ICROFS news 4/2010 newsletter from ICROFS

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

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

The results showed that Tat-TPI and TPI immunisation in foot pad of mice could induce higher levels Tc1 response in the draining popliteal lymph nodes compared to PBS controls ( P

Furthermore, the cleavage reaction at the proximal site mediated by the embedded protease in precursors carrying different protease sequences or C-terminal fusion peptides