Enhanced fibrin formation in high-altitude pulmonary edema (Publications)
ng/ml (P less than 0.0001) compared with the other groups showing mean values between 1.6 +/- 0.4 and 1.8 +/- 0.7 ng/ml. FPA was normal in one patient with HAPE, however. Severe AMS was accompanied by a significant
Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the Basel city population 1989-1990 (Publications)
represent 30% of the males and 27% of the females. Overweight is found in 27% of the men (BMI > or = 27.8 kg/m2) and in 18% of the women (BMI > or = 27.3 kg/m2). These results can be compared to those of the
The global burden of disease due to outdoor air pollution (Publications)
mortality from acute respiratory infections in children under 5 yr, worldwide. This amounts to about 0.8 million (1.2%) premature deaths and 6.4 million (0.5%) years of life lost (YLL). This burden occurs
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
