Effect of fireworks events on urban background trace metal aerosol concentrations: is the cocktail worth the show? (Publications)
report on the effect of a major firework event on urban background atmospheric PM(2.5) chemistry, using 24-h data collected over 8 weeks at two sites in Girona, Spain. The firework pollution episode (Sant [...] Transient high-PM pollution episodes are a proven health hazard, made worse in the case of firework combustion because many of the elements released are both toxic and finely respirable, and because displays [...] pollution cloud drifted over the city centre, and levels of some metals...
Mutual effects of fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and fireworks on cause-specific acute cardiovascular mortality: a case-crossover study in... (Publications)
by cause of death, possibly highlighting the role of different behaviours and risk factors in the most susceptible groups. The risk of cardiovascular mortality was also increased on firework days and after [...] Ambient air pollution is the leading cause of environmental mortality and morbidity worldwide. However, the individual contributions to acute mortality of traffic-related air pollutants such as nitrogen [...] mortality analyses showed differences in terms of delayed effect: odds ratios...
Mutual effects of fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and fireworks on cause-specific acute cardiovascular mortality: a case-crossover study in... (Publications)
by cause of death, possibly highlighting the role of different behaviours and risk factors in the most susceptible groups. The risk of cardiovascular mortality was also increased on firework days and after [...] Ambient air pollution is the leading cause of environmental mortality and morbidity worldwide. However, the individual contributions to acute mortality of traffic-related air pollutants such as nitrogen [...] mortality analyses showed differences in terms of delayed effect: odds ratios...
Effect of fireworks events on urban background trace metal aerosol concentrations: is the cocktail worth the show? (Publications)
report on the effect of a major firework event on urban background atmospheric PM(2.5) chemistry, using 24-h data collected over 8 weeks at two sites in Girona, Spain. The firework pollution episode (Sant [...] Transient high-PM pollution episodes are a proven health hazard, made worse in the case of firework combustion because many of the elements released are both toxic and finely respirable, and because displays [...] pollution cloud drifted over the city centre, and levels of some metals...
Acquisition of antibodies against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> merozoites and malaria immunity in young children: influence of age, force of... (Publications)
exposure, using a novel molecular measure of the force-of-infection by P. falciparum, accounted for much of the increased risk, suggesting antibodies were markers of higher exposure to P. falciparum. Comparisons [...] determinant of the type of IgG subclass produced. High antibody levels were not associated with protection from malaria; in contrast, they were typically associated with an increased risk of malaria. Adjustment [...] Comparisons between antibodies in this cohort of young children...
Acquisition of antibodies against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> merozoites and malaria immunity in young children: influence of age, force of... (Publications)
exposure, using a novel molecular measure of the force-of-infection by P. falciparum, accounted for much of the increased risk, suggesting antibodies were markers of higher exposure to P. falciparum. Comparisons [...] determinant of the type of IgG subclass produced. High antibody levels were not associated with protection from malaria; in contrast, they were typically associated with an increased risk of malaria. Adjustment [...] Comparisons between antibodies in this cohort of young children...
Influences of blood digestion on the development of <em>Plasmodium gallinaceum</em> (Brumpt) in the midgut of <em>Aedes aegypti</em> (L.) (Publications)
Blood digestion of Aedes aegypti and development of Plasmodium gallinaceum were shifted against each other by giving the mosquitoes two consecutive blood meals. In this way the parasites were exposed to [...] are explained by the action of trypsin-like proteases on the parasites and indicate that plasmodia 0-10 h after blood meal are more sensitive to the enzymes than later stages of the parasites