Clinical evaluation for morbidity associated with soil-transmitted helminth infection in school-age children on Pemba Island, Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: More than 1.5 billion people are infected with soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, and Trichuris trichiura), causing an estimated global
Prevalence and risk factors for schistosomiasis among schoolchildren in two settings of Côte d’Ivoire (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease affecting more than 250 million people, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. In Cote d'Ivoire both Schistosoma haematobium (causing urogenital schistosomiasis) and S
Improving methods for analysing anti-malarial drug efficacy trials: molecular correction based on length-polymorphic markers <em>msp</em>-1,... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Drug efficacy trials monitor the continued efficacy of front-line drugs against falciparum malaria. Over-estimates of efficacy result in a country retaining a failing drug as first-line tr
Short course amphotericin B in addition to sertraline and fluconazole for treatment of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in rural Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Cryptococcal meningitis accounts for 15% of all AIDS-mortality globally. Most cases in low- and middle-income countries are treated with fluconazole monotherapy, which is associated with a
Dog ecology, bite incidence, and disease awareness: a cross-sectional survey among a rabies-affected community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)
Despite the existence of safe and efficacious human and animal rabies vaccines, millions of people remain at risk of exposure to this deadly zoonotic disease through bites of infected dogs. Sub-Sahara
Validation of the protein kinase <em>Pf</em>CLK3 as a multistage cross-species malarial drug target (Publications)
The requirement for next-generation antimalarials to be both curative and transmission-blocking necessitates the identification of previously undiscovered druggable molecular pathways. We identified a
Facets of clinical stigma after attempted suicide in Mumbai, India (Publications)
Community stigma studies may neglect clinically relevant experience and views of stigma that are important features of mental health problems. After attempting suicide, patients in a hospital emergenc