Self-care practices and experiences of people living with HIV not receiving antiretroviral therapy in an urban community of Lusaka, Zambia:... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Despite the increasingly wider availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), some people living with HIV (PLHIV) and eligible for treatment have opted to adopt self-care practices thereby
LeishMan recommendations for treatment of cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis in travelers, 2014 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) in travelers is still controversial. Over the last decade, national and international consortia have published reco
Use of B-type natriuretic peptide for the management of women with dyspnea (Publications)
In studies with predominately male patients, B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels have been shown to be helpful in the evaluation and management of patients who present with acute dyspnea. The effe
Pyridyl benzamides as a novel class of potent inhibitors for the kinetoplastid <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em> (Publications)
A whole-organism screen of approximately 87000 compounds against Trypanosoma brucei brucei identified a number of promising compounds for medicinal chemistry optimization. One of these classes of comp
<em>In vitro</em> and<em> In vivo</em> evaluation of 28DAP010, a novel diamidine for treatment of second-stage African sleeping sickness (Publications)
African sleeping sickness is a neglected tropical disease transmitted by tsetse flies. New and better drugs are still needed especially for its second stage, which is fatal if untreated. 28DAP010, a d
Lipidomics identifies a requirement for peroxisomal function during influenza virus replication (Publications)
Influenza virus acquires a host-derived lipid envelope during budding, yet a convergent view on the role of host lipid metabolism during infection is lacking. Using a mass spectrometry-based lipidomic
Relationship between domain-specific physical activity and different body composition measures in a working population (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: With respect to the overweight epidemic, this study aimed to investigate the association between domain-specific physical activity and body composition measures in Swiss male employees. MET
Generation of chimeric monoclonal antibodies from mice that carry human immunoglobulin Cgamma1 heavy of Ckappa light chain gene segments (Publications)
Gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells was used to replace (i) the mouse immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) Cgamma2a gene segment (mCgamma2a) with the human Cgamma1 gene segment (hCgamma1), a