Publications

Sabino E.C, Nunes M.C.P, Blum J, Molina I, Ribeiro A.L.P. Cardiac involvement in Chagas disease and African trypanosomiasis. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2024;21(12):865-879. DOI: 10.1038/s41569-024-01057-3

Blum J, Staehelin C, Neumayr A, Chappuis F, Burri C. Schlafkrankheit: der gefährliche Schlaf nach dem Erfolg. Swiss Med Forum. 2023;23(3):846–848. DOI: 10.4414/smf.2023.09243

Glans H, Dotevall L, Van der Auwera G, Bart A, Blum J, Buffet P, Guery R, Gangneux J.P, van Henten S, Harms G, Varani S, Robert-Gangneux F, Rongisch R, Andersson B, Bradley M. Treatment outcome of imported cutaneous leishmaniasis among travellers and migrants infected with Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica: a retrospective study in European centres 2013 to 2019. Int J Infect Dis. 2022;122:375-381. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.06.025

Mudji J, Ackam N, Amoako Y.A, Madinga B, Mumbere P, Agbanyo A, Blum J, Phillips R.O, Molyneux D.H. Mental distress and health-related quality of life in gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: a case-control study in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2022;116(11):1022-1031. DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trac035

Van der Auwera G, Davidsson L, Buffet P, Ruf M.T, Gramiccia M, Varani S, Chicharro C, Bart A, Harms G, Chiodini P.L, Brekke H, Robert-Gangneux F, Cortes S, Verweij J.J, Scarabello A, Karlsson Söbirk S, Guéry R, van Henten S, Di Muccio T, Carra E, van Thiel P, Vandeputte M, Gaspari V, Blum J, LeishMan Surveillance Network. Surveillance of leishmaniasis cases from 15 European centres, 2014 to 2019: a retrospective analysis. Euro Surveill. 2022;27(4):1560-7917. (in addition to authors above). DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.4.2002028

Guery R, Walker S.L, Harms G, Neumayr A, Van Thiel P, Gangneux J.P, Clerinx J, Söbirk S.K, Visser L, Lachaud L, Bailey M, Bart A, Ravel C, Van der Auwera G, Blum J, Lockwood D.N, Buffet P, LeishMan Network and the French Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Study group. Clinical diversity and treatment results in tegumentary leishmaniasis: a European clinical report in 459 patients. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021;15(10):e0009863. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009863

Mudji J, Künzli E, Molyneux D, Blum J. Long-term sequelae of congenital gambiense human African trypanosomiasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2021;115(8):932-936. DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trab082

Nasri J, Cajacob L, Wirz E, Ruf M.T, Blum J, Muhleisen B, Navarini A.A, Maul L.V. Pre-ulcerative leishmaniasis mimicking chilblains in a returning traveler from Southern Europe. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2021;35(8):e503-e505. DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17233

Blum A, Mudji J, Grize L, Burri C, Zellweger M.J, Blum J. Sleeping hearts: 12 years after a follow up study on cardiac findings due to sleeping sickness. One Health. 2020;11:100182. DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100182

Blum J, Chaney M, Mudji J, Mfungwa J.K, Rice T, Labhardt N.D. Glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes followed in a rural African primary care setting - a reality check in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prim Care Diabetes. 2020;14(2):139-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2019.08.002

Blum J, Neumayr A. A 20-year-old woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with fever and a mucocutaneous rash. In: Rothe C, ed. Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 262-264. UK: Elsevier, 2020

Blum J, Neumayr A. A 51-year-old female traveler returning from Central America with conjunctivitis, rash and peripheral oedema. In: Rothe C, ed. Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 214-216. UK: Elsevier, 2020

Mudji J, Blum A, Grize L, Wampfler R, Ruf M.T, Cnops L, Nickel B, Burri C, Blum J. Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis sequelae after treatment: a follow-up study 12 years after treatment. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2020;5(1):10. DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010010

Blum A, Mudji J, Blum J. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis presenting with double vision in a resource-limited tropical setting. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;100(1):7-8. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0473

Brummaier T, Bertschy S, Arn K, Treumann T, Ruf M.T, Nickel B, Paris D.H, Neumayr A, Blum J. A blind passenger: a rare case of documented seroconversion in an Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced eosinophilic meningitis in a traveler visiting friends and relatives. Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines. 2019;5:6. DOI: 10.1186/s40794-019-0084-x

Frauchiger B, Koch D, Gaehler A, Blum J, Lura M, Kaiser D, Buettcher M. Don't forget the past: a sleeping disease can be awakened. J Paediatr Child Health. 2019;55(7):854-856. DOI: 10.1111/jpc.14380

Javelle E, Florescu S.A, Asgeirsson H, Jmor S, Eperon G, Leshem E, Blum J, Molina I, Field V, Pietroski N, Eldin C, Johnston V, Cotar I.A, Popescu C, Hamer D.H, Gautret P. Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(10):8-13. DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.10.1900146

Mudji J, Benhamou J, Mwamba-Miaka E, Burri C, Blum J. The flipside of eradicating a disease; human African trypanosomiasis in a woman in rural Democratic Republic of Congo: a case report. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2019;4(4):142. DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed4040142

Ruperti-Repilado F.J, Haefliger S, Rehm S, Zweier M, Rentsch K.M, Blum J, Jetter A, Heim M, Leuppi-Taegtmeyer A, Terracciano L, Bernsmeier C. Danger of herbal tea: a case of acute cholestatic hepatitis due to Artemisia annua tea. Front Med (Lausanne). 2019;6:221. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2019.00221

Adamczick C, Dierig A, Welzel T, Schifferli A, Blum J, Ritz N. Double trouble: visceral leishmaniasis in twins after traveling to Tuscany - a case report. BMC Infect Dis. 2018;18:495. DOI: 10.1186/s12879-018-3394-0

Auer C, Kiefer S, Zuske M, Schindler C, Wyss K, Blum J, Bosch-Capblanch X, Widmer U, Sauthier S, Janssens J.P, Bossard K, Chatonnet C, Mazza-StalderJ, Zacek B, Zellweger J-P, Altpeter E, Mäusezahl M. Health-seeking behaviour and treatment delay in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Switzerland: some slip through the net. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;148(35-36):w14659. DOI: 10.4414/smw.2018.14659

Blum J, Neumayr A, Lockwood D. Treatment of tegumentary forms of leishmaniasis. In: Bruschi F,Gradoni L, eds. The Leishmaniases: Old Neglected Tropical Diseases, 191-225. Cham: Springer, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72386-0_9

Mosimann V, Neumayr A, Paris D, Blum J. Liposomal amphotericin B treatment of Old World cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis: a literature review. Acta Trop. 2018;182:246-250. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.03.016

Neumayr A, Stöckle M, Künzli E, Kling K, Sydow V, Labhardt N, Beck B, Blum J, Paris D.H. Fieber bei Reiserückkehrern. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;16:345-354. DOI: 10.4414/smf.2018.03240

Burri C, Blum J. Human African trypanosomiasis. In: Cohen Jonathan,Powderly William G,Opal Steven M, eds. Infectious Diseases. 2, 966-970;1761-1762: Elsevier, 2017

Guery R, Henry B, Martin-Blondel G, Rouzaud C, Cordoliani F, Harms G, Gangneux J.P, Foulet F, Bourrat E, Baccard M, Morizot G, Consigny P.H, Berry A, Blum J, Lortholary O, Buffet P, French Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Study Goup, LeishMan Network. Liposomal amphotericin B in travelers with cutaneous and muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis: not a panacea. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017;11(11):e0006094. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006094

Hasler T, Stückelberger A, Ott E, Blum J. Diplopia and ptosis after diarrhea - a diagnostic challenge. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2017;17:76. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.03.003

Mudji J.E, Blum J, Rice T.D, Baliraine F.N. Congenital malaria and neonatal bacterial co-infection in twins prematurely born to a mother with sickle-cell anaemia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Malariaworld J. 2017;8(14):1-3

Burri C, Yeramian P.D, Allen J.L, Merolle A, Serge K.K, Mpanya A, Lutumba P, Mesu V.K, Bilenge C.M, Lubaki J.P, Mpoto A.M, Thompson M, Munungu B.F, Manuel F, Josenando T, Bernhard S.C, Olson C.A, Blum J, Tidwell R.R, Pohlig G. Efficacy, safety, and dose of pafuramidine, a new oral drug for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness, in a phase 2a clinical study and phase 2b randomized clinical studies. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016;10(2):e0004362. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004362

Ginier M, Neumayr A, Günther S, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Blum J. Zika without symptoms in returning travellers: what are the implications. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016;14(1):16-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.01.012

Kiefer S, Auer C, Altpeter E, Zellweger J.P, Blum J, Wyss K. Tuberkulose in der Schweiz: das Wichtigste in Kürze. Swiss Med Forum. 2016;16(30-31):613-618

Kling K, Künzli E, Blum J, Neumayr A. Acute Strongyloidiasis in a traveller returning from South East Asia. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016;14(5):535-536. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.05.003

Künzli E, Labhardt N, Balestra G, Weisser M, Zellweger M.J, Blum J. Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as a complication of toxocariasis-associated endomyocarditis with fibrosis: a case report. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3(3):ofw145. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw145

Künzli E, Neumayr A, Chaney M, Blum J. Toxocariasis-associated cardiac diseases: a systematic review of the literature. Acta Trop. 2016;154:107-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.11.003

Mosimann V, Blazek C, Grob H, Chaney M, Neumayr A, Blum J. Miltefosine for mucosal and complicated cutaneous old world leishmaniasis: a case series and review of the literature. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3(1):ofw008. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw008

Neumayr A, Blum J. When horse serum meets dog bite [Case illustrated]. IDCases. 2016;3:1-2. DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2015.09.003

Pohlig G, Bernhard S.C, Blum J, Burri C, Mpanya A, Lubaki J.P, Mpoto A.M, Munungu B.F, N'tombe P.M, Deo G.K, Mutantu P.N, Kuikumbi F.M, Mintwo A.F, Munungi A.K, Dala A, Macharia S, Bilenge C.M, Mesu V.K, Franco J.R, Dituvanga N.D, Tidwell R.R, Olson C.A. Efficacy and safety of pafuramidine versus pentamidine maleate for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness in a randomized, comparator-controlled, international phase 3 clinical trial. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016;10(2):e0004363. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004363

Stettler K, Beltramello M, Espinosa D.A, Graham V, Cassotta A, Bianchi S, Vanzetta F, Minola A, Jaconi S, Mele F, Foglierini M, Pedotti M, Simonelli L, Dowall S, Atkinson B, Percivalle E, Simmons C.P, Varani L, Blum J, Baldanti F, Cameroni E, Hewson R, Harris E, Lanzavecchia A, Sallusto F, Corti D. Specificity, cross-reactivity and function of antibodies elicited by Zika virus infection. Science. 2016;353(6301):823-826. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf8505

Berthod D, Genton B, Hatz C, Blum J, de Vallière S. Ability of physicians to diagnose influenza and usefulness of a rapid influenza antigen test in febrile returning travelers: a randomized controlled trial. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2015;13(5):394-399. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.08.001

Blum J, Kling K, Labhardt N. Leishmania et trypanosomes (Kinetoplastida): rares, mais plus actuels que nous le voudrions. Swiss Med Forum. 2015;15(50-51):1193-1195

Blum J, Kling K, Labhardt N. Leishmanien und Trypanosomen (Kinetoplastida): selten, aber aktueller, als uns lieb ist. Swiss Med Forum. 2015;15(50-51):1193-1195

Blum J. Recommendations for management for cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis: case studies and discussion. Trop Med Int Health, 2015;20(Suppl. 1):36

Gadient Hotz S, Müller D.J, Chaney M, Blum J. No fever, no malaria? A diagnostic challenge in an immunocompromised patient. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2015;13(6):511-512. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.11.002

Henry B, Morizot G, Blum J, Van der Auwera G, Clerinx J, Harms G, Bart A, Armstrong M, Ravel C, Robert-Gagneux F, Gangneux J.P, Felger I, Bailey M, Grogl M, Lockwood D, Buffet P. Worldwide diversity of leishmaniasis: harmonized collection of data and isolates by the European "LeishMan" network: the LeishMan Network. Trop Med Int Health, 2015;20(Suppl. 1):35. Abstracts of the 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, 6-10 September 2015, Basel, Switzerland

Kiefer S, Auer C, Wyss K, Blum J. Studie zum Wissen über Tuberkulose bei Hausärzten in der Schweiz : durchgeführt im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Gesundheit. Basel: Schweizerisches Zentrum für Internationale Gesundheit, 2015

Blum J, Buffet P, Visser L, Harms G, Bailey M.S, Caumes E, Clerinx J, van Thiel P.P.A.M, Morizot G, Hatz C, Dorlo T.P.C, Lockwood D.N.J. LeishMan recommendations for treatment of cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis in travelers, 2014. J Travel Med. 2014;21(2):116-129. DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12089

Künzli E, Jaeger V.K, Frei R, Neumayr A, DeCrom S, Haller S, Blum J, Widmer A.F, Furrer H, Battegay M, Endimiani A, Hatz C. High colonization rates of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli in Swiss travellers to South Asia- a prospective observational multicentre cohort study looking at epidemiology, microbiology and risk factors. BMC Infect Dis. 2014;14:528. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-528

Blum J, Pletscher M. Dermatologische Probleme bei Tropenrückkehrern - "banales Häufiges" und "seltenes, aber Gefährliches". Ther Umsch. 2013;70(6):335-342. DOI: 10.1024/0040-5930/a000412

Blum J. LeishMan: harmonising diagnostic and clinical management of leishmaniasis in Europe. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(30):20538

Mosimann V, Neumayr A, Hatz C, Blum J.A. Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Switzerland: first experience with species-specific treatment. Infection. 2013;41(6):1177-1182. DOI: 10.1007/s15010-013-0500-5

Neumayr A, Hatz C, Blum J. Not to be missed! Differential diagnoses of common dermatological problems in returning travellers. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2013;11(6):337-349. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2013.09.005

Neumayr A, Tamarozzi F, Goblirsch S, Blum J, Brunetti E. Spinal cystic echinococcosis - a systematic analysis and review of the literature: part 1. Epidemiology and anatomy. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013;7(9):e2450. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002458

Neumayr A, Tamarozzi F, Goblirsch S, Blum J, Brunetti E. Spinal cystic echinococcosis - a systematic analysis and review of the literature: part 2. Treatment, follow-up and outcome. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013;7(9):e2458. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002458

Neumayr A.L, Morizot G, Visser L.G, Lockwood D.N.J, Beck B.R, Schneider S, Bellaud G, Cordoliani F, Foulet F, Laffitte E.A, Buffet P, Blum J.A. Clinical aspects and management of cutaneous leishmaniasis in rheumatoid patients treated with TNF-a antagonists. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2013;11(6):412-420. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2013.05.003

Stöckle M, Holbro A, Arnold A, Neumayr A, Weisser M, Blum J. Treatment of mucosal leishmaniasis (L. infantum) with Miltefosine in a patient with good syndrome. Acta Trop. 2013;128(1):168-170. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.07.002

Zimmermann R, Hattendorf J, Blum J, Nüesch R, Hatz C. Risk perception of travelers to tropical and subtropical countries visiting a Swiss travel health center. J Travel Med. 2013;20(1):3-10. DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2012.00671.x

Blum J, Lockwood D.N.J, Visser L, Harms G, Bailey M.S, Caumes E, Clerinx J, van Thiel P.P.A.M, Morizot G, Hatz C, Buffet P. Local or systematic treatment for New World cutaneous leishmaniasis? Re-evaluating the evidence for the risk of mucosal leishmaniasis. Int Health. 2012;4(3):153-163. DOI: 10.1016/j.inhe.2012.06.004

Blum J.A, Neumayr A.L, Hatz C.F. Human African trypanosomiasis in endemic populations and travellers. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2012;31(6):905-912. DOI: 10.1007/s10096-011-1403-y

Brun R, Blum J. Human African trypanosomiasis. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2012;26(2):261-273. DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2012.03.003

Kocher C, Segerer S, Schleich A, Caduff R, Wyler L.G, Müller V, Beck B, Blum J, Kamarachev J, Mueller N.J. Skin lesions, malaise, and heart failure in a renal transplant recipient. Transpl Infect Dis. 2012;14(4):391-397. DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2012.00731.x

Küpfer I, Schmid C, Allan M, Edielu A, Haary E.P, Kakembo A, Kibona S, Blum J, Burri C. Safety and efficacy of the 10-day melarsoprol schedule for the treatment of second stage rhodesiense sleeping sickness. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012;6(8):e1695. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001695

Neumayr A, Gabriel M, Fritz J, Gunther S, Hatz C, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Blum J. Mayaro virus infection in traveler returning from Amazon basin, northern Peru [Letter]. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012;18(4):695-696. DOI: 10.3201/eid1804.111717

Neumayr A.L, Tschirky B, Warren A, Hatz C.F, Blum J.A. Acute febrile respiratory reaction after praziquantel treatment during asymptomatic late form of acute schistosomiasis. J Travel Med. 2012;19(4):264-267. DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2012.00626.x

Neumayr A.L, Walter C, Stoeckle M, Braendle N, Glatz K, Blum J.A. Successful treatment of imported mucosal Leishmania infantum leishmaniasis with miltefosine after severe hypokalemia under meglumine antimoniate treatment. J Travel Med. 2012;19(2):124-126. DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00572.x

Schmid C, Kümmerle A, Blum J, Ghabri S, Kande V, Mutombo W, Ilunga M, Lumpungu I, Mutanda S, Nganzobo P, Tete D, Mubwa N, Kisala M, Blésson S, Mordt O.V. In-hospital safety in field conditions of nifurtimox eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for T.b. gambiense sleeping sickness. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012;6(11):e1920. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001920

Utzinger J, Becker S.L, Knopp S, Blum J, Neumayr A.L, Keiser J, Hatz C.F. Neglected tropical diseases: diagnosis, clinical management, treatment and control. Swiss Med Wkly. 2012;142:w13727. DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13727

Küpfer I, Hhary E.P, Allan M, Edielu A, Burri C, Blum J.A. Clinical presentation of T.b. rhodesiense sleeping sickness in second stage patients from Tanzania and Uganda. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011;5(3):e968. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000968

Mordt O.V, Schmid C, Kande V, Mutombo W, Ilunga M, Lumpungu I, Mutanda S, Tete D, Nganzobo P, Mubwa N, Kisala M, Blum J, Blésson S, Wourgaft N.S. A multicenter, open label, phase III study of therapeutic use of the co-administration of nifurtimox and eflornithine (NECT) for human African trypanosomiasis (NECT field): safety profile in children during initial hospitalization. Trop Med Int Health, 2011;16(Suppl. 1):68-68

Urech K, Neumayr A, Blum J. Sleeping sickness in travelers - do they really sleep?. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011;5(11):e1358. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001358

Blum J.A, Pfeifer S, Hatz C.F. Psychiatric manifestations as the leading symptom in an expatriate with dengue fever. Infection. 2010;38(4):341-343. DOI: 10.1007/s15010-010-0029-9

Brun R, Blum J, Chappuis F, Burri C. Human African trypanosomiasis. Lancet. 2010;375(9709):148-159. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60829-1

Forno C, Hausermann P, Hatz C, Itin P, Blum J. The difficulty in diagnosis and treatment of leprosy. J Travel Med. 2010;17(4):281-283. DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00419.x

Neumayr A, Blum J, Hatz C. Aktuelle Änderungen der schweizerischen Empfehlungen für "Impfungen und Malariaschutz bei Auslandreisen". Synapse. 2010(4):9

Neumayr A, Funk M, Werlein J, Blum J, Hatz C. Impfungen bei Auslandreisen 2010: neu überarbeitete Richtlinien. Schweiz Med Forum. 2010;10(43):753-756

Blum J, Hatz C.F. Dengue- und Chikungunya-Fieber in der Allgemeinpraxis. Swiss Med Forum. 2009;9(35):610-614

Blum J, Schmid C, Burri C, Hatz C, Olson C, Fungula B, Kazumba L, Mangoni P, Mbo F, Deo K, Mpanya A, Dala A, Franco J.R, Pohlig G, Zellweger M.J. Cardiac alterations in human African trypanosomiasis (T.b. gambiense) with respect to the disease stage and antiparasitic treatment. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2009;3(2):e383. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000383

Blum J. Human trypanosomiasis: African and American trypansomiasis (Chagas disease). In: Schwartz E, ed. Tropical diseases in travelers, 254-263. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2009

Blum J.A, Hatz C.F. Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis in travelers 2009. J Travel Med. 2009;16(2):123-131. DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2008.00286.x

Luessi F, Sollors J, Frauenknecht K, Schwandt E, Muller H, Stoeter P, Blum J, Thomke F. A case of neurocysticercosis with a single brain lesion - Diagnostic aspects. J Neurol. 2009;256:S148-S149

Luessi F, Sollors J, Torzewski M, Muller H, Siegel E, Blum J, Vogt T, Thomke F. Eosinophilic meningitis due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Germany. J Neurol. 2009;256:S149-S149

Luessi F, Sollors J, Torzewski M, Muller H.D, Siegel E, Blum J, Sommer C, Vogt T, Thomke F. Eosinophilic meningitis due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Germany. J Travel Med. 2009;16(4):292-294. DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2009.00337.x

Blum J.A, Zellweger M.J, Burri C, Hatz C. Cardiac involvement in African and American trypanosomiasis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2008;8(10):631-641

Pohlig G, Bernhard S, Blum J, Burri C, Kabeya A.M, Lubaki J.P.F, Mpoto A.M, Munungu B.F, Deo G.K.M, Mutantu P.N, Kuikumb F.M, Mintw A.F, Munungi A.K, Dala A, Macharia S, Bilenge C.M.M, Mesu V.K.B.K, Franco J.R, Dituvanga N.D, Olson C.A. Phase 3 trial of Pafuramidine Maleate (Db289), a novel, oral drug, for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness: safety and efficacy. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008;79(6):160-160

Blum J.A, Burri C, Hatz C, Kazumba L, Mangoni P, Zellweger M.J. Sleeping hearts: the role of the heart in sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis). Trop Med Int Health. 2007;12(12):1422-1432

Blum J.A, Schmid C, Hatz C, Kazumba L, Mangoni P, Rutishauser J, la Torre A, Burri C. Sleeping glands? - The role of endocrine disorders in sleeping sickness (T.b. gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis). Acta Trop. 2007;104(1):16-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.07.004

Dao B, Blum J, Thieba B, Raghavan S, Ouedraego M, Lankoande J, Winikoff B. Is misoprostol a safe, effective and acceptable alternative to manual vacuum aspiration for postabortion care? Results from a randomised trial in Burkina Faso, West Africa. BJOG. 2007;114(11):1368-1375

Blum J, Hatz C. Tropen- und Reisemedizin: Leishmaniose - Neues zu einer alten Krankheit. Swiss Med Forum. 2006;6(1):36-37

Blum J, Hatz C. Médecine tropicale et médecine des voyageurs: Leishmaniose – du nouveau sur une vieille maladie. Swiss Med Forum. 2006;6:36-37

Blum J, Schmid C, Burri C. Clinical aspects of 2541 patients with second stage human African trypanosomiasis. Acta Trop. 2006;97(1):55-64

Blum J. Fieber nach Tropenaufenthalt - Wie gehen Sie vor?. Hausarzt Praxis. 2006;2:39-40

Hatz C, Beck B, Blum J, Bourquin C, Brenneke F, Funk M, Furrer H, Genton B, Holzer B, Jeschko E, Loutan L, Nothdurft H, Raeber P.A, Rudin W. Malariaschutz für Kurzzeitaufenthalter. Bulletin BAG. 2006;15(Suppl 1):1-13

Ronellenfitsch U, Bircher A, Hatz C, Blum J. Parasiten als Ursache von Urtikaria: Helminthen und Protozooen als Auslöser der Nesselsucht?. Hautarzt. 2006;58(2):133-141. DOI: 10.1007/s00105-006-1174-z

Schwartz E, Hatz C, Blum J. New world cutaneous leishmaniasis in travellers. Lancet Infect Dis. 2006;6(6):342-349

Blum J, Beck B.R, Brun R, Hatz C. Clinical and serologic responses to human 'apathogenic' trypanosomes. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2005;99(10):795-797

Blum J. Der Wurm im Gehirn. Ther Umsch. 2005;62(11):779-786

Hatz C, Beck B, Blum J, Funk M, Furrer H, Genton B, Holzer B, Loutan L, Markwalder K, Raeber P.A, Schlagenhauf P, Siegl G, Steffen R, Wyss R. Änderung der Empfehlungen zum Malariaschutz für Reisende nach Südasien (Indien, Bangla Desh, Nepal). Bulletin BAG. 2005;9:138-139

Nawa Y, Hatz C, Blum J. Sushi delights and parasites: the risk of fishborne and foodborne parasitic zoonoses in Asia. Clin Infect Dis. 2005;41(9):1297-1303

Bärtschi E, Bordmann G, Blum J, Rothen M. Eosinophilic meningitis due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Switzerland. Infection. 2004;32(2):116-118

Blum J, Desjeux P, Schwartz E, Beck B, Hatz C. Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis among travellers. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2004;53(2):158-166

Elzi L, Decker M, Battegay M, Rutishauser J, Blum J. Chest pain after travel to the tropics. Lancet. 2004;363(9416):1198

Hatz C, Beck B, Blum J, Funk M, Furrer H, Genton B, Holzer B, Loutan L, Markwalder K, Raeber P.-A, Schlagenhauf P, Siegl G, Steffen R, Wyss R. Neue und praxisrelevante Empfehlungen zum Malariaschutz 2003. Bulletin BAG. 2003;14:1-5

Blum J, Beck B. Kurzbewertung: Artemether/Lumefantrin. Int Praxis. 2002;42:661-664

Blum J, Burri C. Treatment of late stage sleeping sickness caused by T.b. gambiense: a new approach to the use of an old drug. Swiss Med Wkly. 2002;132(5-6):51-56

Hamel C.T, Blum J, Harder F, Kocher T. Nonoperative treatment of splenic rupture in malaria tropica: review of literature and case report. Acta Trop. 2002;82(1):1-5

Hatz C, Beck B, Blum J, Funk M, Furrer H, Genton B, Holzer B, Loutan L, Markwalder K, Raeber P.-A, Schlagenhauf P, Siegl G, Steffen R, Wyss R. Neue und praxisrelevante Empfehlungen zum Malariaschutz 2002. Bulletin BAG. 2002;23:896-401

Blum J, Nkunku S, Burri C. Clinical description of encephalopathic syndromes and risk factors for their occurrence and outcome during melarsoprol treatment of human African trypanosomiasis. Trop Med Int Health. 2001;6(5):390-400

Blum J, Wiestner A, Fuhr P, Hatz C. Encephalopathy following Loa loa treatment with albendazole. Acta Trop. 2001;78(1):63-65

Hatz C, Beck B, Blum J, Funk M, Furrer H, Genton B, Holzer B, Loutan L, Markwalder K, Raeber P.-A, Schlagenhauf P, Siegl G, Steffen R, Stürchler D, Wyss R. Malaria-Chemoprophylaxe 2001. Ther Umsch. 2001;58(6):347-351

Andresen B, Blum J, von Weymarn A, Bürge M, Steinbrich W, Duewell S. Hepatic fascioliasis: report of two cases. Eur Radiol. 2000;10(11):1713-1715

Burri C, Nkunku S, Merolle A, Smith T, Blum J, Brun R. Efficacy of new, concise schedule for melarsoprol in treatment of sleeping sickness caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: a randomised trial. Lancet. 2000;355(9213):1419-1425

Beck H.P, Blum J, Genton B, Hatz C, Rudin W, Marti H.P, Dobler M. Malaria: Institut Tropical Suisse, 1999

Blum J, Tichelli A, Hatz C. Diagnostische und therapeutische Probleme der Malaria tertiana. Praxis. 1999;88(22):985-991

Camli C, Blum J. Hymenolepis nana: 45jähriger Flüchtling aus der Kosovo-Region mit Oberbauchschmerzen und Nachweis von Hymenolepis nana und Blastocystis hominis im Stuhl. Praxis. 1999;88(19):877-879

Blum J, Beck B, Strnad I, Hatz C. Vulva-Läsion bei uro-genitaler Schistosomiasis (S. haematobium). Z Geburtshilfe Neonatol. 1998;202(6):255-257

Blum J, Lacher R. Importierter Abdominaltyphus: Epidemiologie, Diagnose, Therapie und Prophylaxe. Der informierte Arzt : Gazette Médicale. 1998;19(Separatum):65-68

Blum J, Lacher R. La typhoïde importée: épidémiologie, diagnostic, traitement et prévention. Der informierte Arzt : Gazette Médicale. 1998;19(18):843-846

Hatz C.F, Blum J, Widmer A.F. Fièvres virales hémorragiques. Méd Hyg. 1997;55:2036-2041

Burri C, Blum J, Brun R. Alternative application of melarsoprol for treatment of T.b. gambiense sleeping sickness: preliminary results. Ann Soc Belg Med Trop. 1995;75(1):65-71

Blum J, Hatz C, Junghanss T. Therapie kutaner und mukokutaner Leishmaniosen. Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 1994;119(34-35):1169-1172

Blum J, Junghanss T, Hatz C. Irrwege in der Diagnostik kutaner und mukokutaner Leishmaniosen. Praxis. 1994;83(37):1025-1029