New treatment option for second stage African sleeping sickness: In vitro and in vivo efficacy of aza analogs of DB289 (Publications)
African sleeping sickness is a fatal parasitic disease and all drugs currently in use for treatment have strong liabilities. It is essential to find new, effective and less toxic drugs ideally with or
Allergic disease and atopic sensitization in children in relation to measles vaccination and measles infection (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to investigate the role of measles vaccination and measles infection in the development of allergic disease and atopic sensitization. METHODS: A total of 14 893 children were in
Evaluation of real-time PCR for <em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> and hookworm as diagnostic tool in asymptomatic schoolchildren in Cambodia (Publications)
Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths such as Strongyloides stercoralis and hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus) is challenging due to irregular larval and egg output in infected
Malaria ecotypes and stratification (Publications)
To deal with the variability of malaria, control programmes need to stratify their malaria problem into a number of smaller units. Such stratification may be based on the epidemiology of malaria or on
Nonlinear relations between house dust mite allergen levels and mite sensitization in farm and nonfarm children (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Low sensitization rates to common allergens have been observed in farm children, which might be due to high exposure to microbial agents. It is not known how microbial agents modify the as
Integrated cytokine and metabolic analysis of pathological responses to parasite exposure in rodents (Publications)
Parasitic infections cause a myriad of responses in their mammalian hosts, on immune as well as on metabolic level. A multiplex panel of cytokines and metabolites derived from four parasite-rodent mod
The group-lending model and social closure: microcredit, exclusion, and health in Bangladesh (Publications)
According to social exclusion theory, health risks are positively associated with involuntary social, economic, political and cultural exclusion from society. In this paper, a social exclusion framewo