Publications
Sabino E.C, Nunes M.C.P, Blum J, Molina I, Ribeiro A.L.P. Cardiac involvement in Chagas disease and African trypanosomiasis. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2024;21(12):865-879. DOI: 10.1038/s41569-024-01057-3
Blum J, Staehelin C, Neumayr A, Chappuis F, Burri C. Schlafkrankheit: der gefährliche Schlaf nach dem Erfolg. Swiss Med Forum. 2023;23(3):846–848. DOI: 10.4414/smf.2023.09243
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Glans H, Dotevall L, Van der Auwera G, Bart A, Blum J, Buffet P, Guery R, Gangneux J.P, van Henten S, Harms G, Varani S, Robert-Gangneux F, Rongisch R, Andersson B, Bradley M. Treatment outcome of imported cutaneous leishmaniasis among travellers and migrants infected with Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica: a retrospective study in European centres 2013 to 2019. Int J Infect Dis. 2022;122:375-381. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.06.025
Mudji J, Ackam N, Amoako Y.A, Madinga B, Mumbere P, Agbanyo A, Blum J, Phillips R.O, Molyneux D.H. Mental distress and health-related quality of life in gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: a case-control study in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2022;116(11):1022-1031. DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trac035
Van der Auwera G, Davidsson L, Buffet P, Ruf M.T, Gramiccia M, Varani S, Chicharro C, Bart A, Harms G, Chiodini P.L, Brekke H, Robert-Gangneux F, Cortes S, Verweij J.J, Scarabello A, Karlsson Söbirk S, Guéry R, van Henten S, Di Muccio T, Carra E, van Thiel P, Vandeputte M, Gaspari V, Blum J, LeishMan Surveillance Network. Surveillance of leishmaniasis cases from 15 European centres, 2014 to 2019: a retrospective analysis. Euro Surveill. 2022;27(4):1560-7917. (in addition to authors above). DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.4.2002028
Guery R, Walker S.L, Harms G, Neumayr A, Van Thiel P, Gangneux J.P, Clerinx J, Söbirk S.K, Visser L, Lachaud L, Bailey M, Bart A, Ravel C, Van der Auwera G, Blum J, Lockwood D.N, Buffet P, LeishMan Network and the French Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Study group. Clinical diversity and treatment results in tegumentary leishmaniasis: a European clinical report in 459 patients. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021;15(10):e0009863. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009863
Mudji J, Künzli E, Molyneux D, Blum J. Long-term sequelae of congenital gambiense human African trypanosomiasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2021;115(8):932-936. DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trab082
Nasri J, Cajacob L, Wirz E, Ruf M.T, Blum J, Muhleisen B, Navarini A.A, Maul L.V. Pre-ulcerative leishmaniasis mimicking chilblains in a returning traveler from Southern Europe. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2021;35(8):e503-e505. DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17233
Blum A, Mudji J, Grize L, Burri C, Zellweger M.J, Blum J. Sleeping hearts: 12 years after a follow up study on cardiac findings due to sleeping sickness. One Health. 2020;11:100182. DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100182
Blum J, Chaney M, Mudji J, Mfungwa J.K, Rice T, Labhardt N.D. Glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes followed in a rural African primary care setting - a reality check in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prim Care Diabetes. 2020;14(2):139-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2019.08.002
Blum J, Neumayr A. A 20-year-old woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with fever and a mucocutaneous rash. In: Rothe C, ed. Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 262-264. UK: Elsevier, 2020
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Blum J, Neumayr A. A 51-year-old female traveler returning from Central America with conjunctivitis, rash and peripheral oedema. In: Rothe C, ed. Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 214-216. UK: Elsevier, 2020
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Mudji J, Blum A, Grize L, Wampfler R, Ruf M.T, Cnops L, Nickel B, Burri C, Blum J. Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis sequelae after treatment: a follow-up study 12 years after treatment. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2020;5(1):10. DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010010
Blum A, Mudji J, Blum J. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis presenting with double vision in a resource-limited tropical setting. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;100(1):7-8. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0473
Brummaier T, Bertschy S, Arn K, Treumann T, Ruf M.T, Nickel B, Paris D.H, Neumayr A, Blum J. A blind passenger: a rare case of documented seroconversion in an Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced eosinophilic meningitis in a traveler visiting friends and relatives. Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines. 2019;5:6. DOI: 10.1186/s40794-019-0084-x
Frauchiger B, Koch D, Gaehler A, Blum J, Lura M, Kaiser D, Buettcher M. Don't forget the past: a sleeping disease can be awakened. J Paediatr Child Health. 2019;55(7):854-856. DOI: 10.1111/jpc.14380
Javelle E, Florescu S.A, Asgeirsson H, Jmor S, Eperon G, Leshem E, Blum J, Molina I, Field V, Pietroski N, Eldin C, Johnston V, Cotar I.A, Popescu C, Hamer D.H, Gautret P. Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(10):8-13. DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.10.1900146
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Mudji J, Benhamou J, Mwamba-Miaka E, Burri C, Blum J. The flipside of eradicating a disease; human African trypanosomiasis in a woman in rural Democratic Republic of Congo: a case report. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2019;4(4):142. DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed4040142
Ruperti-Repilado F.J, Haefliger S, Rehm S, Zweier M, Rentsch K.M, Blum J, Jetter A, Heim M, Leuppi-Taegtmeyer A, Terracciano L, Bernsmeier C. Danger of herbal tea: a case of acute cholestatic hepatitis due to Artemisia annua tea. Front Med (Lausanne). 2019;6:221. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2019.00221
Adamczick C, Dierig A, Welzel T, Schifferli A, Blum J, Ritz N. Double trouble: visceral leishmaniasis in twins after traveling to Tuscany - a case report. BMC Infect Dis. 2018;18:495. DOI: 10.1186/s12879-018-3394-0
Auer C, Kiefer S, Zuske M, Schindler C, Wyss K, Blum J, Bosch-Capblanch X, Widmer U, Sauthier S, Janssens J.P, Bossard K, Chatonnet C, Mazza-StalderJ, Zacek B, Zellweger J-P, Altpeter E, Mäusezahl M. Health-seeking behaviour and treatment delay in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Switzerland: some slip through the net. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;148(35-36):w14659. DOI: 10.4414/smw.2018.14659
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Blum J, Neumayr A, Lockwood D. Treatment of tegumentary forms of leishmaniasis. In: Bruschi F,Gradoni L, eds. The Leishmaniases: Old Neglected Tropical Diseases, 191-225. Cham: Springer, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72386-0_9
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Mosimann V, Neumayr A, Paris D, Blum J. Liposomal amphotericin B treatment of Old World cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis: a literature review. Acta Trop. 2018;182:246-250. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.03.016
Neumayr A, Stöckle M, Künzli E, Kling K, Sydow V, Labhardt N, Beck B, Blum J, Paris D.H. Fieber bei Reiserückkehrern. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;16:345-354. DOI: 10.4414/smf.2018.03240
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Burri C, Blum J. Human African trypanosomiasis. In: Cohen Jonathan,Powderly William G,Opal Steven M, eds. Infectious Diseases. 2, 966-970;1761-1762: Elsevier, 2017
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Guery R, Henry B, Martin-Blondel G, Rouzaud C, Cordoliani F, Harms G, Gangneux J.P, Foulet F, Bourrat E, Baccard M, Morizot G, Consigny P.H, Berry A, Blum J, Lortholary O, Buffet P, French Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Study Goup, LeishMan Network. Liposomal amphotericin B in travelers with cutaneous and muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis: not a panacea. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017;11(11):e0006094. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006094
Hasler T, Stückelberger A, Ott E, Blum J. Diplopia and ptosis after diarrhea - a diagnostic challenge. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2017;17:76. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.03.003
Mudji J.E, Blum J, Rice T.D, Baliraine F.N. Congenital malaria and neonatal bacterial co-infection in twins prematurely born to a mother with sickle-cell anaemia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Malariaworld J. 2017;8(14):1-3
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Burri C, Yeramian P.D, Allen J.L, Merolle A, Serge K.K, Mpanya A, Lutumba P, Mesu V.K, Bilenge C.M, Lubaki J.P, Mpoto A.M, Thompson M, Munungu B.F, Manuel F, Josenando T, Bernhard S.C, Olson C.A, Blum J, Tidwell R.R, Pohlig G. Efficacy, safety, and dose of pafuramidine, a new oral drug for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness, in a phase 2a clinical study and phase 2b randomized clinical studies. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016;10(2):e0004362. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004362
Ginier M, Neumayr A, Günther S, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Blum J. Zika without symptoms in returning travellers: what are the implications. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016;14(1):16-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.01.012
Kiefer S, Auer C, Altpeter E, Zellweger J.P, Blum J, Wyss K. Tuberkulose in der Schweiz: das Wichtigste in Kürze. Swiss Med Forum. 2016;16(30-31):613-618
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Kling K, Künzli E, Blum J, Neumayr A. Acute Strongyloidiasis in a traveller returning from South East Asia. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016;14(5):535-536. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.05.003
Künzli E, Labhardt N, Balestra G, Weisser M, Zellweger M.J, Blum J. Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as a complication of toxocariasis-associated endomyocarditis with fibrosis: a case report. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3(3):ofw145. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw145
Künzli E, Neumayr A, Chaney M, Blum J. Toxocariasis-associated cardiac diseases: a systematic review of the literature. Acta Trop. 2016;154:107-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.11.003
Mosimann V, Blazek C, Grob H, Chaney M, Neumayr A, Blum J. Miltefosine for mucosal and complicated cutaneous old world leishmaniasis: a case series and review of the literature. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3(1):ofw008. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw008
Neumayr A, Blum J. When horse serum meets dog bite [Case illustrated]. IDCases. 2016;3:1-2. DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2015.09.003
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Pohlig G, Bernhard S.C, Blum J, Burri C, Mpanya A, Lubaki J.P, Mpoto A.M, Munungu B.F, N'tombe P.M, Deo G.K, Mutantu P.N, Kuikumbi F.M, Mintwo A.F, Munungi A.K, Dala A, Macharia S, Bilenge C.M, Mesu V.K, Franco J.R, Dituvanga N.D, Tidwell R.R, Olson C.A. Efficacy and safety of pafuramidine versus pentamidine maleate for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness in a randomized, comparator-controlled, international phase 3 clinical trial. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016;10(2):e0004363. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004363
Stettler K, Beltramello M, Espinosa D.A, Graham V, Cassotta A, Bianchi S, Vanzetta F, Minola A, Jaconi S, Mele F, Foglierini M, Pedotti M, Simonelli L, Dowall S, Atkinson B, Percivalle E, Simmons C.P, Varani L, Blum J, Baldanti F, Cameroni E, Hewson R, Harris E, Lanzavecchia A, Sallusto F, Corti D. Specificity, cross-reactivity and function of antibodies elicited by Zika virus infection. Science. 2016;353(6301):823-826. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf8505
Berthod D, Genton B, Hatz C, Blum J, de Vallière S. Ability of physicians to diagnose influenza and usefulness of a rapid influenza antigen test in febrile returning travelers: a randomized controlled trial. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2015;13(5):394-399. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.08.001
Blum J, Kling K, Labhardt N. Leishmania et trypanosomes (Kinetoplastida): rares, mais plus actuels que nous le voudrions. Swiss Med Forum. 2015;15(50-51):1193-1195
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