Dietary diversity among households living in Kilombero district, in Morogoro region, South-Eastern Tanzania (Publications)
Background: Adequate nutrition is essential for good health and active life. However, diets in most low and middle-income households lack diversity, especially in settings where people eat predominant
An antigen capture assay for the detection of mycolactone, the polyketide toxin of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> (Publications)
Mycolactone is a cytotoxin responsible for most of the chronic necrotizing pathology of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The polyketide toxin consists of a 12-membered lactone ring with
Caesarean sections and health financing: a global analysis (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to explore the association of health financing indicators with the proportion of births by caesarean section (CS) across countries. DESIGN: Ecological cross-
Reporting quality of trial protocols improved for non-regulated interventions but not regulated interventions: a repeated cross-sectional study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the adherence of randomised controlled trial (RCT) protocols evaluating non-regulated interventions (including dietary interventions, surgical procedures, behavioural and li
Microscopic and flow cytophotometric analysis of parasitemia in cultures of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> vitally stained with Hoechst... (Publications)
Conditions for rapid vital staining of Plasmodium falciparum infected human erythrocytes were 1 microgram/ml of the dye Hoechst 33342 for 15 min in the standard culture medium at 37 degrees C. Fixed a