Mycobacterial lineages causing pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, Ethiopia (Publications)
Molecular typing of 964 specimens from patients in Ethiopia with lymph node or pulmonary tuberculosis showed a similar distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains between the 2 disease manifest
Legionellosis outbreak associated with asphalt paving machine, Spain, 2009 (Publications)
From 1999 through 2005 in Alcoi, Spain, incidence of legionellosis was continually high. Over the next 4 years, incidence was lower, but an increase in July 2009 led health authorities to declare an e
Pediatric disease burden and vaccination recommendations: understanding local differences (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), pertussis (P), hepatitis B (HepB), invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease, and measles cause substantial global morbidity and mortality. METHODS:
Wellbeing impacts of city policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (Publications)
To mitigate climate change, city authorities are developing policies in areas such as transportation, housing and energy use, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to their effects on greenh
Associations between air pollution and socioeconomic characteristics, ethnicity and age profile of neighbourhoods in England and the Netherlands (Publications)
Air pollution levels are generally believed to be higher in deprived areas but associations are complex especially between sensitive population subgroups. We explore air pollution inequalities at nati
Lipidomic "deep profiling": an enhanced workflow to reveal new molecular species of signaling lipids (Publications)
Current mass spectrometry-based lipidomics aims to comprehensively cover wide ranges of lipid classes. We introduce a strategy to capture phospho-monoester lipids and improve the detection of long-cha
The determination of the species specificity of Leishmania antibodies in different groups of human sera (Publications)
Species-specificity of two serological tests has been compared: Indirect immunofluorescence test and C-ELISA using antigens prepared of 7 Leishmania species of various groups of human sera, including
Potential impact of air pollution on multiple sclerosis in Tehran, Iran (Publications)
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) incidence has dramatically increased in Tehran, Iran. The health impact of air pollution in Tehran underscores the attention to a possible association to this envir