Case histories of infectious disease management in developing countries: Phnom Penh and Kabul
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Case histories of infectious disease management in developing countries: Phnom Penh and Kabul.
Healthcare in developing countries is affected by severe poverty, political instability and diseases that may be of lesser importance in industrialized countries. The aim of this paper was to present two cases and histories of physicians working in hospitals in developing countries and to discuss the opportunities for clinical investigation and collaboration. Cases of patients in Phnom Penh, Ca...
متن کاملMelioidosis, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
We describe 58 adult patients with melioidosis in Cambodia (2007-2010). Diabetes was the main risk factor (59%); 67% of infections occurred during the rainy season. Bloodstream infection was present in 67% of patients, which represents 12% of all bloodstream infections. The case-fatality rate was 52% and associated with inappropriate empiric treatment.
متن کاملIncipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: Acoustic and perceptual studies
Unlike many languages of Southeast Asia, Khmer (Cambodian) is not a tone language. However, in the colloquial speech of the capital Phnom Penh, /r/ is lost in onsets, reportedly supplanted by a range of other acoustic cues such as aspiration, a fallingor low-rising f0 contour, breathy voice quality, and in some cases diphthongization, e.g. /krA:/ ‘poor’ > [kÒA], [khǑA], [kO ̈ A ̈ ], /kru:/ ‘teach...
متن کاملOpportunistic infections and HIV clinical disease stage among patients presenting for care in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
This prospective, cross-sectional study sought to assess the spectrum of HIV-associated complications and disease stage among individuals presenting for first-time care in Phnom Penh, Cambodia between November 2001 and September 2002. One hundred patients participated in this study. All study participants presented with advanced stages of HIV disease. Seventy-four percent of the subjects had CD...
متن کاملShould they be committed? Motivating volunteers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Expatriate volunteers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, work in a country where many of their fellow expatriates are paid considerably more than they are. Such volunteers often find that the financial disparities affect the perceptions that people have of them. This paper explores the self-perceptions of volunteers working with Voluntary Service Overseas in Phnom Penh, and sets these perceptions within ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0037-8682
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822009000500001