Cholera in South Asia

Curing Cholera: Pathogens, Places and Poverty in South Asia.

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Surgery in South Asia.

South Asia Instead of Nepal May Be the Origin of the Haitian Cholera Outbreak Strains

I read with interest the article “Population Genetics of Vibrio cholerae from Nepal in 2010: Evidence on the Origin of the Haitian Outbreak” by Hendriksen et al. (1), which was published in the July-August 2011 issue of mBio. They used whole-genome sequence typing of Nepalese strains which were isolated in 2010 from different parts of the country and found that the Nepalese strains were almost ...

Generic endemism in South-West Asia: an overview

A provisional list of all the endemic vascular plant genera in SW Asia is presented. The area, here defined to include Turkey, the Caucasus, N Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and adjacent parts of Pakistan and Central Asia, has 161 genera restricted to it. By far, the greatest numbers of the endemic genera are in Apiaceae, Brassicaceae and Asteraceae; many are morphologically isolated and occur at rand...

Multiple Sclerosis Epidemiology in East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia: A Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic immune-mediated diseases of the human central nervous system and an important cause of non-traumatic neurologic disability among young population in several countries. Recent reports from East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia have proposed a low to moderate prevalence of MS in these countries. METHODS A literature review...