Travel behaviours and health outcomes during travel: profiling destination-specific risks in a prospective mHealth cohort of Swiss travellers (Publications)
BACKGROUND: We used a mobile application to determine the incidence of health events and risk behaviours during travel by country and identify which health risks are significantly elevated during trav
Malnutrition, anemia, micronutrient deficiency and parasitic infections among schoolchildren in rural Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition, anemia, micronutrient deficiency and parasitic infections continue to impact the nutritional status and health of children in lower-income countries, however not enough data
Investigational medicinal products, related costs and hospital pharmacy services for investigator-initiated trials: a mixed-methods study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Conducting high quality investigator-initiated trials (IITs) is challenging and costly. The costs of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) in IITs and the role of hospital pharmacies i
<em>Mycobacterium leprae</em> infection in a wild nine-banded armadillo, Nuevo León, Mexico (Publications)
Nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) are naturally infected with Mycobacterium leprae and are implicated in the zoonotic transmission of leprosy in the United States. In Mexico, the existence
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and asthma symptom score in the CONSTANCES cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The asthma symptom score allows to consider asthma as a continuum and to investigate its risk factors. One previous study has investigated the association between asthma score and air poll
Diagnosis and treatment of neglected tropical diseases in Europe: laboratory infrastructure, diagnostic techniques, disease notification, and... (Publications)
An accurate laboratory diagnosis of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is crucial for targeted treatment, as the clinical symptomatology alone is frequently insufficient to distinguish between specifi
Soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Europe and Central Asia: an update on the epidemiology and control efforts (Publications)
Soil-transmitted helminth infections are among the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases. Infections are caused by a group of parasitic worms transmitted via soil contaminated with feces from inf
Introduction (Publications)
The geographical focus of this book pertains to Europe and Central Asia, while thematically, the seven chapters concentrate on a group of diseases, collec tively termed neglected tropical diseases (NT
Using population-specific add-on polymorphisms to improve genotype imputation in underrepresented populations (Publications)
Genome-wide association studies rely on the statistical inference of untyped variants, called imputation, to increase the coverage of genotyping arrays. However, the results are often suboptimal in po
