Medical use of cannabis in Switzerland: analysis of approved exceptional licences (Publications)
physicians). Over half of patients (685; 57%) were women. The mean age was 57 years (standard deviation 15.0), chronic pain (49%) and spasticity (40%) were the most common symptoms, and co-medication was reported
The development of an ivermectin-based attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) to target <em>Anopheles arabiensis</em> (Publications)
95% of An. arabiensis were knocked down 48 h post-sugar feeding on 10% sucrose solutions containing 0.01% ivermectin. When investigating different juices as attractants, it was observed that An. arabiensis
Assessment of radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure from personal measurements considering the body shadowing effect in Korean children and... (Publications)
times. Each frequency band contribution to total RF-EMF exposure consisted of 76.7%, 2.4%, 9.9%, 5.0%, 3.3%, and 2.6% for downlink, uplink, WiFi, FMRadio, TV, and WiBro bands, respectively. Among the three
Community knowledge, perceptions and attitudes regarding leprosy in rural Cameroon: the case of Ekondotiti and Mbonge health districts in the... (Publications)
someone with leprosy. Information on leprosy was mainly from community volunteers (40.6%), friends (38.0%), and the media (24%). Only 19.7% of respondents knew the cause of leprosy, and a considerable proportion
High time-resolution simulation of <em>E. coli</em> on hands reveals large variation in microbial exposures amongst Vietnamese farmers using human... (Publications)
1344 objects contacted per hour per hand), including highly variable hand-to-mouth contact rates (from 0 to 9 contacts per hour per hand). The frequency of hand-to-mouth contacts was substantially lower than
Modelling the impact of insecticide-based control interventions on the evolution of insecticide resistance and disease transmission (Publications)
interrupted. It is based on a classic Ross-Macdonald derivation of the malaria basic reproductive number (R0) and may be used to assess the effectiveness of different control strategies in terms of whether they
Creation of the WHO Indicators of Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD): metadata synthesis across 10 countries (Publications)
Our objective was to create a new tool, applicable across multicultures, to measure development from 0 to 3 years through metadata synthesis. Methods: Fourteen cross-sectional data sets were contributed
Efficacy and safety of ascending dosages of tribendimidine against hookworm infections in children: a randomized controlled trial (Publications)
6% (95% CI, -24.7-64.1, 65.4% (95% CI, 24.5-85.9), 82.1% (95% CI, 58.4-92.5) and 92.2% (95% CI, 81.0-97.1) for placebo, 100 mg, 200 mg and 400 mg tribendimidine, respectively. The Emax model predicted
Detection and characterization of ESBL-producing<em> Escherichia coli</em> from humans and poultry in Ghana (Publications)
41 (29%) and 33 (61%) harbored ESBL E. coli, respectively, with prevalences on farms ranging between 0 and 85%. No predominant sequence type (ST) was detected among humans. ST10 was most prevalent among
Pharmacokinetics of ascending doses of ivermectin in <em>Trichuris trichiura</em>-infected children aged 2-12 years (Publications)
compared with parameters previously studied in adults, whereas body weight-adjusted CL/F ( approximately 0.35 L/h/kg) was significantly higher in children. Tmax ( approximately 6 h), t1/2 ( approximately 18
