Short-term effects of air pollution on total and cardiovascular mortality: the confounding effect of influenza epidemics (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Air pollution is associated with total mortality. This association may be confounded by uncontrolled time-varying risk factors such as influenza epidemics. METHODS: We analyzed independent
<em>Schistosoma japonicum</em>: effect of artemether on glutathione <em>S</em>-transferase and superoxide dismutase (Publications)
Glutathione S-transferase (GST) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) are major antioxidant enzymes of schistosomes that are involved in detoxification processes. To study the effect of artemether on these e
Effect of artemether against <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> in experimentally infected hamsters (Publications)
The drug, artemether, has been shown to be active against the juvenile stages of Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma mansoni in experimentally infected animals, while it is less effective on adult w
Gastrointestinal parasite egg excretion in young calves in periurban livestock production in Mali (Publications)
To acquire the information needed to improve parasite control in periurban cattle production in Mali, repeated sampling of faeces of 694 calves kept around Bamako was done in 2003/2004. The effects of
Source apportionment of PM2.5 and selected hazardous air pollutants in Seattle (Publications)
The potential benefits of combining the speciated PM(2.5) and VOCs data in source apportionment analysis for identification of additional sources remain unclear. We analyzed the speciated PM(2.5) and
