[Management of lice infestations, recommendations for 2012].

Pediculosis is the most frequent and contagious ectoparasitic infestation in human, particularly in children from 3 to 8 years of age. Epidemics are observed from time to time, in schools or in adults in prisons. Even though benign, these infections remain unpleasant and can have an important psyco-social impact.

[Scabies in 2012].

Scabies is a parasitic infection known all over the world and particularly in a low socioeconomic context and in institutions. The transmission is mainly direct from skin-to-skin. An increase of cases has been observed in Geneva since October 2011.

Telepresence experienced in videoconference varies according to emotions involved in videoconference sessions.

Previous studies have linked telepresence to the strength of the therapeutic relationship experienced during telepsychotherapy. This finding comes as a surprise for many people who have been involved in a teleconference meeting, where telepresence is often considered weak. The aim of this study is to (re)evaluate the impact of emotional engagement on telepresence.

[Provides a guide to self-treatment as ethically acceptable compensation for having participated in a psychiatry research project].

Due to ethical constraints imposed by Research Ethics Board, it may be difficult to offer participants adequate compensations for their involvement in the study, or compensations that do not have a coercive impact on the participant's ability to refuse to participate. The current study aims at providing empirical data supporting an innovative solution: the provision of a self-help treatment manual. The samples consists of 33 adults (24 females, 9 males) aged between 20 and 59 and all suffering from pathological fear of heights.

Role of lipid composition and lipid peroxidation in the sensitivity of fungal plant pathogens to aluminum chloride and sodium metabisulfite.

Aluminum chloride and sodium metabisulfite have shown high efficacy at low doses in controlling postharvest pathogens on potato tubers. Direct effects of these two salts included the loss of cell membrane integrity in exposed pathogens. In this work, four fungal potato pathogens were studied in order to elucidate the role of membrane lipids and lipid peroxidation in the relative sensitivity of microorganisms exposed to these salts.

The Pseudozyma flocculosa actin promoter allows the strong expression of a recombinant protein in the Pseudozyma species.

Fungi belonging to the recently classified genus Pseudozyma possess some unique properties such as biocontrol activity, production of rare antimicrobial glycolipids and production of recombinant proteins. In this work, we report the first cloning of a promoter endogenous to the multi-faceted yeast-like Pseudozyma flocculosa, that of the actin gene. The promoter region lacked typical TATA or CAAT box but displayed three putative GC box and two CT-rich regions.