Disruption of erythrocyte rosettes and agglutination of erythrocytes infected with<em> Plasmodium falciparum</em> by the sera of Papua New Guineans (Publications)
People living in areas endemic for Plasmodium falciparum develop humoral responses which may contribute to protection against clinical disease but the specificity of such protective antibody responses
Menstrual irregularity and asthma and lung function (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Oligomenorrhea was associated with more asthma (Respiratory Health in Northern Europe study), but a possible association with lung function has not been investigated previously. OBJECTIVE:
IgE antibodies are more species-specific than IgG antibodies in human onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (Publications)
To explore the relative species specificities of the IgE and IgG antibody responses to helminth infections in man, we studied four pools of sera from patients infected with Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugi
<em>In vitro</em> cultivation of animal-infective forms of a West African <em>Trypanosoma vivax</em> stock (Publications)
Animal-infective forms of a West African Trypanosoma vivax stock were grown in culture for three months using Minimum Essential Medium (MEM) with Earle's salts, supplemented with 20% inactivated goat
Cost valuation in resource-poor settings (Publications)
Methods of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) have largely been developed for application in Western country settings. Little attention has been paid to the methodological issues in cost valuation in r
Deorphaning pyrrolopyrazines as potent multi-target antimalarial agents (Publications)
The discovery of pyrrolopyrazines as potent antimalarial agents is presented, with the most effective compounds exhibiting EC50 values in the low nanomolar range against asexual blood stages of Plasmo