Epidemiology of <em>Schistosoma japonicum</em> in China: morbidity and strategies for control in the Dongting Lake region (Publications)
Dongting Lake, covering a very large surface water area of 2691km(2), is located in Hunan Province in the southern part of the People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest freshwater lake in C
Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Lay health workers (LHWs) are widely used to provide care for a broad range of health issues. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of LHW interventions. OBJECTIVES: To assess
Lanosterol induces mitochondrial uncoupling and protects dopaminergic neurons from cell death in a model for Parkinson's disease (Publications)
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder marked by the selective degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway. Several lines of evidence indicate that mitochondria
Beijing sublineages of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> differ in pathogenicity in the Guinea pig (Publications)
The Beijing family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains is part of lineage 2 (also known as the East Asian lineage). In clinical studies, we have observed that isolates from the sublineage RD207 of l
Assessment of deaths attributable to air pollution: should we use risk estimates based on time series or on cohort studies? (Publications)
Epidemiologic studies are crucial to the estimation of numbers of deaths attributable to air pollution. In this paper, the authors present a framework for distinguishing estimates of attributable case