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Monitoring an Emergent Pathogen at Low Incidence in Wastewater Using qPCR: Mpox in Switzerland
Wastewater-based epidemiology offers a complementary approach to clinical case-based surveillance of emergent diseases and can help identify regions with infected people to prioritize clinical surveillance strategies. However, tracking emergent diseases in ...
2024Virtual Safety Assistant: An Efficient Tool for Ensuring Safety During Covid-19 Pandemic
Using intelligent virtual assistants for controlling employee population in workspaces is a research area that remains unexplored. This paper presents a novel application of virtual humans to enforce Covid-19 safety measures in a corporate workplace. For t ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022Spatial analysis of the Healthy Built Environment: an application on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the canton of Geneva
Most of the world population lives in urban areas, the share of the urban population is estimated to increase in the future decades. The complexity of different land uses and services in urban areas, which composes the built environment, influences human h ...
EPFL2022Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology. Addressing Security and Resilience Issues
Synthetic biology is a field of biotechnology that is rapidly growing in various applications, such as in medicine, environmental sustainability, and energy production. However these technologies also have unforeseen risks and applications to humans and th ...
Springer2021Geospatial Analysis of Sodium and Potassium Intake: A Swiss Population-Based Study
Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Murielle Bochud, David Nicolas De Ridder
Inadequate sodium and potassium dietary intakes are associated with major, yet preventable, health consequences. Local public health interventions can be facilitated and informed by fine-scale geospatial analyses. In this study, we assess the existence of ...
MDPI2021Microfluidic Platforms for the Study of Bacterial Metabolism and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Fast spreading antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an emerging major public health issue. New therapeutic and diagnostic paradigms must be implemented to counteract this evolution. In this respect, fast antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) plays an imp ...
EPFL2021A spatially explicit water temperature model for the river Wigger
Water temperature data are being collected at various locations in the Wigger for ecological purposes, namely to investigate health issues in sh populations. Such data need be linked to hydro-morphological and environmental features of the catchment in ord ...
2017Towards sustainable sanitation: Mitigating microbial health risks in the production of urine-derived fertilizers
Tamar Kohn, Loïc Decrey, Simon Schindelholz, Linda Strande, Manfred Schoger, Ariane Schertenleib, Kai Udert, Christa McArdell
To identify and address health and safety challenges, first, I conducted a screening of fecal pathogens in source-separated urine. The pathogen inactivation performance of two innovative fertilizer production technologies was then evaluated in laboratory a ...
2016Seasonality in cholera dynamics: A rainfall-driven model explains the wide range of patterns in endemic areas
Enrico Bertuzzo, Theo Baracchini
Seasonal patterns in cholera dynamics exhibit pronounced variability across geographical regions, showing single or multiple peaks at different times of the year. Although multiple hypotheses related to local climate variables have been proposed, an unders ...
2016Institutions, Innovation and Public Health
Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer
This study concerns the economics of innovation in the area of medical innovation -new diagnostics, medicines and vaccines-, and in particular how innovation contributes to meeting public health needs. Significant advances have taken place in medical scien ...
EPFL2015