Body mass index in glaucoma (Publications)
PURPOSE: To compare body mass index (BMI) of patients with open-angle glaucoma or normal-tension glaucoma with BMI in control subjects. METHODS: BMI was calculated for 288 control subjects, 42 patient
Increased incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome after surgery (Publications)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Antecedent surgery has been described to trigger Guillain/x96Barre syndrome (GBS), but its evidence is poor and based on case reports only. METHODS: We performed a retrospectiv
Parental education and children's respiratory and allergic symptoms in the Pollution and the Young (PATY) study (Publications)
Inequalities in health between socio-economic groups are a major public health concern. The current authors studied associations between parental socio-economic status (SES) and children's respiratory
Randomized double-blind controlled Phase I/IIa trial to assess the efficacy of malaria vaccine PfCS102 to protect against challenge with <em>P.... (Publications)
The aim of this Phase I/IIa double-blind controlled trial was to test the efficacy of the sporozoite-based malaria vaccine PfCS 282-383 (PfCS102) to protect against Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia.
The GABRIEL Advanced Surveys: study design, participation and evaluation of bias (Publications)
Genuneit J, Buchele G, Waser M, Kovacs K, Debinska A, Boznanski A, Strunz-Lehner C, Horak E, Cullinan P, Heederik D, Braun-Fahrlander C, von Mutius E, the GABRIELA Study Group. The GABRIEL Advanced Su
Combining 4-aminoquinoline- and clotrimazole-based pharmacophores toward innovative and potent hybrid antimalarials (Publications)
Antimalarial agents structurally based on novel pharmacophores, synthesized by low-cost synthetic procedures and characterized by low potential for developing resistance are urgently needed. Recently,
Prospective study of a serogroup X <em>Neisseria meningitidis </em>outbreak in northern Ghana (Publications)
After an epidemic of serogroup A meningococcal meningitis in northern Ghana, a gradual disappearance of the epidemic strain was observed in a series of five 6-month carriage surveys of 37 randomly sel
Childhood asthma and exposure to traffic and nitrogen dioxide (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Evidence for a causal relationship between traffic-related air pollution and asthma has not been consistent across studies, and comparisons among studies have been difficult because of the