Alzheimer's Disease in Africa: A Scoping Review Protocol. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aims The global burden of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is set to increase in the next three decades particularly because of the global increase in life expectancy. The state of AD in Africa is a cause for concern because the continent's rapid population growth and demographic transition will be major contributors to AD's increased ...
Nuamah JA +6 more
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First occurrence of Rift Valley fever outbreak in Niger, 2016
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2019 Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito‐borne viral zoonosis causing abortions and high mortality among animals, whereas in humans, the disease is usually mild or asymptomatic. In September 2016, the Republic of Niger declared the first RVF outbreak in the
Adamou Lagare +17 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Intro: Insecurity in Tillaberi region in Niger is a threat to the poliomyelitis eradication achievement due to weakened public health systems. Community- Based Surveillance (CBS) is implemented since June 2017 to strengthen Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP ...
A.M.-E. Tchalla Abalo +13 more
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Under five mortality patterns and associated maternal risk factors in sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:Under-5 mortality rate in the sub-Saharan region has remained unabated. Worse still, information on the regional trend and associated determinants are not readily available.
Sanni Yaya +3 more
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Revealing patterns of endemism in the transatlantic family Chelodesmidae (Polydesmida: Diplopoda). [PDF]
CladisticsAbstract With fossil records dating back to the Silurian/Late Ordovician, millipedes stand out as one of the earliest terrestrial animal groups. Their limited vagility and high endemism make them valuable tools for formulating and testing biogeographic hypotheses, including those related to macro‐vicariance events.
Bouzan RS +4 more
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Genome-wide SNP analysis of Southern African populations provides new insights into the dispersal of Bantu-speaking groups [PDF]
, 2015 The expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralist populations had a great impact on the genetic, linguistic, and cultural variation of sub-Saharan Africa. It is generally accepted that Bantu languages originated in an area around the present border between
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A diachronic onomasiological approach to early Bantu oil palm vocabulary
Studies in African Linguistics, 2005 Despite its ancient and long-lasting importance to sub-Saharan African economies, there has been no systematic attempt to reconstruct Proto-Bantu vocabulary referring to the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.).
Koen Bostoen
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The emergence of interior vowels and heterosyllabic vowel sequences in Ngwi (Bantu B861, DRC)
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2021 In this article, we offer a historical account of the development of two phonemic ‘interior’ vowels, [ə] and [ɤ], and heterosyllabic vowel sequences in Ngwi, a virtually undescribed West-Coastal Bantu language spoken in the western part of the Democratic
Sara Pacchiarotti +2 more
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Bringing together linguistic and genetic evidence to test the Bantu expansion [PDF]
, 2012 The expansion of Bantu languages represents one of the most momentous events in the history of Africa. While it is well accepted that Bantu languages spread from their homeland (Cameroon/Nigeria) ~5,000 years ago (ya), there is no consensus about the ...
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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Copy number variation in human genomes from three major ethno-linguistic groups in Africa
BMC Genomics, 2020 Background Copy number variation is an important class of genomic variation that has been reported in 75% of the human genome. However, it is underreported in African populations.
Oscar A. Nyangiri +24 more
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