Dynamics of respiratory symptoms during infancy and associations with wheezing at school age (Publications)
Children with frequent respiratory symptoms in infancy have an increased risk for later wheezing, but the association with symptom dynamics is unknown. We developed an observer-independent method to c
Nationwide school malaria parasitaemia survey in public primary schools, the United Republic of Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: A nationwide, school, malaria survey was implemented to assess the risk factors of malaria prevalence and bed net use among primary school children in mainland Tanzania. This allowed the m
Low sensitivity of the MPT64 identification test to detect lineage 5 of the <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex (Publications)
PURPOSE: Differentiation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBc) from non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is important for tuberculosis diagnosis and is a prerequisite for reliable phenotypic