Demographic model of the Swiss cattle population for the years 2009-2011 stratified by gender, age and production type (Publications)
Demographic composition and dynamics of animal and human populations are important determinants for the transmission dynamics of infectious disease and for the effect of infectious disease or environm
Diarrhoeal diseases among adult population in an agricultural community Hanam province, Vietnam, with high wastewater and excreta re-use (Publications)
Objectives: This study was carried out to determine diarrhoeal incidence and associated risk factors among the adult population exposed to wastewater and excreta used in agriculture in Hanam province,
Collateral benefits of restricted insecticide application for control of African trypanosomiasis on <em>Theileria parva</em> in cattle: a randomized... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Tick and tsetse-borne diseases (TTBDs) constrain livestock production in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Of this community of endemic diseases, East coast fever (T.parva) is
Inputs for universal health coverage: a methodological contribution to finding proxy indicators for financial hardship due to health expenditure (Publications)
BackgroundUniversal health coverage is high on national health agendas of many countries at the moment. Absence of financial hardship is a key component of universal health coverage and should be moni
A systematic mapping of funders of maternal health intervention research 2000-2012 (Publications)
BackgroundThe priorities of research funding bodies govern the research agenda, which has important implications for the provision of evidence to inform policy. This study examines the research fundin
Identifying the impediments and enablers of ecohealth for a case study on health and environmental sanitation in Ha Nam, Vietnam (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To date, research has shown an increasing use of the term "ecohealth" in literature, but few researchers have explicitly described how it has been used. We investigated a project on health
Primary cultivation: factors affecting contamination and <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> growth after long turnover time of clinical specimens (Publications)
BackgroundWhile cultivation of pathogens represents a foundational diagnostic approach in the study of infectious diseases, its value for the confirmation of clinical diagnosis of Buruli ulcer is limi
<em>In vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em> antischistosomal activity of ferroquine derivatives (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease and drug-repurposing is a useful strategy to fill its exhausted drug development pipeline. The ferrocenyl analogue of chloroquine, ferroquin
