Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths in the era of preventive chemotherapy: effect of multiple stool sampling and use of different diagnostic... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminth infections are common throughout the tropics and subtropics and they disproportionately affect the poorest of the poor. In view of a growing global commitment to
Aircraft noise, air pollution, and mortality from myocardial infarction (Publications)
OBJECTIVE:: Myocardial infarction has been associated with both transportation noise and air pollution. We examined residential exposure to aircraft noise and mortality from myocardial infarction, tak
Problematic mobile phone use in adolescents: derivation of a short scale MPPUS-10 (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to derive a short version of the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS) using data from 412 adolescents of the Swiss HERMES (Health Effects Related to Mobile phonE use in adole
Lab-on-chip based platform for fast molecular diagnosis of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (Publications)
We evaluated the performance of the molecular lab-on-chip-based VerePLEX Biosystem for detection of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, obtaining diagnostic accuracy over 97.8% compared to sequencing a
<em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> larvae excretion patterns before and after treatment (Publications)
SUMMARY The variability of larval excretion impedes the parasitological diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis in infected individuals. We assessed the number of larvae excreted per gram (LPG) stool i
High prevalence and spatial distribution of <em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> in rural Cambodia (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, endemic in tropical and temperate climates, is a neglected tropical disease. Its diagnosis requires specific methods, and accurate information on