Nutritional status and intestinal parasites among young children from pastoralist communities of the Ethiopian Somali region (Publications)
Pastoralist children in the Ethiopian Somali Regional State (ESRS) are at high risk for undernutrition and intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs). We assessed the nutritional status and its associatio
The impact of rehabilitation-oriented virtual reality device in patients with ischemic stroke in the early subacute recovery phase: study protocol for... (Publications)
Background and rationale: Stroke is considered the most common cause of adult disability. Intensive rehabilitation protocols outperform nonintensive counterparts. The subacute stroke phase represents
Short term seasonal effects of airborne fungal spores on lung function in a panel study of schoolchildren residing in informal settlements of the... (Publications)
Background The individual effects of biological constituents of particulate matter (PM) such as fungal spores, on lung function in children are not well known. This study investigated the seasonal sho
Body mass index and weight change are associated with adult lung function trajectories: the prospective ECRHS study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have reported an association between weight increase and excess lung function decline in young adults followed for short periods. We aimed to estimate lung function trajec
The duration of chemoprophylaxis against malaria after treatment with artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine and the effects of <em>pfmdr1... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The majority of Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases in Africa are treated with the artemisinin combination therapies artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and artesunate-amodiaquine (AS-AQ), with a
Collaborating with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) providers when writing HPV vaccine review articles (Publications)
Novel strategies are needed to address vaccine hesitancy (VH), which correlates with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). In Switzerland, CAM providers play important roles in vaccine counsel
New drugs for human African trypanosomiasis: a twenty first century success story (Publications)
The twentieth century ended with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) epidemics raging across many parts of Africa. Resistance to existing drugs was emerging, and many programs aiming to contain the di
Anti-trypanosomal proteasome inhibitors cure hemolymphatic and meningoencephalic murine infection models of African trypanosomiasis (Publications)
Current anti-trypanosomal therapies suffer from problems of longer treatment duration, toxicity and inadequate efficacy, hence there is a need for safer, more efficacious and 'easy to use' oral drugs.
Author correction: Integrating standardized whole genome sequence analysis with a global <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> antibiotic resistance... (Publications)
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.