A matter of timing: biting by malaria-infected <em>Anopheles</em> mosquitoes and the use of interventions during the night in rural south-eastern... (Publications)
hour of the night. Individuals were mainly outdoors before 9PM, and mainly indoors between 10PM and 5AM. The main malaria vectors caught were Anopheles funestus sensu stricto and An. arabiensis. Biting
Antiprotozoal activity of diterpenoids isolated from <em>Zhumeria majdae</em>- absolute configuration by circular dichroism (Publications)
showed superior activity against T. b. rhodesiense, L. donovani and P. falciparum with IC50 values of 5.4, 1.6 and 2.1 mug/ml, respectively. From eight abietane-type diterpenoids identified in roots, six
Risk reduction of diarrhea and respiratory infections following a community health education program - a facility-based case-control study in rural... (Publications)
y infections remain a major cause of death in developing countries especially among children below 5 years of age. About 80% of all hospital attendances in Kenya can be attributed to preventable diseases
Impacts of land-use and land-cover changes on temperature-related mortality (Publications)
mortality range from -1.1 to +0.6 percentage points by 2050-2059 across all locations and from -1.4 to +0.5 percentage points by 2090-2099. Under inequality, these vary from -0.7 to +0.9 percentage points by
Human resources for health: a framework synthesis to put health workers at the centre of healthcare (Publications)
performance outcomes; (3) human resource management practises and levers; (4) health system outcomes; (5) contextual/cross-cutting issues; (6) population health outcomes and (7) the humanness of health workers
A study protocol for a multi-country cluster randomized controlled trial of the impact of a multi-component One Health strategy to eliminate... (Publications)
Glasses and Lawa Model interventions. OV and STH infections levels will be evaluated in individuals aged 5-75 years at baseline and will be repeated at follow-up (12 months after the HELM intervention), using
The cost of sleeping sickness vector control in Yasa Bonga, a health district in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)
estimated annual economic cost for protecting an area of 1,925 km2 was 120,000 USD. This translates to 5.3 USD per target used each year, 11 USD per target deployed in the field, 573 USD per linear km treated
A rapid appraisal of factors influencing praziquantel treatment compliance in two communities endemic for schistosomiasis in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
Among the 200 individuals interviewed in Moronou, 50.0% were administered praziquantel, while only 19.5% of the 205 individuals interviewed in Bigouin received praziquantel. The main reasons for low treatment
The protective effect of cheese consumption at 18 months on allergic diseases in the first 6 years (Publications)
cheese consumption is associated with allergic diseases. METHODS: In the PASTURE study (birth cohort in 5 European countries), data on feeding practices, environmental factors and allergic diseases were collected
Cell penetration, herbicidal activity, and <em>in-vivo</em>-toxicity of oligo-arginine derivatives and of novel guanidinium-rich compounds derived... (Publications)
compare the biological properties with those of octaarginines we synthesized Adp(8)-derivatives (Figure5). Intravenouse injection of H-Adp(8)-NH2 into the tail vein of mice with doses as high as 45mol/kg causes