Infectivity of symptomatic malaria patients to <em>Anopheles farauti</em> colony mosquitoes in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
Plasmodium transmission from humans to mosquitoes is an understudied bottleneck in the transmission of malaria. Direct membrane feeding assays (DMFA) allow detailed malaria transmission studies from h
Detection of pathogens of acute febrile illness using polymerase chain reaction from dried blood spots (Publications)
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) of dried blood spots (DBS) for pathogen detection is a potentially convenient method for infectious disease diagnosis. This study tested 115 DBS samples p
Health seeking behavior among adults and elderly with chronic health condition(s) in Albania (Publications)
Aim: Assess the use of different health care service providers by adults (aged 18–59) and elderly (aged > =60) who suffer from non-communicable disease (NCD) and explore relationships between sociodem
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in an inpatient population in the Swiss canton of Basel-Country (Publications)
AIMS: Vitamin D deficiency remains very common in the general population. Adding to the importance of this issue is the discovery that vitamin D plays a role in many other tissues apart from the bone,
Genomic epidemiological analysis identifies high relapse among individuals with recurring tuberculosis and provides evidence of household recent TB... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: We investigated the cause of recurring tuberculosis (rcTB) among pulmonary TB participants recruited from a prospective population-based study conducted between July 2012 and December 2015.
Outdoor air pollution and hormone-assessed pubertal development in children: results from the GINIplus and LISA birth cohorts (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Air pollution is hypothesized to affect pubertal development. However, the few studies on this topic yielded overall mixed results. These studies did not consider important pollutants like
Local adaptation in populations of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> endemic to the Indian Ocean Rim (Publications)
Background: Lineage 1 (L1) and 3 (L3) are two lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) causing tuberculosis (TB) in humans. L1 and L3 are prevalent around the rim of the Indian Ocean,
Vaginal microbiota and cytokine levels predict preterm delivery in Asian women (Publications)
Preterm birth (PTB) is the most common cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Approximately half of PTBs is linked with microbial etiologies, including pathologic changes to the vaginal
Gnathostomiasis in a traveller returning from Madagascar (Publications)
Gnathostomiasis is a foodborne parasitic zoonosis known to be endemic in Southeast Asia, India, Central and South America, with recent cases reported in Zambia, Botswana and South Africa. We report a
Application of the Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines (PACV) survey in three national languages in Switzerland: exploratory factor analysis and... (Publications)
Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is a complex and context-specific phenomenon that is linked to under-immunization and poses challenges to immunization programs. The Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines (P
