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Studies on the epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Liberia: The prevalence and intensity of schistosomal infections in Bong County and the bionomics of the snail intermediate hosts	1983	Bur. Biol. Res., Rutgers Univ., Nelson Biol. Lab., Piscataway, NJ 08854	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Acta Tropica Periodical, Abbrev. Acta Trop. Pub Date Free Form 1983/ Volume 40 Issue 3 Start Page 205 Other Pages 229 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0001-706X Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Urine samples from 3548 individuals residing in six of the eight districts which comprise Bong County, Liberia, the project area of the Bong County Agricultural Development Project (BCADP), and fecal specimens from 3408 of these individuals were examined for schistosome ova. A total of 164 water sites, including rice paddies, were surveyed for schistosome vector snails and monthly changes in snail population density and infection rate were determined in selected water sites. Bulinus globosus were more widely distributed than Biomphalaria pfeifferi but the latter species showed a higher infection prevalence (12.3%) than the former one (10.3%). Snail population density and infection rate fluctuated with season, being higher in the dry season and lower during periods of heavy rainfall. Dessication and/or heat stress may have contributed to the contraction of snail population size at the end of the dry season. More water sites contained infected snails during December through February than at any other time of the year. In selected water sites examined at monthly intervals, mean snail density was higher in rice paddies than in other water contact sites but the latter showed a higher prevalence of infected snails than the former. The overall prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni (24.8%) was significantly higher than that of S. haematobium (22.7%) but the difference in prevalence rates of the two species in school children was not statistically significant. The intensity of S. haematobium infection (13.2 xÌ„G) was significantly higher than that of S. mansoni (6.3 xÌ„G). Mixed infections in school children did not have a significant effect on egg output. The prevalence and intensity of S. haematobium showed a dramatic decline between the age groups 0-15 and 20-50+ years old; the differences between these age groups in S. mansoni infection were unremarkable. In Zota, Jorquelle and Kokoya Districts, prevalence rates of S. haematobium were higher than those of S. mansoni; the reverse was observed in Suakoko and Panta-Kpai Districts but relative prevalence rates varied according to specific locality in each district. A south to north stratification of schistosomal infection prevalence was observed similar to the west to east gradient reported by Saladin et al. (1980). New rice paddies developed during the three year operational period of the BCADP contained little or no vector snails and schistosomal infections in farm families of these paddies reflected the characteristic of the disease in corresponding localities. Older paddies, pre-dating the operations of the BCADP, contained infected vector snails and farm families of some of these paddies showed higher prevalence rates of schistosomiasis than corresponding school children. The implications of these findings are discussed. Descriptors Biomphalaria, Bulinus, digestive system, epidemiology, geographic distribution, human, invertebrate, Liberia, Schistosoma haematobium, Schistosoma mansoni, schistosomiasis, trematode, urinary tract Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Dennis,E., Vorkpor,P., Holzer,B. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Ozone flux to Picea sitchensis (Bong) carr and Picea abies (L) karst during short episodes and the effects of these on transpiration and photosynthesis	1989	Forestry Commision, Forest Research Station, Farnham, GU10 4LH	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Environmental Pollution Periodical, Abbrev. Environ.Pollut. Pub Date Free Form 1989/ Volume 59 Issue 2 Start Page 161 Other Pages 176 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0269-7491 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Sitka spruce and Norway spruce were grown in controlled environments and then exposed to ozone (O3) for short periods as in mid-afternoon episodes experienced in the forest. For concentrations of between 20 and 300 nl litre-1 there were linear relationships between exposure concentration and O3 uptake rates. Increasing photon flux densities increased rates of photosynthesis and transpiration, the increases being larger in actively growing than dormant seedlings. Physiological condition (dormancy or active growth), species and photo flux density were found in influence O3 flux via their effects on stomatal conductance. Exposure to 80 nl litre-1 O3 resulted in consistent increases of stomatal conductance and there were also indications that water-use efficiency was decreased. Descriptors ozone, nonhuman, photosynthesis, plant, sweating Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Freer-Smith,P. H., Dobson,M. C. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
The prevalence of onchocerciasis and blindness in the population of the Bong Range, Liberia	1973	Bernhard Nocht Inst. Schiffs- Tropenkrankh., Hamburg	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Periodical, Abbrev. Z.TROPENMED.PARASIT. Pub Date Free Form 1973/ Volume 24 Issue 3 Start Page 339 Other Pages 357 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Among a sample of 1,252 persons from a total population of about 15,000 people of the Kpelleh tribe in the Bong Range area, 783 (63.2%) were carriers of microfilariae of O. volvulus. The infection was determined by a standardized skin biopsy technique (Walser punch). At the age of 16 to 18 yr more than 50% of the population had detectable larvae in the gluteal skin. Among the adult population the male sex showed a significant preponderance of positivity for microfilariae. The number of noninfected 'susceptibles' decreased annually by a factor of 0.92 to 0.925. About one half of a sample of adult subjects revealed microfilariae in the cephalic region. Findings of diminished vision (â‰¤ 6/60) were compared with the microfilarial density in the anterior segment and in the environment of the eyes. The rate of blindness of 1.18% found in the Bong Range was more than twice as high as in onchocerciasis free regions of Liberia. Blindness appeared to be related to onchocerciasis in the majority of cases. The average age of the completely blind was 54 yr, and the onset of blindness could be dated back to an average of 48 yr. In the unilaterally blind the average age was 40 yr. In this group blindness appeared to be less related to onchocerciasis. Among 1,131 subjects a bilaterally impaired vision was found in 8.3%. Together with the unilaterally blind, the total number of persons with visual damage besides the blind was 9.8% of the population sample at Bong Range. Descriptors age, blindness, cornea, diagnosis, epidemiology, filariasis, Onchocerca volvulus, onchocerciasis, sex Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Frentzel Beyme,R. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Quantitative studies on the transmission of Onchocerca volvulus by Simulium damnosum in the Bong Range, Liberia	1973	Bernhard Nocht Inst. Schiffs- Tropenkrankh., Hamburg	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Periodical, Abbrev. Z.TROPENMED.PARASIT. Pub Date Free Form 1973/ Volume 24 Issue 3 Start Page 358 Other Pages 372 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Quantitative aspects of the transmission of O. volvulus have been investigated in an area of the tropical rain forest zone in West Liberia. The daily and annual cycles of biting densities, age composition and infection rates of the Simulium damnosum population have been studied for one or more years at 7 catching sites. Dissections of 67,758 females of S. damnosum revealed a mean annual parous rate of 10.9%; 17.2% of the parous flies carried developing filaria infections, 2.6% third stage larvae of O. volvulus, and 3.0% third stage larvae of other filaria species. An average of 900 O. volvulus larvae theoretically transmitted per man per year was calculated. This transmission potential was associated with a microfilariae carrier rate of 63% in the human population. Descriptors arthropod, carrier, epidemiology, Microfilaria, Onchocerca volvulus, onchocerciasis, prevention, Simulium damnosum Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Garms,R. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
An endemic disease survey of Bong County, Liberia	1982	Howard Univ. Coll. Med., Washington, DC 20060	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Journal of the National Medical Association Periodical, Abbrev. J.Natl.Med.Assoc. Pub Date Free Form 1982/ Volume 74 Issue 11 Start Page 1093 Other Pages 1102 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0027-9684 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Descriptors epidemiology, geographic distribution, helminthiasis, human, Liberia, malaria, nematode, protozoal infection, protozoon, trematode Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Grigsby,M. E. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
[Between science and ideology: the rise and fall of Bong-han theory in 1960's North Korea].	1999	Kim, G.B.	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Han'guk Kwahaksa Hakhoeji Periodical, Abbrev. Hanguk Kwahaksa Hakhoeji Pub Date Free Form / Volume 21 Issue 2 Start Page 194 Other Pages 220 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 1229-7895 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Descriptors article, education, ethnology, history, history of medicine, ideology, North Korea, personnel, politics, procedures, science Links Book Title Database MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Kim,G. B. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Documentation of Tibetan medicinal plants (6th comm.): Bong-dkar Aconitum heterophyllum WALL. ex ROYLE	1997	Kletter, C., Institute of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, Centre or Pharmacy, A-1090 Vienna, Austria	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Scientia Pharmaceutica Periodical, Abbrev. Sci.Pharm. Pub Date Free Form 1997/12 Volume 65 Issue 4 Start Page 299 Other Pages 314 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0036-8709 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Aconitum heterophyllum is the source of the Tibetan medicinal drug bong- dkar. All parts of the plant may be used for the treatment of the diseases rim-tshad, mkhris-tshad, and tsha-ba of the small intestine. Bong-dkar is also valued as a useful remedy against snake and scorpion poison. Aconitum heterophyllum grows in the northwestern Himalayas at altitudes of 2000 to 4500 m. Morphological details of the plant and anatomical characteristics of the above-ground parts are given. The main anatomical characteristics are three types of unicellular hairs, unequally sized epidermis cells of the leaf and a sclerenchyma belt in the stem. Descriptors Aconitum extract, scorpion venom, snake venom, article, constipation, diarrhea, epidermis cell, intoxication, medicinal plant, nonhuman, plant growth, plant leaf, small intestine disease, snakebite, traditional medicine Links Book Title Dokumentation tibetischer heilpflanzen (6. Mitt.): Bong-dkar, Aconitum heterophyllum WALL. ex ROYLE Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Kletter,Ch, Kriechbaum,M., Krasser,R., Waclavicek,M., Dawa,D., Dekhang,D., Holzner,W., Kubelka,W. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
A biomonitor of trace heavy metals: Indium and dysprosium in red alder roots (Alnus rubra Bong.)	1981	Nucl. Sci. Cent., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA 70803	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Environmental and experimental botany Periodical, Abbrev. Environ.Exp.Bot. Pub Date Free Form 1981/ Volume 21 Issue 2 Start Page 217 Other Pages 223 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0098-8472 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Bioaccumulation of indium (In) and dysprosium (Dy) by the roots of red alder (Alnus rubra Bong.) was tested in a small free-flowing stream in Oregon. Mixed solutions of the two elements, In and Dy, were continuously introduced into the stream water as non-radioactive tracers for 1.8 hr and 2.1 hr in two separate experiments. In the first experiment, the two elements were added in a non-chelated form; in the second expreiment, upstream from the first, indium-DTPA [(carboxymethylimino)bis(ethylene-dinitrilo) tetraacetic acid pentasodium salt] and dysprosium-DTPA were used as tracers. Instrumental neutron activation analysis was used to determine the quantity of each stable tracer sorbed to the alder roots and the amount remaining in the stream water. Non-chelated In was sorbed by roots up to a concentration of 1.7 Î¼g In/g of root (dry wt), whereas the In-DTPA sorption rate was higher by a factor of approximately 2. Non-chelated Dy was sorbed by roots up to a concentration of 29 Î¼g Dy/g of root (dry wt), while the sorption of Dy-DTPA was less by a factor of 8. Descriptors dysprosium, indium, animal experiment, vascular plant, tree Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Knaus,R. M., El-Fawaris,A. H. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Intraspecific variation of DNA per cell between Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. provenances.	1971	Miksche, J.P.	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Chromosoma Periodical, Abbrev. Chromosoma Pub Date Free Form / Volume 32 Issue 4 Start Page 343 Other Pages 352 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0009-5915 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Descriptors DNA, analysis of variance, article, cell nucleus, cytology, densitometry, environment, metabolism, plant seed, spectrophotometry, tree, United States Links Book Title Database MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Miksche,J. P. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Pharmacognostical studies on the folk medicine 'Bong Seon Wha Dae'	2003	Park, J.H., College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, South Korea	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy Periodical, Abbrev. Korean J.Pharmacogn. Pub Date Free Form 2003/09 Volume 34 Issue 3 Start Page 193 Other Pages 196 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0253-3073 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Korean folk medicine 'Bong Seon Wha Dae' has been used to cure constipation and acute gastritis by meat. The botanical origin of the crude drug has not been studied pharmacogostically. To clarify the botanical origin of 'Bong Seon Wha Dae', the morphological and anatomical characteristics of Impatiens species growing in Korea, i.e. I. balsamina L., I. noli-tangere L., I. textori Miq. and I. textori Miq. for. pallenscens Hara were studied. As a result, 'Bong Seon Wha Dae' was proved to be the stem of I. balsamina L. Descriptors bong seon wha dae, Impatiens balsamina extract, plant extract, unclassified drug, article, Balsaminaceae, constipation, gastritis, herbal medicine, Impatiens, impatiens noli tangere, Impatiens textori, medicinal plant, pharmacognosy, plant stem, traditional medicine Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Park,J. H., Kim,J. M., Do,W. I. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors

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