A community-randomized evaluation of the effect of intermittent preventive treatment in infants on antimalarial drug resistance in southern Tanzania (Publications)
Background: Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants (IPTi) is the administration of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) at 2, 3 and 9 months of age to prevent malaria. We investigated the influence o
Molecular epidemiology of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infections among asymptomatic inhabitans of a holoendemic malarious area in northern Ghana (Publications)
Age dependence of malaria infection was assessed in an age-stratified cluster sample of 308 individuals from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana during June and July 2000. Overall prevalence of
[(eta(6) -praziquantel)Cr(CO)(3)] derivatives with remarkable in vitro anti-schistosomal activity (Publications)
The antischistosomal effect of two [(eta(6) -praziquantel)Cr(CO)(3) ] derivatives 1 and 2 was investigated. The compounds (see figure: Cr purple, N blue, O red) are prepared in a one-step procedure fr
Air quality impacts of the October 2003 Southern California wildfires (Publications)
In Southern California, dry summers followed by hot and dry westerly wind conditions contribute to the region's autumn fire season. In late October 2003, 13 large Southern California wildfires burned
