Impact of road traffic noise annoyance on health-related quality of life: results from a population-based study (Publications)
PURPOSE: To estimate the impact of traffic-related noise annoyance on health-related quality of life (HrQoL) in a population-based study and potential effect modification by gender. METHODS: The study
Time-activity relationships to VOC personal exposure factors (Publications)
Social and demographic factors have been found to play a significant role in differences between time-activity patterns of population subgroups. Since time-activity patterns largely influence personal
Synthesis, inhibition potency, binding mode, and antiprotozoal activities of fluorescent inhibitors of trypanothione reductase based on... (Publications)
Trypanothione reductase (TR) is a flavoenzyme unique to trypanosomatid parasites and a target for lead discovery programs. Various inhibitor scaffolds have emerged in the past, exhibiting moderate aff
Field evaluation of a recombinant glutathione S-transferase-based pyrethroid quantification assay (Publications)
A recombinant glutathione S-transferase (GST)-based pyrethroid quantification assay was field-tested in Ifakara, Tanzania. Initial laboratory tests suggested that all reagents used in the assay should
Pan-dengue virus detection by PCR for travelers returning from the tropics (Publications)
We performed dengue virus (DENV) serology and quantitative real-time pan-DENV reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) on 186 sera of 171 patients returning from the tropics. DENV loads significantly decrea
Symptoms and transmission of intestinal cryptosporidiosis (Publications)
Cryptosporidium spp are a cause of diarrhoea in toddlers. Symptoms and routes of transmission were investigated in a prospective case-control study in the city and surroundings of Basel, Switzerland.
Heterochromatin silencing and locus repositioning linked to regulation of virulence genes in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum undergoes antigenic variation to evade host immune responses through switching expression of variant surface proteins encoded by the var gene family. We demo