Interventional cardiac catheterization predictors at Al-Arabi Heart Center in Palestine in 2017 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Cardiac catheterization is performed for both therapeutic and diagnostic reasons, in which the outcome may vary from only medical treatment to the need of percutaneous coronary interventio
Does the oxidative stress play a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and persistent asthma in adults? Findings from the EGEA study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Evidences that oxidative stress plays a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and asthma are growing. We aimed to study the role of plasma fluorescent oxidation products l
Mass campaigns combining antimalarial drugs and anti-infective vaccines as seasonal interventions for malaria control, elimination and prevention of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The only licensed malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01, has been developed for morbidity-control in young children. The potential impact on transmission of deploying such anti-infective vaccines to
Detection of second line drug resistance among drug resistant <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> isolates in Botswana (Publications)
The emergence and transmission of multidrug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) strains is a threat to global tuberculosis (TB) control. The early de
Amplicon deep sequencing improves <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> genotyping in clinical trials of antimalarial drugs (Publications)
Clinical trials monitoring malaria drug resistance require genotyping of recurrent Plasmodium falciparum parasites to distinguish between treatment failure and new infection occurring during the trial
Operational coverage and timeliness of reactive case detection for malaria elimination in Zanzibar, Tanzania (Publications)
Since 2012, the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program has been implementing reactive case detection (RACD). Health facility (HF) staff send individual malaria case notifications by using mobile phones,
The potential of pregnant women as a sentinel population for malaria surveillance (Publications)
BACKGROUND: With increasing spatial heterogeneity of malaria transmission and a shift of the disease burden towards older children and adults, pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) have been p