Associations between particulate matter composition and childhood blood pressure - the PIAMA study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Childhood blood pressure is an important predictor of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Evidence for an association between ambient particulate matter (PM) exposure and
Towards universal civil registration and vital statistics systems: the time is now (Publications)
The health and development challenges of the coming decades cannot be tackled effectively without reliable data for births, deaths, and causes of death, which only a comprehensive civil registration a
Temporal and spatial analysis of the 2014-2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa (Publications)
West Africa is currently witnessing the most extensive Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak so far recorded. Until now, there have been 27,013 reported cases and 11,134 deaths. The origin of the virus is thoug
High level of fecal calprotectin at age 2 months as a marker of intestinal inflammation predicts atopic dermatitis and asthma by age 6 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Gut microbiota and intestinal inflammation regulate the development of immune-mediated diseases, such as allergies. Fecal calprotectin is a biomarker of intestinal inflammation. OBJECTIVE:
Investigating the potential of reported cattle mortality data in Switzerland for syndromic surveillance (Publications)
Systems for the identification and registration of cattle have gradually been receiving attention for use in syndromic surveillance, a relatively recent approach for the early detection of infectious
Adopting clean fuels and technologies on school buses. Pollution and health impacts in children (Publications)
RATIONALE: More than 25 million American children breathe polluted air on diesel school buses. Emission reduction policies exist, but the health impacts to individual children have not been evaluated.
A novel multiple-stage antimalarial agent that inhibits protein synthesis (Publications)
There is an urgent need for new drugs to treat malaria, with broad therapeutic potential and novel modes of action, to widen the scope of treatment and to overcome emerging drug resistance. Here we de
Toward organometallic antischistosomal drug candidates (Publications)
In the recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of novel approaches for the treatment of parasitic diseases such as schistosomiasis. Among the different approaches used, organometall
Assessment of source tracking methods for application in spring water (Publications)
For discriminating between human and animal faecal contamination in water, microbial source tracking (MST) approaches using different indicators have been employed. In the current study, a range of 10
