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1. Muscle force up to 50% of maximum does not affect cutaneous silent periods in thenar muscles (Publications)

   Muscle force up to 50% of maximum does not affect cutaneous silent periods in thenar muscles

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   OBJECTIVE: The cutaneous silent period (CSP) is a spinal inhibitory reflex mediated by A-delta fibers. The amount of muscle contraction has been reported to influence CSPs, but this has not been confi

2. Species-specific typing of DNA based on palindrome frequency patterns (Publications)

   Species-specific typing of DNA based on palindrome frequency patterns

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   DNA in its natural, double-stranded form may contain palindromes, sequences which read the same from either side because they are identical to their reverse complement on the sister strand. Short pali

3. Genetic diversification of <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> during waves of colonization and disease in the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)

   Genetic diversification of <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> during waves of colonization and disease in the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa

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   Although Neisseria meningitidis is a highly variable organism, most invasive disease is caused by a minority of genotypes. Hypervirulent lineages have been identified and their pandemic spread has bee

4. How much smoke do we need in order to assume that there is a fire? (Publications)

   How much smoke do we need in order to assume that there is a fire?

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5. Long-term health effects of particulate and other ambient air pollution: research can progress faster if we want it to (Publications)

   Long-term health effects of particulate and other ambient air pollution: research can progress faster if we want it to

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   There is need for the assessment of long-term effects of outdoor air pollution. In fact, a considerable part of the large amount of U.S. research money that has been dedicated to investigate effects o

6. Commentary: Abating climate change and lung cancer! (Publications)

   Commentary: Abating climate change and lung cancer!

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7. Evidence based public health - the example of air pollution (Publications)

   Evidence based public health - the example of air pollution

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   Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) has become a common paradigm in medicine. The notion that action should be based on scientific evidence also applies to public health. The assessment of evidence and the

8. Screening for schistosomiasis with questionnaires (Publications)

   Screening for schistosomiasis with questionnaires

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9. Air pollution in Switzerland: quantification of health effects using epidemiologic data (Publications)

   Air pollution in Switzerland: quantification of health effects using epidemiologic data

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   Public health costs ascribable to air pollution are socialized in our society. To quantify the damage to public health, epidemiologic studies are needed. We present the methods and epidemiologic backg

10. <em>In vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em> efficacy of mefloquine-based treatment against alveolar echinococcosis (Publications)

    <em>In vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em> efficacy of mefloquine-based treatment against alveolar echinococcosis

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    Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is caused by the metacestode stage of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis and causes severe disease in the human liver and occasionally other organs, which is fat