Concentration of Transferrin Receptors, Hlosukwazi Khumalo, Zvenyika A.R. Gomo, Innocent T. Gangaidzo, Victor M. Moyo, Eberhard Mandishona, Thokozile Saungweme, Tracey A. Rouault, Victor R. Gordeuk, and A. Patrick MacPhail (Departments of 1 Medicine and 2 Chemical Pathology, Univ. of Zimbabwe Medical School, Avondale Harare, Zimbabwe; 3 Div. of Hematology and Oncology, Dept. of Medicine, George...

Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, Ashworth Laboratories, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK, Laboratoire d’Immunologie, et Unité Inserm 932, InsermCIC-BT507 IGR/Curie, Institut Curie, 75005 Paris, France, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, INSERM U 1...

This paper discusses the challenges, difficulties and problems faced by humanitarian organisations in running logistics systems Worldwide in Africa and particularly in Southern Africa, with a focus on some systems in Zimbabwe. Mini-case studies of the operations of the World Food Programme, the International Red Cross Society and the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society, the World Health Organisation, th...

SOUTHERN AFRICA “In a little town not far from where I live, children suck salt to make themselves thirsty. Their thirst makes them drink more water and this fills their stomachs and helps to suppress the hunger in their bellies. It is almost beyond belief that three years ago Zimbabwe was called the breadbasket of Africa” (excerpt from Zimbabwean farmer, Cathy Buckle’s online journal, 22 Febru...

This article analyses the impact of the rinderpest animal disease outbreak on human populations in early colonial Zimbabwe. It is informed by the realisation that, while animal diseases may not infect human beings directly, they may cause untold damage to both the health and the economy of human beings and influence human institutions and policies in a variety of ways. By using the rinderpest p...

Adeline Salim and Stephen Gordon, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK; Tapiwa Bwakura, Department of Medicine, Harare, Zimbabwe; and Narcisius Dzvanga, Department of Medicine, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Correspondence to: Dr Stephen Gordon, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK. Email: [email protected] Introduction As in much of sub-Saharan Africa, r...

SETTING This study determined the number of slides required to identify one additional case of sputum smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) from the third smear. The study hypothesis was that not more than 100 and 75 slides, respectively, in Mongolia and Zimbabwe, need to be examined to find one additional case of TB with a third serial diagnostic sputum smear examination. METHODS In a retrospecti...

A tomato-infecting tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) isolate was detected in Zimbabwe using lateral flow kits and double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Next-generation sequencing and de novo assembly were subsequently performed to determine its genome sequence. The ToMV genome of the Zimbabwe isolate is the second to be reported in Africa.

Field Epidemiology in Africa Sheba Nakacubo Gitta, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Mufuta Tshimanga African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), Makerere University School of Public Health, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Zimbabwe Field Epidemiology Training Program, Department of Community Medicine, Harare, Zimbabwe Corresponding author: Sheba Nakacubo Gitta, African Field ...

PETER A. LINDSEY,∗†† L. G. FRANK,† R. ALEXANDER,‡ A. MATHIESON,§ AND S. S. ROMAÑACH∗ ∗Tropical Resource Ecology Programme, University of Zimbabwe, Box 167, Mt. Pleasant, Zimbabwe †Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-3160, U.S.A. ‡Department of Environmental Studies, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA 24595, U.S.A. §Mpala research Centre, P.O. B...