Spatial epidemiology in zoonotic parasitic diseases: insights gained at the 1st International Symposium on Geospatial Health in Lijiang, China, 2007 (Publications)
ABSTRACT: The 1st International Symposium on Geospatial Health was convened in Lijiang, Yunnan province, People's Republic of China from 8 to 9 September, 2007. The objective was to review progress ma
A school-based physical activity program to improve health and fitness in children aged 6-13 years (Kinder-Sportstudie KISS): study design of a... (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is the result of a long lasting imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. A major contributing factor is physical inactivity which is closely link
Efficacy of ICON(R) Maxx in the laboratory and against insecticide-resistant <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> in central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Long-lasting treatment kits, designed to transform untreated nets into long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), may facilitate high coverage with LLINs where non-treated nets are in place.
Interaction between Retinoid acid receptor-related Orphan Receptor Alpha (RORA) and Neuropeptide S receptor 1 (NPSR1) in asthma (Publications)
Retinoid acid receptor-related Orphan Receptor Alpha (RORA) was recently identified as a susceptibility gene for asthma in a genome-wide association study. To investigate the impact of RORA on asthma
Agricultural production in Kikwawila village, southeastern Tanzania (Publications)
Food production, land utilisation and agricultural structures were surveyed at Kikwawila village, north of Ifakara (Kilombero District, Morogoro Region) in 1984. This study was part of a more comprehe
Independent large scale duplications in multiple <em>M. tuberculosis</em> lineages overlapping the same genomic region (Publications)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of most human tuberculosis, infects one third of the world's population and kills an estimated 1.7 million people a year. With the world-wide emergence
Quality assurance in transnational higher education: a case study of the tropEd network (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Transnational or cross-border higher education has rapidly expanded since the 1980s. Together with that expansion issues on quality assurance came to the forefront. This article aims to
HIV/AIDS, parasites and co-infections: publication patterns in China (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Since its discovery, HIV/AIDS has arguably captured more attention among the Chinese biomedical research community than most other infectious diseases. Traditional parasitic dise
Bovine tuberculosis at the wildlife-livestock-human interface in Hamer Woreda, South Omo, southern Ethiopia (Publications)
Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is endemic in cattle in the Ethiopian Highlands but no studies have been done so far in pastoralists in South Omo. This study assessed the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (