Urban informal settlements as hotspots of antimicrobial resistance and the need to curb environmental transmission (Publications)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health challenge that is expected to disproportionately burden lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the coming decades. Although the contrib
Whipworm and roundworm infections (Publications)
Trichuriasis and ascariasis are neglected tropical diseases caused by the gastrointestinal dwelling nematodes Trichuris trichiura (a whipworm) and Ascaris lumbricoides (a roundworm), respectively. Bot
A simple, rapid typing method for<em> Streptococcus agalactiae </em>based on ribosomal subunit proteins by MALDI-TOF MS (Publications)
Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus, GBS), is a frequent human colonizer and a leading cause of neonatal meningitis as well as an emerging pathogen in non-pregnant adults. GBS possesses a
Benefit of a single preoperative dose of antibiotics in a sub-Saharan district hospital: minimal input, massive impact (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a single-shot preoperative antimicrobial prophylaxis (AMP) to reduce the rate of Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) in a rural sub-Saharan hospital. SUMMARY BACKGROUN
Status febrilis mit Bewusstlosigkeit (Publications)
Cerebral malaria with Plasmodium vivax is uncommon. Normally Plasmodium falciparum is the cause of cerebral malaria. We report about a 18 year old patient from Pakistan with a history of intermittent
Systematic evaluation of extraction methods for multi-platform based metabotyping: application to the <em>Fasciola hepatica</em> metabolome (Publications)
Combining data from multiple analytical platforms is essential for comprehensive study of the molecular phenotype (metabotype) of a given biological sample. The metabolite profiles generated are intri
Spatially explicit <em>Schistosoma</em> infection risk in eastern Africa using Bayesian geostatistical modelling (Publications)
Schistosomiasis remains one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in the tropics and subtropics, but current statistics are outdated due to demographic and ecological transformations and ongoing co
Flavonoids redirect PIN-mediated polar auxin fluxes during root gravitropic responses (Publications)
The rate, polarity, and symmetry of the flow of the plant hormone auxin are determined by the polar cellular localization of PIN-FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers. Flavonoids, a class of secondary pl
MADAP, a flexible clustering tool for the interpretation of one-dimensional genome annotation data (Publications)
A recurring task in the analysis of mass genome annotation data from high-throughput technologies is the identification of peaks or clusters in a noisy signal profile. Examples of such applications ar