"We treat humans, not herds!": a qualitative study of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers' individualized approaches to vaccination... (Publications)
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers' roles in parents' decision-making about vaccinations for their children have only recently begun receiving research attention, despite studies s
State of deworming coverage and equity in low-income and middle-income countries using household health surveys: a spatiotemporal cross-sectional... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mass deworming against soil-transmitted helminthiasis, which affects 1 billion of the poorest people globally, is one of the largest public health programmes for neglected tropical disease
Case report: human subcutaneous sparganosis in a Thai migrant (Publications)
Human sparganosis is a cestode infection which is neglected as a differential diagnosis outside endemic countries. Diagnosis and therapy may be challenging depending on the clinical presentation and a
Animal-assisted therapy for patients in a minimally conscious state: a randomized two treatment multi-period crossover trial (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To investigate if animal-assisted therapy (AAT) leads to higher consciousness in patients in a minimally conscious state during a therapy session, measured via behavioral reactions, heart r
Exogenous iron increases fasciocidal activity and hepatocellular toxicity of the synthetic endoperoxides OZ78 and MT04 (Publications)
The synthetic peroxides OZ78 and MT04 recently emerged as fasciocidal drug candidates. However, the effect of iron on fasciocidal activity and hepatocellular toxicity of these compounds is unknown. We
Reasons for prehospital delay in acute ischemic stroke (Publications)
Background Prehospital delay reduces the proportion of patients with stroke treated with recanalization therapies. We aimed to identify novel and modifiable risk factors for prehospital delay. Methods
Neglected tropical diseases in the People's Republic of China: progress towards elimination (Publications)
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, considerable progress has been made in the control and elimination of the country's initial set of 11 neglected tropical diseases. Indeed,
Antiprotozoal and antihelminthic properties of plants ingested by wild Japanese macaques (<em>Macaca fuscata yakui</em>) in Yakushima Island (Publications)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Primates forage on a variety of plant parts to balance their dietary intake to meet requirements of energy, nutrition and maintenance, however the reason(s) leading the
Fluorescence in situ hybridization for rapid identification of <em>Achromobacter xylosoxidans</em> and <em>Alcaligenes faecalis</em> recovered from... (Publications)
Achromobacter xylosoxidans is frequently isolated from the respiratory secretions of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, but identification with biochemical tests is unreliable. We describe fluorescence in
