BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected parasitic disease that is fatal if left untreated. VL is endemic in Morocco and other countries in North Africa were it mainly affects children from rural areas. In Morocco, the direct observation of Leishmania parasites in bone marrow aspirates and serological tests are used to diagnose VL. Glucantime is the first line of treatment. The obj...

Rotylenchulus reniformis is the most damaging nematode pathogen of cotton in Alabama. It is easily introduced into cotton fields via contaminated equipment and, when present, is difficult and costly to control. A trial to monitor the natural migration of R. reniformis from an initial point of origin was established in 2007 and studied over two growing seasons in both irrigated and non-irrigated...

the purpose of this study was to identify daily changes in body weight of broiler chickens using image processing and multi-regression analysis. therefore, thirty 1-day-old broiler chickens were reared under standard rearing condition and after acquiring images they were weighted, individually. from 2490 digital images, six features (perimeter, area convex, major axis, minor axis, eccentricity)...

We investigated the microorganisms causing blood culture-negative endocarditis (BCNE) in Morocco. We tested 19 patients with BCNE by serologic methods, molecular methods, or both and identified Bartonella quintana, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus equi, and Streptococcus oralis in 4 patients. These results highlight the role of these zoonotic agents in BCNE in Morocco.

M. Lharch , J.-N. Chazalviel , F. Ozanam, M. Aggour, and R. B. Wehrspohn 1 Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France 2 Département de Génie Électrique, ESTA, B.P. 33/S, Agadir, Morocco 3 Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université Ibn Tofail, 14000 Kénitra, Morocco 4 Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, 0...

In many parts of the world, impact open landfills on soils, biosphere, and groundwater has become a major concern. These frequently generate pollution plumes, contours which can be delineated by non-intrusive geophysical measurements, but in arid environments, high soils resistivity is usually an obstacle, results low number studies that have been carried out there. addition, such prospecting u...

BACKGROUND The presence in Morocco of Argasid ticks of the Ornithodoros erraticus complex, the vector of tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) in North Africa, has been known since 1919, but the disease is rarely diagnosed and few epidemiological data are available. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Between 2006 and 2011, we investigated the presence of Ornithodoros ticks in rodent burrows in 34 sit...

We developed an irrigation mapping methodology that relies on remotely sensed inputs from MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, globally extensive ancillary sources of gridded climate and agricultural data and on an advanced image classification algorithm. In the first step, we used climate-based indices of surface moisture status and a map of cultivated lands to pro...