Classifying recurrent <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>cases in Georgia using MIRU-VNTR typing (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Recurrent tuberculosis (TB) is one of the main challenges in TB control. Genotyping based on Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Tandem Repeats (MIRU-VNTR) has been wide
Flexible 3D cell-based platforms for the discovery and profiling of novel drugs targeting <em>Plasmodium</em> hepatic infection (Publications)
The restricted pipeline of drugs targeting the liver stage of Plasmodium infection reflects the scarcity of cell models that mimic the human hepatic phenotype and drug metabolism, as well as Plasmodiu
Mass campaigns combining antimalarial drugs and anti-infective vaccines as seasonal interventions for malaria control, elimination and prevention of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The only licensed malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01, has been developed for morbidity-control in young children. The potential impact on transmission of deploying such anti-infective vaccines to
Does the oxidative stress play a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and persistent asthma in adults? Findings from the EGEA study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Evidences that oxidative stress plays a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and asthma are growing. We aimed to study the role of plasma fluorescent oxidation products l
Interventional cardiac catheterization predictors at Al-Arabi Heart Center in Palestine in 2017 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Cardiac catheterization is performed for both therapeutic and diagnostic reasons, in which the outcome may vary from only medical treatment to the need of percutaneous coronary interventio
Methods and data needs to assess health impacts of chemicals in industrial contaminated sites (Publications)
BACKGROUND: human exposure to mixtures of chemicals of toxicological interest, typically found in industrial contaminated sites (ICSs), has been associated with a broad range of different health outco
The PHIST protein GEXP02 targets the host cytoskeleton during sexual development of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
A hallmark of the biology of Plasmodium falciparum blood stage parasites is their extensive host cell remodeling, facilitated by parasite proteins that are exported into the erythrocyte. Although this