| insecticide susceptibility and vector status of natural populations of anopheles arabiensis from sudan. | species composition, blood meal source, sporozoite infection rate, insecticide resistance and the kdr mutations were investigated in the anopheles gambiae complex from 13 sentinel sites in central sudan. species identification revealed that 89.5% of 960 specimens were a. arabiensis. of 310 indoor resting females, 88.1% were found to have fed on humans, while 10.6% had fed on bovines. the overall sporozoite infection rate from the five localities tested was 2.3%, ranging from 0 to 5.5%. insectici ... | 2008 | 18054056 |
| A molecular survey on cystic echinococcosis in Sinnar area, Blue Nile state (Sudan). | Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonosis caused by the cestodes of the Echinococcus species. Its life cycle involves dogs and other canids as definitive hosts for the intestinal tapeworm, as well as domestic and wild ungulates as intermediate hosts for the tissue-invading metacestode (larval) stage. The disease has a special impact on disadvantaged pastoralist communities and is listed now among the three top priority neglected tropical disease (NTD). Therefore, CE is a neglected disease even in ... | 2011 | 22040487 |
| akabane virus: serological survey of antibodies in livestock in the sudan. | an investigation was conducted to assess the prevalence of akabane virus antibodies in domestic ruminants from different ecological zones of sudan. neutralizing antibodies were demonstrated in sheep, goats and cattle sampled between 1979 and 1980 from el obeid, nyala, kassala, jonglei and sennar. the highest prevalence was in jonglei where 27% of six sheep, 36% of eleven goats and 47% of 90 cattle had antibodies to the virus. although antibodies were demonstrated in 8% of 79 dams and 15% of 70 d ... | 1996 | 9239934 |