Patients with cystic echinococcosis in the three national referral centers of Mongolia: a model for CE management assessment (Publications)
assigned to medical, percutaneous treatment, surgery and watch & wait were 52.5% (95% CI 42-65), 25.8% (95% CI 15-30), 5.1% (95% CI 0-10) and 3.3% (95% CI 0.0-10), respectively. 13.3% (95% CI 5-25) of cysts
Personal exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields in Europe: is there a generation gap? (Publications)
variability, we studied the differences and correlations in exposure patterns between children aged 8 to 18 and their parents, over the course of the day, by age, by activity pattern, and for different
Intestinal parasite infections and associated risk factors among schoolchildren in Dolakha and Ramechhap districts, Nepal: a cross-sectional study (Publications)
March and May 2015 in the districts of Dolakha and Ramechhap, Nepal. A total of 708 children, aged 8-16 years from 16 purposively selected schools, were enrolled. Each child provided a single stool sample
Drug susceptibility testing and mortality in patients treated for tuberculosis in high-burden countries: a multicentre cohort study (Publications)
patients and discordant for 121 (19%) of 634. Overall, sensitivity to detect any resistance was 90.8% (95% CI 86.5-94.2) and specificity 84.3% (80.3-87.7). Mortality ranged from 6% (20 of 336) in patients
High cure rates and tolerability of artesunate-amodiaquine and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in... (Publications)
outcomes. PCR uncorrected adequate clinical and parasitological response (ACPR) for DP on day 42 was 98.8% and 75.9% at Kibaha and Ujiji, respectively. After PCR correction, DP's ACPR was 100% at both sites
Outbreak of <em>Cryptosporidium hominis</em> following river flooding in the city of Halle (Saale), Germany, August 2013 (Publications)
occurred during week 29, numbers peaked in week 34 and started to decrease in week 36. Median age was 8 years (range: 0-77). Compared to controls (n = 61), cases (n = 20) were more likely to report visits
Nutritional and health status of children 15 months after integrated school garden, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene interventions: a... (Publications)
health and nutritional status in two districts of Nepal. METHODS: The trial included 682 children aged 8-17 years from 12 schools. The schools were randomly allocated to one of three interventions: (a) school
discovering novel treatments and conducting clinical trials in the area of parasitic worms. On 7 and 8 December 2017, Swiss TPH hosts an international symposium on the topic of "Helminth Infection - From
of the Swiss Malaria Group. Lengeler emphasised that, given the annual funding gap of around USD 3.8 billion , more funding is urgently needed to continue to fight malaria. "The gap between global investment
Outdoor air pollution exposure and cognitive performance: findings from the enrolment phase of the CONSTANCES cohort (Publications)
for both PM2.5 and NO2 was found for the semantic fluency test (PM2.5 4·6%, 95% CI 2·1–6·9 and NO2 3·8%, 1·9–5·7), whereas for black carbon, the largest effect size was found for the digit symbol substitution
