Quality control in the diagnosis of <em>Trichuris trichiura</em> and <em>Ascaris lumbricoides</em> using the Kato-Katz technique: experience from... (Publications)
respectively. A high frequency of discordant results in FECs was observed (i.e. 10.0-23.9% for T. trichiura, and 9.0-11.4% for A. lumbricoides).ConclusionsOur analyses show that the rate of false-positive [...] frame of a series of randomised controlled trials conducted in Pemba, United Republic of Tanzania, 10% of randomly selected Kato-Katz thick smears were re-read for Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides [...] Kato-Katz thick smears subjected to quality control, 1,181 (81.7%) were...
Ambient air pollution exposure estimation for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 (Publications)
Health Organization Air Quality Guideline of 10 mug/m(3) PM2.5 (annual average). Between 1990 and 2013, global population-weighted PM2.5 increased by 20.4% driven by trends in South Asia, Southeast Asia
Increase in diagnosed asthma but not in symptoms in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (Publications)
Expressed as change in status per 10 years of follow up, subjects reporting asthma attacks in the previous 12 months increased by 0.8% of the population (95% CI 0.2 to 1.4) and asthma medication by 2.1% (95% [...] e was completed by 11 168 randomly selected subjects in 14 countries in 1991-3 when they were aged 20-44 years and 5-11 years later from 1998 to 2003. Generalised estimating equations were used to estimate
Relationship of physical activity with motor skills, aerobic fitness and body fat in preschool children: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study... (Publications)
preschool children (age 4-6 years, 48% boys) participated in this study.Measurements:PA (accelerometers), agility (obstacle course), dynamic balance (balance beam), aerobic fitness (20-m shuttle run) and %body [...] cardiovascular risk.International Journal of Obesity advance online publication, 29 March 2011; doi:10.1038/ijo.2011.54
Asthma-related outcomes associated with indoor air pollutants among schoolchildren from four informal settlements in two municipalities in the Western... (Publications)
osed asthma was 3.4% (n=20) among whom only 50% were on treatment. The prevalence of current wheeze was 12.9% and 17.6% had airway obstruction (FEV1 < lower limit of normal) while 10.2% had airway inflammation
Ambient air pollution exposure estimation for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 (Publications)
Health Organization Air Quality Guideline of 10 mug/m(3) PM2.5 (annual average). Between 1990 and 2013, global population-weighted PM2.5 increased by 20.4% driven by trends in South Asia, Southeast Asia
Increase in diagnosed asthma but not in symptoms in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (Publications)
Expressed as change in status per 10 years of follow up, subjects reporting asthma attacks in the previous 12 months increased by 0.8% of the population (95% CI 0.2 to 1.4) and asthma medication by 2.1% (95% [...] e was completed by 11 168 randomly selected subjects in 14 countries in 1991-3 when they were aged 20-44 years and 5-11 years later from 1998 to 2003. Generalised estimating equations were used to estimate
Relationship of physical activity with motor skills, aerobic fitness and body fat in preschool children: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study... (Publications)
preschool children (age 4-6 years, 48% boys) participated in this study.Measurements:PA (accelerometers), agility (obstacle course), dynamic balance (balance beam), aerobic fitness (20-m shuttle run) and %body [...] cardiovascular risk.International Journal of Obesity advance online publication, 29 March 2011; doi:10.1038/ijo.2011.54
Asthma-related outcomes associated with indoor air pollutants among schoolchildren from four informal settlements in two municipalities in the Western... (Publications)
osed asthma was 3.4% (n=20) among whom only 50% were on treatment. The prevalence of current wheeze was 12.9% and 17.6% had airway obstruction (FEV1 < lower limit of normal) while 10.2% had airway inflammation
Validation of a human-serum-based <em>in vitro </em>growth method for drug screening on juvenile development stages of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> (Publications)
developed S. mansoni in Hybridoma medium supplemented with 20% human serum were similar in size as in vivo worms until 28 days of incubation (males 1.4 +/- 0.2 mm, females 1.1 +/- 0.5 mm long). qPCR analysis [...] with the exception of mefloquine, where we observed a 10-fold lower sensitivity on in vitro developed schistosomes when compared to in vivo grown (IC50: 4.43 muM in vitro, 0.48 muM in vivo). CONCLUSION: A
