Short-term effects of nocturnal transportation noise on cardio-metabolic outcomes and its association to sleep (Publications)
Transportation noise is one of the most important environmental risk factors for cardio-metabolic diseases. It is assumed that short-term noise exposure activates a physiological stress response, whic
Reporting quality of trial protocols improved for non-regulated interventions but not regulated interventions: a repeated cross-sectional study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the adherence of randomised controlled trial (RCT) protocols evaluating non-regulated interventions (including dietary interventions, surgical procedures, behavioural and li
Microscopic and flow cytophotometric analysis of parasitemia in cultures of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> vitally stained with Hoechst... (Publications)
Conditions for rapid vital staining of Plasmodium falciparum infected human erythrocytes were 1 microgram/ml of the dye Hoechst 33342 for 15 min in the standard culture medium at 37 degrees C. Fixed a
Selektionierung von chloroquinresistenten <em>Plasmodium-falciparum</em>-Stämmen bei Touristen unter Chemoprophylaxe (Publications)
In a prospective study 20 P. falciparum isolates imported from Africa by non-immune tourists were investigated for chloroquine sensitivity using the in vitro microtest and the results were compared wi
Leucopenia and abnormal liver function in travellers on malaria chemoprophylaxis (Publications)
Of 2887 travellers between the years 1984-1985, 451 on prophylactic antimalarials were studied retrospectively for adverse haematological or hepatic drug reactions and compared to 296 drug non-users.
Differential infectivity of Plasmodium for mosquitoes (Publications)
The four human malarias - Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale and P. malariaecan - canonly be transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, although not all species (nor all strains) of thes
Semi-field evaluation of the exposure-free mosquito electrocuting trap and BG-Sentinel trap as an alternative to the human landing catch for measuring... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The human landing catch (HLC) measures human exposure to mosquito bites and evaluates the efficacy of vector control tools. However, it may expose volunteers to potentially infected mosqui