Publications

human leptospirosis in somalia: a serological survey.	sera from somalis of both sexes between the ages of 16 and 60 were examined for leptospiral agglutinins. 37% of 105 apparently healthy individuals living in the arid mogadishu area were positive, as were 64% of 107 schistosomiasis patients living in two villages on the shabeele river (50.5% over-all). pools of sera from similar subjects, as well as leprosy patients living on the juba river and patients in mogadishu hospitals with suspected viral hepatitis showed a similar prevalence rate of 56%. ...	1982	6980503
[styloconops hamariensis n. sp. in somalia (diptera, ceratopogonidae)].	a new species of the genus styloconops (s. hamariensis n. sp.) is described on material collected in somalia in the coastal area near mogadiscio. this ceratopogonid midge is common during the rainy seasons and it has been observed biting on man and cattle. the new species is morphologically similar to s. spinosifrons from which it can be clearly differentiated for at least some diagnostic characters both in the female and male adults.	1983	6543938