Supplementation of cooked broccoli with exogenous moringa myrosinase enhanced isothiocyanate formation.

Brassica vegetables, especially broccoli, have health benefits such as anticancer activity, which are attributed to isothiocyanate (ITC), products of glucosinolate hydrolysis. This study aimed to explore the effect of cooking time and addition of exogenous myrosinase (MYR) from moringa seeds on the yield of ITCs. The results showed that raw broccoli produced a significantly high amount of ITCs, which decreased by almost 40% after microwaving the broccoli for 1 min.

Health effects of diesel engine exhaust emissions exposure (DEEE) can mimic allergic asthma and rhinitis.

Background: Patients presenting to Accident and Emergency (A&E) facilities with dyspnoea, coughing, wheezing and nasal blockage are presumed to have allergic asthma and/or rhinitis. Occupational asthma (OA), which has similar symptoms is rarely considered. Triggers of OA include exposure to diesel engine exhaust emissions exposure (DEEEE) that are carcinogenic.

Anthelmintic screening of Zimbabwean plants traditionally used against schistosomiasis.

Extracts of 23 plant species used popularly against schistosomiasis in Zimbabwe were screened for their anthelmintic effect. Schistosomules of the trematode Schistosoma mansoni and cysticercoids of the cestode Hymenolepis diminuta were studied in vitro. The material consisted of 58 plant extracts, of which 37 killed the newly excysted cysticercoids within an hour, when incubated in a culture medium.

A cost effective two step rapid diagnosis of urinary schistosomiasis in Zimbabwe.

Objective: To assess the efficacy and applicability of questionnaires to determine schistosomiasis endemic areas in Zimbabwe.

Design: Cross sectional study.

Setting: Makonde District, Zimbabwe.

Schistosomiasis infection in relation to the ABO blood groups among school children in Zimbabwe.

The study aimed to establish if there was any relationship between the blood group of the human host and schistosomiasis prevalence, intensity, incidence and related organ pathology. Urine and stool specimens were collected from the 735 school children attending a rural school in Zimbabwe to determine the Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni infection status of the children.

Traditional herbal remedies used for the treatment of urinary schistosomiasis in Zimbabwe.

A total of 286 traditional healers, 85% of them registered with the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers' Association (ZINATHA), in five administrative provinces of Zimbabwe, were interviewed to assess their knowledge about the signs and symptoms of urinary schistosomiasis. Information on the names of plants used to treat Schistosoma haematobium infections was solicited. Haematuria was mentioned by 99% of the traditional healers to be the most obvious sign of S.

The physical fitness and work performance of agricultural workers infected with Schistosoma mansoni in Zimbabwe.

Stool specimens were collected from 1995 sugarcane cutters on the Hippo Valley and Triangle sugar estates, Zimbabwe, in order to determine the prevalence and intensity of Schistosoma mansoni infection. Pathological changes normally ascribed to S. mansoni infection were assessed in the infected cutters, by ultrasonography before treatment.

Morbidity due to Schistosoma mansoni among sugar-cane cutters in Zimbabwe.

Quantitative determination of Schistosoma mansoni infection was carried out on 1995 cane cutters of the Hippo Valley and Triangle Sugar Estates. A total of 315 cutters were chosen for the study on the basis of S. mansoni infection and lack of anti-schistosomal chemotherapy during the previous three years.

A cross-sectional study on the prevalence and intensity of schistosomiasis among sugar cane cutters in Zimbabwe.

A schistosomiasis prevalence and intensity survey was carried out among sugar cane cutters of Hippo Valley and Triangle, the two largest irrigated sugar estates in Zimbabwe. Urine and stool specimens were collected for determination of schistosomiasis infection from 1995 cane cutters. A total of 315 (15.

The use of Phytolacca dodecandra berries in the control of trematode-transmitting snails in Zimbabwe.

Phytolacca dodecandra, a plant with berries of a known molluscicidal potency, was cultivated in Chiweshe. Studies on the snail population density of Bulinus globosus and Lymnaea natalensis as well as schistosome infection rates in the former were carried out in two streams, in one of which a water extract of P. dodecandra berries was applied in late April and May 1987.

Knowledge, attitudes and practices among rural communities in Zimbabwe in relation to Phytolacca dodecandra--a plant molluscicide.

Questionnaires about schistosomiasis and Phytolacca dodecandra, a plant molluscicide with potential to control schistosomiasis transmitting snails, were administered to 271 women and 168 men in two communal areas where the plant grows naturally, and in a further two areas where no records of the plant exist. 78.9% of the respondents thought that schistosomiasis was a dangerous disease with blood in urine being the most recognised symptom.