Exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and sleep quality: a prospective cohort study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is persistent public concern about sleep disturbances due to radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure. The aim of this prospective cohort study was to investigate wheth
Experience and challenges from clinical trials with malaria vaccines in Africa (Publications)
Malaria vaccines are considered amongst the most important modalities for potential elimination of malaria disease and transmission. Research and development in this field has been an area of intense
Potential drug development candidates for human soil-transmitted helminthiases (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Few drugs are available for soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH); the benzimidazoles albendazole and mebendazole are the only drugs being used for preventive chemotherapy as they can be gi
Malaria elimination in Isabel Province, Solomon Islands: establishing a surveillance-response system to prevent introduction and reintroduction of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Solomon Islands National Malaria Programme is currently focused on intensified control and progressive elimination. Recent control efforts in Isabel Province have reduced their malaria
Identification of compounds with anti-proliferative activity against <em>Trypanosoma brucei brucei</em> strain 427 by a whole cell viability based HTS... (Publications)
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is caused by two trypanosome sub-species, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. Drugs available for the treatment of HAT have significant
MER41 repeat sequences contain inducible STAT1 binding sites (Publications)
Chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with massively parallel sequencing methods (ChIP-seq) is becoming the standard approach to study interactions of transcription factors (TF) with genomic sequence
Spatially-explicit risk profiling of<em> Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections at a small scale: a geostatistical modelling approach (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is a renewed political will and financial support to eradicate malaria. Spatially-explicit risk profiling will play an important role in this endeavour. Patterns of Plasmodium falcip
High sensitivity detection of <em>Plasmodium</em> species reveals positive correlations between infections of different species, shifts in age... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: When diagnosed by standard light microscopy (LM), malaria prevalence can vary significantly between sites, even at local scale, and mixed species infections are consistently less common th