High burden of tuberculosis infection and disease among people receiving medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder in Tanzania (Publications)
from November 2016 to February 2017 and a structured questionnaire administered to them through the open data kit application on android tablets. Twenty-two months later, we revisited the MAT clinics and
Low efficacy of single-dose albendazole and mebendazole against hookworm and effect on concomitant helminth infection in Lao PDR (Publications)
two drugs could also be determined against this liver fluke. METHODOLOGY: We conducted a randomized, open-label, two-arm trial. In total, 200 children infected with hookworm (determined by quadruplicate Kato-Katz
Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of environmental management for malaria control (Publications)
consisted of vegetation clearance, modification of river boundaries, draining swamps, oil application to open water bodies and house screening. Part of the population also was given quinine and was sleeping under
Nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy for second-stage <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</em> sleeping sickness: a randomized clinical trial in... (Publications)
the standard eflornithine regimen for the treatment of second-stage disease. METHODS: A randomized, open-label, active-control, phase III clinical trial comparing 2 arms was conducted at the Sleeping Sickness
Rifampicin/Cotrimoxazole/Isoniazid versus mefloquine or quinine + sulfadoxine- pyrimethamine for malaria: a randomized trial1 (Publications)
efficacy of Cotrifazid against drug-resistant malaria in Papua New Guinea. DESIGN: The trial design was open-label, block-randomised, comparative, and multicentric. SETTING: The trial was conducted in four primary
Effects of hygiene and defecation behavior on helminths and intestinal protozoa infections in Taabo, Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
participants, respectively. Only one out of five households reported the presence of a latrine, and hence, open defecation was common. Logistic regression analysis revealed that age, sex, socioeconomic status,
KvarQ: targeted and direct variant calling from fastq reads of bacterial genomes (Publications)
bioinformatics expertise to scan and analyze raw sequencing data in a matter of minutes. KvarQ is open-source, and pre-compiled packages with a graphical user interface are available at http://www.swisstph
Identification and characterization of a conserved, stage-specific gene product of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> recognized by parasite growth... (Publications)
D13, that is stage-specifically expressed in asexual blood stages of the parasite. The predicted open reading frame (ORF) D13 contains 863 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 99.7 kDa and
Intensified therapy with inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β2-agonists at the onset of upper respiratory tract Infection to prevent chronic... (Publications)
driven, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study. At inclusion, patients were assigned to open-labelled low maintenance dose ICS/LABA. Each patient was randomised either to intensified dose ICS/LABA
Evaluation of the safety and immunogenicity of the RTS,S/AS01E malaria candidate vaccine when integrated in the expanded program of immunization (Publications)
African infants through the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI). METHODS: This phase 2, randomized, open, controlled trial conducted in Ghana, Tanzania, and Gabon evaluated the safety and immunogenicity
