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Use of traditional medicines in the management of HIV/AIDS opportunistic infections in Tanzania: a case in the Bukoba rural district
- D. P. Kisangau, Herbert V. M. Lyaruu, K. Hosea, Cosam C. Joseph
- Medicine
- Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine
- 10 July 2007
BackgroundEthnobotanical surveys were carried out to document herbal remedies used in the management of HIV/AIDS opportunistic infections in Bukoba Rural district, Tanzania. The district is currently… Expand
Screening of Tanzanian medicinal plants for anti-Candida activity
- D. Runyoro, M. Matee, O. Ngassapa, Cosam C. Joseph, Zakaria H. Mbwambo
- Biology, Medicine
- BMC complementary and alternative medicine
- 30 March 2006
BackgroundCandida albicans has become resistant to the already limited, toxic and expensive anti-Candida agents available in the market. These factors necessitate the search for new anti-fungal… Expand
Medicinal plants used by Tanzanian traditional healers in the management of Candida infections.
- D. Runyoro, O. Ngassapa, M. Matee, Cosam C. Joseph, M. Moshi
- Biology, Medicine
- Journal of ethnopharmacology
- 30 June 2006
An ethnomedical survey in Coast, Dar es Salaam, Morogoro and Tanga regions of Tanzania has resulted in the identification of 36 plant species belonging to 21 plant families that are used… Expand
Mosquito larvicidal constituents from Lantana viburnoides sp viburnoides var kisi (A. rich) Verdc (Verbenaceae).
- E. Innocent, Cosam C. Joseph, N. K. Gikonyo, M. Moshi, M. Nkunya, A. Hassanali
- Biology, Medicine
- Journal of vector borne diseases
- 1 September 2008
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES
Lantana viburnoides sp viburnoides var kisi is used in Tanzania ethnobotanically to repel mosquitoes as well as in traditional medicine for stomach ache relief.… Expand
Larvicidal and mosquitocidal extracts, a coumarin, isoflavonoids and pterocarpans from Neorautanenia mitis.
- Cosam C. Joseph, M. M. Ndoile, R. Malima, M. Nkunya
- Biology, Medicine
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical…
- 1 August 2004
The present study aimed to evaluate extracts and compounds from tubers of Neorautanenia mitis against the malaria- and filariasis-transmitting mosquitoes, Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefaciatus,… Expand
In vitro antimicrobial assay of plants used in traditional medicine in Bukoba Rural district, Tanzania.
- D. P. Kisangau, K. M. Hosea, Cosam C. Joseph, H. V. Lyaruu
- Medicine
- African journal of traditional, complementary…
- 15 October 2008
Plants used in traditional medicine in Bukoba Rural district in Tanzania were evaluated for their in vitro antimicrobial activities. Plant materials from eight plant species (Harungana… Expand
Traditional Knowledge, Use Practices and Conservation of Medicinal Plants for HIV/AIDS Care in Rural Tanzania
- D. P. Kisangau, T. Herrmann, +4 authors P. Masimba
- Geography
- 18 February 2011
HIV/AIDS pandemic is currently the most socio-economic challenge that faces Tanzania as it affects mostly the young and most economically productive population. People living with HIV/AIDS in… Expand
Toussaintines A-E: antimicrobial indolidinoids, a cinnamoylhydrobenzofuranoid and a cinnamoylcyclohexenoid from Toussaintia orientalis leaves.
- Stephen Samwel, J. O. Odalo, M. Nkunya, Cosam C. Joseph, N. Koorbanally
- Biology, Medicine
- Phytochemistry
- 1 October 2011
Toussaintine A (N-cinnamoyl-5,6-dehydro-4-hydroxyindolidin-2,7-dione), toussaintine B (N-cinnamoyl-5,6-dehydro-4,7-dihydroxyindolidin-2-one), toussaintine C… Expand
New antimicrobial, mosquito larvicidal and other metabolites from two Artabotrys species
- Stephen S Nyandoro, Cosam C. Joseph, M. Nkunya, K. Hosea
- Biology, Medicine
- Natural product research
- 1 August 2013
Azabicycloheptenoylditerpene 1-((2E,6E,10E)-3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadeca-2,6,10,14-tetraenyl)-2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-3-one (artamodamide, 1), diphenylpentanoid… Expand
Anti-mosquito and antimicrobial nor-halimanoids, isocoumarins and an anilinoid from Tessmannia densiflora.
- C. Kihampa, M. Nkunya, +4 authors E. Kleinpeter
- Biology, Medicine
- Phytochemistry
- 1 July 2009
The nor-halimane diterpenoid tessmannic acid and its methyl, 2-methylisopropyl and 1-methylbutyl esters, the unusual isocoumarins 8-hydroxy-6-methoxy-3-pentylisocoumarin and… Expand