Phylogenetic relationships and chromosomal location of five distinct glycine receptor subunit genes in the teleost <em>Danio rerio</em> (Publications)
Gene mapping reveals that the two duplicated genes are localized on two different linkage groups (LG5 and LG22) as would be daughter genes resulting from a large-scale duplication of the ancestral genome
Occupational exposures and uncontrolled adult-onset asthma in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey II (Publications)
12-month and 10-year exposure to any occupational asthmagens (OR (95% CI) 1.6 (1.0-2.40) and 1.7 (1.2-2.5), respectively); high (1.7 (1.0-2.8) and 1.9 (1.3-2.9), respectively) and low (1.6 (1.0-2.7) and 1.8
Population pharmacokinetics and clinical response for artemether-lumefantrine in pregnant and nonpregnant women with uncomplicated <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
nonpregnant patients. The overall PCR-uncorrected treatment failure rates were 18% in pregnant women and 5% in nonpregnant women (odds ratio [OR] = 4.04; P value of 0.22). A high median day 7 lumefantrine c
Analytical and clinical assessment of a portable, isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) assay for the molecular diagnosis of... (Publications)
7-96.9) and 100% (+/-69.1-100), respectively. Positive and negative predictive values were 100% (+/-97.5-100) and 50% (+/-27.2-72.8), respectively. The RT-ShDra1-RPA therefore shows promise as a rapid and
HPLC-based activity profiling for antiprotozoal compounds in <em>Croton gratissimus</em> and <em>Cuscuta hyalina</em> (Publications)
vitro. Quercetin-3,7-dimethylether (6) showed the highest activity against axenic L. donovani (IC50, 4.5 µM; selectivity index [SI], 12.3), P. falciparum (IC50, 7.3 µM; SI, 7.6), and T. b. rhodesiense (IC50
The activities of current antimalarial drugs on the life cycle stages of <em>Plasmodium</em>: a comparative study with human and rodent parasites (Publications)
impact, killing more than 800,000 people every year-the vast majority being children under the age of 5. While effective therapies are available, if malaria is to be eradicated a broader range of small molecule
Artesunate-mefloquine combination therapy in acute <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in young children: a field study regarding neurological and... (Publications)
in 2.3%, neurological disorders in 1.4%, neuropsychiatric disorders in 1% and eating disorders in 0.5% of the patients. Adverse events were of mild to moderate intensity and resolved spontaneously. CONCLUSION:
Sleeping hearts: 12 years after a follow up study on cardiac findings due to sleeping sickness (Publications)
their treatment by conducting a clinical examination and an ECG. A control group matched by age (± 5 years), sex and whenever possible form the same village was enrolled. There were no significant differences
Evaluation of commercially available anthelminthics in laboratory models of human intestinal nematode infections (Publications)
moxidectin and abamectin being the most effective drugs against T. muris (ED50 values of 0.2 and 0.5 mg/kg, respectively). Laboratory models for soil-transmitted helminthiasis can assist characterizing
A cross-sectional survey on parasitic infections in schoolchildren in a rural Tanzanian community (Publications)
with Entamoeba histolytica/Entamoeba dispar/Entamoeba moshkovskii, 12% with Schistosoma mansoni, and 5% with Plasmodium falciparum. The most common soil-transmitted helminth species was Trichuris trichiura