1 Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3 Médecins Sans Frontières United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom, 4 Centre de Recherche Clinique, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, ...

Sulfadoxine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum undermines malaria prevention with sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine. Parasites with a highly resistant mutant dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) haplotype have recently emerged in eastern Africa; they negated preventive benefits of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, and might exacerbate placental malaria. We explored emerging lineages of dhps mutant haplotypes in Malaw...

13 The nutritive value of 20 forage plants commonly used for feeding pigs in the Democratic 14 Republic of the Congo was studied to determine chemical composition, protein amino acid 15 profiles, mineral content, and in vitro digestibility using a two-steps method combining an 16 enzymatic pepsin and pancreatin hydrolysis followed by a 72h gas-test fermentation. The 17 highest protein contents ...

Gnetum africanum (eru or African Jointfir) is a vine gymnosperm species found natively throughout tropical Africa.[1] Though bearing leaves, the genus Gnetum are gymnosperms, related to pine and other conifers.[2][3][4] Eru has numerous common names and is grown in various countries across Africa, including: Cameroon (Eru, okok, m’fumbua, or fumbua), Angola (KoKo), Nigeria (ukase or afang), Gab...

Three females and one male specimen of a previously unconfirmed species of horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) from South Africa are described using Scanning Electron Microscopy. The females correspond to the description of Chordodes ferox Camerano, 1897, a species previously described from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and an adjacent, not further specified region of the Rep...

Space observations have shown that the highest concentrations of lightning on the Earth are mostly on the territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). The global climatology of lightning activity proposed by Christian et al.1 and based on data recorded during five years (May 1995-March 2000) by the Optical Transient Detector (OTD) loaded on board the satellite MicroLab-1, highlight...

Konzo is an irreversible paralysis of the legs that occurs mainly in children and women of child bearing age in Mozambique, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR) and probably other countries. It is an upper motor neuron disease of sudden onset due to large intakes of cyanide from cassava over a fairly short period. Epidemics may occur as a result...

Konzo is an irreversible paralysis of the legs that occurs mainly in children and women of child bearing age in Mozambique, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR) and probably other countries. It is an upper motor neuron disease of sudden onset due to large intakes of cyanide from cassava over a fairly short period. Epidemics may occur as a result...

ZOLTÁN T. NAGY, VÁCLAV GVOŽDÍK, DANNY MEIRTE, MARCEL COLLET & OLIVIER S.G. PAUWELS 1Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Joint Experimental Molecular Unit, Rue Vautier 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] 2Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic 3National Museum, Department of Zoology, Cirkusová...

background: maternal health care utilization continues to focus on the agenda of health care planners around the world, with high attention being paid to the developing countries. the devastating effect of maternal death at birth on the affected families is untold. this study examines the utilization of obstetric care in the democratic republic of congo. we have used the nationally representati...