A household-based study of acute viral respiratory illnesses in Andean children (Publications)
BACKGROUND.: Few community studies have measured the incidence, severity, and etiology of acute respiratory illness (ARI) among children living at high-altitude in remote rural settings. METHODS.: We
Electrophysiological markers and predictors of the disease course in primary progressive multiple sclerosis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Currently no valid surrogate marker exists for primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS). OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to prospectively investigate multimodal evoked potentials (EPs) as mark
Child mortality patterns in rural Tanzania: an observational study on the impact of malaria control interventions (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Between 1997 and 2009, a number of key malaria control interventions were implemented in the Kilombero and Ulanga Districts in south central Tanzania to increase insecticide-treated nets (
Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferases gat1p and gat2p are microsomal phosphoproteins with differential contributions to polarized cell growth (Publications)
Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) catalyzes the initial step in the synthesis of all glycerolipids. It is the committed and rate-limiting step and is redundant in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, m
Pseudilins: halogenated, allosteric inhibitors of the non-mevalonate pathway enzyme IspD (Publications)
The enzymes of the non-mevalonate pathway for isoprenoid biosynthesis have been identified as attractive targets with novel modes of action for the development of herbicides for crop protection and ag
Luftverschmutzung und Gesundheit - Optionen in der klinischen Beratung (Publications)
While air quality is usually an environmental condition patients can little do about, there are a few options and decisions that modify the personal exposure and risk. Location - in particular the res
Self-rated health: small area large area comparisons amongst older adults at the state, district and sub-district level in India (Publications)
We compared prevalence estimates of self-rated health (SRH) derived indirectly using four different small area estimation methods for the Vadu (small) area from the national Study on Global AGEing (SA