Amber SOLANGI1,∗, Saima MEMON, Arfana MALLAH, Najma MEMON, Muhammad Yar KHUHAWAR, Muhammad Iqbal BHANGER National Center of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry, University of Sindh, Jamshoro-PAKISTAN e-mail: [email protected] Institute of Advance Research Studies in Chemical Sciences, University of Sindh, Jamshoro-PAKISTAN M. A. Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh, Jamshoro-PAK...

The population genetic studies on a small sub-tribe of 50 strictly endogamous individuals, i.e., Setharani (tribe Noohani) settled in southern Sindh (Pakistan) suggest a typical allelic frequencies of Rh (D=1.0, d = 0.0) and ABO (A = 0.58, B = 0.05, O = 0.40). This frequency is different from main Noohani tribe, settled in the northern Sindh and other populations of Sindh. The blood groups appe...

There is currently an ongoing epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Sindh Province. The Sindh Government has established a program for delivering HIV/AIDS prevention services to jail inmates. The objective of this study was to establish baseline HIV prevalence in Sindh jails. Anonymous unlinked volunteer testing was offered to 15000 jail inmates across nine jails in six cities of Sindh, of which 4987 (33%) a...

By A. G. ARFAN†‡, R. MUHAMAD†§, D. OMAR†, A. A. NOR AZWADY¶ and G. MANJERI† †Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, ‡Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop Protection, Sindh Agriculture University, Tando Jam, Sindh, Pakistan and ¶Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, ...

Identification of the students who are most likely to succeed in the nursing programmes has always remained an important goal of nursing schools and nurse educators. This study was conducted to identify predictors of academic performance of the students in the first year of basic nursing diploma programme in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. For this descriptive study, data was collected from Si...

1Health Oriented Preventive Education (HOPE), Karachi, Pakistan. 2World Health Organization, Sindh, Pakistan. 3TB Control Programme, Pakistan. ABSTRACT We investigated gender differences in knowledge of and attitude towards tuberculosis (TB) in urban and rural communities in Sindh province, Pakistan. Knowledge of symptoms was generally deficient, particularly in rural females. Regarding TB prev...

Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) in Pakistan and northwestern India is caused by monopartite begomoviruses in association with an essential, disease-specific satellite, Cotton leaf curl Multan betasatellite (CLCuMB). Following a recent upsurge in CLCuD problems in Sindh province (southern Pakistan), sequences of clones of CLCuMB were obtained from Sindh and Punjab province (central Pakistan), w...

OBJECTIVE The present study was conducted to examine the filarial nematodes of house sparrow [Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)] and Sindh sparrow (P. pyrrhonotus Blyth, 1844) from Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. METHODS Twenty-three house sparrows and 12 Sindh sparrows were examined for nematode parasites. A total of seven birds were found infected by 16 filarial worms belonging to the genus Dip...

during a survey of sindh and punjab provinces of pakistan, two dragonfly genera were collected and identified for the first time from the country. anaciaeshna(family aeshnidae) is a genus of large dragonflies. representatives were collectedfrom gujjo, district thatta (sindh) in august 2008 and were identified as anaciaeshna jaspidea (burmeister). the second genus was epophthalmia (family cordul...

A 2013-2014 media campaign in Sindh Province, Pakistan, promoted healthy breastfeeding practices. According to data from annual household surveys, 26.7% of mothers saw one television spot and 19.4% saw another. The proportion of mothers who received breastfeeding information via television increased from 8.3% to 29.4% after the campaign (p≤0.05) and the percentage receiving information from doc...