Publications
Age, Period and Cohort effects in the Decline of Party Identification in Germany. An Analysis of a Two Decade Panel Study in Germany (1992-2009) KU Leuven
Associations of collagen type I α2 polymorphisms with the presence of intracranial aneurysms in patients from Germany Vrije Universiteit Brussel
OBJECTIVE: Subarachnoid hemorrhage from ruptured intracranial aneurysms is associated with a severe prognosis. Preventive treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms is possible and recommended. However, the identification of risk patients by genetic analyses is not possible because of lack of candidate genes. Collagen type I α2 (COL1A2) has been associated with the presence of aneurysms in patients from Japan, China, and Korea. In this ...
Germany and United Nations peacekeeping: the cautiously evolving contributor Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Severe Plasmodium knowlesi infection with multi-organ failure imported to Germany from Thailand/Myanmar Institute of Tropical Medicine
During the last two decades human infections with Plasmodium knowlesi are increasingly diagnosed in South East Asia and have also been reported in travellers. A severe case of imported P. knowlesi infection in a 73-year old German is presented, who had been travelling through Myanmar and Thailand for three weeks. Microscopy showed a parasitaemia of 3% and different parasite stages including band-forms resembling Plasmodium malariae. Due to ...