Latent tuberculosis infection prevalence in rural Madagascar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Understanding latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (LTBI) prevalence is crucial for the design of TB control strategies. There are no data on LTBI in rural Madagascar. METHODS: Tube
Alpine Holocene tree-ring dataset: age-related trends in the stable isotopes of cellulose show species-specific patterns (Publications)
Stable isotopes in tree-ring cellulose are important tools for climatic reconstructions even though their interpretation could be challenging due to nonclimate signals, primarily those related to tree
Rationale and design of repeated cross-sectional studies to evaluate the reporting quality of trial protocols: the Adherence to SPIrit REcommendations... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Clearly structured and comprehensive protocols are an essential component to ensure safety of participants, data validity, successful conduct, and credibility of results of randomized clin
Introduction to a landscape analysis of multisectoral approaches for prevention and control of infectious and vector-borne diseases (Publications)
The Swiss Development Cooperation, Canada's International Development Research Centre, the Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute, and the UNICEF/United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/World Bank
Capture-based enrichment of <em>Theileria parva </em>DNA enables full genome assembly of first buffalo-derived strain and reveals exceptional... (Publications)
Theileria parva is an economically important, intracellular, tick-transmitted parasite of cattle. A live vaccine against the parasite is effective against challenge from cattle-transmissible T. parva
Epidemiological and health systems implications of evolving HIV and hypertension in South Africa and Kenya (Publications)
Health systems in sub-Saharan Africa are facing an ongoing HIV epidemic and increasing burden of noncommunicable disease. With the focus shifting to the development of comprehensive primary health car