Indigenous knowledge of Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke, in Burkina Faso

Phenetic relationships among different races of Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke from West Africa.

Striga gesnerioides is a root hemiparasite that primarily parasitizes dicotyledonous species, including cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) and other legumes. Based on the differential resistance response of various cultivars, landraces, and breeding lines, it has been proposed that several distinct races of cowpea-parasitic S. gesnerioides exist in West Africa. In this study, we used amplified fragm...

Antibiotic resistance in Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is one of the Subsaharan African nations. No national services for monitoring of antibiotic resistance are available, so the number of reports of resistance patterns among hospital pathogens are inconsistent. In order to evaluate antibiotic resistance, a total of 1998 valuable microrganisms were analysed during 2000 at the Medical Centre St. Camille of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's c...

Vulnerability Profile of Burkina Faso

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in Burkina Faso.

In Burkina Faso, the levels of plasma homocysteine (Hcy) are lower and the methionine loading tests suggest a more effective Hcy metabolism [1,2]. We found a relevant difference in the allele frequencies of C677T: T 7.7% in the young and 3.3% in old subjects respectively (see Table 1). Frequencies of C677T genotypes in old and young individuals were in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium (HWE). The diff...

Seasonal and Permanent Migration in Burkina Faso

This study examines the determinants of households’ decision to migrate from Burkina Faso to Cote d’Ivoire, a leading country in the Regional West African Union. The paper, unlike most of the previous works, uses a dataset constituted from a two-sided survey conducted in 2002 at the origin and the host country. Therefore, it enables to study two groups of migrants: the seasonal and the permanen...