Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
Understanding of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggrega
Tuberkulintests und Tuberkuloseinzidenz bei Schülern - Erfahrungen aus dem Schularztamt Basel-Stadt (Publications)
15-year-old reactors to intradermic tuberculin tests were analized over the period from 1976 to 1983 to assess the prevalence of tuberculosis in this age group. The proportion of children with BCG vac
Antitrypanosomal activity of some medicinal plants from Nigerian ethnomedicine (Publications)
Human African trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease with complex clinical presentation, diagnosis, and difficult treatment. The available drugs for the treatment of trypanosomiasis are old,
Novel linear triaryl guanidines, N-substituted guanidines and potential prodrugs as antiprotozoal agents (Publications)
A series of triaryl guanidines and N-substituted guanidines designed to target the minor groove of DNA were synthesized and evaluated as antiprotozoal agents. Selected carbamate prodrugs of these guan
<em>In vitro</em> antileishmanial, antiplasmodial and cytotoxic activities of a new ventiloquinone and five known triterpenes from <em>Parinari... (Publications)
Context: Parinari excelsa Sabine (Chrysobalanaceae) is an indigenous tree from West and Eastern Africa. This tree is used in Ivory Coast as an antimalaria remedy. Objective: The in vitro antiplasmodia