Poultry production is one of the animal production enterprises with a promising future in Rwanda as 80.1% of all Rwandese raise chickens. Indigenous chickens (IC) are the most numerous and important species of poultry as ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, the high infant mortality is mainly due to diarrhoea, respiratory infections, typhoid and measles. The control of these diseases relies heavily on the use of synthetic drugs. However, due to the high ...

Trypanosomes are parasitic protozoa that cause trypanosomosis. The disease is a threat to human population and a major impediment to livestock production and economic development in many countries in sub-Sahara Afiica, ...

Manifolds are generalization of curves and surfaces to arbitrary higher dimensions. They are of many kinds, one of them being topological manifolds. The main feature common to manifolds is that every point of the space is ...

The spread and correlation of malaria and sickle cell in the lowlands and highlands had not been studied. The study results of incidences, frequency and pathological association of malaria, sickle hemoglobin and anemia ...

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that ranks second behind malaria in terms of socio-economic importance globally. An intermediate fresh water snail host of the genus Bulinus transmits Schistosoma haematobium, It is ...

Striga (witch weed) is an obligate hemiparasite and it is the biggest parasitic weed threat to agriculture in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa. It is heavily dependent on the host for its survival and its ...

Group testing is a method of pooling a number of units together and performing a single test on the resulting group. It is an appealing option when few individual units are thought to be infected and when the ...

Pelargonium sidoides is a medicinal plant grown in Kenya for export to Germany where it is used in the manufacture of drugs for lung related diseases. The farm contributes to the well being of the local community by providing ...

This thesis reports on determination of acephate (an organophosphorus used for the control of pests in tobacco, maize, beans etc) in honey. Acephate is a well known brain cholinesterase inhibitor. It is also known to be ...