Factors associated with the utilisation of primary care services: a cross-sectional study in public and private facilities in Albania (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To identify key factors influencing the utilisation of governmental and private primary healthcare services in Albania. DESIGN: A cross-sectional health facility survey using a 4-point Lik
Activities of quinoxaline, nitroquinoxaline and [1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]quinoxaline analogs of MMV007204 against <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> (Publications)
The reliance on one drug, praziquantel, to treat the parasitic disease schistosomiasis in millions of people a year shows the need to further develop a pipeline of new drugs to treat this disease. Rec
Travellers returning from the island of Zanzibar colonized with MDR <em>Escherichia coli </em>strains: assessing the impact of local people and other... (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Many travellers to low-income countries return home colonized at the intestinal level with extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant (ESC-R) and/or colistin-resistant (CST-R) Escherichia c
Blood gene transcript signature profiling in pregnancies resulting in preterm birth: a systematic review (Publications)
Objective: To pursue a systematic review and summarise the current evidence for the potential of transcriptome molecular profiling in investigating the preterm phenotype. Study design: We systematical
Molecular epidemiology of leprosy: an update (Publications)
Molecular epidemiology investigations are notoriously challenging in the leprosy field mainly because the inherent characteristics of the disease as well as its yet uncultivated causative agents, Myco
Comparison of real-time PCR and the Kato-Katz method for the diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminthiasis and assessment of cure in a randomized... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) in developing countries is commonly based on microscopic detection of eggs in stool samples, using the Kato-Katz (KK) method, which has a poo
An ensemble approach to short-term forecast of COVID-19 intensive care occupancy in Italian regions (Publications)
The availability of intensive care beds during the COVID-19 epidemic is crucial to guarantee the best possible treatment to severely affected patients. In this work we show a simple strategy for short