Effects of radon and UV exposure on skin cancer mortality in Switzerland (Publications)
neighborhood socioeconomic position, and UV exposure from outdoor occupation. RESULTS: The study included 5.2 million adults (mean age 48 y) and 2,989 skin cancer deaths, with 1,900 indicating malignant melanoma
Rice irrigation and schistosomiasis in savannah and forest areas of Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
S. haematobium prevalence was 0.9%, 4.4% and 1.7% and S. mansoni prevalence was 61.3%, 46.6% and 17.5% in R2, in R1 and R0, respectively. Prevalences of S. mansoni adjusted for village effects were sig
Biomonitoring human exposure to household air pollution and association with self-reported health symptoms- a stove intervention study in Peru (Publications)
intervention group (GM with 95% CI: 13.4 [12.3, 14.6] mug/g creatinine) compared to control group (16.5 [15.0, 18.0] mug/g creatinine). Stove type and/or 2-naphthol was associated with a number of self-reported
Ivermectin treatment and sanitation effectively reduce <em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> infection risk in rural communities in Cambodia (Publications)
among positive and negative participants at baseline were 14.4% and 9.6% at the first and 11.0% and 11.5% at the second follow-up, respectively. At follow-up, all age groups were at similar risk of acquiring
Summary of the animal homologue section of HLDA8 (Publications)
(10/17), CD44 (13/17), CD45 (9/17), CD47 (10/17), and CD49d (13/17), CD61 (6/17), CD86 (7/17), CD91 (5/17), and CD172a (10/17), indicating evolutionary highly conserved epitopes on these surface molecules
Total serum IgE levels are associated with ambient ozone concentration in asthmatic adults (Publications)
RESULTS: The geometric mean of total IgE was 161 IU/ml and the average of O(3) exposure was 44.9 +/- 9.5 microg/m(3). Ozone concentrations were positively related to total IgE levels and an increase of 10
Mobile phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents: a multicenter case-control study (Publications)
with nonusers (OR = 1.36; 95% CI = 0.92 to 2.02). Children who started to use mobile phones at least 5 years ago were not at increased risk compared with those who had never regularly used mobile phones
A <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> PHIST protein binds the virulence factor PfEMP1 and comigrates to knobs on the host cell surface (Publications)
Here, we show that PHIST member PFE1605w binds the PfEMP1 intracellular segment directly with Kd = 5 +/- 0.6 muM, comigrates with PfEMP1 during export, and locates in knobs. PHIST variants that do not
A tradition and an epidemic: determinants of the campylobacteriosis winter peak in Switzerland (Publications)
consumers revealed chicken as the type of meat with the highest risk of disease (mOR 3.8, 95 % CI 1.1-13.5). Most frequently reported signs and symptoms among patients were diarrhoea (98 %), abdominal pain (81
Comparing a disease-specific and a generic health-related quality of life instrument in subjects with asthma from the general population (Publications)
lung function) would capture similar aspects and be correlated moderately (> =0.3) to strongly (> =0.5), whereas non-corresponding domains be correlated weakly with each other ( 0.7 for all AQLQ and SF-36