Development and application of real-tim PCR assay for quantification of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> DNA (Publications)
Buruli ulcer, an infection caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is, after tuberculosis and leprosy, the third most common mycobacterial disease. The mode of transmission of M. ulcerans is not exactly kno
Investigating the dose-response relation between air pollution and total mortality in the APHEA-2 multicity project (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Several recent studies have reported significant health effects of air pollution even at low levels of air pollutants, but in most of these studies linear non-threshold relations were assu
Population sampling in European air pollution exposure study, EXPOLIS: comparisons between the cities and representativeness of the samples (Publications)
A personal air pollution exposure study, EXPOLIS, was accomplished in six European cities among 25- to 55-year-old citizens. In order to compare the exposure results and different microenvironmental c
Human health benefits from livestock vaccination for brucellosis: case study (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the economic benefit, cost-effectiveness, and distribution of benefit of improving human health in Mongolia through the control of brucellosis by mass vaccination of livestock.
Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields: a cohort study of Swiss railway workers (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Exposure to intermittent magnetic fields of 16 Hz has been shown to reduce heart rate variability, and decreased heart rate variability predicts cardiovascular mortality. We examined morta
