Characterization of vaccine antigens of meningococcal serogroup W isolates from Ghana and Burkina Faso from 2003 to 2009 (Publications)
Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of bacterial meningitis and a considerable health problem in the 25 countries of the 'African Meningitis Belt' that extends from Senegal in West Africa to Ethio
Sensitivity and specificity of a urine circulating anodic antigen test for the diagnosis of <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> in low endemic settings (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Elimination of schistosomiasis as a public health problem and interruption of transmission in selected areas are key goals of the World Health Organization for 2025. Conventional parasitol
A global biomedical R&D fund and mechanism for innovations of public health importance (Publications)
Bernard Pécoul and colleagues call for the establishment of a global biomedical R&D fund as a key priority of the G7 summit in June 2015.
Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
Understanding of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggrega
Tuberkulintests und Tuberkuloseinzidenz bei Schülern - Erfahrungen aus dem Schularztamt Basel-Stadt (Publications)
15-year-old reactors to intradermic tuberculin tests were analized over the period from 1976 to 1983 to assess the prevalence of tuberculosis in this age group. The proportion of children with BCG vac
Antitrypanosomal activity of some medicinal plants from Nigerian ethnomedicine (Publications)
Human African trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease with complex clinical presentation, diagnosis, and difficult treatment. The available drugs for the treatment of trypanosomiasis are old,
