Background: Childhood obesity has increased dramatically and has become a public health concern worldwide. Childhood obesity is likely to persist through adulthood and may lead to early onset of NCDs. However, there is paucity of data on obesity among primary school children in Tanzania. This study assessed the prevalence and determinants of obesity among primary school children in Dar es Salaa...

MACKEY (1955), working in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, found the house lizard population to be heavily infected with salmonella organisms. Out of 301 lizards investigated by him from 1943 to 1953 he recovered salmonellre from 144, giving the high figure of 48 per cent positive isolations. Two new types, Salmonella mgulani and S. lindi, were found. During 1956 an investigation of the types of salm...

1Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Biogeography, University of Basel, Switzerland 2Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, UK 3School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK 4Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK 5Applied Biodiversity Research Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Afric...

Understanding of the urban climate of a city is important for future planning and human wellbeing. The well known Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET) and the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) indices were calculated with RayMan model using meteorological data (2001-2011) in order to study the human thermal bioclimate of Dar es Salaam. Results indicate that afternoons from late Sep...

Epidemiological data on carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria on the African continent are limited. Here, we report the identification of VIM-2-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in Tanzania. Eight out of 90 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa from a tertiary care hospital in Dar es Salaam were shown to harbor bla(VIM-2). The bla(VIM-2)-positive isolates belonged to two different...

Author details Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda. Evaplan GmbH the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Ifakara Health Institute, Dar-es-Salaam, Tan...

1 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Uni...

M.G. Aabye***, M. Ruhwald***, G. PrayGod, K. Jeremiah, M. Faurholt-Jepsen, D. Faurholt-Jepsen, N. Range, H. Friis, J. Changalucha, A.B. Andersen and P. Ravn *Clinical Research Center, University of Copenhagen, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Dept of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Dept of Infectious Diseases, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospita...

Godwin Mjema at the Economic Research Bureau and Servacius Likwelile at the Department of Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam helped with logistics in Tanzania and Peter Engseld assisted during the experiments in Sweden. We are grateful for comments by James Cox, Catherine Eckel, Glenn W. Harrison, Stephen Knack and two anonymous referees. Earlier versions of the paper have been presen...

Author details Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, P.O. Box 30270-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. Division of Chemical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, P.O. Box 19113, Cape Town, South Africa. PathCare Kenya Ltd, P.O. Box 12560-00606, Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Human Pathology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676-00200, Nair...