Ultrastructural Examination of the Fungus-To-Fungus Interactions of and .

Asian soybean rust (ASR) is caused by the biotrophic fungus Syd. & P. Syd.

Clinical and molecular evidences of HTLV-1 infection in inpatients diagnosed with diseases previously described as associated to this infection: A case series in Gabon, Central Africa.

The Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) infection is endemic in Gabon, and despite the high prevalence, very few cases of HTLV-1 associated diseases are sporadically described. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the main teaching hospital of Gabon. Using serological and molecular techniques, plasma samples were tested and nucleic materials of all positive samples extracted from the buffy coat, then a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed to detect fragments of 220 and 522-base-pairs of HTLV-1 Tax/Rex and Env genes, respectively.

High-Throughput Sequencing Application in the Diagnosis and Discovery of Plant-Infecting Viruses in Africa, A Decade Later.

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) application in the field of plant virology started in 2009 and has proven very successful for virus discovery and detection of viruses already known. Plant virology is still a developing science in most of Africa; the number of HTS-related studies published in the scientific literature has been increasing over the years as a result of successful collaborations. Studies using HTS to identify plant-infecting viruses have been conducted in 20 African countries, of which Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania share the most published papers.

Burnout level and associated factors in a sub-Saharan African medical setting: prospective cross-sectional survey.

Background: Burnout in the hospital environment is a problem that affects care and training. Often explored in the high-income medical context, burnout is poorly studied in low and middle-income countries characterized by a precarious hospital situation and a high stake linked to the Millennium Development Goals. The aim of our study was to determine in medical practitioners, in a sub-Saharan African country's medical context, the burnout level and associated factors.

Full genome sequence of a chrysanthemum-infecting tomato spotted wilt virus isolate from Zimbabwe obtained by next-generation sequencing.

Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is an economically important pathogen of many crops worldwide. However, prior to this study, only one complete genome sequence of an African TSWV isolate was available in public databases. This limits genetic diversity and evolutionary studies of the pathogen on the continent.