Quantifying the evolution and impact of antimalarial drug resistance: drug use, spread of resistance, and drug failure over a 12-year period in Papua... (Publications)
BACKGROUND. Antimalarial use is a key factor driving drug resistance and reduced treatment effectiveness in Plasmodium falciparum malaria, but there are few formal, quantitative analyses of this proce
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