Drug resistance mutations after the first 12 months on antiretroviral therapy and determinants of virologic failure in Rwanda (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) and determinants of virological failure in a large cohort of patients receiving first-line tenofovir-based antiretroviral (ART) regimens. METHODS: A
Giant host red blood cell membrane mimicking polymersomes bind parasite proteins and malaria parasites (Publications)
Malaria is an infectious disease that needs to be addressed using innovative approaches to counteract spread of drug resistance and to establish or optimize vaccination strategies. With our approach,
Reliability of functional connectivity of EEG applying microstates-segmented versus classical calculation of phase lag index (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Connectivity analysis characterizes normal and altered brain function, e.g. using the phase lag index (PLI), which is based on phase relations. However, reliability of PLI over time is lim
Association of vitamin D status with incidence of enterotoxigenic, enteropathogenic and enteroaggregative <em>Escherichia coli</em> diarrhoea in... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between vitamin D status and diarrhoeal episodes by enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enterpathogenic (EPEC) and enteroaggregative (EAEC) E. coli in underweight and normal
Cluster-randomized study of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria in infants (IPTi) in southern Tanzania: evaluation of impact on survival (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria control in infants (IPTi) consists of the administration of a treatment dose of an anti-malarial drug, usually sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, at
Don't take it personal: European Union legal aspects of procuring and protecting environmental exposure data in population biobanks through the use of... (Publications)
Under European Union (EU) law, population-based cohort studies have the right to collect environmental data and to access geospatial data, at street level, on the web, from a host of public sources. A