Clinical markers of asthma and IgE assessed in parents before conception predicts asthma and hay fever in the offspring (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mice models suggest epigenetic inheritance induced by parental allergic disease activity. However, we know little of how parental disease activity before conception influences offspring's
An investment case to prevent the reintroduction of malaria in Sri Lanka (Publications)
Sri Lanka has made remarkable gains in reducing the burden of malaria, recording no locally transmitted malaria cases since November 2012 and zero deaths since 2007. The country was recently certified
<em>In vitro</em>, <em>ex vivo</em> and<em> in vivo</em> activity of diamidines against <em>Trypanosoma congolense</em> and <em>Trypanosoma vivax</em> (Publications)
African Animal Trypanosomosis (AAT) is caused by the tsetse-transmitted protozoans, Trypanosoma congolense and T. vivax, leading to huge agricultural losses throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Three drugs
Time to harmonize national ambient air quality standards (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The World Health Organization has developed ambient air quality guidelines at levels considered to be safe or of acceptable risk for human health. These guidelines are meant to support gov
Determinants of time from HIV infection to linkage-to-care in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To estimate time from HIV infection to linkage-to-care and its determinants. Linkage-to-care is usually assessed using the date of HIV diagnosis as the starting point for exposure time. How
Ambient air pollution, traffic noise and adult asthma prevalence: a BioSHaRE approach (Publications)
We investigated the effects of both ambient air pollution and traffic noise on adult asthma prevalence, using harmonised data from three European cohort studies established in 2006-2013 (HUNT3, Lifeli
Efficacy and safety of tribendimidine against <em>Opisthorchis viverrini</em>: two randomised, parallel-group, single-blind, dose-ranging, phase 2... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Treatment of the liver fluke infection Opisthorchis viverrini relies exclusively on praziquantel. Tribendimidine could be an alternative treatment option. We aimed to assess the efficacy a
A worldwide map of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> K13-propeller polymorphisms (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Recent gains in reducing the global burden of malaria are threatened by the emergence of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinins. The discovery that mutations in portions of a P.
