The impact of pastoralist mobility on tuberculosis control in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-synthesis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) is the current mainstay to control tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. Context-specific adaptations of DOTS have impending implications in the fig
"There is a cat on our ward": inpatient and staff member attitudes toward and experiences with cats in a psychiatric ward (Publications)
The aim of this study was to investigate inpatient and staff member attitudes toward and experiences with ward cats, and identify possible mechanisms for how cats affect patient satisfaction in a psyc
Validation of the protein kinase <em>Pf</em>CLK3 as a multistage cross-species malarial drug target (Publications)
The requirement for next-generation antimalarials to be both curative and transmission-blocking necessitates the identification of previously undiscovered druggable molecular pathways. We identified a
The viral load monitoring cascade in a resource-limited setting: a prospective multicentre cohort study after introduction of routine viral load... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: For HIV-positive individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART), the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends routine viral load (VL) monitoring. We report on the cascade of care in indiv
Short course amphotericin B in addition to sertraline and fluconazole for treatment of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in rural Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Cryptococcal meningitis accounts for 15% of all AIDS-mortality globally. Most cases in low- and middle-income countries are treated with fluconazole monotherapy, which is associated with a
Dog ecology, bite incidence, and disease awareness: a cross-sectional survey among a rabies-affected community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)
Despite the existence of safe and efficacious human and animal rabies vaccines, millions of people remain at risk of exposure to this deadly zoonotic disease through bites of infected dogs. Sub-Sahara
Facets of clinical stigma after attempted suicide in Mumbai, India (Publications)
Community stigma studies may neglect clinically relevant experience and views of stigma that are important features of mental health problems. After attempting suicide, patients in a hospital emergenc
Nearly complete genome sequence of a novel phlebovirus-like virus detected in a human plasma sample by high-throughput sequencing (Publications)
Here, we report a novel phlebovirus-like virus sequence detected in a plasma sample from a febrile adult patient collected in the United Republic of Tanzania in 2014. A nearly complete RNA sequence wa