Gender and socio-cultural determinants of TB-related stigma in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Colombia (Publications)
SETTING: Tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Colombia. OBJECTIVE: Assess indicators of TB-related stigma and socio-cultural and gender-related features of illness ass
In vitro and in vivo treatments of <em>Echinococcus </em>protoscoleces and metacestodes with artemisinin and artemisinin derivatives (Publications)
In vitro treatment of Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus granulosus larval stages with the antimalarials dihydroartemisinin and artesunate (10 to 40 microM) exhibited promising results, whil
Childhood cancer and nuclear power plants in Switzerland: a census-based cohort study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies on childhood cancer and nuclear power plants (NPPs) produced conflicting results. We used a cohort approach to examine whether residence near NPPs was associated with leuk
Synthesis and structure-activity analysis of new phosphonium salts with potent activity against African trypanosomes (Publications)
A series of 73 bisphosphonium salts and 10 monophosphonium salt derivatives were synthesized and tested in vitro against several wild type and resistant lines of Trypanosoma brucei (T. b. rhodesiense