European Community Respiratory Health Survey II (ECRHS II) : final report of work package (WP 7) : assessment of chemical elements on PM2.5 collected... (Publications)
The follow-up of a cohort of adults from 21 European centres of the former European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS I, 1989-1992) will examine the long-term effects of exposure to ambient a
Bildatlas = Picture Archive [CD-ROM] (Publications)
Digitaler Bildatlas mit über 5000 Bildern aus der Bildersammlung des Schweizerischen Tropeninstitutes
Myanmar midwife : an eye-opening look at midwifery in rural Myanmar [Video] (Publications)
Every year, approximately one million women in Myanmar give birth; of these, more than 2,400 die from pregnancy related causes. In addition, 33,000 newborns die annually within the first month of thei
Geostatistical modelling of soil-transmitted helminth infection in Cambodia: do socioeconomic factors improve predictions? (Publications)
Soil-transmitted helminth infections are intimately connected with poverty. Yet, there is a paucity of using socioeconomic proxies in spatially explicit risk profiling. We compiled household-level soc
Perceived illness drives participation in mass deworming campaigns in Laos (Publications)
Multiple helminth infections are very common in communities of southern Laos. Preventive chemotherapy in combination with health education is the mainstay of control. We assessed the knowledge, percep
Sequence and expression of a gene from <em>Theileria annulata</em> coding for a 70-kilodalton heat-shock protein (Publications)
A library consisting of randomly sheared Theileria annulata genomic DNA fragments in the vector lambda gt11 was screened with a Drosophila DNA segment containing the coding region of the 70-kDa heat-s
Isolation and functional property of mRNAs coding for human interleukin 2 (Publications)
Interleukin 2 (IL 2) is a lymphokine with specific growth promoting properties for activated T cells. The isolation and purification of specific mRNAs coding for this protein is reported. The analysis
Humoral and cell-mediated immunity to the <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> ring-infected erythrocyte surface antigen in an adult population exposed to... (Publications)
A parasitological and immunological survey was carried out in an area in Papua New Guinea highly endemic for malaria. Two hundred fourteen adult individuals were selected for studies to assess their i