Introduction Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the first-line antimalarial drugs used to treat uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum alaria in many endemic countries worldwide. The present work reviewed the therapeutic efficacy of ACT in Cameroon more than 10 years after the initial change in national drug policy in 2004.Methods A Pu...
Cette étude propose une description et une analyse des conditions des mobilités quotidiennes à Ouagadougou en 2009. Contrairement aux autres capitales sahéliennes, la capitale burkinabè se caractérise par une déficience chronique des transports en commun public, mais aussi privé, héritage de la période sankariste. Ainsi, nombre d'habitants, faute d...
Reef sharks are vulnerable predators experiencing severe population declines mainly due to overexploitation. However, beyond direct exploitation, human activities can produce indirect or sublethal effects such as behavioral alterations. Such alterations are well known for terrestrial fauna but poorly documented for marine species. Using an extensiv...
In the densely populated highlands of Madagascar, growing upland rice offers the opportunity to increase the total rice cropping area and to improve food security. However, rice blast was a major constraint for the first cultivars released in the 1990s and consequently limited the extension of upland rice. However, blast epidemics are much less int...
BackgroundIn some African cities, urban malaria is a threat to the health and welfare of city dwellers. To improve the control of the disease, it is critical to identify neighbourhoods where the risk of malaria transmission is the highest. This study aims to evaluate the heterogeneity of malaria transmission risk in one city (Bouake) in a West Afri...
Background This paper describes a dataset of fish, crustacean and mollusc occurrences extracted from the "Experimental Fishing" section of the IRD's PPEAO information system. PPEAO stands for "Fish communities and artisanal fisheries of West African estuarine, lagoon and freshwater ecosystems". This database contains information collected using two...
The marine -pyrone macrolide neurymenolide A was previously isolated from the Fijian red macroalga, Neurymenia fraxinifolia, and characterized as an antibacterial agent against antibiotic-resistant strains that also exhibited moderate cytotoxicity in vitro against cancer cell lines. This compound was also shown to exhibit allelopathic effects on Sc...
We present a dynamic rupture model of the 2016 M-w 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake to unravel the event's riddles in a physics-based manner and provide insight on the mechanical viability of competing hypotheses proposed to explain them. Our model reproduces key characteristics of the event and constraints puzzling features inferred from high-quality obser...
Chickpeas are classified into two main commercial seed types: desi, and kabuli. Furthermore, the Apulian black is another chickpea type, less common, which has peculiar phenotypic and genetic features and is the object of an increasing attention by geneticists to avoid the risk of genetic erosion. A strategy to increase the consumption of pulses co...
