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1. Pathways and associated costs of care in patients with confirmed and presumptive tuberculosis in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study (Publications)

   Pathways and associated costs of care in patients with confirmed and presumptive tuberculosis in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study

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   presumptive patients did so at hospitals. The median visits made by confirmed patients was 2 (range 1-5) and 2 (range 1-3) by presumptive patients. Patients spent a median of 31% of their monthly household [...] [IQR 18.7-48.4] vs USD 19.8 [IQR 13.8-34.0], p=0.02), as were the indirect costs (USD 66.9 [IQR 35.5-150.0] vs USD 46.8 [IQR 20.1-115.3], p

2. Testing bio-efficacy of insecticide-treated nets with fewer mosquitoes for enhanced malaria control (Publications)

   Testing bio-efficacy of insecticide-treated nets with fewer mosquitoes for enhanced malaria control

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   alternative protocol, using fewer mosquitos, while ensuring a precision in the main indicator of +/-5 percentage points (pp). We compared different laboratory methods against the probability of the LLIN [...] proportion of nets considered as valid was 0.40 pp. The 95% confidence interval of this value never exceed 5 pp when the number of LLIN tested was > /=40. This method slightly outperforms the current recommendations

3. Development of land use regression models for elemental, organic carbon, PAH and hopanes/steranes in 10 ESCAPE/TRANSPHORM European study areas (Publications)

   Development of land use regression models for elemental, organic carbon, PAH and hopanes/steranes in 10 ESCAPE/TRANSPHORM European study areas

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   aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), hopanes/steranes and elemental and organic carbon (EC/OC) content of PM2.5. In 10 European study areas PAH, hopanes/steranes and EC/OC concentrations were measured at 16-40 sites [...] The moderate to high explained variance of LUR models and the overall moderate correlation with PM2.5 model predictions support the application of especially the OC and PAH models in epidemiological studies

4. Simulation of population-based commuter exposure to NO2 using different air pollution models (Publications)

   Simulation of population-based commuter exposure to NO2 using different air pollution models

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   range: 21-61) than with a dispersion model with a lower resolution (39 ± 5 µg m-3; range: 24-51), and a land use regression model (41 ± 5 µg m-3; range: 24-54). Highest median cumulative exposures were calculated

5. Effects of scale, question location, order of response alternatives, and season on self-reported noise annoyance using ICBEN scales: a field... (Publications)

   Effects of scale, question location, order of response alternatives, and season on self-reported noise annoyance using ICBEN scales: a field experiment

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   of a balanced experimental design, the effect of type of annoyance question and corresponding scale (5-point verbal vs. 11-point numerical ICBEN (International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise) [...] 11-point numerical scale whereas the percentage of highly annoyed respondents was higher based on the 5-point scale, using common cutoff points. In conclusion, placement and presentation of annoyance questions

6. Preventive chemotherapy in one year reduces by over 80% the number of individuals with soil-transmitted helminthiases causing morbidity: results from... (Publications)

   Preventive chemotherapy in one year reduces by over 80% the number of individuals with soil-transmitted helminthiases causing morbidity: results from meta-analysis

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   which reached almost 80% after 5 years and over 95% in 10 years of deworming interventions.The reduction in hookworm prevalence was 57% after 12 months reaching 78% after 5 years.We consider the results

7. Subtle to severe hepatobiliary morbidity in <em>Opisthorchis viverrini </em>endemic settings in Southern Laos (Publications)

   Subtle to severe hepatobiliary morbidity in <em>Opisthorchis viverrini </em>endemic settings in Southern Laos

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   markedly advanced periductal fibrosis was diagnosed in 7.0%, 66.5%, and 17.0% of patients, respectively. Normal liver parenchyma was seen in only 9.5% of patients. Presence of gall stones (13.2%), sludge (1.4%)

8. School distribution as keep-up strategy to maintain universal coverage of long-lasting insecticidal nets: implementation and results of a program in... (Publications)

   School distribution as keep-up strategy to maintain universal coverage of long-lasting insecticidal nets: implementation and results of a program in southern Tanzania

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   in all schools in Lindi, Mtwara, and Ruvuma regions, targeting students in primary (Standards 1, 3, 5, and 7) and secondary (Forms 2 and 4) schools and all teachers. In Lindi region, 2 additional classes [...] n called SchoolNet. SNP2 included 2,337 schools, 473,700 students, and 25,269 teachers. A total of 5,070 people were trained in LLIN distribution (487 trainers and 4,583 distributors), and 4,392 (434 ward

9. Hepatitis A in Switzerland: an analysis of 29 years of surveillance data and contemporary challenges (Publications)

   Hepatitis A in Switzerland: an analysis of 29 years of surveillance data and contemporary challenges

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   on 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

10. Whole blood transcriptome changes following controlled human malaria infection in malaria pre-exposed volunteers correlate with parasite prepatent... (Publications)

    Whole blood transcriptome changes following controlled human malaria infection in malaria pre-exposed volunteers correlate with parasite prepatent period

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    samples were collected in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, from ten adults who were injected intradermally (ID) with 2.5x104 aseptic, purified, cryopreserved P. falciparum sporozoites (Sanaria(R) PfSPZ Challenge). A total [...] identified as differentially expressed following CHMI. Transcriptional changes were most pronounced on day 5 after inoculation, during the clinically silent liver phase. A secondary analysis, grouping the volunteers