Cost-effectiveness of intracoronary ultrasound for percutaneous coronary interventions (Publications)
The Strategy for Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) guided PTCA and Stenting trial included a prospectively designed economic analysis to investigate whether routine IVUS guidance intervention is cost-ef
Triterpenoids with rare carbon skeletons from <em>Salvia hydrangea</em>: antiprotozoal activity and absolute configurations (Publications)
Salvadione C (1) and perovskone B (2), two new triterpenoids with rare carbon skeletons, were isolated from an antiplasmodial n-hexane extract of Salvia hydrangea . The absolute configuration was dete
Brain development in the yellow fever mosquito <em>Aedes aegypti</em>: a comparative immunocytochemical analysis using cross-reacting antibodies from... (Publications)
Considerable effort has been directed towards understanding the organization and function of peripheral and central nervous system of disease vector mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti. To date, all of t
Case definitions of clinical malaria under different transmission conditions in Kilifi District, Kenya (Publications)
Background. Clear case definitions of malaria are an essential means of evaluating the effectiveness of present and proposed interventions in malaria. The clinical signs of malaria are nonspecific, an
Synthesis and evaluation of 2-pyridyl pyrimidines with in vitro antiplasmodial and antileishmanial activity (Publications)
A series of 2-pyridyl pyrimidines, reported inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum methionine aminopeptidase 1b were synthesized and evaluated for their antiplasmodial activities. An analysis of physicoc
The sensitivity of the OptiMAL rapid diagnostic test to the presence of <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>gametocytes compromises its ability to monitor... (Publications)
Using in vivo samples from treatment failure malaria cases, we demonstrate the high sensitivity of the parasite lactase dehydrogenase (pLDH)-based OptiMAL rapid diagnostic test in the detection of P.