[This corrects the article on p. 1166 in vol. 8, PMID: 28690605.].

Previous imported cases of Lassa fever (LF) into the United Kingdom from the Ivory Coast and Mali, as well as the detection of Lassa virus (LASV) among the Mastomys natalensis population within Mali has led to the suggestion that the endemic area for LF is expanding. Initial phylogenetic analyses arrange isolates from Mali and the Ivory Coast separately from the classical lineage IV isolates ta...

Rickettsia africae, a recently identified pathogen, was detected for the first time in Amblyomma ticks from Niger, Mali, Burundi, and Sudan, and "R. mongolotimonae" was identified for the first time in Africa. Rickettsiae of unknown pathogenicity and two new ehrlichiae of the Ehrlichia canis group were identified in ticks from Mali and Niger.

OBJECTIVE To determine the genetic diversity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and protease sequences and the presence of mutations linked to antiretroviral (ARV) resistance in treatment-naive, HIV-1-infected individuals living in Mali. METHODS Ninety-eight samples from ARV drug-naive, HIV-1-infected patients were collected in one clinical centre in Bamako, Mali in 2005. RT and protease gen...

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread use of medicinal plants in Mali, knowledge about how traditional practitioners (TPs) treat pregnant and lactating women is lacking. AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of this study was to investigate how traditional practitioners in Mali treat common diseases and ailments during pregnancy. METHODS Data was collected through structured interviews of traditional practi...

abstract in a laboratory study the effect of three insecticides (pirimicarb, pymetrozine and spinosad) was evaluated on aphelinus mali a parasitoid of woolly apple aphid. to investigate the contact effect, adults were caged for 16 hours in petri-dishes containing apple leaves sprayed with each insecticide. to determine the oral toxicity in the same period of time, other petri-dishes containing ...

Maria Laura Alzua, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (Principal Investigator) Amy Janel Pickering, Stanford University, USA Habiba Djebbari, Aix-Marseille University, France Carolina Lopez, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Juan Camilo Cardenas, University of the Andes, Colombia Maria Adelaida Lopera, Université Laval, Canada Nicolas Osbert, UNICEF Massa Coul...

Start-of-season data are more and more used to qualify the land surface phenology trends in relation with climate variability and, more rarely, with human land management. In this paper, we compared the phenology of rangeland vs cropped land in the Sahel belt of Africa, using the only currently available global phenology product (MODIS MCD12Q2 – Land Cover Dynamics Yearly), and an enhanced crop...

According to Ravallion1 84 % of China’s population lived below the international poverty line of $1.25 per day in 1981, when only four countries, Cambodia, Burkina Faso, Mali and Uganda had a higher headcount index than China. However, The Economist (Jun 1st 2013) shows that China pulled 680 million people out of misery and reduced its extreme-poverty rate to 10% through economic growth in the ...

BACKGROUND Mali is one of four countries implementing a National Evaluation Platform (NEP) to build local capacity to answer evaluation questions for maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition (MNCH&N). In 2014-15, NEP-Mali addressed questions about the potential impact of Mali's MNCH&N plans and strategies, and identified priority interventions to achieve targeted mortality reductions. ME...