Multilevel analysis of childbearing in childhood in Tanzania's Rufiji district (Publications)
Objectives To examine levels, trends and correlates of childbearing in childhood (CiC) in the Rufiji district of Tanzania from 2002 to 2010. Methods Using longitudinal data collected in, and by, the R
A malaria risk map of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In Kinshasa, malaria remains a major public health problem but its spatial epidemiology has not been assessed for decades now. The city's growth and transformation, as well as recent contr
Estimation of the antirelapse efficacy of tafenoquine, using <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> genotyping (Publications)
Plasmodium vivax relapse prevention is a key treatment goal in malaria. Use of P. vivax genotyping in a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase IIb study in Peru, India, Thaila
Diagnosis of <em>Opisthorchis viverrini</em> infection with handheld light microscopy in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Publications)
Opisthorchis viverrini infection is a neglected tropical disease, yet it is of considerable public health importance in southeast Asia given the predilection for chronically infected persons to develo
Evaluation of Xpert® MTB/RIF and Ustar EasyNATTM TB IAD for diagnosis of TB lymphadenitis of children in Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Fine needle aspiration biopsy has become a standard approach for diagnosis of peripheral tuberculous lymphadenitis. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of Xpert MTB/RIF an
Efficacy, safety, and dose of pafuramidine, a new oral drug for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness, in a phase 2a clinical study and phase 2b... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis [HAT]) is caused by protozoan parasites and characterized by a chronic progressive course, which may last up to several years before death.
A sero-epidemiological approach to explore transmission of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> (Publications)
The debilitating skin disease Buruli ulcer (BU) is caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans. While various hypotheses on potential reservoirs and vectors of M. ulcerans exist, the mode of trans