Impact of vaccines given during pregnancy on the offspring of women consulting a travel clinic: a longitudinal study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Little is known on the impact of travel vaccinations during pregnancy on child outcomes, in particular on the long-term psychomotor development. The objectives of the study were (1) to est
An international survey of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in young adults according to GOLD stages (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The recently published GOLD guidelines provide a new system for staging chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from mild (stage I) to very severe (stage IV) and introduce a stage 0 (
Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age: a cohort study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Whether local exposure to major roadways adversely affects lung-function growth during the period of rapid lung development that takes place between 10 and 18 years of age is unknown. This
Chemometric and biological validation of a capillary electrophoresis metabolomic experiment of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> infection in mice (Publications)
Metabonomic and metabolomic studies are increasingly utilized for biomarker identification in different fields, including biology of infection. The confluence of improved analytical platforms and the
Emergence of W135 meningococcal meningitis in Ghana (Publications)
Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135, well known for a long time as a cause of isolated cases of meningococcal meningitis, has recently increasingly been associated with disease outbreaks of consider
