Asthma and allergies: is the farming environment (still) protective in Poland? The GABRIEL Advanced Studies (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Evidence exists that a farming environment in childhood may provide protection against atopic respiratory disease. In the GABRIEL project based in Poland and Alpine regions of Germany, Aus
Preparedness of anesthesiologists working in humanitarian disasters (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Many skills needed to provide patients with safe, timely, and adequate anesthesia care during humanitarian crisis and disaster relief operations are not part of the daily routine before dep
Collection, verification, sharing and dissemination of data: the CONTRAST experience (Publications)
The scientific community is charged with growing demands regarding the management of project data and outputs and the dissemination of key results to various stakeholders. We discuss experiences and l
The impact of a depression awareness campaign on mental health literacy and mental morbidity among gay men (Publications)
BACKGROUND: High prevalences of depression and suicidality have been found among gay men. This paper assesses the possible impact of Blues-out, a depression awareness campaign based on the European Al
Discovery and structure-activity relationships of pyrrolone antimalarials (Publications)
In the pursuit of new antimalarial leads, a phenotypic screening of various commercially sourced compound libraries was undertaken by the World Health Organisation Programme for Research and Training
Prevalence of active convulsive epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa and associated risk factors: cross-sectional and case-control studies (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa seems to be higher than in other parts of the world, but estimates vary substantially for unknown reasons. We assessed the prevalence and r
Evidence for diversifying selection in a set of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> genes in response to antibiotic- and nonantibiotic-related... (Publications)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health problem estimated to kill 1.4 million people per year. Recent advances in the genomics of the causative agents of TB, bacteria known as the Mycobacterium tuberculo
Epidemiology of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> gametocytemia in India: prevalence, age structure, risk factors and the role of a predictive score for... (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To characterise the epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytemia and determine the prevalence, age structure and the viability of a predictive model for detection. METHODS: We collec