ICROFS news 2/2012 Newsletter from ICROFS

Keywords: Lectin pathway, Mannose-binding lectin, MBL2, MASP2, Ficolin, Complement, Innate immunity, Malaria, Placenta,

To avoid the accumulation of undesirable recombinants (dieldrin-resistant females and males that carry the dieldrin- resistance allele in repulsion to the aberration), a pure stock

This spatial assessment is a well-timed support to the national integrated malaria initiative which to seeks to improve the efficacy, effectiveness and sustain- ability of

In conclusion, this economic evaluation of the Dar es Salaam UMCP larviciding programme has shown that, according to commonly used GDP thresholds, this inter- vention is

A total of 12 ticks was collected from snakes and ex- amined by PCR for the presence of the Borrelia spp. Of these, three ticks, all identified as A. reticulatus, were positive

We mapped sites under positive selective pressure, amino acid conservation, protein and RNA structure, overlapping coding frames, CD8 T cell, CD4 T cell and antibody epitopes, and

The antibody response to HTLV-1 has been much less studied than the T cell response. It has long been known that anti-HTLV-antibody can reach very high titres, especially in

In endemic regions, this index is spatially and temporarily variable, and its values can be low (0.1 – 9.9), moderate (10.0 – 49.9), or high (>50) [3], depending on ecological