Disease awareness of the poultry keepers in Switzerland and their access to information concerning highly pathogenic avian influenza (Publications)
The passive surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in domestic poultry is based essentially on the reporting of suspicious clinical cases by the poultry keepers to the veterinary ser
Reaction pattern to histamine and codeine in a human intradermal skin test model (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Skin prick and intradermal skin tests (IDT) are useful tools in evaluating IgE-mediated allergic disorders. In the literature, many variations of the techniques used are described. No gene
Sequential analysis of helminth egg output in human stool samples following albendazole and praziquantel administration (Publications)
Large-scale administration of anthelminthic drugs currently is the most widely used intervention for controlling morbidity due to schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. An important issue
Complete structural assignment of serratol, a cembrane-type diterpene from <em>Boswellia serrata</em>, and evaluation of its antiprotozoal activity (Publications)
From the dichloromethane extract obtained from the gum resin of Boswellia serrata Roxb. (Burseraceae), a well-known medicinal plant resin ("Indian Olibanum"), the cembrane-type diterpene serratol was
Screening of antifungal azole drugs and agrochemicals with an adapted alamarBlue-based assay demonstrates antibacterial activity of Croconazole... (Publications)
An Alamar Blue-based growth inhibition assay has been adapted for the thermosensitive and slow growing pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans (M. ulcerans). The standardized test procedure enables medium-thr
Systems parasitology: effects of <em>Fasciola hepatica</em> on the neurochemical profile in the rat brain (Publications)
We characterize the integrated response of a rat host to the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica using a combination of (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic profiles (liver, kidney, intestine, brai