In Uganda, as in many other African countries, herbal treatment of various diseases is still common. In the present study, 9 plant species collected from Tanzania and Uganda and used by traditional healers in southern-eastern Uganda for the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) were extracted and screened for their in vitro activity against Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiens...

Article history: Received on: 29/06/2015 Revised on: 19/09/2015 Accepted on: 27/12/2015 Available online: 30/04/2016 In Africa, various medicines are used in animal diseases treatment. This study aims to identify the medicinal plants that are often used to cure bacterial diseases in domestic animals, in order to promote their rational and sustainable use. The work was performed by working with ...

Weeksella virosa is an aerobic Gram-negative rod that has rarely been reported to cause infection. We describe a fatal case of W. virosa sepsis in a young female with end-stage renal disease, report three additional cases of W. virosa infection, and review the literature regarding this infection.

A total of ten plant samples of Securinega leucopyrus (Ghat-bor) were collected from specific locations of Sanganer region of Rajasthan for isolation of fungal endophytes. Of these, maximum frequency of Colletotrichum gleosporioides (24.94 %) were recorded which are morphologically similar but ecologically variant. The present paper discusses the diversity of Colletotrichum gleospoirioides with...