March 2010

Lactobacillus infection related to midgut protein synthesis in the dengue vector Aedes albopictus: Platform of non-symbiont bacteria for the control of Aedes vectors

There have been a number of recent studies regarding the use of engineered insect symbiont bacteria for control of insect-borne diseases. However, searches for cultivable bacteria residing in the mosquito midgut have met with little success. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the human non-pathogenic lactobacilli on midgut protein synthesis in the dengue vector Aedes...

Author(s): Hamady Dieng, Parimal Talukder, Tomomitsu Satho, Yukihiko Nakashima, Nobuhiro Kashige, Ikenna N. Nwachukwu, Adzitey Frederick, Rahman G. M. Saifur, Che Salmah Md Rawi, Abu Hassan Ahmad and Fumio Miake

March 2010

Evaluation of some cytokines in Iraqi patients with Kala-azar

This study was carried out to investigate some cytokines (INF-g, IL-10, TNF-a) on blood samples of Iraqi children with Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) before and during treatment with stibogluconate and healthy people serving as control, using ELISA kits. Samples were confirmed parasitologically by bone marrow smears. The results of cytokine showed that there were significant increases in the levels of all the...

Author(s): Yassir M. K. Al-Mulla Hummadi