Digital Health’s Impact on Integrated Care, Carer Empowerment and Patient-Centeredness for Persons Living With Dementia

E-health or digital health technologies endeavour to connect key stakeholders and thereby lay the foundation for better integrated as well as potentially more patient-centered care. However, despite the promise of empowerment, efficiency and value, digital health has yet to become part of the daily lives of the people who care for persons living with dementi

Root-rot diseases of the rubber tree in the Ivory Coast : 1. Severity, dynamics, and characterization of epidemics

Une enquête épidémiologique a été menée pendant 6 ans dans une jeune plantation d'hévéa (#Hevea brasiliensis Willd. ex A. Juss) afin d'étudier et de prévoir le développement des champignons agents de pourridié, #Rigidoporus lignosus (Klotzsch) Imazeki et #Phellinus noxius$ (Corner) G. Cunn. Pendant cette période, la contamination et la mortalité de ces arbres ont été systématiquement prises en compte tous les 6 mois. Durant la première année, on a assisté à une explosion de la maladie se traduisant par l'accroissement des foyers initiaux et par l'apparition de nouveaux. A compter de la sixième année après la plantation, on a observé un net fléchissement des activités parasitaires possiblement lié à l'augmentation des capacités réactionnelles des arbres avec l'âge ainsi qu'à la rupture des liens trophiques entre l'inoculum et les racines des arbres en état de décomposition. Le type de maladie pouvant caractériser ces pourridiés est discuté, essentiellement, sur la base des cinétiques d'apparition des foyers parasitaires. (Résumé d'auteur

Differentiation of Verticillium dahliae populations on the basis of vegetative compatibility and pathogenicity on cotton

Abstract Complementary auxotrophic nitrate-nonutilizing (nit) mutants were used to investigate vegetative compatibility within 27 strains of Verticillium dahliae isolated from several hosts originating from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States. Using about 500 nit mutants generated from these strains, three vegetative compatibility groups, 1 , 2 and 4, were identified. Simultaneously, virulence of each strain was assessed on cultivars of Gossypium hirsutum, G. barbadense and G. arboreum, based upon Foliar Alteration Index (FAI) and Browning Index (BI) estimation. The strains in VCGl were of both the cottondefoliating pathotype and race 3 (on cotton) but were non pathogenic on tomato; those in VCG2 and VCG4 were of the nondefoliating pathotype and belonged to different races on cotton and on tomato. Hyaline mutants deriving from parental wild-type strain showed differences in pathogenicity but were always assigned to the parental VCG. A relationship was established between VCGs and the taxonomic position of host plants. Data from nit pairings indicated that the sub-populations of V. dahliae (VCGS) may not be completely isolated genetically. .