Agricultural production in Kikwawila village, southeastern Tanzania (Publications)
Food production, land utilisation and agricultural structures were surveyed at Kikwawila village, north of Ifakara (Kilombero District, Morogoro Region) in 1984. This study was part of a more comprehe
Independent large scale duplications in multiple <em>M. tuberculosis</em> lineages overlapping the same genomic region (Publications)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of most human tuberculosis, infects one third of the world's population and kills an estimated 1.7 million people a year. With the world-wide emergence
Quality assurance in transnational higher education: a case study of the tropEd network (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Transnational or cross-border higher education has rapidly expanded since the 1980s. Together with that expansion issues on quality assurance came to the forefront. This article aims to
HIV/AIDS, parasites and co-infections: publication patterns in China (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Since its discovery, HIV/AIDS has arguably captured more attention among the Chinese biomedical research community than most other infectious diseases. Traditional parasitic dise
Bovine tuberculosis at the wildlife-livestock-human interface in Hamer Woreda, South Omo, southern Ethiopia (Publications)
Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is endemic in cattle in the Ethiopian Highlands but no studies have been done so far in pastoralists in South Omo. This study assessed the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (
Sleeping sickness in travelers - do they really sleep? (Publications)
The number of imported Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) cases in non-endemic countries has increased over the last years. The objective of this analysis is to describe the clinical presentation of
Effect of sanitation on soil-transmitted helminth infection: systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In countries of high endemicity of the soil-transmitted helminth parasites Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm, preventive chemotherapy (i.e., repeated administration o
A high-resolution geospatial surveillance-response system for malaria elimination in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (Publications)
BACKGROUND: A high-resolution surveillance-response system has been developed within a geographic information system (GIS) to support malaria elimination in the Pacific. This paper examines the applic
A research agenda for malaria eradication: monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance (Publications)
Monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance measure how well public health programs operate over time and achieve their goals. As countries approach malaria elimination, these activities will need to shi