Estimating the seroincidence of scrub typhus using antibody dynamics after infection (Publications)
rates in the cross-sectional serosurveys. Median responses persisted above an optical density (OD) of 1.8 for 23.6 months for IgG and an OD of 1 for 4.5 months for IgM. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, the seroincidence
Recovery of left ventricular systolic function in peripartum cardiomyopathy: an observational study from rural Tanzania (Publications)
and the median left ventricular ejection fraction was 30% (range 15-46). After a median follow-up of 8.98 months (IQR 5.72-29.37), 61 (55%) participants were still on cardiac medication. Full recovery of
Effects of a blood-free mosquito diet on fitness and gonotrophic cycle parameters of laboratory reared <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> sensu stricto (Publications)
reared on BLOODless versus vertebrate blood from founder generation (F(0)) to eighth generation (F(8)). A total of 1000 female mosquitoes were randomly selected from F(0), of which 500 mosquitoes were
Estimating the seroincidence of scrub typhus using antibody dynamics after infection (Publications)
rates in the cross-sectional serosurveys. Median responses persisted above an optical density (OD) of 1.8 for 23.6 months for IgG and an OD of 1 for 4.5 months for IgM. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, the seroincidence
Recovery of left ventricular systolic function in peripartum cardiomyopathy: an observational study from rural Tanzania (Publications)
and the median left ventricular ejection fraction was 30% (range 15-46). After a median follow-up of 8.98 months (IQR 5.72-29.37), 61 (55%) participants were still on cardiac medication. Full recovery of
Evaluation of malaria rapid diagnostic test performance and <em>pfhrp2</em> deletion in Tanzania school surveys, 2017 (Publications)
regions of Tanzania in 2017. According to PCR, the prevalence of P. falciparum was 19.2% (95% CI: 18.6-19.8). Using PCR as reference, the sensitivity and specificity of mRDT was 76.2% (95% CI: 74.7-77.7) and
New myxobacteria of the <em>Myxococcaceae</em> clade produce angiolams with antiparasitic activities (Publications)
promising antiparasitic activities against the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum in the 0.3-0.8 µM range.IMPORTANCEThe COVID-19 pandemic and continuously emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR) have
A community based seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia (Publications)
d Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) kit (Euroimmun). Results: Overall, 477 (58.2%) were male and 343 (41.8%) were female. The majority of the participants (N = 581; 70.9%) were between 18 and 34 years old and
Computer-aided detection thresholds for digital chest radiography interpretation in tuberculosis diagnostic algorithms (Publications)
eligible for testing were negative, a CAD4TBv7 threshold of 13 had a sensitivity of 89.7% (95% CI 84.6-94.8) and a specificity of 74.2% (73.6-74.9), close to World Health Organization (WHO) target product profile
A cohort analysis of residential radon exposure and melanoma incidence in Switzerland (Publications)
potential effect modifiers were tested. In total 4937 incident cases of melanoma occurred during an average 8.9 years of follow-up. Across all ages, no increased risk of malignant melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma
