Antigenicity and immunogenicity of a novel <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> circumsporozoite derived synthetic vaccine construct (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The circumsporozoite (CS) protein is a major malaria sporozoite surface antigen currently being considered as vaccine candidate. Plasmodium vivax CS (PvCS) protein comprises a dimorphic ce
Novel genotyping tools for investigating transmission dynamics of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
Background. Differentiation between gametocyte-producing P. falciparum clones depends on both, high levels of stage-specific transcripts and high genetic diversity of the selected genotyping marker ob
Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-regression (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of inadequate water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings. METHODS: The search strategy used Cochrane Library, MEDLINE & PubMed, Globa
Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis [Letter] (Publications)
Modern strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Americas are closely related to those from Europe, supporting the assumption that human tuberculosis was introduced post-contact. This notion, how
Comparison of ultrasonography, intravenous pyelography and cystoscopy in detection of urinary tract lesions due to <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> (Publications)
The use of ultrasound in detecting urinary tract alterations by Schistosoma haematobium such as hydronephrosis and bladder calcifications was studied in 125 patients of the out-patients department of