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Epidemiology of malaria in the Taabo health and demographic surveillance system, south-central Côte d'Ivoire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A deep understanding of the local epidemiology of malaria is essential for the design and implementation of setting-specific control and elimination efforts.
Silué, Kigbafori D.   +20 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis Drop-Out in the Region of San-Pedro, Côte d'Ivoire

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Despite the fact that death from rabies is 100% preventable with a course of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) treatment, canine rabies still causes about 59,000 human deaths worldwide annually, half of which are occurring in Africa.
Rose Delima N'Guessan   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental differences in cortical bone structure in chimpanzee and human femora reflect early locomotor independence in humans

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The cortical bone structure of long bone diaphyses changes throughout growth via skeletal modeling and has important implications for bone strength and structural integrity. Ontogenetic trends in diaphyseal structure have been identified in both chimpanzees and humans but it is not yet clear how these trends compare given notable differences ...
Karen R. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spinal kirschner wire migration after surgical treatment of clavicular fracture or acromioclavicular joint dislocation: Report of a case and meta-analysis

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2018
Kirschner wire is the most used device for clavicular and acromioclavicular joint dislocation fixation. Although wire migrations have been extensively reported, spinal migrations remain rare. Moreover, the mechanism of migration is still elusive. The aim
Hermann Adonis N'da   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syndromic and biological screening for sexually transmitted infections in female sex workers in Côte d’Ivoire: the ANRS 12381 PRINCESSE cohort study

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
BackgroundFemale sex workers (FSWs) are at high risk of contracting STIs, in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa. The implementation of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis provided an opportunity to draw attention to the sexual health needs of FSWs ...
Marcellin N’zebo Nouaman   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human seroprevalence indicating hantavirus infections in tropical rainforests of Côte d’Ivoire and Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2015
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Hantaviruses are members of the Bunyaviridae family carried by small mammals and causing human hemorrhagic fevers worldwide. In Western Africa, where a variety of hemorrhagic fever viruses occurs, indigenous hantaviruses have been molecularly found in animal reservoirs such as rodents, shrews, and bats
Witkowski, Peter T.   +9 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The epidemiology of polyparasitism and implications for morbidity in two rural communities of Côte d'Ivoire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Polyparasitism is still widespread in rural communities of the developing world. However, the epidemiology of polyparasitism and implications for morbidity are poorly understood.
Kouadio, Bernadette A.   +19 more
core   +1 more source

Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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