Immunosuppression and treatment-associated inflammatory response in patients with <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> infection (Buruli ulcer) (Publications)
Buruli ulcer is a necrotizing skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. Major necrosis with abundant clusters of extracellularly replicating mycobacteria and only minor leukocyte infiltration are
Evaluation of real-time PCR for <em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> and hookworm as diagnostic tool in asymptomatic schoolchildren in Cambodia (Publications)
Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths such as Strongyloides stercoralis and hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus) is challenging due to irregular larval and egg output in infected
Malaria ecotypes and stratification (Publications)
To deal with the variability of malaria, control programmes need to stratify their malaria problem into a number of smaller units. Such stratification may be based on the epidemiology of malaria or on
Diversity of human intestinal helminthiasis in Lao PDR (Publications)
Food-borne trematodiasis is an emerging public health problem, including in Lao PDR. We investigated the diversity of intestinal helminthes and polyparasitism in patients with hepatobiliary or intesti
Panorganismal metabolic response modelling of an experimental <em>Echinostoma caproni </em>infection in the mouse (Publications)
Metabolic profiling of host tissues and biofluids during parasitic infections can reveal new biomarker information and aid the elucidation of mechanisms of disease. The multicompartmental metabolic ef
Integrated cytokine and metabolic analysis of pathological responses to parasite exposure in rodents (Publications)
Parasitic infections cause a myriad of responses in their mammalian hosts, on immune as well as on metabolic level. A multiplex panel of cytokines and metabolites derived from four parasite-rodent mod
