Publications
Assessment of herd effects among women and heterosexual men after girls-only HPV16/18 vaccination in the Netherlands: a repeated cross-sectional study Institute of Tropical Medicine
Data on the impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on the population HPV prevalence are largely obtained from women. We assessed the impact of the girls-only HPV16/18 vaccination program in the Netherlands that started in 2009, on trends in HPV prevalence among women and heterosexual men, using data from the PASSYON study. In this cross-sectional study, the HPV prevalence among 16- to 24-year-old visitors to sexually transmitted ...
A pilot evaluation of alternative procedures to simplify LAMP-based malaria diagnosis in field conditions Institute of Tropical Medicine
Highly-sensitive and field-friendly diagnostic tools are needed for accurate detection of low-density malaria infections. Although loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) fulfills these conditions, operational challenges are still encountered during pilot population screenings in remote settings when employing Loopamp (TM) MALARIA Pan/Pf detection kit (Eiken Chemical Co.). This study evaluates different procedures for the simplification ...