization of drug-resistant conferring genes in <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex strains: a prospective study in two... (Publications)
6%). The propensity for an isolate to harbour katG S315T mutation was higher in M. tuberculosis (75.8%) than Mycobacterium africanum (51.7%) (p = 0.0000) whereas the opposite was true for inhApro mutations;
Genome-wide joint meta-analysis of SNP and SNP-by-smoking interaction identifies novel loci for pulmonary function (Publications)
HLA-DQB1 and HLA-DQA2 (smallest P(JMA = )4.35×10(-9)), and KCNJ2 and SOX9 (smallest P(JMA = )1.28×10(-8)) were associated with FEV(1)/FVC or FEV(1) in meta-analysis models including SNP main effects, smoking
Improving household air, drinking water and hygiene in rural Peru: a community-randomized-controlled trial of an integrated environmental home-based... (Publications)
n and 253 in the attention control group during 12-month follow-up. Mean diarrhoea incidence was 2.8 episodes per child-year in the intervention compared with 3.1 episodes in the control arm. This corresponds
Single-dose hepatitis A immunization: 7.5-year observational pilot study in Nicaraguan children to assess protective effectiveness and humoral immune... (Publications)
child, representing an estimated protective effectiveness of 98.3% (95% confidence interval, 87.9-99.8). Boosting elicited an average 29.7-fold increase of anti-HAV levels. CONCLUSIONS: In children living
Sensitisation to Ambrosia in Switzerland: a public health threat on the wait (Publications)
test whether an increase in these rates could be observed. METHODS: Among the 6345 participants from 8 areas who provided blood samples in 1991 and 2002, 5823 had valid results for specific IgE against common
Air pollution from road traffic and systemic inflammation in adults: a cross-sectional analysis in the European ESCAPE project (Publications)
participants living on a busy (> 10,000 vehicles/day) road had elevated CRP values (10.2%, 95% CI 2.4-18.8%, compared to persons living in a quiet residential street with less than 1,000 vehicles/day). Annual
Can school-based distribution be used to maintain coverage of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets: evidence from a large scale programme in... (Publications)
insecticide treated nets. Ownership of at least one LLIN after the first distribution was 76.1% (95% CI 70.8-80.7) in the intervention area and 78.6% (95% CI 74.4-82.3) in the control area. After the second d
Double burden of underweight and overweight among Bangladeshi adults differs between men and women: evidence from a nationally representative survey (Publications)
Underweight was observed among 28.3 % of men and 24.4 % of women, whereas overweight was observed among 8.4 % of men and 16.9 % of women. The odds of being overweight were significantly lower among urban men
Characteristics and epidemiological profile of Buruli ulcer in the district of Tiassalé, south Côte d’Ivoire (Publications)
3%). Among individuals aged 15-49 years, females had a higher prevalence than males (54.2% versus 45.8%). The villages of Ahondo, Leleble and Taabo, located in close proximity to the man-made lake Taabo
