Evaluation of "Wallstrasse 16", day facility for the homeless and needy in Basel (Publications)
"16, Wallstrasse, Common House for homeless and indigent People" in Basel is a new kind of facility in the range of already existing low threshold institutions of common kitchen, low threshold centre
Parallel synthesis and antileishmanial activity of ether-linked phospholipids (Publications)
The synthesis and antileishmanial activity of 18 edelfosine analogues are described. Compounds were obtained in parallel combining solid phase and solution phase synthesis. The most active analogue is
Inhibitors of Plasmepsin II-potential antimalarial agents (Publications)
In order to overcome the problem of drug resistance in malaria, it appears wise to concentrate drug discovery efforts toward new structural classes and new mechanisms of action. We report our results,
Use of spoligotyping and large sequence polymorphisms to study the population structure of the <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex in a cohort... (Publications)
Mycobacterium africanum, first described in Senegal in 1968, causes up to half of the smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases in West Africa, but it has not been found in other geographical areas
Progression to active tuberculosis, but not transmission, varies by <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> lineage in The Gambia (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is considerable variability in the outcome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. We hypothesized that Mycobacterium africanum was less likely than M. tuberculosis to transmit and
Antitrypanosomal cycloartane glycosides from Astragalus baibutensis (Publications)
Baibutoside (5), a new cycloartane-type triterpene glycoside, has been isolated from the roots of Astragalus baibutensis along with four known glycosides, acetylastragaloside I (1), and astragalosides