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
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
Macyranones: structure, biosynthesis, and binding mode of an unprecedented epoxyketone that targets the 20S proteasome (Publications)
In our screening efforts to identify unique scaffolds from myxobacteria for the drug discovery process, we used LC-SPE-NMR-MS techniques to isolate six linear peptides, termed macyranone A-F, from Cys
Highly antiplasmodial non-natural oxidative products of dioncophylline A: synthesis, absolute configuration, and conformational stability (Publications)
Four new compounds, the monomeric dioncotetralones A (6 a) and B (6 b) and the dimeric compounds jozimine A3 (7) and jozimine A4 (9), were semi-synthesized from the natural product dioncophylline A (4
Acquired resistance to bedaquiline and delamanid in therapy for tuberculosis (Publications)
Treatment of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a challenge. This letter describes the emergence of resistance to new therapies, bedaquiline and delamanid.
Health impacts of anthropogenic biomass burning in the developed world (Publications)
Climate change policies have stimulated a shift towards renewable energy sources such as biomass. The economic crisis of 2008 has also increased the practice of household biomass burning as it is ofte
Discovery of inhibitors of<em> Trypanosoma brucei</em> by phenotypic screening of a focused protein kinase library (Publications)
A screen of a focused kinase inhibitor library against Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense led to the identification of seven series, totaling 121 compounds, which showed > 50 % inhibition at 5 muM. Screen
Still far from 90-90-90: virologic outcomes of children on antiretroviral therapy in nurse-led clinics in rural Lesotho (Publications)
This survey assessed virologic outcomes of children on antiretroviral therapy and potential predictors in 10 nurse-led clinics in Lesotho. Success was achieved in 72% of the 191 children. No predictor
