Antiprotozoal effect of <em>Artemisia indica</em> extracts and essential oil (Publications)
Diverse solvent extracts of Artemisia indica leaves originating from the West Bengal region (India) were assessed for the content of artemisinin and characteristic Artemisia polymethoxyflavonoids, nam
Genetic diversity and protective efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine (Publications)
Background The RTS,S/AS01 vaccine targets the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum and has partial protective efficacy against clinical and severe malaria disease in infants and children.
Prevalence and factors associated with convulsive status epilepticus in Africans with epilepsy (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: We conducted a community survey to estimate the prevalence and describe the features, risk factors, and consequences of convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) among people with active convulsi
No fever, no malaria? A diagnostic challenge in an immunocompromised patient (Publications)
We describe the case of an immunosuppressed women with proven malaria tropicana. Fever was not reported with this patient. We conclude that the concept of using fever as a primary surrogate indicator
Changing from whole-cell to acellular pertussis vaccines would trade superior tolerability for inferior protection (Publications)
Notifications of infant deaths, assumed to be related to the introduction of new pentavalent DTwP-Hib-HBV childhood vaccines, caused, during 2008-2010 in few Asian countries, temporary interruptions o
Defining the relationship between infection prevalence and clinical incidence of<em> Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria (Publications)
In many countries health system data remain too weak to accurately enumerate Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases. In response, cartographic approaches have been developed that link maps of infection p
International scale implementation of the CNOSSOS-EU road traffic noise predictin model for epidemiological studies (Publications)
The EU-FP7-funded BioSHaRE project is using individual-level data pooled from several national cohort studies in Europe to investigate the relationship of road traffic noise and health. The detailed i
Spatial distribution of schistosomiasis and treatment needs in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and geostatistical analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis affects more than 200 million individuals, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, but empirical estimates of the disease burden in this region are unavailable. We used geostatistica
Discovery and optimisation studies of antimalarial phenotypic hits (Publications)
There is an urgent need for the development of new antimalarial compounds. As a result of a phenotypic screen, several compounds with potent activity against the parasite Plasmodium falciparum were id
