Goat farming holds great importance in the KwaZulu Natal province, it offers means to generate income specially sustain rural households. Employment and food security are accounted for. Proper management of goats play a prime role improving productivity herds. To discover what influence various practices have on production goats, data was collected from seventy farmers uMgungundlovu district Kw...

Tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis (nagana) has been the cause of stock losses in the recent past and still presents a major problem to livestock owners in certain areas of KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. Over 10 000 cattle mortalities were reported in the 1990 nagana outbreak. Although information on the distribution and abundance of the tsetse flies Glossina brevipalpis and Glossina austeni in...

We present an emergent universe scenario making use of a new solution of the Starobinsky model. The solution belongs to a one parameter family of solutions, where the parameter is determined by the number and the species (spin-values) of primordial fields. The general features of the model have also been studied. PACS numbers : 04.20.Jb, 98.80.Cq, 98.80.Jk Email: [email protected] Email: bc...

BACKGROUND Recently, a global commitment has been made to expand access to antiretrovirals (ARVs) in the developing world. However, in many resource-constrained countries the number of individuals infected with HIV in need of treatment will far exceed the supply of ARVs, and only a limited number of health-care facilities (HCFs) will be available for ARV distribution. Deciding how to allocate t...

Empirical Mode Decomposition in 2-D space and time: a tool for space-time rainfall analysis and nowcasting S. Sinclair and G. G. S. Pegram Civil Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Received: 23 December 2004 – Accepted: 9 February 2005 – Published: 10 February 2005 Correspondence to: S. Sinclair ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Cr...

To determine whether women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) were more likely than men to have extensively drug-resistant TB, we reviewed 4,514 adults admitted during 2003-2008 for drug-resistant TB. Female sex independently predicted extensively drug-resistant TB, even after we controlled for HIV infection. This association needs further study.

We performed spoligotyping and 24-locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing on M. tuberculosis culture-positive biopsy specimens collected from adults dying in a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal. Of 56 culture-positive samples genotyped, we detected mixed strains in five (9%) and clonal heterogeneity in an additional four (7%).

RESEARCH ARTICLE Logistic Regression Additive Model: Application to Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey Data W.J. Dlamini, S.F. Melesse and H.G. Mwambi Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Zululand, Private Bag X1001, KwaDlangezwa, 3886, South Africa Collage of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, School of mathematics, statistics and comput...