Evaluation of street facilities I, II and III in Basel (Publications)
In June 1991 the city of Basel established the first low threshold centre (LTC) subsidized by the government after various private initiatives of "Live & Survive" aids. This low threshold facility whi
Methods development for epidemiologic investigations of the health effects of prolonged ozone exposure. Part II. An approach to retrospective... (Publications)
An extensive body of data supports a relation between acute exposures to ambient ozone and the occurrence of various acute respiratory symptoms and changes in measures of lung function. In contrast, r
Diaryl sulfide-based inhibitors of trypanothione reductase: inhibition potency, revised binding mode and antiprotozoal activities (Publications)
Trypanothione reductase (TR) is an essential enzyme of trypanosomatids and therefore a promising target for the development of new drugs against African sleeping sickness and Chagas' disease. Diaryl s
Relationship between <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> genotype and the clinical phenotype of pulmonary and meningeal tuberculosis (Publications)
We used large sequence polymorphisms to determine the genotypes of 397 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected Vietnamese adults with pulmonary (n = 235) or
Marine natural products from the Turkish sponge <em>Agelas oroides</em> that inhibit the enoyl reductases from <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>,<em>... (Publications)
The type II fatty acid pathway (FAS-II) is a validated target for antimicrobial drug discovery. An activity-guided isolation procedure based on Plasmodium falciparum enoyl-ACP reductase (PfFabI) enzym
Antituberculotic and antiprotozoal activities of primin, a natural benzoquinone: in vitro and in vivo studies (Publications)
Primin (=2-methoxy-6-pentylcyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione), a natural benzoquinone synthesized in our laboratory, was investigated for its in vitro antiprotozoal, antimycobacterial, and cytotoxic poten
Evaluation of antiprotozoal and antimycobacterial activities of the resin glycosides and the other metabolites of <em>Scrophularia cryptophila</em> (Publications)
Resin glycosides are secondary metabolites exclusive to the convolvulaceous plants. In this study, crypthophilic acids A-C (1-3), the first resin glycosides occurring in another family (Scrophulariace
Characterization of <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em> isolated from lymph nodes of rats (Publications)
Forms of Trypanosoma brucei isolated from lymph nodes of cyclically or intravenously infected rats, at different stages of infection, were morphologically compared with the corresponding bloodstream f