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The cysteine protease enzymes from T. congolense and T. brucei were purified from pure blood stream forms of the trypanosomes grown in adult albino rats. The trypanosomes were harvested when the number of trypanosomes had reached 108/ml of infected blood or higher. The rats were supplied with 10%...

Environmental pollution has reached alarming proportions in Zambia. Mining and industrial activities have been responsible for water, soil, plant and air pollution. The principal objectives of this study were to determine the extent of pollution of soil and vegetation by cadmium, copper, lead and...

In Zambia, mining of minerals is concentrated in the Copperbelt province. This and other industries of the area has brought about environmental degradation through release of possible unwanted toxic substances. The purpose of this study was to obtain the concentration of heavy metal pollutants,...

In this work, four methods have been tried in an effort to find the best method for the determination of magnesium in dolomite, The determination of the magnesium content of dolomite, the raw material for the production of cement, is very important in that the quality of cement depends on its...

Sorghum (S. bicolor, L) is a major crop of the hotter and drier regions of the tropics and subtropics grown by resource poor farmers for their subsistence. It can also be cultivated in marginal lands and areas of high rainfall characterized by low pH soils high in aluminium (Al).The overall...

The clinical and epidemiological aspects of rotavirus diarrhoea was studied in hospitalized children under five years with acute gastroenteritis in Lusaka, Zambia for a period of one year. Two hundred and fifty six (24.1 %) of 1,064 children admitted to the study were shedding rotavirus....

In the year 2000 the Zambian Ministry of Education, through its Curriculum Development Centre, published and implemented the New Zambian High School Geography Syllabus. This new syllabus was necessitated by the need to improve the quality of education at High School level as stipulated in the...

An aqueous decoction of the stem bark of the plant Cassia abbreviata-OHv., a native Zambian plant, is traditionally used as an anti-diarrhoeal remedy by many contemporary practitioners of traditional medicine in Zambia.The present work was undertaken based on the findings of preliminary...