Accuracy of urine circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) test for <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> diagnosis in different settings of Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Promising results have been reported for a urine circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) test for the diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni. We assessed the accuracy of a commercially available CCA
HIV infection disrupts the sympatric host-pathogen relationship in human tuberculosis (Publications)
The phylogeographic population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis suggests local adaptation to sympatric human populations. We hypothesized that HIV infection, which induces immunodeficiency, wil
Factors associated with compliance among users of solar water disinfection in rural Bolivia (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Diarrhoea is the second leading cause of childhood mortality, with an estimated 1.3 million deaths per year. Promotion of Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) has been suggested as a
A tool box for operational mosquito larval control: preliminary results and early lessons from the Urban Malaria Control Programme in Dar es Salaam,... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: As the population of Africa rapidly urbanizes, large populations could be protected from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes if cost-effective and scalable implementation s
Global burden of human brucellosis: a systematic review of disease frequency (Publications)
BACKGROUND: This report presents a systematic review of scientific literature published between 1990-2010 relating to the frequency of human brucellosis, commissioned by WHO. The objectives were to id
Malaria chemoprophylaxis recommendations for immigrants to Europe, visiting relatives and friends: a Delphi method study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Numbers of travellers visiting friends and relatives (VFRs) from Europe to malaria endemic countries are increasing and include long-term and second generation immigrants, who represent th
A major role for the <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> ApiAP2 protein PfSIP2 in chromosome end biology (Publications)
The heterochromatic environment and physical clustering of chromosome ends at the nuclear periphery provide a functional and structural framework for antigenic variation and evolution of subtelomeric
"Pseudo-Beijing": evidence for convergent evolution in the direct repeat region of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a global population structure consisting of six main phylogenetic lineages associated with specific geographic regions and human populations. One particular