Systematic review on the health effects of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phone base stations (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To review and evaluate the recent literature on the health effects of exposure to mobile phone base station (MPBS) radiation. METHODS: We performed a systematic review of randomized human t
Development and application of real-tim PCR assay for quantification of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> DNA (Publications)
Buruli ulcer, an infection caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is, after tuberculosis and leprosy, the third most common mycobacterial disease. The mode of transmission of M. ulcerans is not exactly kno
Investigating the dose-response relation between air pollution and total mortality in the APHEA-2 multicity project (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Several recent studies have reported significant health effects of air pollution even at low levels of air pollutants, but in most of these studies linear non-threshold relations were assu
Population sampling in European air pollution exposure study, EXPOLIS: comparisons between the cities and representativeness of the samples (Publications)
A personal air pollution exposure study, EXPOLIS, was accomplished in six European cities among 25- to 55-year-old citizens. In order to compare the exposure results and different microenvironmental c
Human health benefits from livestock vaccination for brucellosis: case study (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the economic benefit, cost-effectiveness, and distribution of benefit of improving human health in Mongolia through the control of brucellosis by mass vaccination of livestock.
Modular synthesis and in vitro and in vivo antimalarial assessment of C-10 pyrrole mannich base derivatives of artemisinin (Publications)
In two steps from dihydroartemisinin, a small array of 16 semisynthetic C-10 pyrrole Mannich artemisinin derivatives (7a-p) have been prepared in moderate to excellent yield. In vitro analysis against
Does radical cure of asymptomatic <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> place adults in endemic areas at increased risk of recurrent symptomatic malaria? (Publications)
A cohort of 197 adults in Kassena-Nankana District (northern Ghana) was radically cured of malaria parasites to study subsequent incidence of malaria infection. During the following 20 weeks of the ma