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Heptachlor is a pesticide for foliar, soil and structural (buildings) applications. It is particularly effective against termites. However heptachlor and related chlorinated hydrocarbons pose a special problem because they are not easily biodegradable and therefore affect the ecology of the envir...

When propagated in vitro bloodstream forms of all Trypanosoma brucei subspecies give suspension cultures while T Congolense gives predominantly adherent ones. As a result, in vitro assays used in assessing drug sensitivity in T brucei species are unsuitable for T congolense unless a laborious ste...

The fact that expansive soils are a major engineering problem makes their study an important research aspect due to the accruing cost involved in terms of economic loss when construction is undertaken without due consideration to the probability of their presence. Tho...

This study was undertaken to determine the genetic structure, relationship and genetic diversity among 18 populations of goats from sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda (4), Tanzania (5), Kenya (2), Mozambique (2), Nigeria (3), Mali (1) and Guinea Bissau (1) using 11 microsatellite markers. Hetero...

Theileria parva, an intra-cellular protozoan parasite of cattle, causes a lymphoproliferative disease called East Coast fever. The parasite genome is considered to be haploid in both the sporozoite and piroplasm stages of its life cycle while the schizont stages are polyploid. The piroplasm has f...

The indigenous cattle populations of Eastern Africa are vital tr the subsistence and economic development of the region, providing essential food products, sustaining the employment and income of millions of East Africans living in the rural areas, and providing manure as well as draft power used...