New acyl derivatives of 3-aminofurazanes and their antiplasmodial activities (Publications)
efficiency) or determined experimentally (permeability) via a PAMPA. The N-(4-(3,4-diethoxyphenyl)-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-3-(trifluoromethyl)benzamide possessed good physicochemical properties and showed high
Factors associated with the utilisation of primary care services: a cross-sectional study in public and private facilities in Albania (Publications)
SETTING: Exit interviews with patients who consulted one of 23 primary care providers (18 public and 5 private) in Fier district of Albania from the period of July-August 2018. PARTICIPANTS: Representative
Medicinal plant preparations administered by Botswana traditional health practitioners for treatment of worm infections show anthelmintic activities (Publications)
luteoalbum displayed 85.4% activity at 1 mug/mL against NTS, while C. pyracanthoides displayed 78.5% activity against adult S. mansoni at 10 mug/mL.
Imported schistosomiasis in Europe: sentinel surveillance data from TropNetEurop (Publications)
features. RESULTS: Male patients accounted for 64% of all cases. The average age of all patients was 29.5 years. The majority of patients were of European origin (53%). Europeans traveled predominantly for
Quasi-absence de réinfestation par les strongles du bétail gambien en saison sèche (Publications)
Five Ndama bulls aged between 1.5 and 2 years and 20 Djallonke rams aged between 6 to 18 months were dewormed as follows: the bulls were dewormed in November (beginning of the dry season), the sheep were
The prevalence of symptoms attributed to electromagnetic field exposure: a cross-sectional representative survey in Switzerland (Publications)
environmental risk factors (five of which were different EMF sources). RESULTS: We found a prevalence of 5% (95% CI 4-6%) for electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) in our study sample. The most common health
Chemoproteomics validates selective targeting of <em>Plasmodium</em> M1 alanyl aminopeptidase as an antimalarial strategy (Publications)
parasites, with limited proteolysis also enabling estimation of the binding site on PfA-M1 to within ~5 Å of that determined by X-ray crystallography. Finally, functional investigation by untargeted metabolomics
A new global air quality health index based on the WHO Air Quality Guideline values with application in Cape Town (Publications)
from two global systematic reviews and meta-analyses were used to derive the excess risk (ER) for PM(2.5), PM(10), NO(2), SO(2) and O(3). Single pollutant AQHIs were developed and scaled using the ERs at the
Ambient air pollution, traffic noise and adult asthma prevalence: a BioSHaRE approach (Publications)
and current asthma prevalence.PM10 or NO2 higher by 10 microg.m-3 was associated with 12.8% (95% CI 9.5-16.3%) and 1.9% (95% CI 1.1-2.8%) higher lifetime asthma prevalence, respectively, independent of c
Sensitive and accurate quantification of human malaria parasites using droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) (Publications)
high (> 0.95) between qPCR and ddPCR. Quantification between technical replicates by ddPCR differed 1.5-1.7-fold, compared to 2.4-6.2-fold by qPCR. ddPCR facilitates parasite quantification for studies where
