Throughout their evolutionary history, multicellular animals have been infected by microorganisms. In response, they developed a series of defenses that are used today. Physical and chemical barriers, such as the skin and mucous surfaces, confine microorganisms to the...
The daily life offers me pleasure in several moments, among them to walk for the German class once a week. As the class is with the conversation, integration in Switzerland, I always learn a little more effortlessly. I walk along streets with houses, shop windows,...
I am biologist, a naturalist to be more precise, since I am an ancient person, from Natural History time. I say this to emphasize that I am not a doctor, a pharmacist or a veterinarian, so I am not a homeopath, that is, I do not prescribe or sell homeopathy. But I did...
Switzerland is an interesting country with its paradoxes, highly traditional, but one of the champions in innovation. The conventional pharmaceutical industry is highly developed, with Roche and Novartis, the patent champions, but the largest non-conventional drug...
Background: Leishmaniasis is a major vector-borne metazoonosis disease, caused by obligate intramacrophage protozoa of the genus Leishmania. Their exclusively intracellular life style suggests that the amastigotes possess mechanisms to avoid killing by host cells....
