Similar but different: integrated phylogenetic analysis of Austrian and Swiss HIV-1 sequences reveal differences in transmission patterns of the local... (Publications)
patients were in domestic cherries, 8.3% in international cherries, and 7.0% in SHCS/AHIVCOS cherries. Similarly, in the SHCS, 43.0% of the patients were in domestic cherries, 8.2% in international cherries
Posttraumatic stress disorder predicts poor health-related quality of life in cardiac patients in Palestine (Publications)
moderate-to-high PTSD symptoms among 1022 patients at baseline was 27∙0%. Patients with PTSD symptoms reported an approximate 20∙0% lower HRQL at follow-up. The PTSD and HRQL relationship was largely mediated
Modelling to quantify the likelihood that local elimination of transmission has occurred using routine <em>gambiense </em>human African... (Publications)
certainty that EOT has been met there (99.0% for Model S and 88.5% for Model W), and this could be higher with 50% coverage screening that year (99.1% for Model S and 94.0% for Model W). CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate
Application of the Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines (PACV) survey in three national languages in Switzerland: exploratory factor analysis and... (Publications)
extracted three sub-domains in German and French and four sub-domains in Italian. Cronbach's alpha was > 0.8 across the three languages, and MSA produced a 13-item German, 14-item French, and 11-item Italian [...] EFA and MSA of the short version PACV extracted a single factor and scale with Cronbach's alpha > 0.7 in all three language versions. VH was significantly associated with non-timely receipt of the first
Who is best to test? A systematic review of chlamydia infections in Switzerland (Publications)
literature search generated 108 hits, and nine studies were included. Chlamydia prevalence ranged between 0.8 and 12.8%. Most frequently affected were undocumented women undergoing voluntary termination of pregnancy [...] HIV-positive men who have sex with men (10.9%, 95% CI: 9.2-17.6), and adult offenders (6.5%, 95% CI: 3.2-9.0). Systematic screening was suggested for the first two risk groups and women suffering a miscarriage
Elucidation of the<em> in vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em> activities of bridged 1,2,4-trioxolanes, bridged 1,2,4,5-tetraoxanes, tricyclic... (Publications)
monoperoxides, trioxolanes, and tetraoxanes revealed the highest in vitro activity against NTS (IC50s 0.4-20.2µM) and adult schistosomes (IC50s 1.8-22.8µM). Tetraoxanes showed higher cytotoxicity than an [...] observed for two trioxolanes, which showed moderate worm burden reductions (WBR) of 44.3% and 42.9% (p> 0.05). Complexation of the compounds with ß-cyclodextrin with the aim to improve solubility and gastr
Use of whole genome sequencing to determine the microevolution of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> during an outbreak (Publications)
link. The outbreak strain resulted in 5 bacterial variants originating from the index case A1 with 0-2 mutations per transmission event that resulted in a secondary case. CONCLUSIONS: Whole genome sequencing [...] tuberculosis enabled us to identify microevolutionary events observable during transmission, to determine 0-2 single nucleotide polymorphisms per transmission event that resulted in a secondary case, and to identify
Risk of latent tuberculosis infection in children living in households with tuberculosis patients: a cross sectional survey in remote northern Lao... (Publications)
Laos (289 per 100,000). We evaluated the risk of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among children (0-15 years) living with tuberculosis patients in rural northern Laos. METHODS: In a cross sectional survey [...] 148 contact-children received prophylaxis, one had cervical tuberculosis; the risk for LTBI was 31.0%. Awareness of the infectiousness of tuberculosis was low among patients (31%) and their contacts (31%)
Exposition environnementale à des déchets contenant du mercaptan, des hydrocarbures aromatiques et de l'hydrogène sulfuré (Abidjan) (Publications)
study also showed that the radius of the zone affected varied from 0.4 km to 3 km, much higher than the officially defined and accepted 0.2-km radius. Finally, it showed that several environmental factors
Anémie dans une école du Cambodge rural: détection, prévalence et liens avec les parasitoses intestinales et la malnutrition (Publications)
appeared inaccurate. Anaemia was independently associated with Ancylostoma carriage (p = 0.05), and stunting (p = 0.01), which prevalences were 54% et 40% respectively; and this, despite a mebendazole 500
