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Entre o Império do Mali e o «Islão marítimo». O impacto dos legados e das literacias islâmicas na África portuguesa

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2023
The article presents the impact of the Islamicate populations and literacies in Portuguese colonial litera-ture and scholarship. The main ethnic group that focused the attention of the colonisers were the aggres-sive, dominant Fulani portrayed in the ...
Ewa A. Łukaszyk
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Susceptibility to malaria in fulani, Bariba, Otamari and gando individuals living in sympatry in Benin: Role of opsonizing antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum merozoites

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Objectives: Fulani in Africa are known to be less susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria. This study explored a potential involvement of antibody-mediated merozoite phagocytosis mechanism in this natural protection against malaria.
Abdou Khadre Dit Jadir Fall   +10 more
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Gender in Fulani Proverbs [PDF]

open access: yesEthnologia Actualis, 2018
Abstract Presented paper deals with Fulani people of West Africa and with the influence of their way of life on their language. One part of the Fulani people lives nomadic pastoral live, meanwhile another part is sedentary, living in the towns.
Baldi, Sergio, Leger, Rudolf
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La iniciación fulani a través de los relatos iniciáticos recopilados por Amadou Hampâté Bâ

open access: yesRevista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, 2015
Nuestro objetivo es examinar la función de ciertos relatos orales fulani cuyos personajes experimentan procesos iniciáticos, describir sus principales características y precisar el motivo que conduce al escritor Hampâté Bâ a recopilarlos.
Vicente E. Montes Nogales
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Livestock herding and Fulani ethnicity are a combined risk factor for development of early adverse reactions to antivenom treatment: Findings from a cross-sectional study in Nigeria.

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
BackgroundAdverse reactions to antivenom considerably complicate the clinical management of snakebite envenomed patients because it necessitates a temporary suspension of life-saving antivenom, increases costs and can compromise patient outcomes.
Stefanie K Menzies   +10 more
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B cell analysis of ethnic groups in Mali with differential susceptibility to malaria

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2012
Background Several studies indicate that people of the Fulani ethnic group are less susceptible to malaria compared to those of other ethnic groups living sympatrically in Africa, including the Dogon ethnic group.
Portugal Silvia   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis in Cameroon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We describe the largest molecular epidemiological study of Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) in a sub-Saharan African country with higher spatial resolution providing new insights into bTB. Four hundred and ninety-nine samples were collected for culture from 201
Asuquo, A.   +13 more
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Major transcriptional changes observed in the Fulani, an ethnic group less susceptible to malaria

open access: yeseLife, 2017
The Fulani ethnic group has relatively better protection from Plasmodium falciparum malaria, as reflected by fewer symptomatic cases of malaria, lower infection rates, and lower parasite densities compared to sympatric ethnic groups.
Jaclyn E Quin   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Water and Soil of the Fulani and non-Fulani in Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2020
Introduction: Interactions between environmental factors (water and soil) and humans are inevitable, particularly in rural and semi-urbanized regions.
Ayorinde O Afolayan, Funmilola A Ayeni
doaj   +1 more source

Interethnic differences in antigen-presenting cell activation and TLR responses in Malian children during Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
The Fulani ethnic group from West Africa is relatively better protected against Plasmodium falciparum malaria as compared to other sympatric ethnic groups, such as the Dogon. However, the mechanisms behind this lower susceptibility to malaria are largely
Charles Arama   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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