Identification of a cis-acting DNA-protein interaction implicated in singular var gene choice in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe form of malaria in humans. Antigenic variation of P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 leads to immune evasion and occurs through switc
Patients with environment-related disorders: Comprehensive results of interdisciplinary diagnostics (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Researchers dealing with environmental illnesses face complex diagnostic and methodological difficulties. Poor objective findings contrast with high subjective suffering and a firm belief
Is the ebb of asthma due to the decline of allergic asthma? A prospective consultation-based study by the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network,... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: There are conflicting views on time trends of asthma and atopy during the last 10-15 years. Additional confusion is caused by the term of asthma which is a unifying name for different pheno