Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing <em>Enterobacteriaceae</em> in healthy companion animals living in nursing homes and in the community (Publications)
prior to the study had a higher risk to be carriers of these microorganisms (Adjusted odds ratio, 7.8; 95% confidence interval: 2.2-26.9). CONCLUSION: ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae were present in healthy
<em>Staphylococcus</em> prevails in the skin microbiota of long-term immunodeficient mice (Publications)
healthy and ID mice. We sequenced the 16S rDNA V1-V2 gene region to saturation in 10 healthy and 10 ID 8 week-old mice, and found than all of the healthy and two of the ID mice had bacterial communities that
Identification of antischistosomal leads by evaluating bridged 1,2,4,5-tetraoxanes, alphaperoxides, and tricyclic monoperoxides (Publications)
monoperoxide; bridged 1,2,4,5-tetraoxane) revealed high worm burden reductions in the chronic (WBR: 75.4-82.8 %) but only moderate activity in the juvenile (WBR:18.9-43.1%) S. mansoni mouse model. Our results might
Isothermal microcalorimetry to study the activity of triclabendazole and its metabolites on juvenile and adult <em>Fasciola hepatica</em> (Publications)
?g/ml triclabendazole, triclabendazole sulphone and triclabendazole sulphoxide showed no movements 8.3, 35 and 6 hours post-incubation (all p 0.05) and 88 (p> 0.05) hours. In conclusion, IMC is useful
Efficacy and safety of artemether against a natural <em>Fasciola hepatica</em> infection in sheep (Publications)
hepatica infection. Artemether was administered orally or intramuscularly; sheep were monitored for 8 h posttreatment and then once daily for adverse events, and drug efficacy was estimated by fecal egg
Improving malaria home treatment by training drug retailers in rural Kenya (Publications)
selling practices. The proportion of OTC anti-malarial drug users receiving an adequate dose rose from 8% (n = 98) to 33% (n = 121) between 1998 and 1999 in the early implementation area. By 2001, and with
Combination of single nucleotide polymorphism and variable-number tandem repeats for genotyping a homogenous population of <em>Mycobacterium... (Publications)
a population-based collection of 191 Beijing strains based on standard 15-locus VNTR (VNTR-15) and 8 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Shanghai, China. Limited discriminatory power and high rates
Child survival gains in Tanzania: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys (Publications)
70.1-96.3) deaths per 1000 livebirths in 2004. The change in absolute risk was 58.4 (95% CI 32.7-83.8; p
Efficacy and safety of tribendimidine against <em>Clonorchis sinensis</em> (Publications)
tribendimidine administered for 3 days and praziquantel, respectively. High egg reduction rates (97.6-98.8%) were observed for all treatment regimens. Single-dose tribendimidine was the best-tolerated treatment
Extremely low frequency magnetic field measurements in buildings with transformer stations in Switzerland (Publications)
concurrently measured with 5 to 6 EMDEX II meters for 10min. Measured arithmetic mean ELF-MF was 0.59muT in 8 apartments that were fully adjacent to a transformer room, either directly above the transformer or
