Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring (Publications)
Objective : Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in research contexts and in
Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall
HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites (Publications)
BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the indivi
Air pollution and mortality in seven million adults: the Dutch Environmental Longitudinal Study (DUELS) (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with mortality in urban cohort studies. Few studies have investigated this association in large scale population registries, includi
Cultural epidemiology of pandemic influenza in urban and rural Pune, India: a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To identify and compare sociocultural features of pandemic influenza with reference to illness-related experience, meaning and behaviour in urban and rural areas of India. DESIGN: Cross-sec
Emergence of a new epidemic <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> serogroup A clone in the African meningitis belt: high-resolution picture of genomic... (Publications)
In the African "meningitis belt," outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis occur in cycles, representing a model for the role of host-pathogen interactions in epidemic processes. The periodicity of the e
Global epidemiology of yaws: a systematic review (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To achieve yaws eradication, the use of the new WHO strategy of initial mass treatment with azithromycin and surveillance twice a year needs to be extended everywhere the disease occurs. H
Assessing health risk due to exposure to arsenic in drinking water in Hanam province, Vietnam (Publications)
We assessed health risks related to Arsenic (As) in contaminated drinking water in Hanam, applying the Australian Environmental Health Risk Assessment Framework, which promotes stakeholder involvement
Natural and semisynthetic analogues of manadoperoxide B reveal new structural requirements for trypanocidal activity (Publications)
Chemical analysis of the Indonesian sponge Plakortis cfr. lita afforded two new analogues of the potent trypanocidal agent manadoperoxide B (1), namely 12-isomanadoperoxide B (2) and manadoperoxidic a
Global phylogenomic analysis of nonencapsulated <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> reveals a deep-branching classic lineage that is distinct from... (Publications)
The surrounding capsule of Streptococcus pneumoniae has been identified as a major virulence factor and is targeted by pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV). However, nonencapsulated Streptococcus pne
