An outbreak of serotype 1 <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> meningitis in northern Ghana with features that are characteristic of <em>Neisseria... (Publications)
Background. The Kassena-Nankana District (KND) of northern Ghana lies in the African meningitis belt, where epidemics of bacterial meningitis have been reoccurring every 8-12 years. These epidemics ar
The public health relevance of air pollution abatement (Publications)
Assuming a causal relationship between current levels of air pollution and morbidity/mortality, it is crucial to estimate the public health relevance of the problem. The derivation of air pollution at
Association of environmental tobacco smoke at work and forced expiratory lung function among never smoking asthmatics and non-asthmatics. The... (Publications)
Inconsistencies across studies on the association of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and pulmonary function may be clarified addressing potentially susceptible subgroups. We determined the associati
Cross-sectional surveys and subtype classification of human <em>Blastocystis</em> isolates from four epidemiological settings in China (Publications)
The prevalence and geographical distribution of the intestinal protozoa Blastocystis in humans across China is unknown, and the relative importance of different subtypes has yet to be investigated. We
Quantification of self pollution from two diesel school buses using three independent methods (Publications)
We monitored two Seattle school buses to quantify the buses' self pollution using the dual tracers (DT), lead vehicle (LV), and chemical mass balance (CMB) methods. Each bus drove along a residential