CHALLENGES TO AGRICULTURE FINANCING IN MALI By Kadidia Konare In Mali, like in many Sub-Saharan countries, inadequate access to credit has remained a central concern for farmers and a key constraint to the modernization and diversification of their activities. The commercial banks’ limited participation in agricultural financing and the hard terms and conditions for obtaining individual loans h...

1 Centre International de Recherche-Développement sur l’Elevage en zone Subhumide (CIRDES), Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 2 Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 3 Central Veterinary Laboratories, Pong-Tamale, Tamale, Ghana, 4 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Bamako, Mali, 5 Laboratoire Central Vétérinaire (LCV)...

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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...

Aphid species feeding on lettuce occupy distinct feeding sites: the lettuce aphid Nasonovia ribisnigri prefers to feed on heart leaves, whereas the potato aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae feeds only on outer leaves. The aphid parasitoid Aphelinus abdominalis, known to be able to regulate M. euphorbiae on many crops, has recently been indicated as a promising biocontrol candidate also for use agains...

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...