Coarse particles from Saharan dust and daily mortality (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Winds from the Sahara-Sahel desert region regularly transport large amounts of dust to the Americas, North Africa, and Europe. The presence of high dust concentrations for long periods of
Successful treatment of imported mucosal <em>Leishmania infantum</em> leishmaniasis with miltefosine after severe hypokalemia under meglumine... (Publications)
Old World mucosal leishmaniasis is a rare but regularly reported disease in Southern Europe. We report the case of a 64-year-old woman who developed severe hypokalemia under meglumine antimoniate trea
Exposure assessment in the National Children's Study: introduction (Publications)
The science of exposure assessment is relatively new and evolving rapidly with the advancement of sophisticated methods for specific measurements at the picogram per gram level or lower in a variety o
NO2 and children's respiratory symptoms in the PATY study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: NO2)is a major urban air pollutant. Previously reported associations between ambient NO2)and children's respiratory health have been inconsistent, and independent effects of correlated pol
The straw that breaks the camel's back: redirecting health-seeking behavior studies on malaria and vulnerability (Publications)
In the wake of the Millennium Development Goals, the focus on vulnerability and access to care has increasingly gained ground in the malaria social science literature. However, little emphasis has bee
The sensitivity of the OptiMAL rapid diagnostic test to the presence of <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>gametocytes compromises its ability to monitor... (Publications)
Using in vivo samples from treatment failure malaria cases, we demonstrate the high sensitivity of the parasite lactase dehydrogenase (pLDH)-based OptiMAL rapid diagnostic test in the detection of P.
<em>Schistosoma mekongi</em> in Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic (Publications)
Schistosomiasis found in communities along the Mekong River in Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is caused by the blood fluke Schistosoma mekongi. Early observations on patients