Barriers to access improved water and sanitation in poor peri-urban settlements of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
Achieving access to safe water and sanitation still pose major challenges in urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa countries, despite all the progress achieved in the last decade. This study assessed the
Boosting effect of IL-7 in interferon gamma release assays to diagnose <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> infection (Publications)
BACKGROUND: A quarter of the world's population is estimated to be infected with Myobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Infection is detected by immune response to M. tuberculosis antigens using either tube
Precursor-directed diversification of cyclic tetrapeptidic pseudoxylallemycins (Publications)
Cyclic peptides containing non-proteinogenic amino acids often exhibit a broad bioactivity spectrum and many have entered clinical trials with good prospects for drug development. We recently reported
Modelling the impact of insecticide-based control interventions on the evolution of insecticide resistance and disease transmission (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Current strategies to control mosquito-transmitted infections use insecticides targeted at various stages of the mosquito life-cycle. Control is increasingly compromised by the evolution o
Evaluation of standard field and laboratory methods to compare protection times of the topical repellents PMD and DEET (Publications)
Mosquitoes are important vectors of pathogens, and travellers to disease endemic countries are advised to avoid bites by applying topical repellents. Topical repellents are typically tested either in
Effect of insecticide-treated bed nets on the dynamics of multiple <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections (Publications)
The rates of acquisition and loss of individual genotypes belonging to the FC27 family of the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 2 (msp2) gene were studied in 120 children aged 5 months t