Medicine and Health Sciences Staff Publications

Prevalence and intensity of the schistosomiasis situation along the Zimbabwean urban and peri-urban shoreline of Lake Kariba

Chimbari, M. J.; Chirundu, D. (Central African Journal of Medicine, 2003-01)

The potential health impacts of Lake Kariba were recognised before the construction of Kariba Dam.1 A medical team that assessed health impacts associated with the construction of the dam did not consider schistosomiasis ...
An Experimental Pharmacokinetic Computer Program to Predict Potential Drug-Drug Interactions

Zvada, Simbarashe Peter; Chagwedera, Tangai Edwin; Chigwanda, Rosemary; Masimirembwa, Collen Mutowembwa (Bentham Open, 2008)

Polypharmacy as a result of combating co-infections, or combination therapy for better efficacy and reducing the emergency of drug resistance, is on the increase in the African clinical setting in the advent of HIV/AIDS, ...
Distinctive Features of Surface-Anchored Proteins of Streptococcus agalactiae Strains from Zimbabwe Revealed by PCR and Dot Blotting

Mavenyengwa, Rooyen T.; Maeland, Johan A.; Moyo, Sylvester R. (American Society for Microbiology, 2008-09)

The distribution of capsular polysaccharide (CPS) types and subtypes (serovariants) among 121 group B streptococcus (GBS) strains from Zimbabwe was examined. PCR was used for the detection of both CPS types and the ...