INTRODUCTION South Africa has the highest reported rates of multi-drug resistant TB in Africa, typified by poor treatment outcomes, attributable mainly to high default and death rates. Concomitant HIV has become the strongest predictor of death among MDR-TB patients, while anti-retroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically reduced mortality. TB Case fatality rate (CFR) is an indicator that specific...

Nipah virus (NiV) is a paramyxovirus that causes severe disease in humans and animals. There are two distinct strains of NiV, Malaysia (NiVM) and Bangladesh (NiVB). Differences in transmission patterns and mortality rates suggest that NiVB may be more pathogenic than NiVM. To investigate pathogenic differences between strains, 4 African green monkeys (AGM) were exposed to NiVM and 4 AGMs were e...

conclusions cyp27b1-1260 polymorphism is associated with abnormal glucose metabolism in hcv infected patients. hcv infected individuals with cyp27b1-1260 genotype cc appeared to have an increased risk of developing abnormal fpg levels. results in hcv infected patients with abnormal fpg levels, the frequency of the genotype cc was significantly higher than that in patients with normal fpg levels...

The purpose of this observational study was to compare the performance a novel on-farm culture (OFC) test with reference method (RM) in identifying pathogens, and particular Staphylococcus aureus, associated subclinical mastitis (SCM) dairy cattle. OFC (Mastatest HiSCC; Mastaplex Limited) for SCM uses cartridge 2 × 12 wells allowing 1 sample be analyzed duplicate (24 wells) or samples simultane...

There is limited information on the value of antibiotic therapy for mastitis in beef cows. Effects of antibiotic treatment at weaning and the subsequent calving on calf weaning weight, milk somatic cell counts, milk components, and intramammary infection were studied in beef cows. Additionally, effects of number of infected mammary quarters, number of dry mammary quarters, type of intramammary ...

Drought stress is considered as the most important limiting factor for growing of crops such as maize. Under low irrigation conditions, proper nutrition of plants can improve the effects of drought stress. This experiment was carried out in order to investigate the effect of nutrition management along with application of zeolite on agronomic traits of two hybrids of maize under deficit irrigati...