Schistosomiasis in the People’s Republic of China – down but not out (Publications)
Schistosomiasis has been subjected to extensive control efforts in the People’s Republic of China (China) which aims to eliminate the disease by 2030. We describe baseline results of a longitudinal co
Estimating COVID-19-induced excess mortality in Lombardy, Italy (Publications)
We compare the expected all-cause mortality with the observed one for different age classes during the pandemic in Lombardy, which was the epicenter of the epidemic in Italy. The first case in Italy w
G-quadruplexes in helminth parasites (Publications)
Parasitic helminths infecting humans are highly prevalent infecting approximately 2 billion people worldwide, causing inflammatory responses, malnutrition and anemia that are the primary cause of morb
Investigating seasonal patterns in enteric infections: a systematic review of time series methods (Publications)
Foodborne and waterborne gastrointestinal infections and their associated outbreaks are preventable, yet still result in significant morbidity, mortality, and revenue loss. Many enteric infections dem
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and bladder cancer incidence in a pooled European cohort: the ELAPSE project (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The evidence linking ambient air pollution to bladder cancer is limited and mixed. METHODS: We assessed the associations of bladder cancer incidence with residential exposure to fine parti
Cost-effectiveness of sleeping sickness elimination campaigns in five settings of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) is marked for elimination of transmission by 2030, but the disease persists in several low-income countries. We couple transmission and health outcomes m
Cervical cancer in women living in South Africa: a record linkage study of the National Health Laboratory Service and the National Cancer Registry (Publications)
Introduction: In countries with high HIV prevalence, it is important to understand the cervical cancer (CC) patterns by HIV status to ensure targeted prevention measures. We aimed to determine the fac
Developing customized stepwise MIRU-VNTR typing for tuberculosis surveillance in Georgia (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Tandem Repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing has been widely used for molecular epidemiological studies of tuberculosis (TB). However, genotypin
Prevalence and molecular identification of zoonotic <em>Anisakis </em>and <em>Pseudoterranova </em>species in fish destined to human consumption in... (Publications)
Zoonotic larvae of the family Anisakidae found in several fish species represent a serious risk in public health since they may cause food-borne anisakidosis in humans. Chile has culinary preferences
