Lack of associations of alpha(+) - thalassemia with the risk of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> and <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> infection and disease in... (Publications)
Despite consistent evidence of a protective effect of alpha(+)-thalassemia against severe Plasmodium falciparum disease, the mechanisms underlying this protection remain unknown. An increase in risk o
Age and seasonal variation in the transition rates and detectability of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria (Publications)
The effect of acquired immunity on the duration of Plasmodium falciparum infections is unclear, although this is an important term in models of malaria transmission. It is problematical to determine t
Evaluation des VNTR (variable number of tandem repeats) des isolats de <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> en Algérie (Publications)
The discriminatory potency of variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR), based on 7 loci (MIRU 26, 27 and 5 ETRs A, B, C, D, E) was assayed on Mycobacterium bovis strains obtained from samples due to t
An immigration-death model to estimate the duration of malaria infection when detectability of the parasite is imperfect (Publications)
Immigration-death models are proposed to analyse the infection dynamics in longitudinal studies of panels of heavily parasitized human hosts where parasites have been typed at regular intervals by PCR
Single pollutant versus surrogate measure approaches: do single pollutant risk assessments underestimate the impact of air pollution on lung cancer... (Publications)
Cancer risk as a result of air pollution may be quantified by different approaches. We compared the sum of unit risk based effects of single pollutants with an epidemiology-based method by using PM(10
Temporal and spatial variation of the chemical composition of PM10 at urban and rutal sites in the Basel area (Publications)
Particulate matter measurements of di!erent size fractions (PM, PM, TSP) were performed in the Basel area (Switzerland) at seven urban sites throughout 1997 and at two urban and two rural sites during