Endotoxin levels in cow's milk samples from farming and non-farming families - The PASTURE study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Children from farming families have less allergies than their peers. Consumption of farm milk or unpasteurized milk has been shown to explain (part of) the farming effect or protect agains
Optimization of 4-aminoquinoline/clotrimazole-based hybrid antimalarials: further structure-activity relationships, in vivo studies, and preliminary... (Publications)
Despite recent progress in the fight against malaria, the emergence and spread of drug-resistant parasites remains a serious obstacle to the treatment of infections. We recently reported the developme
Clonal groupings in serogroup <em>X Neisseria meningitidis</em> (Publications)
The genetic diversity of 134 serogroup X Neisseria meningitis isolates from Africa, Europe, and North America was analyzed by multilocus sequence typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Although
A comparative analysis of generics markets in five European countries (Publications)
A generic medicine is a faithful copy of a mature drug--no longer under patent marketed with the chemical name of the active ingredient. This article analyses generics markets in five European countri
Microheterogeneity of serogroup A (subgroup III) <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> during an outbreak in northern Ghana (Publications)
During a meningitis outbreak in the eastern subdistrict of the Kassena- Nankana District of the Upper East Region of Ghana, we analysed cerebrospinal fluid from suspected meningitis cases for the most
<em>Staphylococcus</em> prevails in the skin microbiota of long-term immunodeficient mice (Publications)
Host-commensal relationships in the skin are a complex system governed by variables related to the host, the bacteria and the environment. A disruption of this system may lead to new steady states, wh
Body mass index in glaucoma (Publications)
PURPOSE: To compare body mass index (BMI) of patients with open-angle glaucoma or normal-tension glaucoma with BMI in control subjects. METHODS: BMI was calculated for 288 control subjects, 42 patient
Malaria vaccines: a toy for travelers or a tool for eradication? (Publications)
The demonstration of efficacy of two candidate malaria vaccines in children living in malaria-endemic areas, namely RTS,S from the circumsporozoite protein that reduced infection and clinical malaria