Received 30 Apr, 2014 Accepted 25 June, 2014 (006360) 1Laboratoire de Biochimie des Lipides, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, ELmanar-Tunisia, e-mail: [email protected] 1Laboratoire de Biochimie des Lipides, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, 2092 ELmanar-Tunisia *Corresponding author Physicochemical properties and antioxidant activity of Tunisian da...

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) is a herpesvirus that is always associated with Kaposi sarcoma. An enzyme-linked immunoenzymatic assay was used to detect antibodies to the latent nuclear antigen of HHV8 in kidney transplant patients and kidney transplant candidates from Tunisia. A significantly high HHV8 seroprevalence was documented; 17% of kidney transplant patients and 23% in kidney transplant ca...

Sarrah M’Barek 1, Christian Pellevoisin 2, Christophe Chesné 3, Francois Busquet 4 and Ouajdi Souilem 5 Unit of Functional Proteomics and Organic Food Preservation, High Institute of Applied Biological Sciences of Tunis (ISSBAT), University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia; Episkin Academy, Lyon, France; Biopredic International, Saint-Gregoire, France; CAAT-Europe, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, G...

eight selected heavy metals (cu, zn, pb, cd, cr, mn, fe and al) in surface and sub-surfacesediments in the northern coast of sfax (tunisia) were studied in order to assess the sediment quality and tohighlight the anthropogenic contributions to heavy metal distributions in the two study sediment levels.multiple chemometric approaches based on geographic information system (gis), enrichment facto...

In order to establish an updated checklist of terrestrial gastropod from Tunisia, a revision of the species of Sphincterochilidae is presented, using bibliographic and museum records and the results of our own field work. As a result, only two species, Sphincterochila candidissima and Sphincterochila tunetana, are accepted to occur in Tunisia, and their type specimens are illustrated. The study...

A total of 118 sera were collected during 2016 from two groups of dromedaries from Kebili and Medenine governorates in the south of Tunisia. The aim of this study was to provide the first serological investigation of four emerging vector-borne diseases in two groups of dromedaries in Tunisia. Sera were tested by ELISA and serum neutralisation test to identify West Nile virus (WNV), bluetongue v...

The common octopus, (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797) is widely distributed through the world. It represents an important resource with high economic value. It is exploited by trawl and by other gears such as trammel net, pots and it is also captured by diving. Although the multitude of assessment techniques, few fisheries cephalopods were well managed. In Tunisia, common octopus (Octopus vulgari...

In Tunisia, Culex pipiens plays a role in the high annoyance experienced by most urban cities, suburban and rural areas. Resistance to Pirimiphos-methyl was analyzed in five populations of Culex pipiens collected in central Tunisia. Bioassays were performed over different larvae samples. All samples were resistant to Pirimiphos-methyl. The study of the mechanisms involved in this resistance sho...

During September 2010, 133 female sand flies were caught inside houses of patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis in the focus for this disease in southeastern Tunisia and subsequently dissected. One specimen was positive for Leishmania protozoa. This sand fly species was identified as Phlebotomus sergenti, and the parasite was identified as L. tropica. This is the first report of P. sergenti inv...

West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-transmitted Flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of the Flaviviridae family. Its spread in the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans poses a significant risk to human health and forces public health officials to constantly monitor the virus transmission to ensure prompt application of preventive measures. In this context, predicti...