State of inequality in malaria intervention coverage in sub-Saharan African countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scale-up of malaria interventions over the last decade have yielded a significant reduction in malaria transmission and disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. We estimated economic gradient
Indole and benzimidazole bichalcophenes: synthesis, DNA binding and antiparasitic activity (Publications)
A novel series of indole and benzimidazole bichalcophene diamidine derivatives were prepared to study their antimicrobial activity against the tropical parasites causing African sleeping sickness and
Evaluation of spoligotyping, SNPs and customised MIRU-VNTR combination for genotyping <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>clinical isolates in... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Combining different molecular typing methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) can be a powerful tool for molecular epidemiology-based investigation of TB. However, the current
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of brain tumor: the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE) (Publications)
Background: Epidemiological evidence on the association between ambient air pollution and brain tumor risk is sparse and inconsistent. Methods: In 12 cohorts from six European countries, individual es
Factors associated with cessation of smoking among Swiss adults between 1991 and 2011: results from the SAPALDIA Cohort (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Smoking is still the most preventable cause of disease and premature death in Switzerland, as elsewhere. We aimed to assess the main determinants of smoking cessation in the population-b
Land use regression modeling of outdoor noise exposure in informal settlements in Western Cape, South Africa (Publications)
In low- and middle-income countries, noise exposure and its negative health effects have been little explored. The present study aimed to assess the noise exposure situation in adults living in inform
