Disease relevance of Namibia

• Chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Namibia [1].
• A serological survey on wildlife in the Etosha National Park, Namibia, where anthrax is endemic, showed that naturally acquired anthrax-specific antibodies are rare in herbivores but common in carnivores; in carnivores, titres appear to reflect the prevalence of anthrax in their ranges [2].
• Q-fever, OX19, OX2 and leptospirosis antibodies in patients with onyalai and in negroid, bushman and white inhabitants of Kavango, Namibia [3].
• The clinical features, incidence and pattern of jaw involvement, and seasonal occurrence in relation to 22 patients with Burkitt's lymphoma in the Cape province and Southwest Africa were analyzed [4].
• HIV seropositivity in east Caprivi, SWA/Namibia [5].

High impact information on Namibia

• Here we report a rare case in which olivine (with 93.3% forsterite; Mg2SiO4) phenocrysts, precipitated from an unerupted komatiitic melt (approximately 24% MgO) of the Tristan mantle plume head 132 Myr ago, were carried to upper-crust levels in northwest Namibia by less Mg-rich (9.6-18.5% MgO) magmas [6].
• We test the hypothesis that the human pattern of slow human growth between age at weaning and puberty helps defer the compound energetic demand on parents with multiple dependents, by using growth and demographic data from two foraging societies, the Ache of eastern Paraguay and the Dobe Ju/'hoansi of Botswana and Namibia [7].
• The red-cell glutamic-pyruvate transaminase, carbonic anhydrase I and II and esterase D polymorphisms in the Ambo populations of South West Africa, with evidence for the existence of an EsDo allele [8].
• In recent decades, the Cape gannet Morus capensis has shown a major distributional shift with historically large colonies in Namibia decreasing rapidly, whilst numbers at South African colonies have increased, suggesting contrasting environmental conditions in the two regions [9].
• No suggestion of hybridization between the vulnerable black-faced impala (Aepyceros melampus petersi) and the common impala (A. m. melampus) in Etosha National Park, Namibia [10].

Biological context of Namibia

• CONCLUSION: Progress has been made in initiating radiation oncology in Ghana, Ethiopia and Namibia [11].
• The 25.2 MDa conjugative plasmid carrying the tetM resistance determinant was readily demonstrated in 11 Botswana/Namibia isolates exhibiting high-level resistance to tetracycline (MICs > or = 16 micrograms/ml) [12].
• Questionnaires were sent to 452 hospitals in the RSA and SWA/Namibia requesting information on triplet pregnancies over a 10-year period [13].
• Consanguinity exists in one of the families, which is descended from Trekboer Afrikaners who migrated from Rustenburg, Transvaal, to Angola in 1876 and then to SWA/Namibia in the 1920s [14].

Anatomical context of Namibia

• Ovaries, fetuses and plasma were collected from zebra mares shot in the Etosha National Park in Namibia between 15 and 25 August 1983 [15].

Associations of Namibia with chemical compounds

• Present records indicate a much higher prevalence of cancer among male workers in the open-pit uranium mine in Namibia compared with the general population [16].
• Serum concentrations of testosterone (Tser), 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT), estradiol 17 beta (E2), and free testosterone in saliva (Tsal) were determined by means of the radioimmunoassay method in 114 !Kung San men living in the Bushmanland district of Namibia [17].
• The paper gives the results of a survey of intestinal parasites among 501 in-patients drawn from four mission hospitals in Owambo and Kavango in northern South West Africa. Most of the patients (90%) were examined twice by the formol-ether concentration method, while the remaining 10% had one stool specimen examined [18].
• In a rural low fluoride community in Namibia only 6 per cent of children had healthy mouths compared with 42-58 per cent in the other communities [19].
• The sensitivity to chloroquine of Plasmodium falciparum from the Kavango region of Namibia was determined by a 24-hour test in vitro [20].

Gene context of Namibia

• The prevalence of helminth and arthropod parasites of warthog, Phacochoerus aethiopicus, in South West Africa/Namibia [21].
• In order to determine the incidence of Brachymesophalangia V, an inspectional and metrical analysis was made of radiographs of 67 Nama-speaking Hottentots aged 2 to 17.5 years, and 210 Rehoboth Basters (in Namibia) and Cape Colored children (near Cape Town) aged 1.5 to 21 years [22].
• Health aspects of the use of recycled water in Windhoek, SWA/Namibia, 1974-1983. Diarrhoeal diseases and the consumption of reclaimed water [23].
• OBJECTIVE: In this publication, we present our experiences with managing an "Ear Camp" in northern Namibia, where the population is predominantly black [24].
• HP and GC subtype distribution in the !Kung San and Kavango in Namibia [25].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Namibia

• The introduction of the use of reclaimed water in Windhoek, SWA/Namibia, prompted an epidemiological study to assess the health effects, if any, of its consumption [23].
• A sample of 603 11-year-old children from four low fluoride (less than 0.15 ppm) and one higher fluoride (1.56 ppm) communities in Namibia and KwaZulu were examined in 1988 using the CPITN [19].
• Prevalence of a photoparoxysmal response in the electroencephalograms of epileptics in the three main ethnic groups of Namibia [26].

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