Race, religion, origine géographique, différences culturelles, etc. Faut-il en faire des catégories pour mesurer et compter la population ? Le débat va et vient depuis les années 1980 dans une France de tradition assimilationniste. Pourtant, les années 2000 font l'objet d'un tournant lorsque la question de pose de manière frontale : faut-il accepte...
Objectives The aim of this study was to compare the sensitivity of acetate tape impression with skin squeezing and superficial skin scraping methods for the diagnosis of burrowing mites ( Notoedres cati) in cats. Methods Samples were collected from 50 cats showing signs of notoedric mange. The most affected region was selected for sampling using ac...
Published in The New phytologist
Published in Health policy and planning
Strengthening primary health care (PHC) is considered a priority for efficient and responsive health systems, but empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries is limited. The stepwise introduction of family medicine across all 81 provinces of Turkey (a middle-income country) between 2005 and 2010, aimed at PHC strengthening, presents a ...
Published in Human Resources for Health
BackgroundPrimary health care (PHC) outreach teams are part of a policy of PHC re-engineering in South Africa. It attempts to move the deployment of community health workers (CHWs) from vertical programmes into an integrated generalised team-based approach to care for defined populations in municipal wards. There has little evaluation of PHC outrea...
International audience
Neotropical floodplains harbour both floating and rooted plants and are associated with rich ostracod communities. After dry seasons, flooding causes recruitment in 2 ways: floods bring in allochthonous macrophytes with associated pleuston communities, and these rising water levels rehydrate plants and attached (ostracod) eggs that dried at the ons...
Published in Journal of Nematology
The root-knot nematodes (RKN), Meloidogyne spp., represent an important threat to yam (Dioscorea spp.) production in West Africa. With the aim to establish the diversity of RKN species affecting yam tubers, for control and resistance screening purposes, surveys were conducted in the main yam producing areas of Nigeria. Galled tubers (N = 48) were c...
