Evaluation of giant African pouched rats for detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients from a high-endemic setting (Publications)
BACKGROUND: This study established evidence about the diagnostic performance of trained giant African pouched rats for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum of well-characterised patients wit
Cure frailty models for survival data: application to recurrences for breast cancer and to hospital readmissions for colorectal cancer (Publications)
Owing to the natural evolution of a disease, several events often arise after a first treatment for the same subject. For example, patients with a primary invasive breast cancer and treated with breas
cART prescription trends in a prospective HIV cohort in rural Tanzania from 2007 to 2011 (Publications)
Comprehensive information on combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) regimens in rural Sub-Saharan Africa over time is scarce, particularly on the use of stavudine (d4T) and second-line regimens. Since
Impact of traffic-related air pollution on acute changes in cardiac autonomic modulation during rest and physical activity: a cross-over study (Publications)
People are often exposed to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) during physical activity (PA), but it is not clear if PA modifies the impact of TRAP on cardiac autonomic modulation. We conducted a pa
Match-making for pasaconazole through systems thinking (Publications)
Currently available drugs for Chagas' disease are limited by toxicity and low efficacy in the chronic stage. Posaconazole, the most advanced new anti-chagasic drug candidate, did not fully confirm its
Spatially aggregated clusters and scattered smaller loci of elevated malaria vector density and human infection prevalence in urban Dar es Salaam,... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria transmission, primarily mediated by Anopheles gambiae, persists in Dar es Salaam (DSM) despite high coverage with bed nets, mosquito-proofed housing and larviciding. New or improve