Delivering at home or in a health facility? Health-seeking behaviour of women and the role of traditional birth attendants in Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Traditional birth attendants retain an important role in reproductive and maternal health in Tanzania. The Tanzanian Government promotes TBAs in order to provide maternal and neonatal heal
Frequency of malaria and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Tajikistan (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: During the Soviet era, malaria was close to eradication in Tajikistan. Since the early 1990s, the disease has been on the rise and has become endemic in large areas of southern a
Molecular characterisation of <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> isolated from cattle slaughtered at the Bamako abattoir in Mali (Publications)
Background: Mali is one of the most important livestock producers of the Sahel region of Africa. A high frequency of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) has been reported but surveillance and control schemes ar
The use of antenatal and postnatal care: perspectives and experiences of women and health care providers in rural southern Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Although antenatal care coverage in Tanzania is high, worrying gaps exist in terms of its quality and ability to prevent, diagnose or treat complications. Moreover, much less is known abou
Comparison of diagnostic methods for the detection and quantification of the four sympatric <em>Plasmodium</em> species in field samples from Papua... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Accurate diagnosis of Plasmodium infections is essential for malaria morbidity and mortality reduction in tropical areas. Despite great advantages of light microscopy (LM) for malaria diag
Human macrophage responses to clinical isolates from the <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex discriminate between ancient and modern lineages (Publications)
The aim of the present study was to determine whether there is a correlation between phylogenetic relationship and inflammatory response amongst a panel of clinical isolates representative of the glob
Spatial risk profiling of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> parasitaemia in a high endemicity area in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to identify demographic, environmental and socioeconomic risk factors and spatial patterns of Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in a high endemicity area o
Genetic diversity of expressed <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> var genes from Tanzanian children with severe malaria (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Severe malaria has been attributed to the expression of a restricted subset of the var multigene family, which encodes for Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1). Pf