Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum nymphs were collected from two localities in the Sudan: Eddamer in Northern Sudan and Wad-Medani in Central Sudan. They were allowed to moult to adult ticks, which were assessed for Theileria infection in their salivary glands using Feulgen stain. At Eddamer, 49.6% of 123 ticks examined were infected with Theileria and the mean intensity of infection was 1.3 (i.e....

1University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan. 2University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. New Halfa Hospital, New Halfa, Sudan. Received: 09/10/02; accepted: 14/09/03 ABSTRACT We carried out a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the clinical efficacy of ceftriaxone and ampicillin/cloxacillin prophylaxis in decreasing the frequency of post-caesarean section infection-related...

Advances in text analysis, particularly the ability to extract network based information from texts, is enabling researches to conduct detailed socio-cultural ethnographies rapidly by retrieving characteristic descriptions from texts and fusing the results from varied sources. We describe this process and illustrate it in the context of conflict in the Sudan. We show how network information can...

1Department of Microbiology and Immunology; 2Malaria Research Centre, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. 3National Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan. ABSTRACT A 1-year prospective community-based study of malaria during pregnancy was conducted in an area of seasonal and unstable malaria transmission in eastern Sudan. At a vill...

A 32P-postlabeling assay was employed for detection and quantitation of DNA adducts formed with carcinogenic 1-phenylazo-2-hydroxynaphthalene (Sudan I, Solvent Yellow 14) activated by a peroxidase system. Enrichment of adducts by digestion with nuclease P1 or by extraction into n-butanol prior to 32P-labeling was used. Both enrichment procedures exhibited comparable results for recovery of indi...

1New Halfa Hospital, New Halfa, Sudan. 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. Received: 14/07/03; accepted: 28/10/03 ABSTRACT A prospective clinical study in eastern Sudan described the efficacy and toxicity of quinine in early pregnancy in mothers with chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria. Twenty-six pregnant Sudanese women in their first trimester (mean gestational...

Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) is caused by Dracunculus medinensis, a parasitic worm. Approximately 1 year after a person acquires infection from contaminated drinking water, the worm will emerge through the skin, usually on the lower limb. Pain and secondary bacterial infection can cause temporary or permanent disability that disrupts work and schooling. In 1986, the World Health Assembl...

Field trials were carried out in the Sudan Savannah of Nigeria to assess the usefulness of CERES-maize crop model as a decision support tool for optimizing maize production through manipulation of plant dates. The calibration experiments comprised of 20 maize varieties planted during the dry and rainy seasons of 2014 and 2015 at Bayero University Kano and Audu Bako College of Agriculture Dambat...

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum MILL.) is usually produced during the winter period in Sudan. In summer due to high temperatures, monthly average temperatures are between 31 to 35°C, a shortage of tomatoes is common. General environmental changes, especially global warming, may have an adverse effect on crop production in Sudan. The objective of this study is (i) to investigate the effect of he...

  In an attempt to characterize Theileria parva parasites circulating in South Sudan cattle , polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays were carried out using four single copy encoding antigen genes p104, PIM, p150 and p67 in addition to one microsatellite MS321. A total of 20 bovine DNA samples from two locations in South Sudan were included in this study, in addition to two references stra...