Testing for <em>Chlamydia trachomatis</em>: time trends in positivity rates in the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland (Publications)
SUMMARY National health statistics report a 2·5-fold increase in laboratory-confirmed Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) cases over the last decade in Switzerland where no CT screening programme exists. We ob
Causes of death in the Taabo health and demographic surveillance system, Côte d'Ivoire, from 2009 to 2011 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Current vital statistics from governmental institutions in Cote d'Ivoire are incomplete. This problem is particularly notable for remote rural areas that have limited access to the health
Bovine tuberculosis in Ethiopian wildlife (Publications)
Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is endemic in Ethiopian cattle. However, the status of the disease in wildlife populations that often share habitat with livestock is unknown. We screened for BTB in wildlife
Structural requirements of Tom40 for assembly into preexisting TOM complexes of mitochondria (Publications)
Tom40 is the major subunit of the translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane (the TOM complex). To study the assembly pathway of Tom40, we have followed the integration of the protein into the TO
Lack of insertional-deletional polymorphism in a collection of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> isolates from Ghanaian Buruli ulcer patients (Publications)
Mycobacterium ulcerans causes the devastating infectious skin disease Buruli ulcer and has a monomorphic population structure. The resolution of conventional genetic fingerprinting methods is therefor
Analysis of the <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> genome sequence reveals new loci for variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) typing (Publications)
Screening of the genome sequence of the Mycobacterium ulcerans strain Agy99 from Ghana with tandem repeats finder software revealed 34 novel non-degenerate tandem repeats containing loci suitable for
Oma1, a novel membrane-bound metallopeptidase in mitochondria with activities overlapping with the m-AAA protease (Publications)
The integrity of the inner membrane of mitochondria is maintained by a membrane-embedded quality control system that ensures the removal of misfolded membrane proteins. Two ATP-dependent AAA proteases