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
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
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
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
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
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
Structure-activity-relationship studies around the 2-amino group and pyridine core of antimalarial 3,5-diarylaminopyridines lead to a novel series of... (Publications)
Replacement of the pyridine core of antimalarial 3,5-diaryl-2-aminopyridines led to the identification of a novel series of pyrazine analogues with potent oral antimalarial activity. However, other ch
Toward the development of dual-targeted glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase/trypanothione reductase inhibitors against <em>Trypanosoma... (Publications)
A significant improvement in the treatment of trypanosomiases has been achieved with the recent development of nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy (NECT). As an alternative to drug combination