Surveillance of leishmaniasis cases from 15 European centres, 2014 to 2019: a retrospective analysis (Publications)
disease, respectively. Of these, 68% were men, and 32% women, with the median age of 37 years (range: 0-90) at diagnosis. Visceral leishmaniasis was mainly acquired in Europe (88%; 167/190), while cutaneous
Evaluation of two-year recall of self-reported pesticide exposure among Ugandan smallholder farmers (Publications)
found instances of better recall (e.g., overall agreement > 70% and Area Under the Curve (AUC) values > 0.7) for the use of some active ingredients, commonly used PPE items, and washing clothes after application
Substantial reduction in particulate matter air pollution across Europe during 2006-2019: a spatiotemporal modeling analysis (Publications)
(52.6, 91.8%) in 2006 to 28.4% (16.2, 43.7%) in 2019; for PM2.5, the decrease was smaller: from 91.0% (61.3, 99.1%) exposed in 2006 to 53.6% (33.5, 76.3%) in 2019. Although there is a clear improvement
Preventing leprosy with retrospective active case finding combined with single-dose rifampicin for contacts in a low endemic setting: results of the... (Publications)
10,410 contacts in their household and 5 immediate neighbor houses listed. Among these contacts, 72.0% could be screened while most others were absent on the screening day. A total of 33 new leprosy cases
The role of children and adolescents in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a rapid review (Publications)
information descriptively and attempted to report findings separately for: infants and small children (0-5 years) who are mostly pre-school; school children (6-12 years) broadly covering primary school years;
Cost-effectiveness analysis of an intervention project engaging traditional and religious leaders to improve uptake of childhood immunization in... (Publications)
Cross River State. The impact of the intervention on the uptake of routine vaccination among children 0 to 23 months was assessed using a cluster randomized trials. Outcome assessments were performed at the
New antiparasitic flexible triaryl diamidines, their prodrugs and aza analogues: synthesis, <em>in vitro</em> and<em> in vivo</em> biological... (Publications)
melting analysis measurement ΔT(m) for this series of diamidines/poly (dA-dT) complexes fell between 0.5 and 19 °C with 6c showing the highest binding to the DNA minor groove. Finally, a 50 ns molecular
Is universal health coverage affordable? Estimated costs and fiscal space analysis for the Ethiopian essential health services package (Publications)
resources devoted to health. All costs were valued using 2020 US dollars (USD). To implement the EHSP, 13.0 billion USD (per capita: 94 USD) would be required in 2030. The largest (50-70%) share of estimated
Abdominal decompression after cardiac surgery: outcome of 42 patients with abdominal compartment syndrome (Publications)
treatment of the open abdomen were analyzed. RESULTS: Incidence of ACS in cardiac surgery patients was 1.0% (n = 42/4128), with a mortality rate of 57%. Ejection fraction, Euroscore2 as well as the perfusion
Residential radon - comparative analysis of exposure models in Switzerland (Publications)
an arithmetic mean (standard deviation) of 75.5 (31.7) Bq/m(3), and indicated a respective 16.1% and 0.1% adults with predicted radon concentrations exceeding the World Health Organization (100 Bq/m(3))
