Vaccination of dogs in an African city interrupts rabies transmission and reduces human exposure (Publications)
Despite the existence of effective rabies vaccines for dogs, dog-transmitted human rabies persists and has reemerged in Africa. Two consecutive dog vaccination campaigns took place in Chad in 2012 and
A multi-country analysis on potential adaptive mechanisms to cold and heat in a changing climate (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Temporal variation of temperature-health associations depends on the combination of two pathways: pure adaptation to increasingly warmer temperatures due to climate change, and other atten
Retrospective active case finding in Cambodia: an innovative approach to leprosy control in a low-endemic country (Publications)
Currently, leprosy control relies on the clinical diagnosis of leprosy and the subsequent administration of multidrug therapy (MDT). However, many health workers are not familiar with the cardinal sig
Impact and cost-effectiveness of snail control to achieve disease control targets for schistosomiasis (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that affects over 240 million people globally. To improve population-level disease control, there is growing interest in adding chemical-based snail control inte
Microbiological airway colonization in COPD patients with severe emphysema undergoing endoscopic lung volume reduction (Publications)
Background: Endoscopic lung volume reduction (eLVR) is a therapeutic option for selected patients with COPD and severe emphysema. Infectious exacerbations are serious events in these vulnerable patien
Synthesis of new 1-benzyl tetrahydropyridinylidene ammonium salts and their antimicrobial and anticellular activities (Publications)
A series of N-benzyl tetrahydropiperidinylidene pyrrolidinium salts have been synthesized and investigated for their antiplasmodial and antitrypanosomal activities as well as for their cytotoxic effec
City-dwellers and country folks: lack of population differentiation along an urban-rural gradient in the mosquito <em>Culex pipiens</em> (Diptera:... (Publications)
Mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) occur in natural, urban, and peri-urban areas throughout the globe. Although the characteristics of urban and peri-urban habitats differ from those of natural habitats