Challenging sleep homeostasis in narcolepsy-cataplexy: implications for non-REM and REM sleep regulation (Publications)
STUDY OBJECTIVES: We recently proposed insufficient non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREMS) intensity to contribute to disturbed nocturnal sleep in patients with narcolepsy-cataplexy (NC). To test this h
Characterization of a serine hydrolase targeted by acyl-protein thioesterase inhibitors in <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> (Publications)
In eukaryotic organisms, cysteine palmitoylation is an important reversible modification that impacts protein targeting, folding, stability, and interactions with partners. Evidence suggests that prot
Out-of-Africa migration and neolithic coexpansion of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> with modern humans (Publications)
Tuberculosis caused 20% of all human deaths in the Western world between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and remains a cause of high mortality in developing countries. In analogy to other cro
Diagnosis and treatment of schistosomiasis in children in the era of intensified control (Publications)
In the current era of intensified and integrated control against schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases, there is a need to carefully rethink and take into consideration disease-specifi
Pulsed radio-frequency electromagnetic fields: dose-dependent effects on sleep, the sleep EEG and cognitive performance (Publications)
To establish a dose-response relationship between the strength of electromagnetic fields (EMF) and previously reported effects on the brain, we investigated the influence of EMF exposure by varying th
Mental health litaracy and the experience of depression in a community sample of gay men (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Gay men are at higher risk of suffering from a variety of psychiatric disorders, yet the mental health literacy of this population has remained largely unknown. METHODS: In 2007 and 2011,
Mixed infection by <em>Legionella pneumophila</em> in outbreak patients (Publications)
During the molecular epidemiological study of a legionellosis outbreak, we obtained sequence based typing (SBT) profiles from uncultured respiratory samples of 15 affected patients. We detected severa
Seroprevalence of Brucellosis and Q-fever in southeast Ethiopian pastoral livestock (Publications)
To assess seroprevalences of Brucella and C. burnetii in pastoral livestock in southeast Ethiopia, a cross-sectional study was carried out in three livestock species (cattle, camels and goats). The st