Spousal violence in Bangladesh: a call for a public-health response (Publications)
Spousal violence against women is a serious public-health issue. Although there is a growing body of literature on this subject, there are still many unanswered questions regarding the prevalence of t
Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential antimalarial agents (Publications)
Analogues of the natural antibiotic thiolactomycin (TLM), an inhibitor of the condensing reactions of type II fatty acid synthase, were synthesized and evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growt
Air pollution attributable postneonatal infant mortality in U.S. metropolitan areas: a risk assessment study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The impact of outdoor air pollution on infant mortality has not been quantified. METHODS: Based on exposure-response functions from a U.S. cohort study, we assessed the attributable risk o
Selection bias of elderly patients with chronic angina referred for catheterization (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Registry patients are generally older and more sick than patients enrolled in trials questioning the generalizability of trial results. We assessed whether such a selection bias also exist
Use of transition probabilities to estimate the effect of smoking on the duration of episodes of respiratory symptoms in diary data: the Swiss Study... (Publications)
Incompletely documented symptom episodes pose methodological problems in the analysis of diary data. The aim of this study was to develop a method of estimating the average durations of symptomatic an
Home outdoor NO2 and new onset of self-reported asthma in adults (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated new onset of asthma in adults in relation to air pollution. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between modeled background levels of traff
Towards improved diagnosis of zoonotic trematode infections in Southeast Asia (Publications)
Humans in Southeast Asia are at risk for at least 70 species of food-borne and water-borne trematodes, including blood flukes, intestinal flukes, liver flukes and lung flukes, which are shared with a
Presence of nonhemolytic pneumolysin in serotypes of <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> associated with disease outbreaks (Publications)
Pneumolysin is an important virulence factor of the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. Sequence analysis of the ply gene from 121 clinical isolates of S. pneumoniae uncovered a number of alleles
