Traditional Medicine documentary tells you about fading knowledge of healing powers of herbs in rural regions of Namibia. It dwells on rich Namibian cultural heritage and sends a very important message that traditional knowledge should be protected in modern African society.
Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) for neglected diseases bring different actors together aiming to provide accessible medicines for these complex diseases. Finding solutions requires advanced investments in R&D, expensive clinical trials, long medicine approval processes, and reliable drug production and distribution channels.
Fungal mycetoma is inflammatory pseudotumor of subcutaneous soft tissue and bone due to exogenous fungi. it evolution is chronic, often polyfistulated with emission of fungal grains. We report a case of a 44-year-old grower with a fungal mycetoma of the foot with bone damage due to Aspergillus fumigatus.
Madura foot is a disfiguring, disabling condition, found in the tropics and subtropics. We present a case of a farmer who presented with swelling and multiple discharging sinuses in his left foot. The offending organism, Madurella grisea was identified by fungal culture. The patient was managed with local excision combined with systemic antifungal therapy.
Mycetoma is a chronic suppurative disease of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, characterized by a symptomatic
triad: tumor, fistulas and grains. It can be caused by fungi (eumycetoma) and bacteria (actinomycetoma), with similar
clinical features. Diagnosis is based on the clinical presentation and identification of the etiological agents in the tissue, by
Anogeissus leiocarpus (Combretaceae) is well known
for its medicinal uses in African traditional medicine, for treating
many human diseases mainly skin diseases and infections. Mycetoma
disease is a fungal and/ or bacterial skininfection, mainly cause by
Madurella mycetomatis fungus. This study was carried out in vitro to