Prevalence of intestinal protozoa infection among school-aged children on Pemba Island, Tanzania, and effect of single-dose albendazole, nitazoxanide... (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Pathogenic intestinal protozoa infections are common in school-aged children in the developing world and they are frequently associated with malabsorption syndromes and gastroint
Reconstructing the 2003/2004 H3N2 influenza epidemic in Switzerland with a spatially explicit, individual-based model (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Simulation models of influenza spread play an important role for pandemic preparedness. However, as the world has not faced a severe pandemic for decades, except the rather mild
Eine vergessene Seuche: Erforschung und Bekämpfung der afrikanischen Schlafkrankheit am Swiss TPH (Publications)
Broschüre entstand anlässlich des 15. Swiss TPH Symposiums: Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
Treatment of urinary schistosomiasis: methodological issues and research needs identified through a Cochrane systematic review (Publications)
SUMMARYGuidelines recommend praziquantel (PZQ) for the treatment and control of schistosomiasis, with no real alternative. Metrifonate was still widely used against Schistosoma haematobium in the 1990
Evaluation of a sampling strategy for estimation of long-term PM2.5 exposure for epidemiological studies (Publications)
As part of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) PM2.5 (particles collected with an upper 50% cut point of 2.5 microm aerodynamic diameter) was measured using an EPA-WINS (Environme
Carbon monoxide exposures and kitchen concentrations from cookstove-related woodsmoke in San Marcos, Peru (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Nearly half of the world's population is exposed to household air pollution (HAP) due to long hours spent in close proximity to biomass-fueled fires. OBJECTIVE: We compare CO exposures and