Global, regional, and national age-specific progress towards the 2020 milestones of the WHO End TB Strategy: a systematic analysis for the Global... (Publications)
a 29·5% (25·5 to 34·1) decrease in those aged 5-14 years, a 15·2% (10·0 to 20·2) decrease in those aged 15-49 years, a 7·97% (0·472 to 14·1) decrease in those aged 50-69 years, and a 3·29% (-5·56 to 9·07) [...] aged 70 years and older, from 2015 to 2020. Global tuberculosis deaths decreased by 11·9% (5·77 to 17·0) from 2015 to 2020. 17 countries attained a 35% reduction in deaths due to tuberculosis between 2015 [...] reduced the number of all-age tuberculosis deaths from 1·39 million (1·28 to...
Mental distress and health-related quality of life in <em>gambiense </em>human African trypanosomiasis: a case-control study in the Democratic... (Publications)
the Vanga health zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Data were analysed using Stata version 14.0. The degree of association between neurologic sequelae and mental distress was evaluated using the Student's
Inoculation of pigs against <em>Trichinella spiralis</em>, using larval excretory-secretory antigens (Publications)
of newborn larvae shed in vitro) recovered after challenge exposure was significantly lower (alpha = 0.05) than the fecundity of females recovered from control pigs. The degree of resistance in inoculated
Ascertaining <em>in vivo</em> virulence of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> lineages in patients in Mbeya, Tanzania (Publications)
distribution of M. tuberculosis lineages among patients with early or advanced stages of HIV infection (P = 0.785), indicating that the virulence of strains from these lineages may not be substantially different
<em>Fasciola hepatica</em>: comparison of the sedimentation and FLOTAC techniques for the detection and quantification of faecal egg counts in rats (Publications)
determined. A single FLOTAC showed a higher sensitivity (92.6%) than 2, 4 and 8 sedimentation readings (63.0-85.2%) for detecting F. hepatica eggs in rat faeces post-treatment. On average, it took 21min to prepare
Real-life versus package insert: a post-marketing study on adverse-event rates of the virosomal hepatitis A vaccine Epaxal(R) in healthy travellers (Publications)
during a four-day period after vaccination. A total of 2541 questionnaires could be evaluated (95.0% return rate). Solicited self-reporting resulted in significantly higher (p
Interactions of mefloquine with praziquantel in the <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> mouse model and <em>in vitro</em> (Publications)
drugs and drug combinations 7 weeks post-infection. Results We calculated in vitro LC(50) values of 0.024 and 1.9 mug/mL for praziquantel and mefloquine, respectively. Mefloquine/praziquantel combinations
Association between <em>Schistosoma mansoni </em>and hookworm infections among schoolchildren in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
and hookworm infections with an adjusted odds ratio of 2.25 (95% confidence interval: 1.31-3.85; P=0.003). Increasing infection intensity of S. mansoni was significantly correlated with an increased likelihood
Preventive effect of artemether in experimental animals infected with <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> (Publications)
susceptible between the 3rd and 4th week after infection, resulting in worm reductions of 75.3-82.0% compared to non-treated controls. This level was boosted to 97.2-100% when the animals were subjected
Mental distress and health-related quality of life in <em>gambiense </em>human African trypanosomiasis: a case-control study in the Democratic... (Publications)
the Vanga health zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Data were analysed using Stata version 14.0. The degree of association between neurologic sequelae and mental distress was evaluated using the Student's
