Total serum IgE levels are associated with ambient ozone concentration in asthmatic adults (Publications)
total IgE levels and an increase of 10 microg/m(3) of O(3) resulted in an increase of 20.4% (95% CI = 3.0-40.7) in total IgE levels. Adjustment for age, gender, smoking habits and previous life in the countryside
Sequential analysis of helminth egg output in human stool samples following albendazole and praziquantel administration (Publications)
after albendazole administration (> 95%), whereas infection rates showed high and heterogeneous (45.0-71.2%) levels at later time points. Both praziquantel and albendazole were highly efficacious in reducing
Delimiting affinity zones as a basis for air pollution mapping in Europe (Publications)
zones (compared to kriging ignoring zones) produced a ca. 22% reduction in errors and increased R(2) by 0.25 at reserved validation monitoring sites. The affinity zone method developed here is a robust, statistical
Different strategies to overcome the effect of carbimazole on high- and low-dose radioiodine therapy: results from continuous dose-effect models (Publications)
goitre. The estimated radioiodine target dose amplification factor was 5.5 for Graves' disease and 3.0 for toxic nodular goitre. CONCLUSIONS: Simultaneous carbimazole reduces the euthyroidism rate, the aim
Suicidality and sexual orientation among men in Switzerland: findings from 3 probability surveys (Publications)
attempts among homo/bisexual men aged 16-20 years varies from 5.1% in ch-x to 14.1% in SMASH to 22.0% in GGMHS. Compared to their heterosexual counterparts, significantly more homo/bisexual men reported
Assessment of the novel T-cell activation marker-tuberculosis assay for diagnosis of active tuberculosis in children: a prospective proof-of-concept... (Publications)
18 culture-confirmed cases (sensitivity 83·3%, 95% CI 58·6-96·4). Specificity was 96·8% (95% CI 89·0-99·6) in the cases that were classified as not tuberculosis (n=63), with little effect from latent
A tradition and an epidemic: determinants of the campylobacteriosis winter peak in Switzerland (Publications)
with an increased risk for campylobacteriosis: consumption of meat fondue (matched odds ratio [mOR] 4.0, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 2.3-7.1) and travelling abroad (mOR 2.7, 95 % CI 1.1-6.4). Univariable
A <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> PHIST protein binds the virulence factor PfEMP1 and comigrates to knobs on the host cell surface (Publications)
we show that PHIST member PFE1605w binds the PfEMP1 intracellular segment directly with Kd = 5 +/- 0.6 muM, comigrates with PfEMP1 during export, and locates in knobs. PHIST variants that do not locate
Multiple blood meals as a reproductive strategy in Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) (Publications)
females before the first blood meal. In An. albimanus, a critical female body size, approximately 0.25 cal of lipid per female, was necessary for the initiation of oogenesis; below this threshold at least
Global phylogenomic analysis of nonencapsulated <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> reveals a deep-branching classic lineage that is distinct from... (Publications)
a integrative conjugative element (ICE) results in increased adherence to human epithelial cells (P=0.005). In contrast, sporadic Non-Ec-Sp lacking the ICE had greater growth in vitro possibly resulting
