Understanding suicide attempts among gay men from their self-perceived causes (Publications)
Gay men are at higher risk of suicidality. This paper describes the causes of suicide attempts as perceived by the men themselves and analyzes their impact on severity and recidivism. Mental health su
Rapid shift toward overweight from double burden of underweight and overweight among Bangladeshi women: a systematic review and pooled analysis (Publications)
CONTEXT: Studies show there is a double burden of underweight and overweight in Bangladesh amidst a global background of increasing rates of overweight in low-income settings. OBJECTIVE: The aim of th
Intravenous artesunate reduces parasite clearance time, duration of intensive care and hospital treatment in patients with severe malaria in Europe:... (Publications)
Intravenous artesunate improves survival in severe malaria, but clinical trial data from non-endemic countries are scarce. The TropNet severe malaria database was analyzed to compare outcomes of artes
Co-option of membrane wounding enables virus penetration into cells (Publications)
During cell entry, non-enveloped viruses undergo partial uncoating to expose membrane lytic proteins for gaining access to the cytoplasm. We report that adenovirus uses membrane piercing to induce and
DNA replication fidelity in <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> is mediated by an ancestral prokaryotic proofreader (Publications)
The DNA replication machinery is an important target for antibiotic development in increasingly drug-resistant bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Although blocking DNA replication leads t
MMP-1 and -3 promoter variants are indicative of a common susceptibility for skin and lung aging: results from a cohort of elderly women (SALIA) (Publications)
Studies have indicated that there may be a smoking-dependent association between skin wrinkling and airflow obstruction of the lung. It was suggested that this association might be because of an under
6-Arylpyrazine-2-carboxamides: a new core for <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em> inhibitors (Publications)
From a whole-organism high throughput screen of approximately 87,000 compounds against Trypanosoma brucei brucei, we recently identified eight new unique compounds for the treatment of human African t
Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Presumptive treatment of all febrile patients with anti-malarials leads to massive over-treatment. The aim was to assess the effect of implementing malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) o
