OBJECTIVE To investigate risk factors, including reported net use, for Plasmodium infection and anaemia among school children and to explore variations in effects across different malaria ecologies occurring in Kenya. METHODS This study analysed data for 49 975 school children in 480 schools surveyed during a national school malaria survey, 2008-2010. Mixed effects logistic regression was use...

Amongst Asian countries India is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. During the past century, surface temperature in India has shown a significant increasing trend. In this paper, we have investigated behavior of mean monthly temperature during the period 1901-2001 over four agroclimatic zones of India and also tried to detect structural change in the temperature series. A s...

Neoseiulus californicus was first reported in 1954 in California where it was collected from lemon trees (de Moraes et al. 2004). The predatory mite is distributed all over the world, both in arid and humid areas of sub-tropical and temperate zones. It was collected in Texas (USA), Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Japan, Taiwan (introduced), Portugal, Italy, Fr...

Arid Land Research and Management Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713926000 Soils and Brine Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Hyperarid Desert Playa, Ouargla Basin, Algerian Sahara Belhadj Hamdi-Aissa a; Vincent Valles b; Alain Aventurier c; Olivier Ribolzi d a Université de Ouargla, L. R. de Prot...

The species Proceratophrys cristiceps belongs to the genus Proceratophrys within the family Cycloramphidae. These amphibians are found exclusively in South America in the morphoclimatic domain of the semi-arid depression zones in northeastern Brazil known as the Caatinga. We examined intrapopulational variation using univariate and multivariate statistics with traditional and geometric morphome...

Coccidioidomycosis caused by Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides posadasii is endemic in arid climate zones in America, travel-related cases have been reported. We report the first documented case of coccidioidomycosis in Turkey, overviewing reported cases in Europe and underlying difficulties of differential diagnosis outside endemic regions. The patient was an otherwise healthy 41-year-old m...