Time to change focus? Transitioning from higher neonatal to higher stillbirth mortality in São Paulo State, Brazil (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Differential trends in mortality suggest that stillbirths may dominate neonatal mortality in the medium to long run. Brazil has made major efforts to improve data collection on health indi
Time trends of positivity rates from foodborne pathogen testing in Switzerland, 2003 to 2012 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis are important foodborne diseases in Europe, including in Switzerland. In 2014, notification rates for Switzerland were 92.9 per 100 000 population for
Identification of steroid-like natural products as antiplasmodial agents by 2D and 3D similarity-based virtual screening (Publications)
The emergence of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum to available antimalarial drugs has challenged current antimalarial treatments. New antimalarials, particularly those with novel mechanisms of
Sporozoite immunization: innovative translational science to support the fight against malaria (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Malaria, a devastating febrile illness caused by protozoan parasites, sickened 247,000,000 people in 2021 and killed 619,000, mostly children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. A
Genetic validation of <em>Pf</em>FKBP35 as an antimalarial drug target (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum accounts for the majority of over 600,000 malaria-associated deaths annually. Parasites resistant to nearly all antimalarials have emerged and the need for drugs with alternative