Feeding the Multitude

Perhaps you\u27ve been asked to take charge of a church supper, a dinner for the school trustees, or it may be just entertaining the club or missionary society. Or. perhaps you are a teacher in a consolidated school and have been asked to manage the school lunch room. In either case you may be one of those favored ones who seem to know the correct way of doing everything, by instinct, and accordingly get along splendidly, or you may be less fortunate, and never having had any experience along the line of large quantity cookery feel utterly lost and be ready to refuse to take such a responsibility

Corn - Greatest Crop of Iowa

This is the state where the tall corn grows

A Molecular Epidemiological and Genetic Diversity Study of Tuberculosis in Ibadan, Nnewi and Abuja, Nigeria

Background Nigeria has the tenth highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) among the 22 TB high-burden countries in the world. This study describes the biodiversity and epidemiology of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB in Ibadan, Nnewi and Abuja, using 409 DNAs extracted from culture positive TB isolates. Methodology/Principal Findings DNAs extracted from clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex were studied by spoligotyping and 24 VNTR typing. The Cameroon clade (CAM) was predominant followed by the M. africanum (West African 1) and T (mainly T2) clades. By using a smooth definition of clusters, 32 likely epi-linked clusters related to the Cameroon genotype family and 15 likely epi-linked clusters related to other “modern” genotypes were detected. Eight clusters concerned M. africanum West African 1. The recent transmission rate of TB was 38%. This large study shows that the recent transmission of TB in Nigeria is high, without major regional differences, with MDR-TB clusters. Improvement in the TB control programme is imperative to address the TB control problem in Nigeria