A Congo red-magnesium oxalate agar medium was developed to detect expression of virulence-associated calcium dependency and Congo red absorption in Yersinia enterocolitica. Of the 157 pathogenic serotypes tested, 119 (75.8%) were positive; 98% of nonpathogenic serotypes and strains of three other Yersinia species were negative.

Eric Mbuya Musapudi, Aimé Lukoba Bwalya, Igor Mujinga wa Mujinga, Didier Tshibangu Mujinga, Julien Ilunga Nikulu, Guy Nday Ilunga Département de Chirurgie, Cliniques Universitaires de Lubumbashi, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Republique Démocratique du Congo, Pathologiste Cliniques Universitaires de Lubumbashi, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Lubumbashi, Lubumbas...

* Department of Environmental Medicine, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan * * Department of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan ** * Ndeko Basile Medical Center, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo **** Department of Pediatrics, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo ***** Department of Health Sci...

Screening of fetal alcohol syndrome using the T-ACE questionnaire in semi-rural areas around Lubumbashi: lessons learned Toni Kasole Lubala, Nina Lubala, Augustin Mulangu Mutombo, Olivier Mukuku, Oscar Numbi Luboya Faculty of Medecine, University of Lubumbashi, BP 1825, Democratic Republic of Congo Corresponding author: Olivier Mukuku, Faculty of Medecine, University of Lubumbashi, BP 1825, Dem...

A new species, Kosteletzkya rotundalata, is described from northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. A second species, K. borkouana, originally characterized as endemic to northern Chad, is here documented from several localities in the Albertine Rift of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* Department of Environmental Medicine, Kochi University Medical School, Nankoku, Japan * * Service de Dermatologie, HopitalGénéral de Kinshasa, RépubliqueDémocratique du Congo ** * Centre hospitalierNdeko-Basile, Kinshasa, RépubliqueDémocratique du Congo **** Department of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthata, South Africa ***** Disaster Nursing Global Leader doctoral Program (DNG...

[No Abstract] To the editor: In a recent publication entitle “Surveillance of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Pakistan”  published in “The Lancet Infectious Diseases”, the authors claimed that before the Eid al-Adha, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)-livestock infected are imported from Iran and Afghanistan to Baluchistan province of Pakistan and then tran...

The removal of color from synthetic wastewater containing Congo red was experimentally investigated using electrocoagulation process. The effects of operational parameters such as current density, electrolysis time, electrolyte concentration, electrode distance, initial dye concentration, initial pH and temperature on color removal efficiency were investigated in this study. The tentative resul...

An article on the conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, challenging scholars whose analyses constitute a scholarly and moral vindication to racist instigators violence their bigoted rhetoric Congo.

In a recent issue of PNAS, Scheinfeldt et al. (1) maintained that, although Fulani mtDNA is consistent with a West African origin, the linguistic and nonrecombinant portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) supports a Middle Eastern origin for this population. Although this is their opinion, the linguistic and genetic evidence fails to support this conclusion. The Fulani speak a Niger-Congo language. T...