Life expectancy of <em>Anopheles funestus</em> is double that of <em>Anopheles arabiensis</em> in southeast Tanzania based on mark-release-recapture... (Publications)
collected with 316 (7.5%) marked and recaptured (MR). Daily mean MR was 6.8, standard deviation (SD ± 7.6) for An. arabiensis and 8.9 (SD ± 8.3) for An. funestus. Probability of daily survival was 0.76 for An
Mental health and resilience among Eritrean refugees at arrival and one-year post-registration in Switzerland: a cohort study (Publications)
Disorder (score ≥ 30), 10.3% for anxiety (≥ 10) and 15.0% for depression (≥ 10); 17.8% scored as risk/hazardous drinkers (≥ 8). The majority (94.4%) had a high resilience score (≥ 65). For one-year follow-up [...] (24/48) at baseline vs 25.0% (12/48) at follow-up), as were rates of positive screening for anxiety (8.3% vs 4.2%) and depression (14.6 vs 6.3%).
Evaluation of GenoType((R)) MTBDRplus for the rapid detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ghana (Publications)
isolates using only MTBDRplus. RESULTS: Respectively 43 (8.2%) and 8 (1.5%) isolates were resistant to isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP), while 8 (1.5%) were multidrug-resistant. In resistant isolates
Predictors of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome-associated with kaposi sarcoma in mozambique: a prospective study (Publications)
During the first 10 months of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), 8 patients (8/69, 11.6%) experienced IRIS-KS at a median time of 13.8 weeks after cART initiation. Multivariate analysis identified 4 i
Epidemiology of <em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> on Mekong Islands in Southern Laos (Publications)
stercoralis infection (OR 2.4). Infection with Opisthorchis viverrini (72.2%), Schistosoma mekongi (12.8%), and hookworm (56.1%) were very common. Few infections with Trichuris trichiura (3.2%), Ascaris l [...] detected. The majority of helminth infections were of light intensity in prevalences of 58.0%, 52.1%, 8.2%, 3.3% and 0.3%, for O. viverrini, hookworm, S. mekongi, T. trichiura and A. Lumbricoides, respectively [...] ly. Nevertheless, heavy infection intensities were observed for O....
No further increase in asthma, hay fever and atopic sensitisation in adolescents living in Switzerland (Publications)
student's self-completed written or video questionnaires (students' report of current wheeze 8.8, 7.3, and 8.3%). Similarly, no further increase was observed for reported hay fever rates and allergic s
Evaluation of quinolone derivatives for antitrypanosomal activity (Publications)
quinolone derivatives were amongst the most active compounds with IC50 values in the range of 0.3-8.8 &mgr;g/ml. The in vitro cytotoxicity on HT-29 cells was determined for active compounds with IC50 values [...] a structure activity relationship study, modification of the quinolones at position R1, R2, R3 and R8 did not influence trypanocidal activity. An exchange of the fluor at position 6 may contribute to an
A single FLOTAC is more sensitive than triplicate Kato-Katz for the diagnosis of low-intensity soil-transmitted helminth infections (Publications)
were 63.4, 35.8 and 22.9%, respectively. The sensitivity of examining a single stool sample by FLOTAC for diagnosing T. trichiura, hookworm and A. lumbricoides was 88.7, 83.0 and 82.8%, respectively. [...] Lower sensitivities were observed for Kato-Katz even after examining three stool samples: 71.8, 46.0 and 70.3%, respectively. Kato-Katz revealed considerably higher infection intensities than FLOTAC.
Antiplasmodial, anti-trypanosomal, anti-leishmanial and cytotoxicity activity of selected Tanzanian medicinal plants (Publications)
microg/ml), 7 exhibited moderate anti-trypanosomal activity (IC50 2.3-2.8 microg/ml), while 5 displayed mild anti-leishmanial activity (IC50 8.8-9.79 microg/ml). A. kummeriae, A. annua, P. microcarpa, D. natalensis
The dental safety profile of high-dose radioiodine therapy for thyroid cancer: long-term results of a longitudinal cohort study (Publications)
increase: 98.8 [26.5-212], P = 0.003). The long-term risk for postradioiodine tooth extractions increased with increasing cumulative radioiodine activities (% increase [per gigabequerel]: 8.14 [1.07, 15 [...] seventy-six participants were recruited (median follow-up, 6.6 y; range, 1.1-32.6 y; patient-years: 8,472 before and 1,421 after radioiodine therapy). Scintigraphic salivary gland uptake during radioiodine
