Contacts between poultry farms, their spatial dimension and their relevance for avian influenza preparedness (Publications)
Ongoing economic losses by and exposure of humans to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry flocks across Asia and parts of Africa and Europe motivate also outbreak-free countries such as
New N-methylpiperazinyl derivatives of bicyclic antiprotozoal compounds (Publications)
The 4-methylpiperazinyl group was inserted as substituent at the bridgehead of bicyclic compounds or as terminal group of their aminoacyl and aminoalkyl side chains. The new compounds were tested in v
Pan-dengue virus detection by PCR for travelers returning from the tropics (Publications)
We performed dengue virus (DENV) serology and quantitative real-time pan-DENV reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) on 186 sera of 171 patients returning from the tropics. DENV loads significantly decrea
Opposite effects of CD14/-260 on serum IgE levels in children raised in different environments (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Most complex diseases are the result of interactions between polymorphisms in the genome and environmental exposures. OBJECTIVE: We sought to investigate the previously reported associatio