Prevention through Activity in Kindergarten Trial (PAKT): a cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effects of an activity intervention in... (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Physical activity and motor skills acquisition are of high importance for health-related prevention and a normal development in childhood. However, few intervention studies exist
Evidence of blood stage efficacy with a virosomal malaria vaccine in a phase IIa clinical trial (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Previous research indicates that a combination vaccine targeting different stages of the malaria life cycle is likely to provide the most effective malaria vaccine. This trial was the firs
A large scale gene-centric association study of lung function in newly-hired female cotton textile workers with endotoxin exposure (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Occupational exposure to endotoxin is associated with decrements in pulmonary function, but how much variation in this association is explained by genetic variants is not well understood.
Malaria surveillance-response strategies in different transmission zones of the People's Republic of China: preparing for climate change (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: A sound understanding of malaria transmission patterns in the People's Republic of China (P.R. China) is crucial for designing effective surveillance-response strategies that can
Towards malaria elimination: a new thematic series (Publications)
ABSTRACT: The launch of a new thematic series of Malaria Journal -- "Towards malaria elimination" -- creates the forum that allows carrying scientific evidence on how to achieve malaria elimination in
Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: Using supply chain management to appraise health systems strengthening (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Strengthened national health systems are necessary for effective and sustained expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART and its supply chain management in Uganda are largel
Helminth and intestinal protozoa infections, multiparasitism and risk factors in Champasack Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Detailed investigations of multiparasitism are scarce in the Mekong River basin. We assessed helminth (trematode, nematode, and cestode), and intestinal protozoa infections, and multiparas