Malaria standby emergency treatment (SBET) for travelers visiting malaria endemic areas: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
overall pooled prevalence of SBET use among the 26'403 travelers was 2.5% (95%CI 1.1%-4.3%; range 0.4%-10.8%). There was significant variation in the proportion of travelers carrying SBET medication (40%-100%)
Fecal colonization with multidrug-resistant <em>E. coli</em> among healthy infants in rural Bangladesh (Publications)
the predominant (96%, n = 71) ESBL-gene followed by bla(TEM) (41%, n = 30) and bla(OXA-1) (11%, n = 8). A significant proportion (26.5%, n = 22) of 3GCr E. coli was pathogenic, comprising two types, en
Evaluation of emodepside in laboratory models of human intestinal nematode and schistosome infections (Publications)
against T. muris (ED50 = 1.2 mg/kg). Emodepside was moderately active on schistosomula in vitro (IC50 < 8 microM) 24 h post-drug incubation and its activity on adult S. mansoni and S. haematobium was low (IC50:
Genetic diversity of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> strains circulating in Botswana (Publications)
into 44 clusters (2-46 isolates per cluster); giving a clustering rate of 76%. We identified 173 (37.8%) drug resistant isolates, 48 (10.5%) of these were multi-drug resistant. MIRU typing of the drug resistant
Preparation of sesquiterpene lactone-loaded PLA nanoparticles and evaluation of their antitrypanosomal activity (Publications)
vernolepin, and eucannabinolide, respectively. The NPs had encapsulation efficiencies of 94.6, 78.1, 76.8, 60.7, and 78.9% for alpha-santonin, arglabin, schkuhrin II, vernolepin, and eucannabinolide, respectively
Inequalities in the benefits of national health insurance on financial protection from out-of-pocket payments and access to health services:... (Publications)
40% of households experienced significantly larger improvements in medical utilization (18 p.p. vs. 8 p.p.) and substantively larger reductions in catastrophic OOP health expenditure (-10 p.p. vs. -6 p
The role of humidity in associations of high temperature with mortality: a multicountry, multicity study (Publications)
of 23% in RH (the 99th percentile anomaly) associated with a 1.1% [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.8, 1.3] decrease in mortality. Allowing curvature in the RH term or adding terms for interaction of RH
A near-complete series of four atropisomeric jozimine A2-Type naphthylisoquinoline dimers with antiplasmodial and cytotoxic activities and related... (Publications)
6-oxygenated. Remarkable was the discovery of its "inverse hybrid-type" counterpart, dioncoline A (8). It is the as yet only known 3S-configured naphthylisoquinoline lacking an O-functionality at C-6.
<em>Blastocystis</em> in Swiss children: a practical approach (Publications)
diarrhea (p = 0.082) nor nausea/vomiting or other symptoms and chronicity. Followed by Entamoeba coli (8%), 26.3% of the patients with Blastocystis had a co-infection with another parasite, mostly Endolimax
A factorial cluster-randomised controlled trial combining home-environmental and early child development interventions to improve child health and... (Publications)
distributed between arms. The mean levels of kitchen PM2.5 and CO concentrations were 213 mug/m(3) and 4.8 ppm, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The trial arms are balanced with respect to most baseline characteristics
