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

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...

Stroke Epidemiology in South, East, and South-East Asia: A Review

[This corrects the article on p. 286 in vol. 19.].

Influenza in South-East Asia.

period through subclinical or mild infection occurring sporadically. In order to understand how the virus infection recurs in the temperate epidemic zone, a hypothesis has been presented by Fukumi3 that the virus may survive through infections occurring sporadically in the tropical virus-reservoir zone. Several virological and epidemiological studies have been published on influenza in Thailand...

Psychiatry in South-East Asia.

Malaria Epidemiology and Control in South-East Asia

Malaria is the most important tropical disease that causes enormous economic loss to mankind. Malaria is an acute disease caused by parasites in human blood, namely Plasmodium. Four human malaria parasites were found among which Plasmodium falciparum is the most common species and may lead to mortality. The disease is transmitted by anopheles mosquitoes. Globally, there are some 60 anopheles mo...