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Marcel Tanner

Researcher at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Publications -  767
Citations -  64650

Marcel Tanner is an academic researcher from Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Malaria & Population. The author has an hindex of 103, co-authored 745 publications receiving 57907 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcel Tanner include Umeå Centre for Global Health Research & Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.

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Water quality and health in a Sahelian semi-arid urban context: an integrated geographical approach in Nouakchott, Mauritania

Doulo Traoré, +9 more
- 01 Nov 2013 - 
TL;DR: M Modes of water supply and water contamination were the main drivers of diarrhoea in this semi-arid urban context of Nouakchott, and hence require a strategy to improve water quality at the various levels of the supply chain.
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Experimental filariasis in the Syrian hamster; immunological aspects of complex host-parasite interactions.

Niklaus Weiss, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1981 - 
TL;DR: The Syrian hamster has been introduced as an experimental host for a large number of infective agents such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa and helminths, but only a few researchers have used hamster models to study filarial infections.
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Sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum field-isolates from Tanzania to chloroquine, mefloquine and pyrimethamine during in vitro cultivation

Werner Huber, +5 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
TL;DR: The present study aimed at investigating changes in the drug sensitivity of the same isolates during in vitro cultivation in an endemic area of Tanzania and found no change in the sensitivity of these isolates to chloroquine, meftoquine and pyrimethamine.
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Universal health coverage financing in South Africa: wishes vs reality.

Janet Michel, +6 more
TL;DR: Exploring how the proposed South Africa national health insurance UHC financing reforms compare and contrast with the situation on the ground helps highlight potential stumbling blocks that need addressing as SA moves towards UHC.
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Immunological markers of childhood fevers in an area of intense and perennial malaria transmission.

N. Hurt, +7 more
- 28 Jun 2008 - 
TL;DR: The present study indicates that sTNF‐R75 levels could become a useful immunological tool in malaria intervention studies, as they reflect changes in malaria‐specific immune responses, and future studies should validate this potential in different endemic settings.