Augustin Mulangu Mutombo, Gray A Wakamb Kanteng, Kristel Nzeba Tshibanda, Toni Kasole Lubala, Maguy Nsangaji Kabuya, Stanis Okitosho Wembonyama, Oscar Numbi Luboya Département de Pédiatrie, Université de Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo Corresponding author: Gray A Wakamb Kanteng, Département de Pédiatrie, Université de Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du ...

To confirm the presence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Sudan, we tested serum of 8 patients with hemorrhagic fever in a rural hospital in 2008. Reverse transcription-PCR identified Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus. Its identification as group III lineage indicated links to virus strains from South Africa, Mauritania, and Nigeria.

The identical electrophoretic isoenzyme patterns of a human-plasma-resistant Trypanozoon stock from a sheep and of two other stocks from trypanosomiasis patients in the Congo Republic indicated that the sheep stock was probably infective to man. These, and one further human stock from the Congo, closely resembled stocks isolated from man in Liberia and Ivory Coast.

Turkey is one of the countries in which Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is frequently seen and most of the cases are reported between April and August. We describe the first case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in the winter season, when Hyalomma tick activity is absent, from Turkey.

JOSHUA I. ENGEL,* KIZUNGU BYAMANA, CHARLES KAHINDO, JOHN M. BATES & JON FJELDS A Division of Birds, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA Laboratoire d’Ornithologie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles de Lwiro, D/S Bukavu, Sud-Kivu, Congo Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Bukavu State University, Bukavu, Congo University of Copenhagen, Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen, Den...

Fishes normally restricted to inland waters are valuable model systems for historical biogeography, inter alia, because of their limited dispersal abilities and concordance with the distribution patterns of other freshwater taxa (Zogaris et al. 2009). The comparison of fish species assemblages has been the major biogeographical tool for delineating African aquatic ecoregions as the fossil recor...

Biofilm formation is considered to be a selective advantage for Staphylococcus aureus mastitis isolates by facilitating bacterial persistence in the udder. It requires attachment to mammary epithelium, proliferation and accumulation of cells in multilayers. The objective of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of three techniques for the detection of S. aureus biofilm-pos...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare invasive and non-invasive strains of Shigella flexneri isolated from Tehran by a 120 kDa protein band by SDS-PAGE, electron microscopy of cell culture and Congo red dye methods. METHODS S. flexneri strains were isolated by standard bacterial methods from fecal specimens of children attending to the 3 children's hospitals. Phenotype analysis for ...

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a tick-borne viral disease reported from more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, South-East Europe, and the Middle East. The majority of human cases are workers in livestock industry, agriculture, slaughterhouses, and veterinary practice. Nosocomial transmission is also well described. Clinical manifestations are nonspecific and symptoms typically include high...