Effect of preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel on schistosomiasis among school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatiotemporal modelling... (Publications)
METHODS: In this spatiotemporal modelling study, we analysed survey data from school-aged children (aged 5-14 years) in 44 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. The data were extracted from the Global Neglected
Impact of scaling up prenatal nutrition interventions on human capital outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a modeling analysis (Publications)
4) for IFA; 4.08 million y (95% UI: 0.12, 9.68) and $18.9 billion (95% UI: 0.59, 44.6) for calcium; 5.02 million y (95% UI: 1.07, 11.0) and $18.1 billion (95% UI: 3.88, 39.1) for MMS; and 0.53 million y
Compliance with recommended <em>Varroa destructor</em> treatment regimens improves the survival of honey bee colonies over winter (Publications)
in apiaries with substantial deviations from the recommendations (odds ratio: 50.4, 95% CI: 9.7-262.5, p < 0.0001). The deviations led to increased levels of V. destructor infestation ahead of wintering
Cervical cancer in women living in South Africa: a record linkage study of the National Health Laboratory Service and the National Cancer Registry (Publications)
78,687 women had non-infection related cancer. About 40% (n = 20,063) of those with CC and 28% (n = 5,667) of those with non-infection related cancer had a known HIV status. The median age at CC diagnosis
On the island of Zanzibar people in the community are frequently colonized with the same MDR Enterobacterales found in poultry and retailed chicken... (Publications)
ESC-R Escherichia coli (CTX-M-15 subgroup, 75%), 34 ESC-R Klebsiella pneumoniae (CTX-M-9 group, 54.5%), 24 non-ESC-R but CST-R E. coli (mcr-1, 95.8%) and 17 non-ESC-R but CST-R K. pneumoniae (D150G su
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of expanding routine immunization coverage in India through Intensified Mission Indradhanush (Publications)
million from an immunization program perspective and increased vaccine delivery by an estimated 2.2 (-0.5 to 4.8) million doses over a 12-month period, averting an estimated 1,413 (-350 to 3,129) deaths. The
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (Publications)
1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year. For every death averted, 66 years of full
A general framework to support cost-efficient fecal egg count methods and study design choices for large-scale STH deworming programs-monitoring of... (Publications)
select (SS); screen, select and retest (SSR) and no selection (NS)) and number of subjects enrolled (100-5,000). Finally, we integrated the outcome of the cost assessment into the simulation study to estimate
Adjuvanting a subunit COVID-19 vaccine to induce protective immunity (Publications)
variant efficiently but showed a reduced response against the B.1.351 variant. RBD-NP-AS03 produced a 4.5-fold reduction in neutralization of B.1.351 whereas the group immunized with RBD-NP-AS37 produced a
Impacts of weather and air pollution on Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: a national case-crossover study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The number of reported cases of Legionnaires' disease (LD) has risen markedly in Switzerland (6.5/100,000 inhabitants in 2021) and abroad over the last decade. Legionella, the causative agent of LD