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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a disease caused by an acid-fast staining pathogenic bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is resistant to at least isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RIF), the two most potent TB drugs. Drug-resistant tuberculosis poses a significant problem for...

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV), the causative agent of enzootic bovine leucosis (EBL), is a member of the family Retroviridae, and genus Deltaretrovirus. Whilst BLV has been associated with considerable economic losses in the cattle industry worldwide, there is paucity of information on the...

Recommender systems have become increasingly popular in recent years, and are utilized in a variety of areas including movies, music, news, products, research articles, search queries, social tags, and products in general they are designed to automatically generate personalized suggestions of...

This study investigates the effect of aquaculture on Phytoplankton diversity and abundance in Lake Kariba. Water parameters that were monitored included: phosphate, nitrate and silica concentrations. Water samples were analysed from an aquaculture station at Yalelo fish cages located at Kamimbi...

Zambia has experienced rapid urban growth reflected in physical expansion of towns and cities. However, this expansion is mostly characterised by informal urban development. Although there exists a diversity of circumstances and factors that contribute to this situation, this study reveals the...

Zambia is among the most urbanized countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and is faced with urban development challenges in the provision of basic infrastructure such as water and sanitation to an ever-increasing urban population. Lusaka has over the years undergone a rapid urban expansion in the growth...

The study examined the use of play parks in Lusaka City. Lusaka incorporated play parks in its city’s plan based on Ebenezer Howard’s ‘Garden City’ Concept as a way of beautifying the city and benefiting from a number of attributes relating to people’s mental health, social, environmental,...

The University Teaching Hospital is an integral national referral Hospital made up of eight departments. Systems interoperability is key for successful flow of patient information from one department to another and from section to section within a department. In this study, the Systemized...

Institutions of higher learning retain sensitive data making them highly attractive targets for cybercrime . However, most developing countries and public higher institutions of learning have low levels of Information and C communication Technology (ICT) and hence face challenges in securing...

An extended quasi-metric q on a nonempty set X without any assumed structure is a distance functional that satis es the usual properties of a quasi-metric except that it can assume values of in nity, in addition to non-negative real values. Given a quasi-metrizable space X we exhibit a universal...