Spatio-temporal distribution of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex strains in Ghana (Publications)
and spatial distribution of MTBC species and lineages among isolates from pulmonary TB cases over an 8-year period, 2007-2014. METHODOLOGY: Mycobacterial species isolated by culture from consecutively recruited
Susceptibility of <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> to insecticides used for malaria vector control in Rwanda (Publications)
the 591 An. arabiensis genotyped, 425 (71.9%) possessed homozygous (SS) alleles while 158 (26.7%) and 8 (1.4%) had heterozygous (RS) and homozygous (RR) alleles, respectively. Metabolic resistance involving
Excess mortality during the warm summer of 2015 in Switzerland (Publications)
(10.3%, 95% CI -1.822.4%), Northwestern Switzerland (9.5%, 95% CI 2.716.3%) and Espace Mittelland (8.9%, 95% CI 3.714.1%) showed highest excess mortality during this three-month period, whereas fewer deaths
Can performance-based incentives improve motivation of nurses and midwives in primary facilities in northern Ghana? A quasi-experimental study (Publications)
motivation between intervention and comparison health workers were 0.6 versus 0.7 at baseline and 0.8 versus 0.7 at end line, respectively. Differences at baseline and end line were 0.1 (p=0.40 and p=0
Large-scale genome-wide association studies and meta-analyses of longitudinal change in adult lung function (Publications)
/=3 FEV1 measurements per participant identified the novel ME3 locus on chromosome 11 (P = 2.18 x 10-8) at genome-wide significance. Neither locus was associated with FEV1 decline in two additional cohort
Long-term exposure to elemental constituents of particulate matter and cardiovascular mortality in 19 European cohorts: Results from the ESCAPE and... (Publications)
19 European cohorts, we found no statistically significant association between long-term exposure to 8 elemental constituents of particles and total cardiovascular mortality
<em>SERPINA1</em> PiZ and PiS heterozygotes and lung function decline in the SAPALDIA cohort (Publications)
to 92.2 ml (p?=?0.03). Corresponding numbers for persistent smokers differed even more strongly (66.8 ml (PiMM) vs. 108.2 ml (PiMZ), p?=?0.005). Equivalent, but less strong associations were observed for
A large-scale, consortium-based genomewide association study of asthma (Publications)
rs744910 on chromosome 15 in SMAD3 (P=4x10(-9)); and rs2284033 on chromosome 22 in IL2RB (P=1.1x10(-8)). Association with the ORMDL3/GSDMB locus on chromosome 17q21 was specific to childhood-onset disease
Estimating the burden of scrub typhus: a systematic review (Publications)
increasingly also metropolitan areas. Rising minimum incidence rates have been reported over the past 8-10 years from countries with an established surveillance system. A wider distribution of scrub typhus
Retrospective active case finding in Cambodia: an innovative approach to leprosy control in a low-endemic country (Publications)
registered in the national leprosy database were successfully traced in the period 2012-2015. Migration (8.4%), death (6.7%), operational issues (1.6%) and unidentified other issues (16.0%) were the main reasons
