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Infection with HIV ultimately results in profound immunodeficiency, in which patients may present with various AIDS – defining clinical conditions.The CD4+T-cell count is an important parameter to understand HIV-related opportunistic infections. In poor countries and populations with limited...

Neonatal meningitis is a devastating disease, and its mortality and morbidity is high. At the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, however, no study has looked specifically at the disease, and controversy exist on whether neonates admitted to the General Paediatric Wards should be...

This study investigated the heterologous interaction among Fasciola gigantica, Schistosoma spp. and Amphistomum spp. co-joint infections in cattle based on egg and worm counts. A total of 315 cattle from trematode endemic areas along the Kafue and Zambezi flood plains were screened at Turn Pike...

This research which was undertaken in Mungwi aimed at assessing the communication strategies which the Mungwi District AIDS Task Force has been using to combat the spread of HIV and AIDS in the district. The title of the research is, communication strategies used in HIV and AIDS prevention by the...

A cross sectional study was carried out by microscopy and Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), a novel molecular technique that amplifies target DNA under isothermal conditions, to determine the epidemiology of the re-emerging trypanosomosis in the Choma-Kalomo block, an important...

Three hundred patients presenting with acute central nervous system (CNS) disease were enrolled in this one-year study from June 1997 to June 1998. This was a longitudinal prospective study looking at the contribution of Plasmodium falciparum and other infections to acute central nervous system...

A health centre based survey carried out in November and December 1995 to determine the prevalence of cryptosporidium in under-five children presenting with diarrhoea in three areas of Lusaka chosen for the type of water supply and to assess the risk factors associated with the disease. Reponse...

Rapid detection of the malaria parasite and early treatment of infection still remain the most important goals of disease management. This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) Paracheck Malaria Pfm a Zambian circumstance and its objective...

Trypanosomosis is an economically important parasitic disease of almost all domesticated animals in Zambia. However, very little work has been done to estabUsh the pathophysiology of the disease in animals in Zambia. The changes in haematological and blood biochemical parameters of infected...

The seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus type l(HIV-l) among paediatric admissions were studied at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Lusaka, Zambia during the period from 22nd November to 15th December, 1995. This was at a time when the number of admissions to the department of...