Tuberculosis killed 1·45 million people in 2010 and about 500 000 people have drug-resistant disease. Treatment is lengthy, toxic, and costly. Moreover, diagnosis and drug-susceptibility testing are slow. On March 15, results from the Thibela TB study presented at a latebreaking session at the 2012 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections failed to show benefi t of community-wide...

The effect of supplementation of wheat straw (WS) with raw/detoxified mahua cake (MC) on yield and nutritional quality of Pleurotus sajor caju was studied. Raw cake significantly enhanced the yield compared to control and could be tolerated up to a 10% addition. Detoxification further improved the mushroom yield giving a maximum of 1024.7 g kg(-1) from WS supplemented with 20% saponin free deto...

Large freshwater mussels (Unionida) are long-lived, have large bodies, and produce thousands to millions of larvae (glochidia) that usually must attach host fish tissue complete their life cycle. This is an obligate parasitic stage mussel larvae. However, less than one in onemillion find a suitable survive. The degree specificity varies among unionid species, from specialists can successfully p...

Abstract Migration patterns and habitat use of adult barbel ( Barbus barbus ) nase Chondrostoma nasus were monitored by radio telemetry over a period 13 months along 58-km-long section the Austrian part Danube River. The study site is confined upstream downstream two hydropower plants, contains larger tributary, Pielach Telemetry transmitters implanted into fish caught in this tributary after s...

One of the major environmental problems facing the world today is the contamination of soil, water and air by toxic chemicals as a result of industrialization and extensive use of pesticides in agriculture. Incineration is currently the most effective and common remediation practice but is costly in terms of money and energy used. A rapid cost effective and ecologically responsible method of cl...

BACKGROUND Wild mushrooms constitute an important non-timber forest product that provides diverse substances and services, especially food and income for local communities from many parts of the world. This study presents original ethnomycological documentation from the dense rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. METHODS Ethnomycological surveys were made within local communiti...