The trypanocidal benzoxaborole AN7973 inhibits trypanosome mRNA processing (Publications)
for veterinary trypanosomosis. In all kinetoplastids, transcription is polycistronic. Individual mRNA 5'-ends are created by trans splicing of a short leader sequence, with coupled polyadenylation of the [...] not, however, always correlate and prolonged selection of trypanosomes in AN7973 resulted in only 1.5-fold resistance. It is therefore possible that the modes of action of oxaboroles that target trypanosome
High genetic diversity in the <em>Dirofilaria repens</em> species complex revealed by mitochondrial genomes of feline microfilaria samples from... (Publications)
the closely related species Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis was proposed. Previous analysis of 2.5 kb partial mitochondrial genome sequences containing the particularly variable non-coding control region [...] distance between the valid sibling species Onchocerca volvulus and Onchocerca ochengi. Sequencing of a 2.5 kb fragment containing the control region from microfilarial DNA from additional feline blood samples
Population genetic structure and hybridization of schistosomes in schoolchildren in Côte d’Ivoire (Publications)
identified 15 S. haematobium sequences (45.5%) belonging to seven haplotypes and 18 S. bovis sequences (54.5%) belonging to 12 haplotypes. Of 40 ITS2 sequences analysed, 77.5% were assigned to pure S. haematobium [...] haematobium, 10.0% to pure S. bovis and 12.5% to S. haematobium x S. bovis hybrids. The literature review elucidated that few methods are available for the population genetics of S. haematobium. Variable genetic
Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a... (Publications)
quality care; outcome-based measures were transformed to values on a scale of 0-100 based on the 2.5th and 97.5th percentile of location-year values. We constructed the UHC effective coverage index by weighting [...] performance on the UHC effective coverage index improved from 45.8 (95% uncertainty interval 44.2-47.5) in 1990 to 60.3 (58.7-61.9) in 2019, yet country-level UHC effective coverage in 2019 still spanned [...] equivalents still lacking UHC effective coverage in 2023, with nearly a...
Spectrum and prevalence of genetic predisposition in medulloblastoma: a retrospective genetic study and prospective validation in a clinical trial... (Publications)
deficiency. In patients with a genetic predisposition to medulloblastoma, 5-year progression-free survival was 52% (95% CI 40-69) and 5-year overall survival was 65% (95% CI 52-81); these survival estimates [...] used to further classify medulloblastoma genomes into two groups, a clock-like group (signatures 1 and 5) and a homologous recombination repair deficiency-like group (signatures 3 and 8), and chromothripsis [...] These estimates were replicated in the prospective clinical cohort...
Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a... (Publications)
quality care; outcome-based measures were transformed to values on a scale of 0-100 based on the 2.5th and 97.5th percentile of location-year values. We constructed the UHC effective coverage index by weighting [...] performance on the UHC effective coverage index improved from 45.8 (95% uncertainty interval 44.2-47.5) in 1990 to 60.3 (58.7-61.9) in 2019, yet country-level UHC effective coverage in 2019 still spanned [...] equivalents still lacking UHC effective coverage in 2023, with nearly a...
Population genetic structure and hybridization of schistosomes in schoolchildren in Côte d’Ivoire (Publications)
identified 15 S. haematobium sequences (45.5%) belonging to seven haplotypes and 18 S. bovis sequences (54.5%) belonging to 12 haplotypes. Of 40 ITS2 sequences analysed, 77.5% were assigned to pure S. haematobium [...] haematobium, 10.0% to pure S. bovis and 12.5% to S. haematobium x S. bovis hybrids. The literature review elucidated that few methods are available for the population genetics of S. haematobium. Variable genetic
Spectrum and prevalence of genetic predisposition in medulloblastoma: a retrospective genetic study and prospective validation in a clinical trial... (Publications)
deficiency. In patients with a genetic predisposition to medulloblastoma, 5-year progression-free survival was 52% (95% CI 40-69) and 5-year overall survival was 65% (95% CI 52-81); these survival estimates [...] used to further classify medulloblastoma genomes into two groups, a clock-like group (signatures 1 and 5) and a homologous recombination repair deficiency-like group (signatures 3 and 8), and chromothripsis [...] These estimates were replicated in the prospective clinical cohort...
Evaluation of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in two areas of intense seasonal malaria transmission: secondary analysis of a household-randomised,... (Publications)
received study drugs in 2015 and 2016. These analyses focus on the approximately 10,000 children (5,000 per country) under observation each year in the SMC plus placebo group. Despite high coverage and [...] malaria and uncomplicated clinical malaria remained high in the study areas (overall incidence rates 12.5 [95% confidence interval (CI): 11.2, 14.1] and 871.1 [95% CI: 852.3, 890.6] cases per 1,000 person-years [...] children with asymptomatic malaria was 98.3% (95% CI: 88.6%, 99.8%) in...
Safety and efficacy of oral fexinidazole in children with <em>gambiense </em>human African trypanosomiasis: a multicentre, single-arm, open-label,... (Publications)
per day for 4 days (days 1-4) followed by 600 mg (one x 600 mg tablet) once per day for 6 days (days 5-10). Children weighing 35 kg or more received oral fexinidazole of 1800 mg (three x 600 mg tablets) [...] day for 4 days (days 1-4), followed by 1200 mg (two x 600 mg tablets) once per day for 6 days (days 5-10). The primary endpoint was fexinidazole treatment success rate 12 months after end of treatment. [...] sis) completed the 10-day treatment. Treatment success rate at 12 months was 97.6%...