Prevalence of sarcoidosis in Switzerland is associated with environmental factors (Publications)
10-22) per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively. The mean annual incidence of sarcoidosis was 7 (95% CI 5-11) per 100,000 inhabitants. The regional workforce in the metal industry, water supply, air transport
Clinical and laboratory predictors of imported malaria in an outpatient setting: an aid to medical decision making in returning travelers with fever (Publications)
leucocytes < or = 10 x 10(3)/L, platelets < 150 x 10(3)/L, hemoglobin < 12 g/dL, and eosinophils < or = 5% to be associated with parasitemia. Enlarged spleen had the highest positive likelihood ratio for a
Isolation and propagation of <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense </em>from sleeping sickness patients in South Sudan (Publications)
breeds were susceptible after the second subpassage and developed a parasitaemia > 10(6)/ml by Day 5 post infection. The highest parasitaemias were achieved in C57/BL and BALB/c mice. These results indicate
Prevalence of airflow obstruction in smokers and never smokers in Switzerland (Publications)
tions of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.Prevalence of AO ranged from 2.5% in subjects aged 30-39 to 8.0% in those aged 70 or more. In multivariate analysis, age (ORaged70+ vs
Auswirkungen von Luftschadstoffen auf die Atemwege von Kleinkindern (Publications)
A one year study on a random sample of 1225 Swiss children aged 0-5 years was conducted in four different areas (two urban, one suburban and one rural) of Switzerland to investigate the relationship between
Health & demographic surveillance system profile: the Taabo Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
conducted to determine causes of death. Repeated cross-sectional epidemiological surveys on approximately 5-7% of the population and specific, layered-on haematological, parasitological and questionnaire surveys
Antiprotozoal activity of <em>Melampyrum arvense</em> and its metabolites (Publications)
glucosides: aucubin (1), melampyroside (2), mussaenoside (3), mussaenosidic acid (4), 8-epi-loganin (5); flavonoids: apigenin (6), luteolin (7), luteolin 7-O-beta-glucopyranoside (8); a lignan glycoside
Residual antimalarial concentrations before treatment in patients with malaria from Cambodia: indication of drug pressure (Publications)
against vivax malaria, chloroquine (25% and 41% of patients); and the former first-line drug, quinine (5% and 34% patients). Conclusions. The findings demonstrate that there is high drug pressure and that
Characterization of moxidectin against <em>Strongyloides ratti:</em> <em>in vitro</em> and<em> in vivo </em>activity and pharmacokinetics in the rat... (Publications)
of 250, 500, and 750 mug/kg of moxidectin resulted in a reduction of the worm burden ranging from 48.5 to 75%. At the highest dose (750 mug/kg) we observed a maximal blood concentration of 50.3 ng/mL and
Assessing the variability in experimental hut trials evaluating insecticide-treated nets against malaria vectors (Publications)
observed in both the mean number of mosquitoes collected per hut per night (ranging from 1.6 to 32.5) and overdispersion in mosquito mortality. This variability in mortality is substantially greater than