Paenibacillus larvae is a highly contagious and often lethal widely distributed pathogen of honeybees, Apis mellifera but has not been reported in eastern Africa to date. We investigated the presence of P. larvae in the eastern and western highland agro-ecological zones of Uganda by collecting brood and honey samples from 67 honeybee colonies in two sampling occasions and cultivated them for P....

In this paper, we utilize a systematic review to assess opportunities and challenges in wind energy development Uganda. Apart from being an environmentally friendly renewable resource, of could boosts economic growth creates jobs. For Uganda, rising demand, need reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increasing electricity access rural areas, emerge as rational invest energy. The main obstacles Ugand...

Uganda is the only country where the chronic and acute forms of human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness both occur and are separated by < 100 km in areas north of Lake Kyoga. In Uganda, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes is the main vector of the Trypanosoma parasites responsible for these diseases as well for the animal African Trypanosomiasis (AAT), or Nagana. We used highly polymorp...

BACKGROUND Sleeping sickness is a parasitic, vector-borne disease, carried by the tsetse fly and prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease continues to pose a public health burden in Uganda, which experienced a widespread outbreak in 1900-1920, and a more recent outbreak in 1976-1989. The disease continues to spread to uninfected districts. OBJECTIVES This paper compares the spatial distri...

BACKGROUND Over the years, Uganda has been one of the low and middle-income countries bearing the heaviest burden of road traffic incidents (RTI). Since the proclamation of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011 - 2020, a number of measures have been taken to reduce the burden. However, they ought to be premised on existing evidence-based research; therefore, the present revie...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the current work distribution of health professionals from a public Ugandan medical school in a period of major donor funding for HIV programmes. We explore the hypothesis that programmes initiated under unprecedented health investments from the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief have possibly facilitated the drain of healthcare wo...

After a 16-year interval, foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype SAT 3 was isolated in 2013 from an apparently healthy long-horned Ankole calf that grazed close to buffalo in Uganda. The emergent virus strain is ≈20% different in nucleotide sequence (encoding VP1 [viral protein 1]) from its closest relatives isolated previously from buffalo in Uganda.

TONY L. GOLDBERG 5 , THOMAS R. GILLESPIE , INNOCENT B. RWEGO, AND CLOVIS KAGANZI Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Kibale EcoHealth Project, Fort Portal, Uganda Department of ...

This article summarizes observations made in Northern Uganda and a lecture given at the Nodding Syndrome Workshop in Nagasaki September 2013. The objective of the manuscript is to summarize the current knowledge on nodding syndrome and to provide an agenda for investigations into the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and care management of nodding syndrome in Uganda.

Golden monkey populations decline despite improved protection in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda Dennis Twinomugisha and Colin A. Chapman* Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, Makerere University, PO Box 7298, Kampala, Uganda and Anthropology Department and McGill School of Environment, 855 Sherbrooke St West, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, H3A 2T7 and Wildlife Conservat...