Development of prediction models to identify hotspots of schistosomiasis in endemic regions to guide mass drug administration (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease affecting over 150 million people. Hotspots of Schistosoma transmission-communities where infection prevalence does not decline adequately with mass dru
Present drugs and future perspectives in treating soil-transmitted helminthiasis (Publications)
Soil-transmitted helminthiases caused by Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus) are responsible for the infection of approximately 1.5 b
A sample-centric and knowledge-driven computational framework for natural products drug discovery (Publications)
The Experimental Natural Products Knowledge Graph (ENPKG) framework combines a sample-centric approach with semantic enrichment to organize large heterogeneous metabolomics data sets as a knowledge gr
Ambient air pollution and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Rome (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Ambient air pollution has been associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), but few studies rely on assessment of fine-scale variation in air quality, specific subtypes and m
Modeling the persistence of <em>Opisthorchis viverrini</em> worm burden after mass-drug administration and education campaigns with systematic... (Publications)
Opisthorchis viverrini is a parasitic liver fluke contracted by consumption of raw fish, which affects over 10 million people in Southeast Asia despite sustained control efforts. Chronic infections ar
Early assessment of antibodies decline in Chagas patients following treatment using a serological multiplex immunoassay (Publications)
Chagas disease following infection with Trypanosoma cruzi is a major public health issue, with the disease spreading beyond endemic regions and becoming more global due to the migration of infected in
Exposure of gut bacterial isolates to the anthelminthic drugs, ivermectin and moxidectin, leads to antibiotic-like phenotypes of growth inhibition and... (Publications)
Due to their broad-spectrum activities, ivermectin and moxidectin are widely used anthelminthics in veterinary and human medicine. However, ivermectin has recently been shown to perturbate bacterial g
Incidence and duration of human papillomavirus infections in young women: insights from a bimonthly follow-up cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: We studied the duration of HPV detection and risk of (re-) detection for 25 HPV genotypes in a cohort of 132 women followed every eight weeks for up to two years between 2016 and 2020. Par
Mapping inequalities in health service coverage in Africa: a scoping review (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: In this scoping review, we aim to consolidate the evidence on inequalities in service coverage in Africa using a comprehensive set of stratifiers. These stratifiers include place of residen
Urine-Xpert Ultra for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in people living with HIV: a prospective, multicentre, diagnostic accuracy study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Diagnostic delays for tuberculosis are common, with high resultant mortality. Urine-Xpert Ultra (Cepheid) could improve time to diagnosis of tuberculosis disease and rifampicin resistance.
