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1. Iodine nutritional status and risk factors for goitre among schoolchildren in South Tajikistan (Publications)

   Iodine nutritional status and risk factors for goitre among schoolchildren in South Tajikistan

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   BACKGROUND: Iodine deficiency affects nearly 1.9 billion people worldwide, but it can be prevented by salt iodization. This cross-sectional survey assessed current iodine status, iodized salt coverage

2. Helminth infection in southern Laos: high prevalence and low awareness (Publications)

   Helminth infection in southern Laos: high prevalence and low awareness

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   BACKGROUND: Helminthiasis is a public health concern in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR, Laos). This study aimed to understand helminth infection and associated risk factors in relation to e

3. Developing eradication investment cases for onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, and human African trypanosomiasis: rationale and main challenges (Publications)

   Developing eradication investment cases for onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, and human African trypanosomiasis: rationale and main challenges

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4. Rule-based models of the interplay between genetic and environmental factors in childhood allergy (Publications)

   Rule-based models of the interplay between genetic and environmental factors in childhood allergy

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   Both genetic and environmental factors are important for the development of allergic diseases. However, a detailed understanding of how such factors act together is lacking. To elucidate the interplay

5. Genetic diversity of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> among school-aged children from the Man region, western Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)

   Genetic diversity of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> among school-aged children from the Man region, western Côte d'Ivoire

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   BACKGROUND: The genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum allows the molecular discrimination of otherwise microscopically identical parasites and the identification of individual clones in multiple

6. Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of March 2013 meeting (Publications)

   Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of March 2013 meeting

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   The Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization met in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 15 March, 2013. This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and recomme

7. A new method for extracting skin microbes allows metagenomic analysis of whole-deep skin (Publications)

   A new method for extracting skin microbes allows metagenomic analysis of whole-deep skin

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   In the last decade, an extensive effort has been made to characterize the human microbiota, due to its clinical and economic interests. However, a metagenomic approach to the skin microbiota is hamper

8. Association between traffic-related air pollution, subclinical inflammation and impaired glucose metabolism: results from the SALIA study (Publications)

   Association between traffic-related air pollution, subclinical inflammation and impaired glucose metabolism: results from the SALIA study

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   BACKGROUND: Environmental and lifestyle factors regulate the expression and release of immune mediators. It has been hypothesised that ambient air pollution may be such an external factor and that the

9. Electromagnetic fields: invisible and everywhere (Publications)

   Electromagnetic fields: invisible and everywhere

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10. Organellar proteomics reveals hundreds of novel nuclear proteins in the malaria parasite <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)

    Organellar proteomics reveals hundreds of novel nuclear proteins in the malaria parasite <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>

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    BACKGROUND: The post-genomic era of malaria research provided unprecedented insights into the biology of Plasmodium parasites. Due to the large evolutionary distance to model eukaryotes, however, we l