Rabies knowledge and practices among human and veterinary health workers in Chad (Publications)
To prevent human rabies deaths close communication between the veterinary and human health sector is needed for timely and adequate treatment after a bite exposure. Good practice treatment and efficie
Collaborative RNAS+ research: priorities and outcomes (Publications)
Over the past 20 years, RNAS(+) has been generating research results from highly collaborative projects meant to promote and advance understanding in various aspects of schistosomiasis. Epidemiologica
Precarity, assemblages and Indonesian elder care (Publications)
The provision (or failure) of care reflects and produces vulnerability in old age. Reliable and appropriate care widely affects the imagination of "good care" of older Indonesians in North Sulawesi. Y
Molecular detection of spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks from Cameroon (Publications)
In western and eastern Africa, rickettsioses are one cause of fever in humans. Little is known regarding the presence of Rickettsia sp. in northern Cameroon. The present work was conducted in order to
<em>Candidatus</em> Dirofilaria hongkongensis as causative agent of human ocular filariosis after travel to India (Publications)
We report a human case of ocular Dirofilaria infection in a traveler returning to Austria from India. Analysis of mitochondrial sequences identified the worm as Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis, a
Case report: Molecular diagnosis of subcutaneous <em>Spirometra erinaceieuropaei</em> sparganosis in a Japanese immigrant (Publications)
We report a case of subcutaneous sparganosis in a 68-year-old female Japanese immigrant in Germany. The patient complained of a painless erythema caudal of the umbilicus with a palpable subcutaneous c
Acute schistosomiasis in European students returning from fieldwork at Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is common in many African regions and poses a risk for travelers and the local population. So far, schistosomiasis in travelers or expatriates returning from the Tanzanian
Rapid identification of the animal pathogens <em>Streptococcus uberis</em> and <em>Arcanobacterium pyogenes</em> by fluorescence in situ hybridization... (Publications)
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has been reported to be an easy and rapid identification method for many human pathogens, but applications for common veterinary pathogens are lacking. Gene p