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[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Activity Report Summary - PHYTOPHARM (Phytochemical and Pharmacological Study of Plants Used in Traditional Medicine in Cameroon)
Protozoal diseases represent a major cause of mortality and morbidity throughout the world according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Malaria infects each year over 350 to 500 million people and claims one million lives, primarily children under five years of age. The c...
Programme: FP6-MOBILITY
Record Number: 49963
Last updated on: 2011-11-23
[PROJECT] INFRAVEC - Research capacity for the implementation of genetic control of mosquitoes
ID: 228421
Start date: 2009-09-01, End date: 2014-02-28
Mosquitoes transmit a variety of infectious diseases that cause a tremendous burden to public health. Due to climate changes and to the increase in international trade and tourism the threats posed by mosquitoes are increasingly affecting large parts of Europe, causing unders...
Programme: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES
Record Number: 91222
Last updated on: 2017-05-25
ID: IC18970251
Start date: 1998-07-01, End date: 2000-12-31
The general objective is to deploy an African network for research and analysis of human reproduction and maternal health in six West African countries.
The specific objectives are to:
* Assess the magnitude of abortion complications in several maternities of the following s...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 44873
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18970246
Start date: 1997-10-01, End date: 1999-03-31
* To provide a surveillance system for newly emerging and naturally occurring recombinant HIV-1 strains in Cameroon and Gabon.
* To classify sera from HIV infected individuals according to their capacity to neutralise primary isolates representing different genetic clades.
* T...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 38175
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18970220
Start date: 1997-10-01, End date: 2000-09-30
* to develop novel compounds active against human trypanosomiases and leishmaniasis;
* to take advantage of an essential metabolism in these trypanosomatidae that glycolysis represents;
* to design irreversible and quasi-irreversible inhibitors of glycolytic enzymes based on...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 38251
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18970216
Start date: 1997-10-01, End date: 2000-09-30
General objective
To analyse the impact of specific genetic subtypes on the natural history of HIV-1 infection.
Specific objective
* To identify the genetic subtype circulating in three existing cohorts of HIV infected patients in Senegal, Cameroon and Guinea-Bissau; to stu...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 38164
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: BMH4961509
Start date: 1996-09-01, End date: 1999-08-31
To investigate various mechanisms involved in transplacental route, as well as the intracellular and extracellular mechanisms regulating HIV-1 vertical transmission, in an effort to explain why the transmission rate is only partial, and the reasons for such a variation between...
Programme: FP4-BIOMED 2
Record Number: 36040
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18950026
Start date: 1996-01-01, End date: 1997-06-30
* To determine the mechanisms of protection induced by irradiated infective larvae of Loa loa in monkey and of Litomosoides sigmodontis in laboratory mice.
* To identify the mechanisms of natural protection against microfilariae of
L. sigmodontis in laboratory mice and cotton...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 31190
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18960056
Start date: 1996-10-01, End date: 2000-07-31
The main objective of the project is the development of new antimalarial drugs that interact with the malarial parasite phospholipid metabolism and could provide a solution to P. falciparum polychemoresistant malaria.
Although there is no indication of potential resistance to...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 37549
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18950017
Start date: 1996-01-01, End date: 1999-06-30
* Development of candidate vaccines against parasitic filarial infections, in particular Onchocerca volvulus.
* To identify, isolate and express antigens that are specific to the larval stages of these parasites.
* To analyse of the immune responses of humans exposed to O.volv...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 31179
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
List retrieved on: 2017-08-04
