Effects of engaging communities in decision-making and action through traditional and religious leaders on vaccination coverage in Cross River State,... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Vaccination coverage levels fall short of the Global Vaccine and Action Plan 90% target in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). Having identified traditional and religious leaders (T
Costing interventions in the field: preliminary cost estimates and lessons learned from an evaluation of community-wide mass drug administration for... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To present a costing study integrated within the DeWorm3 multi-country field trial of community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA) for elimination of soil-transmitted helminths. DESIGN: T
Reaching absent and refusing individuals during home-based HIV testing through self-testing-at what cost? (Publications)
Introduction: In the HOSENG trial (NCT03598686), the secondary distribution of oral self-tests for persons absent or refusing to test during a home-based HIV testing campaign in rural Lesotho resulted
Socio-cultural factors for breastfeeding cessation and their relationship with child diarrhoea in the rural high-altitude Peruvian Andes - a... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In some areas of the world, breast milk is seen as a potential source of child diarrhoea. While this belief has been explored in African and Southeast Asian countries, it remains vastly un
Surveillance of molecular markers of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> artemisinin resistance (<em>kelch</em>13 mutations) in Papua New Guinea between... (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is a global threat to malaria control and elimination efforts. Mutations in the P. falciparum kelch13 gene (Pfk13) that
A high-throughput cell- and virus-free assay shows reduced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants by COVID-19 convalescent plasma (Publications)
The detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-specific antibodies in the serum of an individual indicates prior infection or vaccination. However, it provides limited i
Common haplotypes at the <em>CFH </em>locus and low-frequency variants in <em>CFHR2 </em>and <em>CFHR5 </em>associate with systemic FHR concentrations... (Publications)
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the principal cause of blindness in the elderly population. A strong effect on AMD risk has been reported for genetic variants at the CFH locus, encompassing
Two-target quantitative PCR to predict library composition for shallow shotgun sequencing (Publications)
When determining human microbiota composition, shotgun sequencing is a powerful tool that can generate high-resolution taxonomic and functional information at once. However, the technique is limited b