Muzafar Shah

A Report on Incidence of Malarial Disease in Local Population of Barikot, Swat

| Present study was carried out in local population of Barikot, District Swat for incidence of malarial disease. For this purpose a total of 997 individuals were screened for malarial test in the study area and divided into four category of age i.e. (1-15), (16-30), (31-45), (46-onward), gender wise, union council (Kota, Barikot, Shamozo and Ghalegi) and month wise. It was concluded that out of 997 samples, 204 (20.46%) were found positive, in which mostly under positive, under 15 year of age (23.36%), whereas less cases were recorded in adult (46 and above) 22.64. Most of the positive cases were found in the month of November, 24 out of 67 (35.82%) and less cases were noted in the month of May which are 12 out of 106 (11.32%). Incidence of the cases were found in U.C Kota with 60 positive (26.08%) out of 230 blood samples and low prevalence in U.C Ghalaigai with 42 positive (13.12%) out of 320 samples. Gender wise prevalence of malaria disease shows male 106 (27.53%) out of 385 whereas female 98 (16.01%) out of 612. Article History Received: March 15, 2018 Revised: April 24, 2018 Accepted: April 24, 2018 Published: May 15, 2018 Authors’ Contributions MS was the principal investigater and SAM was Co-PI of the project. MA collected the dataand IA re-arranged it. SA, KS and KM reviewed the data.

Management of Plant Parasitic Nematodes Associated with Walnut (Juglans regia L.) by using Organic Amendments

Nadia Saeed1, Mian Sayed Khan2, Habib Ahmad3, Muhammad Abdullah4 and Muzafar Shah5,* 1Department of Zoology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2Department of Zoology, University of Swabi, Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 3Department of Genetics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 4Department of Zoology, Abdulwali Khan University, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 5Department of Zoology, University of Buner, Buner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Article Information Received 10 May 2017 Revised 03 February 2018 Accepted 13 March 2018 Available online 24 May 2018