Benefits of smoking bans on preterm and early-term births: a natural experimental design in Switzerland (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Birth outcomes are relevant for future children's heath. Capitalising on a natural experimental design in Switzerland, we evaluated how regional smoking bans introduced at different time p
Specificity, cross-reactivity and function of antibodies elicited by Zika virus infection (Publications)
Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus with homology to Dengue virus (DENV), has become a public health emergency. By characterizing memory cells from ZIKV-infected patients, we dissected ZIKV
Stakeholders' opinions and questions regarding the anticipated malaria vaccine in Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Within the context of combined interventions, malaria vaccine may provide additional value in malaria prevention. Stakeholders' perspectives are thus critical for informed recommendation o
Home-based and facility-based directly observed therapy of tuberculosis treatment under programmatic conditions in urban Tanzania (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Decentralization of Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) for tuberculosis (TB) to the community (home-based DOT) has improved the coverage of TB treatment and reduced the burden to the heal
Spatiotemporal co-existence of two <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> clonal complexes in the Offin River valley of Ghana (Publications)
In recent years, comparative genome sequence analysis of African Mycobacterium ulcerans strains isolated from Buruli ulcer (BU) lesion specimen has revealed a very limited genetic diversity of closely
Malaria intervention scale-up in Africa: effectiveness predictions for health programme planning tools, based on dynamic transmission modelling (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment needs to continue to further important gains made in the past decade, but national strategies and budget allocations are not always evidence-ba
Gaining and sustaining schistosomiasis control: study protocol and baseline data prior to different treatment strategies in five African countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was established in 2008 to answer strategic questions about schistosomiasis control. For programme managers,
Applied statistical training to strengthen analysis and health research capacity in Rwanda (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To guide efficient investment of limited health resources in sub-Saharan Africa, local researchers need to be involved in, and guide, health system and policy research. While extensive sur
Assessing stool quantities generated by three specific Kato-Katz thick smear templates employed in different settings (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Kato-Katz technique is recommended for the diagnosis of helminth infections in epidemiological surveys, drug efficacy studies and monitoring of control interventions. We assessed the c