Botulism, a rare life-threatening toxemia, is probably underdiagnosed in all of its forms in Africa.This study reports the first dea eyewear laboratory-supported case of infant botulism on the African continent.A 10-week-old, previously well infant presented with progressive global weakness, feeding difficulty, and aspiration pneumonia.During a len
Human languages are rule governed, but almost invariably these rules have exceptions in the form of irregularities.Since rules in language are efficient and productive, the persistence of irregularity is an anomaly.How does irregularity linger in the face of internal (endogenous) and external (exogenous) pressures to conform to a rule? Here we addr
Abstract Background Inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi has the potential to alleviate salt stress in host plants through the mitigation of ionic imbalance.However, inoculation effects vary, and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.Two maize genotypes (JD52, salt-tolerant with large root system, and FSY1, salt-sensitive with small