A review of spatial epidemiology with malaria surveillance and control in China (Publications)
The monitoring and control of malaria depends largely on the spatial analysis technology and mathematical models. Visualization of malaria situation is the most popular way to present how malaria tran
Small-scale field evaluation of push-pull system against early- and outdoor-biting malaria mosquitoes in an area of high pyrethroid resistance in... (Publications)
Background: Despite high coverage of indoor interventions like insecticide-treated nets, mosquito-borne infections persist, partly because of outdoor-biting, early-biting and insecticide-resistant vec
Improving spatial prediction of <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> prevalence in southern Ghana through new remote sensors and local water access... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a water-related neglected tropical disease. In many endemic low- and middle-income countries, insufficient surveillance and reporting lead to poor characterization of th
Can a smoking ban save your heart? (Publications)
This paper evaluates the causal effect of environmental tobacco exposure on health by exploiting the time and geographical variation in public-place smoking bans implemented in Switzerland between 200
Malaria control across borders: quasi-experimental evidence from the Trans-Kunene malaria initiative (TKMI) (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The transmission of malaria through population inflows from highly endemic areas with limited control efforts poses major challenges for national malaria control programmes. Several multil
Identification of <em>Campylobacter fetus</em> by fluorescence<em> in situ</em> hybridization (FISH) (Publications)
Two new DNA FISH-probes for Campylobacter fetus were designed, in silico checked for cross-reactions and successfully evaluated in a multi-centric approach with 41 Campylobacter fetus isolates includi
Pharmacokinetics of a pediatric tribendimidine dose-finding study to treat hookworm infection in African children (Publications)
Tribendimidine is a broad-spectrum anthelmintic available in China, which is currently being pursued for US Food and Drug Administration approval for soil-transmitted helminth infections. Pharmacokine
Bottlenecks in the provision of antenatal care: rural settled and mobile pastoralist communities in Chad (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To assess antenatal care (ANC) coverage and analyse constraining factors for service delivery to rural settled and mobile populations in two districts in Chad. METHOD: Data from cross-secti