Parental smoking and children's respiratory health: independent effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Adverse effects have been reported of prenatal and/or postnatal passive exposure to smoking on children's health. Uncertainties remain about the relative importance of smoking at different
Diagnostic concordance of neurasthenia spectrum disorders in Pune, India (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Clinically significant fatigue or weakness is a common but understudied clinical problem in India. The applicability and relevance of Western clinical criteria in this setting are not stud
BMI group-related differences in physical fitness and physical activity in preschool-age children: a cross-sectional analysis (Publications)
In the Ballabeina study, we investigated age- and BMI-group-related differences in aerobic fitness (20 m shuttle run), agility (obstacle course), dynamic (balance beam) and static balance (balance pla
Immunization of cattle with Ra86 impedes <em>Rhipicephalus appendiculatus</em> nymphal-to-adult molting (Publications)
Commercial vaccines based on the tick gut protein Bm86 have been successful in controlling the one-host tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus and provide heterologous protection against certain oth
Coarse particles from Saharan dust and daily mortality (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Winds from the Sahara-Sahel desert region regularly transport large amounts of dust to the Americas, North Africa, and Europe. The presence of high dust concentrations for long periods of
Successful treatment of imported mucosal <em>Leishmania infantum</em> leishmaniasis with miltefosine after severe hypokalemia under meglumine... (Publications)
Old World mucosal leishmaniasis is a rare but regularly reported disease in Southern Europe. We report the case of a 64-year-old woman who developed severe hypokalemia under meglumine antimoniate trea
Exposure assessment in the National Children's Study: introduction (Publications)
The science of exposure assessment is relatively new and evolving rapidly with the advancement of sophisticated methods for specific measurements at the picogram per gram level or lower in a variety o