Mixed infection by <em>Legionella pneumophila</em> in outbreak patients (Publications)
During the molecular epidemiological study of a legionellosis outbreak, we obtained sequence based typing (SBT) profiles from uncultured respiratory samples of 15 affected patients. We detected severa
Characterization of a serine hydrolase targeted by acyl-protein thioesterase inhibitors in <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> (Publications)
In eukaryotic organisms, cysteine palmitoylation is an important reversible modification that impacts protein targeting, folding, stability, and interactions with partners. Evidence suggests that prot
Diagnosis and treatment of schistosomiasis in children in the era of intensified control (Publications)
In the current era of intensified and integrated control against schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases, there is a need to carefully rethink and take into consideration disease-specifi
Out-of-Africa migration and neolithic coexpansion of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> with modern humans (Publications)
Tuberculosis caused 20% of all human deaths in the Western world between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and remains a cause of high mortality in developing countries. In analogy to other cro
Challenging sleep homeostasis in narcolepsy-cataplexy: implications for non-REM and REM sleep regulation (Publications)
STUDY OBJECTIVES: We recently proposed insufficient non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREMS) intensity to contribute to disturbed nocturnal sleep in patients with narcolepsy-cataplexy (NC). To test this h
Trachoma among children in community surveys from four African countries and implications of using school surveys for evaluating prevalence (Publications)
BACKGROUND: School surveys provide a convenient platform to obtain large child cohorts from multiple communities and are widely used as a proxy to determine community prevalence of neglected tropical
