Phosphatidic acid is a pH biosensor that links membrane biogenesis to metabolism (Publications)
Recognition of lipids by proteins is important for their targeting and activation in many signaling pathways, but the mechanisms that regulate such interactions are largely unknown. Here, we found tha
Heritability of gastrointestinal nematode faecal egg counts in West African village N'Dama cattle and its relation to age (Publications)
Offspring-dam regression was used to estimate the heritability of strongyle faecal egg counts (FEC) of traditionally raised West African N'Dama cattle in the Central River Division in The Gambia. Faec
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
Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS): ein Modell zur Förderung der Qualität der reproduktiven Gesundheitsversorgung in Kenia (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To develop a model aiming to improve the quality of services for reproductive health care in rural Kenya and designed to measure the quality of reproductive health services in such a way t
Seroprevalence survey of brucellosis among rural people in Mongolia (Publications)
BACKGROUND: After the transition from socialism to a market economy in 1990, human brucellosis re-emerged in Mongolia. The aim of our study was to estimate a representative seroprevalence of Brucella