Safety profile of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Menafrivac™) in clinical trials and vaccination campaigns: a review of published studies (Publications)
included with an overall local AEFI I of 11,496/100,000 doses administered per week in clinical trials and 0.72/100,000 doses in immunization campaigns. An Id of 11,497.92 [11,497.91-11,497.93] and 17,243.20 [17
Neglected tropical diseases in the People's Republic of China: progress towards elimination (Publications)
tted helminth infection, clonorchiasis, taeniasis, and echinococcosis in 2015 were 29.1 million, 6.0 million, 366 200, and 166 100, respectively. In 2017, after more than 60 years of uninterrupted, mu
Structure-activity relationships and antiplasmodial potencies of novel 3,4-disubstituted 1,2,5-oxadiazoles (Publications)
high in vitro activity against the chloroquine-sensitive strain NF54 of P. falciparum (PfNF54 IC(50) = 0.034 µM), resulting in a very promising selectivity index of 1526.
Establishing an antimicrobial stewardship program in Sierra Leone: a report of the experience of a low-income country in West Africa (Publications)
training and review of guidelines. We performed a GPPS on 175 patients, of whom more than half (98, 56.0%) were prescribed an antibiotic: 63 (69.2%) in the surgical wards and 53 (51.2%) in the medical wards
Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy during the pandemic: a cross-sectional survey in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland (Publications)
investigated determinants of the intention to vaccinate. Previously validated scores (Cronbach's alphas > 0.70) were applied to our data for inclusion in the ordinal logistic regression model. Results: Individuals
Female genital mutilation/cutting in the Swiss HIV cohort study: a cross-sectional study (Publications)
who provided an answer, 80 (20.7%) reported to have undergone FGM/C. Fifty-six of the 80 women (70.0%) who reported having undergone FGM/C, also reported that they had never discussed their cutting with
Spatial mobility and large-scale resource extraction: an analysis of community well-being and health in a copper mining area of Zambia (Publications)
secondary school vs. 7.3%), had higher employment (43.8% vs. 15.8%), and higher mean wealth (3.6 vs. 3.0). The odds of having a child
SPHN - The Swiss Aging Citizen Reference (SACR) (Publications)
In Switzerland by 2045, we expect 2.7 Mio citizens aged 65+ of whom 1.0 Mio. aged 80+. A priority and focus of personalized health research is therefore aging biology to extend healthy life expectancy
Antitrypanosomal cycloartane glycosides from Astragalus baibutensis (Publications)
the most potent (IC50 9.5 microg/ml). Acetylastragaloside I (1) was also lethal to T. cruzi (IC50 5.0 microg/ml), and it is the first cycloartane-type triterpene with remarkable trypanocidal activity against
Field evaluation of spatial repellency of metofluthrin-impregnated plastic strips against <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> complex in Bagamoyo, coastal... (Publications)
than those of the control houses when pyrethrum spray sheet collection was used (F = 4.61, 1 df, P = 0.038; 98.7% reduction of total mosquito collection compared with that for the controls). These low indices
