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Background
Malaria elimination requires successful nationwide control efforts. Detecting the spatiotemporal distribution and mapping high-risk areas are useful to effectively target pockets of malaria endemic regions for interventions.Objective
The aim of the study was to identify patterns of malaria distribution by space and time in unstable malaria transmission areas in northwest Ethiopia.Methods
Data were retrieved from the monthly reports stored in the district malaria offices for the period between 2003 and 2012. Eighteen districts in the highland and fringe malaria areas were included and geo-coded for the purpose of this study. The spatial data were created in ArcGIS10 for each district. The Poisson model was used by applying Kulldorff methods using the SaTScan™ software to analyze the purely temporal, spatial and space-time clusters of malaria at a district levels.Results
The study revealed that malaria case distribution has spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal heterogeneity in unstable transmission areas. Most likely spatial malaria clusters were detected at Dera, Fogera, Farta, Libokemkem and Misrak Este districts (LLR =197764.1, p<0.001). Significant spatiotemporal malaria clusters were detected at Dera, Fogera, Farta, Libokemkem and Misrak Este districts (LLR=197764.1, p<0.001) between 2003/1/1 and 2012/12/31. A temporal scan statistics identified two high risk periods from 2009/1/1 to 2010/12/31 (LLR=72490.5, p<0.001) and from 2003/1/1 to 2005/12/31 (LLR=26988.7, p<0.001).Conclusion
In unstable malaria transmission areas, detecting and considering the spatiotemporal heterogeneity would be useful to strengthen malaria control efforts and ultimately achieve elimination. 相似文献2.
Susan Ehinger Jana Seifert Andrea Kassahun Lorina Schmalz Nils Hoth Michael Schlömann 《Geomicrobiology journal》2013,30(5):326-338
The microbial communities in sulfate-rich, saline formation fluids of a natural gas reservoir in Lower Saxony, Germany were investigated to enhance the knowledge about microbial communities in potential carbon dioxide sequestration sites. This investigation of the initial state of the deep subsurface microbiota is necessary to predict their influence on the long-term stability and storage capacity of such sites. While the bacterial 16S rDNA gene library was comprised of sequences affiliating with the Firmicutes, the Alphaproteobacteria, the Gammaproteobacteria and the Thermotogales, the archaeal 16S rDNA libraries were simply dominated by two phylotypes related to the genera Methanolobus and Methanoculleus. The monitoring of the archaeal communities in different formation fluid samples by T-RFLP and Real-Time-PCR indicated that these two methanogenic genera dominated at all, whereas the proportion of the two groups varied. Thus, methylotrophic and autotrophic methanogenesis seems to be of importance in the reservoir fluids, dependent on the provided reduction equivalents and substrates and it also may influence the fate of CO2 in the subsurface. 相似文献
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Scott Geibel Kassahun Habtamu Gebeyehu Mekonnen Nrupa Jani Lynnette Kay Julyata Shibru Lake Bedilu Samuel Kalibala 《PloS one》2016,11(2)
Objective
Evaluate the reliability and validity of the Youth Self-Report (YSR) as a screening tool for mental health problems among young people vulnerable to HIV in Ethiopia.Design
A cross-sectional assessment of young people currently receiving social services.Methods
Young people age 15–18 participated in a study where a translated and adapted version of the YSR was administered by trained nurses, followed by an assessment by Ethiopian psychiatrists. Internal reliability of YSR syndrome scales were assessed using Chronbach''s alpha. Test-retest reliability was assessed through repeating the YSR one month later. To assess validity, analysis of the sensitivity and specificity of the YSR compared to the psychiatrist assessment was conducted.Results
Across the eight syndrome scales, the YSR best measured the diagnosis of anxiety/depression and social problems among young women, and attention problems among young men. Among individual YSR syndrome scales, internal reliability ranged from unacceptable (Chronback’s alpha = 0.11, rule-breaking behavior among young women) to good (α≥0.71, anxiety/depression among young women). Anxiety/depression scores of ≥8.5 among young women also had good sensitivity (0.833) and specificity (0.754) to predict a true diagnosis. The YSR syndrome scales for social problems among young women and attention problems among young men also had fair consistency and validity measurements. Most YSR scores had significant positive correlations between baseline and post-one month administration. Measures of reliability and validity for most other YSR syndrome scales were fair to poor.Conclusions
The adapted, personally administered, Amharic version of the YSR has sufficient reliability and validity in identifying young vulnerable women with anxiety/depression and/or social problems, and young men with attention problems; which were the most common mental health disorders observed by psychiatrists among the migrant populations in this study. Further assessment of the applicability of the YSR among vulnerable young people for less common disorders in Ethiopia is needed. 相似文献4.
Arie Zackay Abdelmajeed Nasereddin Yegnasew Takele Dagimawie Tadesse Workagegnehu Hailu Zewdu Hurissa Sisay Yifru Teklu Weldegebreal Ermias Diro Aysheshm Kassahun Asrat Hailu Charles L. Jaffe 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2013,7(1)
Background/Objectives
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by Leishmania donovani is a major health problem in Ethiopia. Parasites in disparate regions are transmitted by different vectors, and cluster in distinctive genotypes. Recently isolated strains from VL and HIV-VL co-infected patients in north and south Ethiopia were characterized as part of a longitudinal study on VL transmission.Methodology/Principal Findings
Sixty-three L. donovani strains were examined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting three regions: internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1), cysteine protease B (cpb), and HASPB (k26). ITS1- and cpb - PCR identified these strains as L. donovani. Interestingly, the k26 - PCR amplicon size varied depending on the patient''s geographic origin. Most strains from northwestern Ethiopia (36/40) produced a 290 bp product with a minority (4/40) giving a 410 bp amplicon. All of the latter strains were isolated from patients with HIV-VL co-infections, while the former group contained both VL and HIV-VL co-infected patients. Almost all the strains (20/23) from southwestern Ethiopia produced a 450 bp amplicon with smaller products (290 or 360 bp) only observed for three strains. Sudanese strains produced amplicons identical (290 bp) to those found in northwestern Ethiopia; while Kenyan strains gave larger PCR products (500 and 650 bp). High-resolution melt (HRM) analysis distinguished the different PCR products. Sequence analysis showed that the k26 repeat region in L. donovani is comprised of polymorphic 13 and 14 amino acid motifs. The 13 amino acid peptide motifs, prevalent in L. donovani, are rare in L. infantum. The number and order of the repeats in L. donovani varies between geographic regions.Conclusions/Significance
HASPB repeat region (k26) shows considerable polymorphism among L. donovani strains from different regions in East Africa. This should be taken into account when designing diagnostic assays and vaccines based on this antigen. 相似文献5.
Mitochondrial DNA variation reveals maternal origins and demographic dynamics of Ethiopian indigenous goats 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1 下载免费PDF全文
Getinet Mekuriaw Tarekegn Kassahun Tesfaye Okeyo Ally Mwai Appolinaire Djikeng Tadelle Dessie Josephine Birungi Sarah Osama Netsanet Zergaw Alubel Alemu Gloria Achieng Jack Tutah Collins Mutai Joyce Njuguna Joram M. Mwacharo 《Ecology and evolution》2018,8(3):1543-1553
The Horn of Africa forms one of the two main historical entry points of domestics into the continent and Ethiopia is particularly important in this regard. Through the analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) d‐loop region in 309 individuals from 13 populations, we reveal the maternal genetic variation and demographic dynamics of Ethiopian indigenous goats. A total of 174 variable sites that generated 231 haplotypes were observed. They defined two haplogroups that were present in all the 13 study populations. Reference haplotypes from the six globally defined goat mtDNA haplogroups show the two haplogroups present in Ethiopia to be A and G, the former being the most predominant. Although both haplogroups are characterized by an increase in effective population sizes (Ne) predating domestication, they also have experienced a decline in Ne at different time periods, suggesting different demographic histories. We observed seven haplotypes, six were directly linked to the central haplotypes of the two haplogroups and one was central to haplogroup G. The seven haplotypes were common between Ethiopia, Kenya, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia populations, suggesting common maternal history and the introduction of goats into East Africa via Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, respectively. While providing new mtDNA data from a historically important region, our results suggest extensive intermixing of goats mediated by human socio‐cultural and economic interactions. These have led to the coexistence of the two haplogroups in different geographic regions in Ethiopia resulting in a large caprine genetic diversity that can be exploited for genetic improvement. 相似文献
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High‐density molecular characterization and association mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces reveals high diversity and potential for wheat breeding 下载免费PDF全文
Dejene Kassahun Mengistu Yosef Gebrehawaryat Kidane Marcello Catellani Elisabetta Frascaroli Carlo Fadda Mario Enrico Pè Matteo Dell'Acqua 《Plant biotechnology journal》2016,14(9):1800-1812
Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) is a key crop worldwide, and yet, its improvement and adaptation to emerging environmental threats is made difficult by the limited amount of allelic variation included in its elite pool. New allelic diversity may provide novel loci to international crop breeding through quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping in unexplored material. Here, we report the extensive molecular and phenotypic characterization of hundreds of Ethiopian durum wheat landraces and several Ethiopian improved lines. We test 81 587 markers scoring 30 155 single nucleotide polymorphisms and use them to survey the diversity, structure, and genome‐specific variation in the panel. We show the uniqueness of Ethiopian germplasm using a siding collection of Mediterranean durum wheat accessions. We phenotype the Ethiopian panel for ten agronomic traits in two highly diversified Ethiopian environments for two consecutive years and use this information to conduct a genome‐wide association study. We identify several loci underpinning agronomic traits of interest, both confirming loci already reported and describing new promising genomic regions. These loci may be efficiently targeted with molecular markers already available to conduct marker‐assisted selection in Ethiopian and international wheat. We show that Ethiopian durum wheat represents an important and mostly unexplored source of durum wheat diversity. The panel analysed in this study allows the accumulation of QTL mapping experiments, providing the initial step for a quantitative, methodical exploitation of untapped diversity in producing a better wheat. 相似文献
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Kelem Kassahun Pei Hu Mark P. Grillo Margaret R. Davis Lixia Jin Thomas A. Baillie 《Chemico-biological interactions》1994,90(3):253-275
The ability of 2-n-propyl-4-pentenoic acid (Δ4-VPA) and 2-n-propyl-2(E)-pentenoic acid ([E]-Δ2-VPA), two unsaturated metabolites of valproic acid (VPA), to form reactive intermediates, deplete hepatic glutathione (GSH) and cause accumulation of liver triglycerides was investigated in the rat. With the aid of ionspray liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), three GSH adducts were detected in the bile of Δ4-VPA-treated animals and were identified as 4-hydroxy-5-glutathion-S-yl-VPA-γ-lactone, 5-glutathion-S-yl-(E)-Δ3-VPA and 3-oxo-5-glutathion-S-yl-VPA. A fourth conjugate was identified tentatively as 4-glutathion-S-yl-5-hydroxy-VPA. Quantitative analysis of the corresponding N-acetylcysteine (NAC) conjugates in urine indicated that metabolism of Δ4-VPA via the GSH-dependent pathways accounted for approximately 20% of an acute dose (100 mg kg−1 i.p.). In contrast, when rats were given an equivalent dose of (E)-Δ2-VPA, only one GSH adduct (5-glutathion-S-yl-(E)-Δ3-VPA) was detected at low concentrations in bile. In vitro experiments with rat liver mitochondria demonstrated that Δ4-VPA undergoes coenzyme A- and ATP-dependent metabolic activation in this organelle via the β-oxidation pathway to intermediates which bind covalently to proteins. When liver homogenates and hepatic mitochondria from rats injected with Δ4-VPA, (E)-Δ2-VPA or VPA were analyzed for GSH content, it was found that only Δ4-VPA depleted GSH pools significantly. Treatment of rats with Δ4-VPA and (to a lesser extent) VPA led to an accumulation of liver triglycerides, whereas (E)-Δ2-VPA had no measurable effect. It is concluded that Δ4-VPA undergoes metabolic activation by both microsomal cytochrome P-450-dependent and mitochondrial coenzyme A-dependent processes, and that the resulting electrophilic intermediates, which are trapped in part by GSH, may mediate the hepatotoxic effects of this compound. In contrast, (E)-Δ2-VPA is not transformed to any appreciable extent to reactive metabolites, which thus accounts for the apparent lack of hepatotoxicity of this positional isomer in the rat. 相似文献
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Egbertson MS Moritz HM Melamed JY Han W Perlow DS Kuo MS Embrey M Vacca JP Zrada MM Cortes AR Wallace A Leonard Y Hazuda DJ Miller MD Felock PJ Stillmock KA Witmer MV Schleif W Gabryelski LJ Moyer G Ellis JD Jin L Xu W Braun MP Kassahun K Tsou NN Young SD 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2007,17(5):1392-1398
A 1,6-naphthyridine inhibitor of HIV-1 integrase has been discovered with excellent inhibitory activity in cells, good pharmacokinetics, and an excellent ability to inhibit virus with mutant enzyme. 相似文献