Efficacy of single-dose and triple-dose albendazole and mebendazole against soil-transmitted helminths and <em>Taenia </em>spp<em>.</em>: a randomized... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The control of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections currently relies on the large-scale administration of single-dose oral albendazole or mebendazole. However, these treatment regime
Measures of clinical malaria in field trials of interventions against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Standard methods for defining clinical malaria in intervention trials in endemic areas do not guarantee that efficacy estimates will be unbiased, and do not indicate whether the interventi
In-hospital safety in field conditions of nifurtimox eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for <em>T.b. gambiense</em> sleeping sickness (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a fatal disease. Until 2009, available treatments for 2(nd) stage HAT were complicated to use,
Scope and limits of an anamnestic questionnaire in a control-induced low-endemicity helminthiasis setting in south-central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis are two high-burden neglected tropical diseases. In highly endemic areas, control efforts emphasize preventive chemotherapy. However, as
Bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis prevalence in cattle from selected milk cooperatives in Arsi zone, Oromia region, Ethiopia (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) and bovine brucellosis are two important milk-borne zoonoses that have been shown to be prevalent to various degrees in Ethiopian cattle.The study was carried out