Preclinical profiling of the immunogenicity of a two-component subunit malaria vaccine candidate based on virosome technology (Publications)
Presentation of synthetic peptides on immunopotentiating reconstituted influenza virosomes is a promising technology for subunit vaccine development. An optimized virosomally delivered peptide represe
Atmospheric heavy metal deposition in Northern Vietnam: Hanoi and Thainguyen case study using the moss biomonitoring technique, INAA and AAS (Publications)
BACKGROUND, AIM, AND SCOPE: The moss technique is widely used to monitor atmospheric deposition of heavy metals in many countries in Europe, whereas this technique is scarcely used in Asia. To impleme
Effect of fireworks events on urban background trace metal aerosol concentrations: is the cocktail worth the show? (Publications)
We report on the effect of a major firework event on urban background atmospheric PM(2.5) chemistry, using 24-h data collected over 8 weeks at two sites in Girona, Spain. The firework pollution episod
Bayesian analysis of zero inflated spatiotemporal HIV/TB child mortality data through the INLA and SPDE approaches: applied to data observed between... (Publications)
Longitudinal mortality data with few deaths usually have problems of zero-inflation. This paper presents and applies two Bayesian models which cater for zero-inflation, spatial and temporal random eff
Bisabololoxide derivatives from <em>Artemisia persica</em>, and determination of their absolute configurations by ECD (Publications)
Five antiplasmodial bisabololoxide sesquiterpene diesters were isolated from an EtOAc extract of the aerial parts of Artemisia persica following an HPLC-time-based activity profiling of the extract. S
Impact of a national HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaign on VCT in a rural hospital in Tanzania (Publications)
Summary Objective To evaluate the impact of a national HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaign on presentation to HIV care in a rural population in Tanzania. Methods Retrospective analysi
Systems to support health technology assessment (HTA) in member states of the European union with limited institutionalization of HTA (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to support health technology assessment (HTA) capacity building in Member States of the European Union with limited experience or without institutionalized HTA. T
Personal exposure assessment studies may suffer from exposure-relevant selection bias (Publications)
We evaluated exposure-relevant selection bias within the framework of a study on personal air pollution exposure, using traffic data as exposure proxy. Based on random samples of 3000 (Basel) and 2532
The antiprotozoal activity of methylated flavonoids from <em>Ageratum conyzoides</em> L (Publications)
AIM OF THE STUDY: The dichloromethane extract prepared from aerial parts of Ageratum conyzoides L. (Asteraceae), a plant commonly used in folk medicine for a number of illnesses including sleeping sic