Reducing the burden of non-communicable disease in Moldovan communities – the role of community nursing (Publications)
Detection, treatment and management of NCDs have become increasingly the focus of the Moldovan health system. The important role of community medical assistants (CMA) for a more horizontal approach to
Repeated mosquito net distributions, improved treatment, and trends in malaria cases in sentinel health facilities in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN), improved diagnosis and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) have reduced malaria prevalence in Papua New Guinea since 2008. Yet, national inci
Declining burden of <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> in a population in northwestern Thailand from 1995 to 2016 before comprehensive primaquine prescription... (Publications)
All Plasmodium cases have declined over the last decade in northwestern Thailand along the Myanmar border. During this time, Plasmodium vivax has replaced Plasmodium falciparum as the dominant species
<em>Candidatus</em> Dirofilaria hongkongensis as causative agent of human ocular filariosis after travel to India (Publications)
We report a human case of ocular Dirofilaria infection in a traveler returning to Austria from India. Analysis of mitochondrial sequences identified the worm as Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis, a
Prospective European-wide multicentre study on a blood based real-time PCR for the diagnosis of acute schistosomiasis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Acute schistosomiasis constitutes a rare but serious condition in individuals experiencing their first prepatent Schistosoma infection. To circumvent costly and time-consuming diagnostics,
Diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis caused by <em>Ancylostoma</em> hookworm (Publications)
Diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis is an ocular infectious disease caused by several distinct nematodes. Definite identification of the involved nematodes is rarely achieved. We report on the