Tropical diseases are infectious diseases that are found predominantly in the tropics, where
ecological and socioeconomic conditions facilitate their propagation. Climatic, social, and …

One of the fundamental challenges that the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC)
has had to face is how to identify the endemic communities where its mass ivermectin…

… need to be treated above 500 m altitude because they were too small … In summary, temephos
was applied at 0.4 l/(m 3 … River discharges less than 0.01 m 3 /s were considered too low to …

… Generally roots contain more such unknown compounds than leaves; identification and
quantitation were not attempted m this study. Total alkaloid content of each species (the sums of …

… For each location in the surveyed area, the predicted probability that the true prevalence
exceeds 40% was estimated by calculating Z = {(logit(0.4)−M)/S, where M is the local predicted …

… M independent, identically distributed zero-mean Gaussian variables Z j with variance σ 2 ,
ie ∑ j = 1 M … Following the procedure suggested by Rodriguez and Diggle [46], we used M = …

… 0 to 0.5 M NaCl in 20 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH 8.0; total volume, 4 ml) and then with 4 ml of 0.5
M … Elution was performed with a continuous linear gradient of 0 to 0.5 M NaCl in 20 mM Tris-…

The cDNA for a platelet-activating factor (PAF) receptor was cloned from a human leukocyte
cDNA library using a 0.8-kilobase pair fragment of the guinea pig lung PAF receptor cDNA (…

… (m j + 1) and β = (n j − m j + 1) [42]. Here, n j is the number of individuals examined for mf and
m … by generating a random value Pmf j from Beta(m j + 1, n j − m j + 1) for each of the J strata…

Background Onchocerciasis causes a considerable disease burden in Africa, mainly through
skin and eye disease. Since 1995, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (…