Strain diversity, epistasis and the evolution of drug resistance in<em> Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17: 815-820 ABSTRACT: Mycobacterium tuberculosis harbours little DNA sequence diversity compared with other bacteria. However, there is mounting evidence that strain-to-str
Psychological stress in patients with environmentally-induced disorders. A comparison between self concept and expert assessment (Publications)
Environmental illnesses raise diagnostic and therapeutic conflicts in scientific discussions and clinical practice. When a patient's health-belief model, based on environmental origins, does not match
Identification of a cis-acting DNA-protein interaction implicated in singular var gene choice in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe form of malaria in humans. Antigenic variation of P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 leads to immune evasion and occurs through switc
Representative seroprevalences of brucellosis in humans and livestock in Kyrgyzstan (Publications)
Kyrgyzstan reported 77.5 new human brucellosis cases per 100,000 people in 2007, which is one of the highest incidences worldwide. In Kyrgyzstan, the currently used diagnostic tests in humans and anim
Patients with environment-related disorders: Comprehensive results of interdisciplinary diagnostics (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Researchers dealing with environmental illnesses face complex diagnostic and methodological difficulties. Poor objective findings contrast with high subjective suffering and a firm belief