Antiplasmodial and antitrypanosomal activity of tanshinone-type diterpenoids from <em>Salvia miltiorrhiza</em> (Publications)
In a medium throughput screen of 880 plant and fungal extracts for antiprotozoal activity, a dichloromethane extract of SALVIA MILTIORRHIZA roots was active against both TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE
Disease awareness of the poultry keepers in Switzerland and their access to information concerning highly pathogenic avian influenza (Publications)
The passive surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in domestic poultry is based essentially on the reporting of suspicious clinical cases by the poultry keepers to the veterinary ser
Reaction pattern to histamine and codeine in a human intradermal skin test model (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Skin prick and intradermal skin tests (IDT) are useful tools in evaluating IgE-mediated allergic disorders. In the literature, many variations of the techniques used are described. No gene
New world cutaneous leishmaniasis in travellers (Publications)
As travel to Latin America has become increasingly common, cutaneous leishmaniasis is increasingly seen among returning travellers--eg, the number of observed cases has doubled in the Netherlands and
Probing the antimalarial mechanism of artemisinin and OZ277 (arterolane) with nonperoxidic isosteres and nitroxyl radicals (Publications)
Peroxidic antimalarials such as the semisynthetic artemisinins are critically important in the treatment of drug-resistant malaria. Nevertheless, their peroxide bond-dependent mode of action is still
Deletion in the gene BruAb2_0168 of <em>Brucella abortus</em> strains: diagnostic challenges (Publications)
Three Brucella abortus strains were isolated from joint hygromas from cows in northern Togo. Two deletions in the 5' side of the gene BruAb2_0168 were identified. As this gene is used for species iden
PolyTB: a genomic variation map for <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the second major cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide. Recent advances in DNA sequencing are leading to the ability to ge
