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Christian Lengeler

Christian Lengeler

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77
Citations
22657
World Ranking
18398
National Ranking
284

Overview

Christian Lengeler is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland. Their research primarily addresses key challenges in medicine, with a focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, parasitology, nutrition and dietetics, and modeling and simulation.

The main topics of Lengeler's research encompass malaria research and control, global maternal and child health, mosquito-borne diseases and their control, parasites and host interactions, child nutrition and water access, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Lengeler has published extensively in various academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Malaria Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • BMC Medicine
  • PLOS Global Public Health

Key papers by Lengeler include:

  • "Sub-national stratification of malaria risk in mainland Tanzania: a simplified assembly of survey and routine data," 2020, Malaria Journal
  • "Sustaining LLIN coverage with continuous distribution: the school net programme in Tanzania," 2020, Malaria Journal
  • "Effectiveness of rectal artesunate as pre-referral treatment for severe malaria in children under 5 years of age: a multi-country observational study," 2022, BMC Medicine
  • "Simulating the council-specific impact of anti-malaria interventions: A tool to support malaria strategic planning in Tanzania," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "The use of routine health facility data for micro-stratification of malaria risk in mainland Tanzania," 2022, Malaria Journal

Frequent collaborators with Lengeler's research include Manuel W. Hetzel, C. Burri, Aita Signorell, Giulia Delvento, and Phyllis Awor, each contributing to numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Insecticide‐treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria

    Christian Lengeler

  • Language Bias in Randomised Controlled Trials Published in English and German

    Matthias Egger;Tanja Zellweger-Zähner;Martin Schneider;Christoph Junker

  • Indoor residual spraying for preventing malaria

    Bianca Pluess;Frank C Tanser;Christian Lengeler;Brian L Sharp

  • Insecticide‐treated bednets reduce mortality and severe morbidity from malaria among children on the Kenyan coast

    C G Nevill;E S Some;V O Mung'ala;W Mutemi

  • Beyond malaria : causes of fever in outpatient tanzanian children

    Valérie D'Acremont;Mary Kilowoko;Esther Kyungu;Sister Philipina

  • Preventing childhood malaria in Africa by protecting adults from mosquitoes with insecticide-treated nets.

    Gerry F Killeen;Tom A Smith;Heather M Ferguson;Hassan Mshinda

  • Historical review of malarial control in southern African with emphasis on the use of indoor residual house-spraying

    Musawenkosi L. H. Mabaso;Brian Sharp;Christian Lengeler

  • Access to health care in contexts of livelihood insecurity: a framework for analysis and action.

    Brigit Obrist;Nelly Iteba;Christian Lengeler;Ahmed Makemba

  • Effect of large-scale social marketing of insecticide-treated nets on child survival in rural Tanzania.

    Joanna Rm Armstrong Schellenberg;Salim Abdulla;Rose Nathan;Oscar Mukasa

  • Insecticide treated bednets and curtains for malaria control

    Christian Lengeler

  • Habitat characterization and spatial distribution of Anopheles sp. mosquito larvae in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) during an extended dry period

    Michael A Sattler;Deo Mtasiwa;Michael Kiama;Zul Premji

  • Time to move from presumptive malaria treatment to laboratory-confirmed diagnosis and treatment in African children with fever.

    Valérie D'Acremont;Christian Lengeler;Hassan Mshinda;Deo Mtasiwa

  • Oral artemether for prevention of Schistosoma mansoni infection: randomised controlled trial

    Jürg Utzinger;Eliézer K N'Goran;Amani N'Dri;Christian Lengeler

  • Reduction in the proportion of fevers associated with Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in Africa: a systematic review.

    Valérie D'Acremont;Valérie D'Acremont;Valérie D'Acremont;Christian Lengeler;Blaise Genton;Blaise Genton

  • A research agenda for malaria eradication: vector control.

    P. L. Alonso;N. J. Besansky;T. R. Burkot;F. H. Collins

  • Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled study.

    Valérie D'Acremont;Valérie D'Acremont;Judith Kahama-Maro;Judith Kahama-Maro;Ndeniria Swai;Deo Mtasiwa

  • KINET: a social marketing programme of treated nets and net treatment for malaria control in Tanzania, with evaluation of child health and long-term survival

    J.R.M.Armstrong Schellenberg;S. Abdulla;H. Minja;R. Nathan

  • Relative contribution of day-to-day and intra-specimen variation in faecal egg counts of Schistosoma mansoni before and after treatment with praziquantel.

    J. Utzinger;M. Booth;E. K. N'goran;I. Müller

  • Questionnaires for rapid screening of schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa

    Christian Lengeler;Jürg Utzinger;Marcel Tanner

  • Impact on malaria morbidity of a programme supplying insecticide treated nets in children aged under 2 years in Tanzania: community cross sectional study.

    Salim Abdulla;Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg;Rose Nathan;Oscar Mukasa

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel Tanner
Marcel Tanner Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Blaise Genton
Blaise Genton University of Lausanne
Penelope Vounatsou
Penelope Vounatsou University of Basel
Eliézer K. N’Goran
Eliézer K. N’Goran Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Fabrizio Tediosi
Fabrizio Tediosi Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Robert W. Snow
Robert W. Snow Kenya Medical Research Institute
Jürg Utzinger
Jürg Utzinger University of Basel
Don de Savigny
Don de Savigny Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Kara Hanson
Kara Hanson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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