Low prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in Somali pastoral livestock, southeast Ethiopia (Publications)
A cross-sectional study of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) detected by the comparative intradermal tuberculin test (CIDT) was conducted in livestock of the Somali region in southeast Ethiopia-in four pastor
Gender and socio-cultural determinants of delay to diagnosis of TB in Bangladesh, India and Malawi (Publications)
SETTING: Tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in Bangladesh, India and Malawi. OBJECTIVE: To compare the interval from symptom onset to diagnosis of TB for men and women, and to assess socio-cultural
Novel orally active antimalarial thiazoles (Publications)
An aminomethylthiazole pyrazole carboxamide lead 3 with good in vitro antiplasmodial activity [IC(50): 0.08 muM (K1, chloroquine and multidrug resistant strain) and 0.07 muM (NF54, chloroquine sensiti
Prenatal farm exposure is related to the expression of receptors of the innate immunity and to atopic sensitization in school-age children (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence that environmental exposures determining childhood illnesses operate early in life. Prenatal exposure to a farming environment through the mother might also pl
Interaction between exposure to dairy farms and polymorphisms in the TLR2 gene determines susceptibility to asthma in European children' (Publications)
Background: The finding that the prevalence of asthma and allergies is less frequent in children raised on animal farms has led to the conjecture that exposure to microbial products modifies immune re