This study is a contribution to the inventory of medicinal plants and other methods used in controlling external parasitic diseases of backyard poultry in the localities of Djougou and Ouaké (department of Donga, Benin). It consists of a survey undertaken from December 2010 to March 2011 through visits and interviews with 210 poultry famers. The results indicate that 13 species of medicinal pla...

Dear Editor, Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)is one of the most prevalent childhood chronic endocrine disorders, which cause short-term and long-term side effects if not controlled appropriately. Traditional medicine (TM) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) have been used extensively for prevention and treatment of T1DM in the past.1 We conducted a study to identify all alternative ...

Feather mites (Astigmata: Analgoidea and Pterolichoidea) are commensal ectosymbionts permanently living on avian hosts. The study was based parasitological examination of 59 bird specimens representing 28 species from the orders Accipitriformes, Apodiformes, Columbiformes, Passeriformes, Pelecaniformes, Strigiformes collected in Artvin, Samsun, Sakarya, Türkiye. We recovered 18 feather mite fam...

Bean common mosaic virus from the genus Potyvirus has a wide range of hosts and very negative impact on cultivated crops Phaseolus. The risk viral infection economically important increases even if carriers are related plant species growing agroecological interfaces. Such have emerged as new for BCMV, usually harboring novel genetic variants virus. A variant BCMV was isolated symptomatic crownv...

This paper reviews the prevailing concept of food and nutrition security and points at needs for concept revisions in order to more comprehensively depict causes and indirect consequences for the food and nutrition insecure, and guide policy actions. The state of realization of food and nutrition security is briefly presented, and the menu of policy actions for enhancing food and nutrition secu...