Mortality of neurological disorders in Tanzania: analysis of baseline data from sample vital registration with verbal autopsy (SAVVY) (Publications)
06% (95% CI: 1.12-3.01). Overall, mortality of ND was estimated with a CSMF of 4.99% (95% CI: 4.40-5.58). Conclusions: The SAVVY survey provides estimates of mortality burden of ND in Tanzania. The study
Preparation of sesquiterpene lactone-loaded PLA nanoparticles and evaluation of their antitrypanosomal activity (Publications)
a rounded knotty depression like a navel orange. The average particle sizes were 202.3, 220.3, 219.5, 216.9, and 226.4 nm for alpha-santonin, arglabin, schkuhrin II, vernolepin, and eucannabinolide, r
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
Mapping health service coverage inequalities in Africa: a scoping review protocol (Publications)
Synthesis. We preregistered this protocol with the Open Science Framework on 26 July 2022 (https://osf.io/zd5bt). We will consider any empirical research that assesses inequalities in relation to services for
Evaluation of 43 species of Congolese medicinal plants used traditionally for the treatment of schistosomiasis leading to the isolation of an... (Publications)
horbide a (1) was isolated as an active compound with 56% activity against NTS at 50 mug/mL and 22.5% activity against adult S. mansoni at 100 mug/mL but these activities are significantly less than those
The cumulative impacts of droughts and N deposition on Norway spruce (<em>Picea abies</em>) in Switzerland based on 37 years of forest monitoring (Publications)
precipitation (570-2448 mm a(-1)), temperature (3.6-10.9 degrees C) or total nitrogen deposition (8.5-81.2 kg N ha(-1) a(-1)). Long-term tree mortality has increased more than fivefold due to the multiple
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
Prospective association between depressive symptoms and blood-pressure related outcomes in Kosovo (Publications)
follow-up in our fully adjusted model, although the association with systolic BP (beta = -1.98, 95%-CI -5.48 to 1.28, p = 0.23) did not meet statistical significance. We found no statistically significant
Associations between modeled residential outdoor and measured personal exposure to ultrafine particles in four European study areas (Publications)
outdoor versus personal exposure were smaller for UFP (0.16 ± 0.04) than for simultaneously measured PM2.5 and soot (0.32 ± 0.10 and 0.43 ± 0.06). Our findings provide some support for the use of LUR models