Lassa fever is a zoonotic disease endemic in West Africa but with no previous case reported in Ghana. We describe the first two laboratory confirmed cases of Lassa fever from the Ashanti Region of Ghana detected in October and December, 2011.

BACKGROUND Historical proven wood species have no reported adverse health effect associated with its past use. Different historical proven species have traditionally been used to manufacture different wooden food contact items. This study uses survey questionnaires to assess suppliers', manufacturers', retailers' and consumers' (end-users') preferences for specific wood species, to examine the ...

Die Zusammenarbeitsmodelle in der Automotive Software Domäne werden immer komplexer und flexibler. Die Auftraggeber (hier ein OEM) von Steuergeräten entwickeln immer mehr Software-Teile selbst und stellen sie dem Zulieferer (hier ein Tier1) zur Integration zur Verfügung. Unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen geht es aber auch in die umgekehrte Richtung: Software, die vom Tier1 entwickelt wurde, wird...

SW-163A and B, novel immunosuppressants, were isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces sp. SNA15896. The molecular formulas of SW-163A and B were determined as C34H42N2O12 and C33H40N2O12 based on the HRFAB-MS analysis, respectively. Both compounds were elucidated to be a large ring ester structure through spectroscopic analyses including various NMR measurements. SW-163A and B showed im...

The story below of a Ghanaian midwife from the Ashanti region illustrates how one person was able to mobilize local community members in rural Piase in the Bosomtwi district to create demand for, and improve access to and use of, emergency and routine maternal health services. Her story demonstrates how involving communities in maternal health issues can improve both access to services and mate...

The following are notes of a case of Blackwater fever, occurring in this country three weeks after arrival from West Africa :? The patient had been, for the greater portion of the last nine years, engaged in mining operations in Ashanti, during which time he repeatedly suffered from malarial fever of the daily type. He had been very careless in adopting the usual antimalarial precautions, viz.,...