ACCEPTABILITY OF TEST AND TREAT WITH DOXYCYCLINE AGAINST ONCHOCERCIASIS IN AN AREA OF PERSISTENT TRANSMISSION IN MASSANGAM HEALTH DISTRICT, CAMEROON.

Acceptability of test and treat with doxycycline against Onchocerciasis in an area of persistent transmission in Massangam Health District, Cameroon.

The main onchocerciasis elimination strategy is annual Community-Directed Treatment with ivermectin (CDTi).However, as a response to persistent high infection prevalence in Massangam Health District in Cameroon, two rounds of alternative treatments including biannual CDTi, ground larviciding and test and treat with doxycycline (TTd) were implemente

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A Duplicated Copy of the Meiotic Gene ZIP4 Preserves up to 50% Pollen Viability and Grain Number in Polyploid Wheat

Although most flowering plants are polyploid, little is known of how the meiotic process evolves after polyploidisation to stabilise and preserve fertility.On wheat polyploidisation, the major meiotic gene ZIP4 on chromosome 3B duplicated onto 5B and diverged (TaZIP4-B2).TaZIP4-B2 was recently shown to promote homologous pairing, synapsis and cross

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