Evaluation of the feasibility and sustainability of the joint human and animal vaccination and its integration to the public health system in the... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: One Health approaches such as the Joint human and animal vaccination programmes (JHAVP) are shown to be feasible and to increase health care access to hard-to-reach communities such as mob
Definitions of severity in treatment seeking studies of febrile illness in children in low and middle income countries: a scoping review (Publications)
Objectives: Understanding treatment seeking for severe febrile illness (SFI) is methodologically challenging. In this scoping review, we investigate definitions of severe febrile illness in treatment
Mortality risk attributable to wildfire-related PM2.5 pollution: a global time series study in 749 locations (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Many regions of the world are now facing more frequent and unprecedentedly large wildfires. However, the association between wildfire-related PM2.5 and mortality has not been well characte
Increased impact of air pollution on lung function in preterm versus term infants: the BILD study (Publications)
Rationale Infants born prematurely have impaired capacity to deal with oxidative stress shortly after birth. Objectives We hypothesize that the relative impact of exposure to air pollution on lung fun
Emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.620 with variant of concern-like mutations and deletions (Publications)
Distinct SARS-CoV-2 lineages, discovered through various genomic surveillance initiatives, have emerged during the pandemic following unprecedented reductions in worldwide human mobility. We here desc
No hints for abundance of <em>Bacillus anthracis</em> and <em>Burkholderia pseudomallei</em> in 100 environmental samples from Cameroon (Publications)
Background: Little is known on the abundance of the pathogens Bacillus anthracis and Burkholderia pseudomallei in environmental samples in Cameroon. Therefore, 100 respective samples were assessed in