Streaming data from a smartphone application: a new approach to mapping health during travel (Publications)
940 questionnaires, 796 (84.7%) of which were geolocated to Southeast Asia. Accidents occurred to 20.0% of participants and were mainly in the Thai islands, while self-rated "severe" mental health events
Diagnostic comparison between FECPAKG2 and the Kato-Katz method for analyzing soil-transmitted helminth eggs in stool (Publications)
hookworm-positive participants at follow-up. At baseline FECPAKG2 revealed a sensitivity of 75.6% (72.0-77.7) for detecting A. lumbricoides, 71.5% (67.4-95.3) for hookworm and 65.8% (64.9-66.2) for T. trichiura
Hepatitis A in Switzerland: an analysis of 29 years of surveillance data and contemporary challenges (Publications)
rates were calculated. RESULTS: From 1988 to 2016, the HA notification rate decreased from 9.5 to 0.5 per 100'000 population in Switzerland. Median age and the proportion of hospitalised cases increased
Sensitivity of the point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen urine cassette test for diagnosis of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> in low-endemicity... (Publications)
gram of stool. Point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen revealed a prevalence of S. mansoni of 33.0% when trace results were considered positive and 12.4% when trace results were considered negative.
Quantification of viable bacterial load in artificial sputum spiked with <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
of low: 271.7 (25.9), medium: 233.5 (16.3), and two batches of high load: 186.9 (12.3) and 191.8 (9.0), respectively. A variance component model that included load, storage temperature, days of storage
Factors associated with recent HIV infections among newly HIV diagnosed in Rwanda (Publications)
October 2018 to February 2024, 8,940 individuals consented to HIV recency testing. Among them, 537 (6.0%) were recently infected. The odds of detecting a recent HIV infection increased by 1% for each month
<em>In vitro</em> antischistosomal activity of <em>Artemisia</em> species (Publications)
praziquantel. The DCM fraction infusions of A. afra (BB) were the most active with IC(50) values of 0.35 µg/ml against NTS and 4.5 µg/ml against adult worms. Chemical fingerprinting using High-performance
Drug interaction studies of cabamiquine: ganaplacide combination against hepatic <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> (Publications)
was fully effective in preventing the appearance of blood stage parasites when a systemic plasma C(av0-24)/EC(50) ratio > 2 for ganaplacide and > 5 for cabamiquine was achieved. These findings demonstrate
The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice (Publications)
We show that a minimum package of 1 year of ECCE for all children would cost on average less than 0·15% of low-income and middle-income countries' current gross domestic product. The societal cost of
Identification of enteric pathogen reservoirs and transmission pathways associated with short childhood stature in the Kolkata Indian site of the... (Publications)
enteric infections. In the MSD cohort, rotavirus and typical EPEC (tEPEC) infections among children 0-11 months of age and ST-ETEC infections among children 12-23 months of age were associated with lower
