Epidemiology and clinical features of imported dengue fever in Europe: sentinel surveillance data from TropNetEurop5 (Publications)
Travelers have the potential both to acquire and to spread dengue virus infection. The incidence of dengue fever (DF) among European travelers certainly is underestimated, because few centers use stan
Towards improved diagnosis of zoonotic trematode infections in Southeast Asia (Publications)
Humans in Southeast Asia are at risk for at least 70 species of food-borne and water-borne trematodes, including blood flukes, intestinal flukes, liver flukes and lung flukes, which are shared with a
Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential antimalarial agents (Publications)
Analogues of the natural antibiotic thiolactomycin (TLM), an inhibitor of the condensing reactions of type II fatty acid synthase, were synthesized and evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growt
Between-country comparison of whole-body SAR from personal exposure data in urban areas (Publications)
In five countries (Belgium, Switzerland, Slovenia, Hungary, and the Netherlands), personal radio frequency electromagnetic field measurements were performed in different microenvironments such as home
Presence of nonhemolytic pneumolysin in serotypes of <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> associated with disease outbreaks (Publications)
Pneumolysin is an important virulence factor of the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. Sequence analysis of the ply gene from 121 clinical isolates of S. pneumoniae uncovered a number of alleles
Air pollution attributable postneonatal infant mortality in U.S. metropolitan areas: a risk assessment study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The impact of outdoor air pollution on infant mortality has not been quantified. METHODS: Based on exposure-response functions from a U.S. cohort study, we assessed the attributable risk o
Daily walking intensity as a predictor of quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Publications)
PURPOSE: This study aimed to assess independent predictors of quality of life (QOL) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in particular, to evaluate the relationship between QOL and